Math 114 Home Page

The final exam fill be held on 12/20/2005, 7:25-9:25pm, in CHEM 1351.

Sample practice exams can be found here.

(For most instructors you can find samples of midterms 1 and 2, and of the final.)

Office: van Vleck 605, Ext. 2-2880.
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:00.
Email: andreic AT math.wisc.edu

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Notes and Homework Assignment

General Information for my section:

• Lecture class meetings are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:55 to 10:45 in Ingraham B10.
• Recitation classes are on Tuesday and Thursday. You MUST be enrolled in and attend one of the following recitation sections:
  • Section 301; 7:45-8:35 am in van Vleck B235 (Dilip Raghavan)
    
  • Section 302; 8:50-9:40 am in Social Sciences 6228 (Dilip Raghavan)
    
  • Section 303; 9:55-10:45 am in Sterling 2323 (Ye Fang)
    
  • Section 304; 11:00-11:50 am in Sterling 3401 (Ye Fang)
    
  • Section 307; 2:25-3:15 pm in Sterling 3401 (Jason Nett)
    
  • Section 308; 3:30-4:20 am in van Vleck B231 (Jason Nett)
    
  Recitations begin on Tuesday, September 6.
• If you have any questions, you are supposed to first see your TA before coming to my office hours. Only items that have not been resolved by meeting with the TA should be brought to my attention. Similarly, only send me e-mail if your problem was not resolved by e-mail-ing the TA.
  
• The text book is Precalculus (functions and graphs) by Swokowski and Cole.
• An approximate list of Lectures for every day of classes is posted on the web -- it also lists the topics that will be covered.
• The exams will generally be set at the level of the homework problems. You should consider finding and looking at old exams.

Basic Ground Rules:

• The COURSE GRADE is based on: Final exam (40%), two midterm exams (20% each) and everything else (20%). "Everything else" includes regular homework, computer homework, the quizzes in recitation, etc.
• Our weeks will generally start on Mondays. The completed assignments will be collected in discussion sections on a date specified
  by the TA. We expect all assignments to be written neatly, and handed in on time.
  
• Homeworks will be spot graded and returned in the recitation. 
• LATE WORK (homework, etc.) will NEVER be accepted.
• You can hand in your homeworks early, either in person or by other arrangement. Never leave your homeworks in any mail box of the mathematics department.
• Homework will contain instructions for reading. Make sure you do the reading before the class for which it is assigned. I will assume you have done so.
• You are responsible for doing all the homework problems. 
  
• You are encouraged to work in groups and discuss with each other. But the work you hand in MUST BE YOUR OWN WRITE-UP.
• You can use a 5''x7'' note card (both sides) during the midterm and final exams. Calculators are NOT allowed. Nor are personal digital assistants. Using any communication device (including calculators and PDA's) during these exams is a serious breach of academic integrity.
• The date and time of the final examination are set by the University. We will not reschedule or give make-ups for the final exam to accommodate early departure from Madison. See me early in the semester if you have a legitimate conflict.
  

Grading notes: At the end of the semester, everyone who has not withdrawn from the class will get a grade. Incompletes will not be given to avoid F's.

Discussion Sections:

You are expected to attend your discussion section twice weekly, where you will hand in
assignments, go over homework problems, have questions answered, and take quizzes. Twenty
percent of your final grade is based on your work in discussion sections.

Calculators:

Calculators and computers are useful and powerful tools that can be a great help with
numerical computations, algebraic manipulation, curve sketching, and visualization. However,
it is crucial that you learn how to do simple versions of these activities on your own,
without the use of calculators. Thus you will not be allowed to use calculators on
the exams in this course. All problems on the exams will be designed so that they can
be done without calculators. You should use calculators to check your homework answers,
but you must learn to have confidence in your own calculations.

General Comments:

Although you may have seen algebra and trigonometry before, do not make the mistake of
thinking you can coast through this course. We will cover a lot of material very quickly,
and you need to keep up and work systematically in order to do well in the course. It is
important to do lots of homework problems, and to ask questions of me or of your teaching
assistant if you do not understand some topic. Since this is a five credit course, you should
expect to spend at least 8 to 10 hours per week working on Math 114 in addition to attending
lectures and discussion section.

Semester Calendar: (midterm dates are still tentative)

First day of class: Friday, September 2
First Midterm Exam: Monday, October 3, 9:55-10:45 am, in class
Thanksgiving break: November 24-27
Second Midterm Exam: Wednesday, November 2, 9:55-10:45 am, in class
Last day of class: Wednesday, December 14
Study day: Thursday, December 16
Final Exam: Tuesday, December 20, 7:25-9:25pm, TBA

Notes and Homework Assignment