Instructor: Harold B. Reiter
Office: Fretwell, 345A
Office Hours: See homepage.
Phone: office 704-687-4561; home 704-364-5699
Email: hbreiter@email.uncc.edu; fax: 704-687-6415
Text: CALCULUS for the Managerial, Life and Social Sciences, Seventh Edition by
S. T. Tan
There will be three tests, each contributing about 16% of the final grade. Webwork and homework together will count about 16%. You are encouraged to find study partners for doing the homework and webwork. Homework will be collected and some of the lectures will focus on assigned problems. You must identify your partners on each homework. Please fold your papers over from left to right and write your name on the front page and staple the pages together. The tests are cumulative. That is, each test will include some questions on material covered in previous tests. The final exam, also cumulative, will count for at least 40% of the final grade. Grades will be determined as follows: A, 85%; B, 70% to 85%; C, 55% to 70%; D, 40% to 55%. A total of approximately 600 points are available in the course:100 X 3 (in class tests) + 100 (homework and) Webwork + 200 (for the final exam)=600. This figure is not exact but if the 600 figure is correct, the grades will be distributed as follows: 510+, A; 420+, B; 330+, C; 240+, D; less than 240, F. Although I will make every effort to update the assignment page to reflect any changes in tests and dues dates for (home) webwork, it is possible that such changes will not appear until after the fact. Thus, each student it responsible for any changes that take place as a result of discussions that take place during class. Save your homework and test papers in case your online grade numbers are not correct.
All Makeup tests will be ORAL. In other words, you
will schedule an hour during which I will ask you to work problems at my marking
board in my office. Students who are allowed to make up a missed test should
acquire a copy of the questions and solutions from the website. Tests will be
made up only under the following circumstances:
1, the student has called the instructor at 704-687-4561 before the
test to indicate the need to miss the test or sends e-mail to hbreiter@email.uncc.edu dated
before the test and
2, the student provides a valid excuse for missing the test. Quizzes cannot be
made up after the fact. Students who anticipate missing a class may request to
take a quiz in advance of the class they have to miss. Late homework will not
be collected.
Homework will be collected regularly, and may be done either individually or in a group. Group work is encouraged. Remember the requirement to list your homework partners each time you work with others. Homework assignments appear on a separate sheet that may be found SpringAssign.htm All problems are taken from the text. Problems are not to be turned in, but are generally representative of the level of expectation for your performance on tests. You should work all the problems assigned each week and not wait until the day before the test. On the first attempt, you should expect to find that some of the problems require thinking and practice, i.e., they require time to do properly. The homework assignments are coded mathematically. For example, the expression 4n+1, n=0,…,10 represents the 11-problem homework assignment 1,5,9,14, etc. obtained by evaluating 4n+1 at 0, 1, 2, etc. respectively.
I do not expect to use quizzes in the Fall 2004 course. Short quizzes, about 10 in all, will be given during the last 15-20 minutes on certain days without prior warning. Expect at least one quiz most weeks. The quiz grade will be counted about 15% of the final grade for the course. Material covered or assigned through the end of the previous lecture will be emphasized on the quizzes so you are encouraged to keep up to date. Missed quizzes will not be made up after the quiz has been missed. If a valid excuse is provided, the student's average quiz score will be used to replaced the missed quiz.
Students who score below 50 on the first test are required to have a 15 minute interview during the two weeks immediately following that test. A sign-up sheet will be posted at my door, Fretwell 345A. Cell phones must be turned off during class time.
Students have the responsibility to know and observe the
requirements of The UNCC Code of Student Academic Integrity (Catalog
p. 24). This code forbids cheating, fabrication or falsification of
information, multiple submission of academic work, plagiarism, abuse of
academic materials, and complicity in academic dishonesty. Any special
requirements or permission regarding academic integrity in this course will be
stated by the instructor and are binding on the students. Academic evaluations
in this course include a judgment that the student's work is free from academic
dishonesty of any type; and grades in this course therefore should be and will
be adversely affected by academic dishonesty. Students who violate the code can
be expelled from UNCC. The normal penalty for a first offense is zero credit on
the work involving dishonesty and further substantial reduction of the course
grade. In almost all cases the course grade is reduced to F. Copies of the code
can be obtained from the Dean of Students Office. Standards of academic
integrity will be enforced in this course. Students are expected to report
cases of academic dishonesty to the course instructor. See UNCC Code of Student
Academic Integrity
Cell phones must be turned off during class time.
You are expected to make academic progress of two types in this course. First, you are expected to develop certain skills: factoring, solving equations, expanding and simplifying expressions, and differentiating and anti-differentiating functions. You are also expected to develop an understanding of the concepts and ideas of algebra and calculus, and to gain the confidence and mathematical maturity to use these concepts in new settings. You can not expect to pass the course without making significant progress in the latter. It is also quite possible that some test problems will seem new to some students. Tests in the course are cumulative. That is to say, each test covers all the material encountered since the course began. The reason for this is that each topic after the first test is built on material discussed earlier.
Tutorial services offers regular one-on-one and group
tutorials for this course. Ask about this in the University Learning Center,
third floor of Fretwell. Video tapes covering each aspect of this course
are available for your viewing in both the
You should plan to read about each topic in the text before hearing a lecture on it. If you find this impossible, not all is lost, because...
The lectures in our section are designed to help you to READ the text. They are not intended to enable you to avoid reading the text.
A. To win you over to the intellectual enterprise. That is, I hope to help you develop the confidence and maturity to take the intellectual approach to solving problems you encounter. In other words, you can solve many problems by thinking and learning, and you can change your environment for the better if you embrace this method.
B. To help you develop the algebraic, calculator, and calculus skills and understanding of the real numbers in order to see the concepts of calculus in settings other than those studied in the course.
C. To help you see mathematical problem solving as an enjoyable and worthwhile activity.
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