Instructor: Dr. Mary Parker, NRG 2217, phone: 223-4846
Office Hours: MWF 8:30 -- 9:00 a.m. and 10:15-11:30 a.m.
TH 8:30 -- 9:00 a.m. and 10:55-11:50 a.m.
Other times available by appointment. Just ask.
Text: Applied Calculus with Linear Programming by Barnett & Ziegler, Dellen/Macmillan Publishers. This book is also used for Business Calculus II.
Optional materials: Solutions Manual to accompany Applied Calculus, 5th edition.
Graphing Calculator Supplement to accompany Barnett and Ziegler's texts
Calculator: A calculator which does exponential and logarithmic functions is required. Most students use a scientific or business calculator (cost $10 - $20) but some students use a graphing calculator (cost: $80 - $100). Students who intend to take a statistics course and who need to purchase a calculator for this course should try to find one that does two-variable statistics. Ask your instructor for advice.
Course Prerequisite: College Algebra (MTH 1743) or Mathematics for Business and Economics (MTH 1643) or one semester of high school elementary analysis or precalculus with a grade of B or better. College Algebra is the preferred prerequisite for students who will also take the second half of the sequence, MTH 1684.
Course Syllabus/Calendar/Testing Schedule:
Applications (especially those from business and economics) will
be emphasized throughout the course. Some supplemental materials
may be used.
Week 1 3.1,3.2
Week 2 3.3,3.4
Week 3 3.5,3.6,3.7
Week 5 4.2,4.3
Week 6 4.4,4.5
Week 7 Test (Ch. 4),2.1,2.2
Week 8 2.3,5.1,5.2
Week 9 5.3,5.4
Week 10 5.5,5.6,5.7
Week 11 Test (Ch. 2 & 5),6.1
Week 12 6.2,6.3
Week 13 6.4,6.5
Week 14 6.6,7.1
Week 15 Test (Ch. 6),7.2
Week 16 Review and Comprehensive Final Exam
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. In a math class, it is impossible for the teacher to give you permission to miss any material. The most efficient way to cover the material is to come to class every day, and to do the homework soon after that. If you miss many classes (or two in a row) it will be very difficult for you to catch up.
Daily Quizzes/Projects: Daily quizzes and projects, some in class and some out of class, will be given most days. At the end of the semester, the total of these scores will be converted to a scale of 0 to 100, for one daily quiz grade. Quizzes and projects may not be made up, for any reason. Instead, ``make-up'' points may be earned by doing the homework.
Homework: Unless otherwise specified, the homework on each section covered is
A, B, and C: all problems ending in 1, 5, or 9
Applications: all odd-numbered problems
For example, on Section 3.1, the homework is 1, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19, 21, 25, 29, 31, 35, 39, 41, 45, 49, 51, 55, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67.
The homework for the material covered in a given class should be completed before the following class. If, at the end of class, it is not obvious to you which sections were covered, and which homework should be done by the next class, ask before class ends. The homework for each chapter shall be submitted at the time of the test on that chapter, and if done thoroughly, is worth up to 4 points. This allows for 20 ``make-up'' points on the daily quiz grade. The student solution manual is available to help you with your homework. If you read or copy solutions out of it, you will probably have trouble on tests. If, instead, you use it to find answers to specific questions you have while doing the problems yourself, you will probably find it to be a useful tool.
Tests: All four tests and the comprehensive final exam will be given in class. Make-up tests will not be given, no matter how good the excuse. However, you may petition to have a poor or missing test grade replaced by a later test grade. This written petition should be submitted {\it within one week} after the test with the poor grade is returned to you. It must include all the problems on the test, worked correctly, your assessment of what went wrong, and what you intend to do to improve your performance. Normally, only one such substitution per student will be allowed. The instructor will decide which later test covers the material in question most thoroughly, and that test grade will be used. Usually, the final exam will be used as a replacement.
Grades: Your five test grades and your quiz/homework grade will be averaged.
A: 90-100; B: 80-89; C: 70-79; D: 60-69; F: below 60;
W: After the withdrawal date each semester, neither the student nor the instructor may initiate a withdrawal. It is the student's responsibility to initiate all withdrawals in this course. The instructor may withdraw students for excessive absences (more than 4) or who fail to meet course objectives, but makes no commitment to do this for the student.
I: Incomplete grades (I) will be given only in very rare circumstances. Generally, to receive a grade of I, a student must have taken all examinations, be passing, and have a personal tragedy after the last date to withdraw which prevents course completion.
This document was prepared by Mary Parker, mparker@austincc.edu.
It was last updated on January 8, 1997.