Math 1132 - Spring 2010
Calculus II
Section 010

Brief course description: This course, a continuation of Math 1131, focuses on techniques and applications of integration and infinite series. Concepts will be treated from a geometric and algebraic perspective.

Topics Covered: Sections to be covered from the text are Chapters 5 through 8 along with 10 and 11. A syllabus is in a weekly chart here. Since lectures are twice a week, half the weekly material will usually be covered in each lecture. You are strongly urged to read the book before the corresponding lecture in the class and to use office hours of the instructor and TAs, as well as the Q Center to get help. The pace of this course is not slow. If you blow off class for a week, you may find yourself completely lost and it can be hard to catch up. Make sure to get any misunderstandings about the material cleared up right away!

Prerequisites: Math 1131. In particular, you are expected to be comfortable with differential calculus (techniques of integration make extensive use of derivatives), but if you find your expertise in this area inadequate, make sure to seriously review the material.

Homework:  Your homework problems will be done using WebAssign. This provides a minimal amount of work you need to do to learn the material. Virtually the only way to learn calculus well is to solve lots of problems, and more is better than less if a fluent command of the material is your goal. Some homework questions may appear on quizzes or exams in a slightly altered form (e.g., different numbers are used).

It is a mistake to skip homework, because no skills can be learned by passive involvement, but only by regular practice. Think about how often the UConn basketball team drills basic moves and shots, even if they play a game just once a week. Do you think they practice only once a week? And do they wait to cram all their practice until the night before a game? Skills are learned best over time; you can't learn several weeks of material from this course only right before a test.

Webassign: Here are some pointers about registering and using Webassign.

First, make sure your pop-up blocker is turned off. The Webassign registration page is a pop-up, so with the blocker on all you'll see will be a blank page. If you are new to Webassign or you used it before but did not previously pay for multiple semesters of it, do the following:

• Register at the Webassign webpage using the username and password that is explained by your TA. The institution name is uconn.
• (If you're new to Webassign) Read the Quick Start Guide and the FAQ on the website.
• Once you're done with registration, turn your pop-up blocker back on.

If you used Webassign in Fall 2009 and paid for multiple semesters of it, do the following:

• Go to the Webassign website.
• Enter the new username and password which your TA will tell you. The institution name is uconn.
• Stop here if your old and new usernames are the same (and turn your pop-up blocker back on).
• If your old and new usernames are different, you need to link the two usernames. Choose "My Options" in the upper right corner.
• A box pops up with three tabs: Personal Info, Settings, and Accounts. Choose "Accounts".
• Enter the username and password you used in the previous semester.
• On the second password line, enter your current password (found from the TA).
• Click Save.
• Once you're done with registration, turn your pop-up blocker back on.

For all students:

• Troubleshooting: If you can't get into Webassign, be sure you are using the right username, which might include punctuation marks. Tell your TA exactly what username you are using, and if your TA tells you that your username is something else, ask your TA to check the username really appears in the TA's webassign records as being the TA says it is (sometimes Webassign has read part of a username incorrectly when it is uploaded from a spreadsheet by the TA).
• If you purchased access to the ebook, you can access it on Webassign. (Students who paid only for a physical book will not see the ebook.)
• Technical questions about Webassign? Call 800-955-8275 every day, 8 AM--8 PM or send them email from the website (monitored longer than the phone).

There is a feature in Webassign which lets you see how to solve the homework problems after the due date. In Webassign, click on the following (in order):

• "My Assignments" (at the top)
• "Past Assignments" (on the right side),
• the section number from the past you are interested in reviewing,
• the "View Key" box (below the scoring box near the top).
• Now at the end of each question you will see a link called "Click to View Solution". (This has not been enabled for Section 5.2 but has been for the other sections.) A .pdf file will appear for each question you click on to show you a solution. (Note: Antiderivatives are determined up to an additive constant, so a particular antiderivative you find might not match the one in the Webassign solution.)

Clickers: Here is how to obtain and register your clicker and some troubleshooting issues.

• Obtain a clicker from top floor of the Co-op (whether or not you buy the text there).
• If you buy the book at the Co-op, it will include a rebate coupon for cost of purchasing clicker (no rebate for registering the clicker).
• Register the clicker on the course site on HuskyCT (make sure to skip Step 2 there). In particular, do not try to register your clicker starting on the clicker company's website (you may be taken there from within HuskyCT). Make sure to disable pop-up blockers in order to confirm the payment for registration. After you are done, enable pop-up blockers again.
• If you used a clicker in Math 1131 for Fall 2009, use the same login information again.
• When you have registered your clicker, a payment will be taken and you will be sent a confirmation email. Save this confirmation! If you have problems later and speak with the clicker company, they may ask for details from that confirmation message. (For example, the company might fail to register your clicker for the class, and when you talk with them they may ask for a code in the confirmation message.)
• Please try to register your clicker during the first two weeks.
• Troubleshooting: If your clicker has worked well for a while and then one day it does not find the signal in class, e.g., the screen says Please Wait, you might just need new batteries. You could try to pop the clicker batteries belonging to a classmate into your clicker (if you don't carry a spare pair on you) and see if things now work. If you have already registered your clicker but it has never worked in class, you might not be on the lecturer's clicker roster (the lecturer has to update the roster of registered clickers to include those that were registered since the last class). Speak with your lecturer about this after class! If you are on the clicker roster and the clicker doesn't work, eInstruction has advised the following strange steps: take the batteries out and hold the power button down for one full minute (while the batteries are out) in order to reset the device. Then see what happens in the next class. Or just get new batteries.
• Technical questions about clickers? Contact eInstruction at 888-333-4988 from 8 AM – 8 PM, Mon–Fri. Or (more efficient?) contact the eInstruction representative working with UConn, Robin Green, by phone at 508-477-8865 and by email at robin.green@einstruction.com.
  

Gateway: The purpose of this exam is to show that you can do basic integration yourself. It consists of 10 problems on basic integrals.    

• The Gateway exam will be available from March 1st to April 2nd.
• The schedule of times when MSB 203 is open for the Gateway exam is available here.
• The exam is timed and lasts 45 minutes. You need 7 out of 10 right to pass. As an incentive, if you get 10/10 right on your first try, an additional lowest homework grade will be dropped.
• No outside aids are allowed except pen/pencil and blank paper.
• You can retake it as often as you want during March 1 to April 2. when MSB 203 is open. Do not wait until the last week to start!
• Not passing the Gateway exam reduces your overall course grade by a whole letter. Last semester everyone who did not pass the Gateway had an original (pre-reduction) final course grade of D or F.
• If you are caught using any outside aid during exam other than pen/pencil and paper (no calculators, cell phone applications, or website other than Webassign), you will fail the course.

Course grade:  On the common course page (for all Math 1132 lectures) there is a breakdown of how much different parts of the course contribute to the course grade (including quizzes, clickers, and lab projects). The three lowest homework grades and the three lowest quiz grades will be dropped.

Makeup policy:  Late work will not be accepted. If a true emergency arises, and you must miss an exam, you are responsible for notifying your TA beforehand, supplying proper documentation, and scheduling a makeup exam. On February 2, 2009, the University Senate passed a motion about religious observances which stipulated that "Students anticipating such a conflict should inform their instructor in writing within the first three weeks of the semester, and prior to the anticipated absence, and should take the initiative to work out with the instructor a schedule for making up missed work. For conflicts with final examinations, students should, as usual, contact the Office of Student Services and Advocacy (formerly the Dean of Students Office)."

Course conduct: To respect everyone's right to a productive learning environment, you do not want to distract yourself or your classmates. Please refrain from disruptive activities during lecture and discussion section. This includes reading newspapers or magazines, and using pagers and cell phones. Please turn off all personal electronic gadgets, including cell phones, before entering a classroom (except calculators and, for lectures, clickers). You may not use a laptop during class unless you can show me past examples of electronic notes you have taken in a calculus class and you can do a live demonstration. On a positive note, do feel free to ask questions!

Learning Tips:

• Come to every lecture and discussion section on time and stay for the entire time. The course is cumulative: what we learn will probably be used later. (In the event that the main lecture is cancelled, the material may be taught in the following discussion section.)
• To help you concentrate during lecture, don't sit with your friends. Consider also sitting closer to the front.
• Focus on trying to understand the material being discussed. If you are confused, raise your hand and, if I don't see you, say loudly "Question!"
• Write thorough notes and review them after class. Be sure that after class, when you review your notes, you can carry out all calculations done in class.
• Read the text (explanations and worked examples) before doing the homework.
• Spend some time by yourself studying the material, rather than always with other people.
• Just as you have fixed times in your schedule to come to class, you should consider fixing some time each week to study for each of your classes. This regularly schedued study time can help alleviate the possibility of doing no work for a class because you don't have it as part of your regular routine.

Calculators: You may use calculators up to and including a TI-89. However, you should not let the calculator become a mental crutch as you try to understand the ideas of this course, most of which actually have nothing to do with calculators. You should regard the use of a calculator somewhat like that of a dictionary or grammar table for another language. Someone who needs a dictionary to translate even the simplest part of a basic French text or to hold a conversation in French does not know French that well. Of course properly using and understanding the French language means a lot more than just knowing French words and how they are inflected, but such knowledge without outside aids is an important prerequisite to becoming comfortable with French. In the same way, your comfort in this course will increase if you can handle certain basic computations quickly in your head. These include:

• knowing the values of some basic trigonometric functions at special numbers; at least know the sine and cosine of 0, π/2, and &pi. If you don't know why these are easy to know, please ask!
• multiplying small numbers (like 2 times 6, 3 times 9, or 4 times 7)
• simplifying small fractions (3/6 is 1/2 and 8/12 is 2/3)
• knowing the relation between dividing and multiplying, for instance multiplying by ½ is the same as dividing by 2
• knowing approximate values of certain numbers: π is around 3.14, e is around 2.718, √2 is around 1.414 and √3 is around 1.732 (note: George Washington was born in 1732; a student from Math 1132 in Spring 2004 used this mnemonic device)
There are two online calculators that carry out exact operations on fractions, here and here. They were shown in class (Jan. 25). The first link is a more versatile fraction calculator (it lets you take powers of fractions more easily).

Academic integrity: Students are expected to avoid academic misconduct. Your integrity is not worth losing (and the course not worth failing) by falsely presenting yourself in any aspect of this course. For further information on academic integrity, see Appendix A of the Student Code.

 





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