Course structure: There are 3 lectures per week. You also have a recitation session per week, on either Tuesday or Thursday.
You must be registered for a recitation corresponding to your class.

Course content: This is a first course in calculus. We will cover most of the material in chapters 1-5 of the book. It is very helpful to read the material before it is discussed in class. Clicking you can find a detailed syllabus for Fall 1999.
At the end of the semester you will know what a derivative is, what the motivation for it is, and how to use it. You will also know what an integral is and how it relates to the derivative. You will know how to evaluate integrals and see some applications in which they arise. This knowledge will enable us to solve simple optimization and approximation problems, to graph complicated functions, compute velocities, areas and volumes of non trivial objects, as well as some other physical quantities.

Homework and quizes:There will be one quiz a week in your recitation class. It will consist of 2-3 problems from the homework of the previous week. Quizzes total 100 pts. We will drop the 2 lowest scores. (There will be no makeup quizzes.)
Homework will be collected daily, starting from the second week of class (first collection, Monday 8/30). It is due the class period after it is assigned. There will be a total of 34 homework sets collected. You will get a checkmark for each homework if you have attempted all problems and answered at least 60% correctly. If at the end of the class you have n checkmarks, you will have (n-14)x550/1000 added to your total. Note: this means that you will lose points if you do less than 14 homeworks! Click to see the homework
You are encouraged to work together on the homework (we would like to compel you to if we could!). But you do need to write up your own solutions in your own words (yes, please include words in your writeup!). To help the grader, please write your solutions up neatly and clearly (no points for work that the reader cannot follow- this is true also for quizzes and exams), and box your answers.
Note that you will lose points if your work is inconsistent with your answer. An incorrect answer consistent with your work is worth more than a correct number at the end which is inconsistent with your work.
Right now, you have an A. Keep it up!

Exams: There will be three midterm exams in class, and a comprehensive final exam. The final exam is a CORE exam that is taken by all students in all sections of MATH 162 the first Saturday of exam week as scheduled by the Registrar Office (December 11th, 7:30-9:30am).

Grades: Your final grade will be determined by your performance in the midterm exams, the quizzes and the final exam. The 3 midterm exams are worth 100 points each, quizzes totaling 100 points, and the final is worth 150 points. This makes a total of 550 points . Homework will be extra. You can gain up to 2%= 11 points and lose up to 1.4%=8 points by doing or not doing the homework (see above).
Your grade will be based on your total points as a percentage of the maximum possible of 550. We guarantee that 90% and above is an A or A-, 80% and above is a B,B- or B+, etc. (You need a C- or better on the final to get a C- or better in the class.)

Prerequisites and Attendance: The prerequisites for this course are a C or better in Math 150 and a C or better, or concurrent enrollment, in Math 123. Alternatively, an ACT score of 26 or higher or an SAT score of 580 or higher places you out of 150. You can place out of Math 123 by passing the self-examination COMPASS test offered by the UNM Testing Center in the basement of University College (Rm 2). If you decide to take the test, prepare yourself by studying pp35-46 in Thomas & Finney and working through problems 1-50,61-66 in that section. Then take the test, and bring in a slip to your instructor to show that you passed. You can take the exam at most twice.
Beware that we will enforce the prerequisites. If you have not satisfied them your name will be removed from the class list. Please talk to academic advisor Roxanne Littlefield (Humanities 421) immediately if you have any doubts about which course you should be taking. You do not want to waste your time and money by taking a course for which you are not prepared.
We will also enforce regular attendance. If we have no record of your regular attendance in the first 3 weeks your name will be removed from the class list. Attendance is important since you will learn in class what the focus of the material is upon which you will be tested.

Makeup Policy: No makeup exams unless you contact your instructor ahead of time with a documented valid reason (any ``university authorized absence"). Oversleeping and hangovers are not valid reasons.

Resources: There are many resources to help you succeed in this course. First, if you are having problems, immediately contact your lecturer and your laboratory instructor, they can help you. You can also schedule an appointment with one of the academic support centers on campus:

CAPS: Center for Academic Program Support, located on the third floor of Zimmerman Library (277-4560)
MEP: Minority Engineering Program at the School of Engineering, Engineering Annex, Room 210 (277-8795)
CATS: Counseling and Therapy Services, located in the Student Health Center (277-4537)

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Last updated: 6 August, 1999