Spring 2003
Math 131: Calculus I
Section 7

Instructor: Frank Sottile Office: LGRT 1230 Telephone: 545 - 6010 email: sottile@math.umass.edu WWW: http://www.math.umass.edu/~sottile Frank's Office Hours:  Office Hours : Tuesday 14:30--16:00 Wednesday 1:30-2:30 Friday 9:30-10:30 And by appointment
Discussion Leader: Mike Diehl Office: 1325 LGRT email: diehl@math.umass.edu Office Hours:TBA

Course webpage:

http://www.math.umass.edu/~sottile/courses/131.html

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Exam Schedule     This course has common exams in the following dates:

Exam 1	Wed. March 12, 6:00-8:00 PM	Marcus 131
	Makeup:Tuesday March 11 6:00 -- 8:00 PM
	Tests from Fall 2002     Spring 2003     Solutions to our test
Derivatives Test	Wed. April 9, 6:00--7:00 PM	THOM 102
	No Calculators on Derivatives Test
	Tests from Fall 2002     Spring 2003
Exam 2	Wed. April 30, 6:00-8:00 PM	HASA 124
	Tests from Fall 2002     Spring 2003     Solutions to our test
Final Exam	Tuesday, 20 May 8:00 AM	TOTM GYM
	Tests from Spring 2001     Fall 2001
	Spring 2002     Fall 2002

Each exam will have a make up exam scheduled for the previous night. Students will be free to take the make up exam, but must register for it beforehand with Frank.

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Grading     There will be two in-term exams (each worth 20% toward your final grade), an exam testing dexterity in taking derivatives (15%), and a final exam (25%). An additional 20% will come from homework and attendance, as determined by Frank and detailed below. The scale is at right.

A:  90--100    C:  70--75 AB:    85--90   CD:  65--70 B:    80--85   D:  60--65 BC:    75--80   F:  < 60

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Homework
Homework will be assigned weekly (see the daily schedule for the assignments) and due each Monday. Late homeworks are not accepted. The class will have a special grader, and due to a lack of funds, it will not be possible to grade all problems assigned. A few of the problems will be corrected and graded each week. Nevertheless, for your own benefit, you will be required to hand in all the assigned problems. Your grade on each homework will be calculated as follows:

• 60% The grade on the corrected problems.     Partial credit will be given.
• 40% Credit for handing in most of the homework problems assigned.

The two lowest homework scores will be dropped before computing your grade.. Homework counts 16/20 towards your final grade (the course 20%) with attendance making up the difference.

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Last modified: 26 March 2003 by Frank Sottile