Holy Cross Mathematics and Computer Science
MATH 133, section 1 -- Calculus With Fundamentals 1, Fall 2017
Syllabus and Schedule
Videos, Examples, Class Notes, Etc.
- Information on Calculus courses, textbook, and WebAssign options
- Videos for this class are posted on the course
Moodle page accessible to
registered students.
Solutions
Assignments
- Information about getting access to the
WebAssign online homework system. (WebAssign for this course will be available for sign-up starting August 30.)
- The WebAssign class key for this section is: holycross 5730 7782 (the holycross is all lower case, no space)
- Problem Set 1 -- due: Friday, September 8
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 1.1/71,77; Section 1.2/22,48. Note: Your solutions for all B section
problems must contain all work necessary to justify your answers and must be clearly written and well organized.
I reserve the right to return any illegible papers ungraded (I'll ask you to recopy in that case).
- Problem Set 2 -- due: Friday, September 15
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 1.3/30,36,39; Section 1.4/40, 59.
Note: Your solutions for all B section
problems must contain all work necessary to justify your answers
and must be clearly written and well organized.
I reserve the right to return any illegible papers ungraded (I'll ask you to recopy in that case).
- Problem Set 3 -- due: Friday, September 29
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 2.1/2,20; Section 2.2/5, 6 (and explain your answers), 40.
- Problem Set 4 -- due: Friday, October 6
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 2.3/28; Section 2.4/64, 66 (see page 77 for definition of
right-continuity and left-continuity at x = c); Section 2.5/8, 19, 22
- Problem Set 5 -- due: Friday, October 27
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 3.1/51, 52; Section 3.2/44, 46, 66
- Problem Set 6 -- due: Friday, November 3
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 3.3/49; Section 3.4/2, 38; Section 3.5/37, 40
- Problem Set 7 -- due: Friday, November 17
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 3.8/70; Section 3.10/16
- Problem Set 8 -- due: Friday, December 1
- Part A -- On WebAssign
- Part B -- Submit on paper: Section 4.4/22, 23, 24; Section 4.7/37
Announcements
- Quiz 8 in class on Friday, December 1 -- This one will have one question
where I ask you to find the critical points
of a function (know how to find them from the formula for a function f(x)).
The second question will be related to the First and Second Derivative tests. That
problem will ask you to take information
from graphs of y = f '(x) and/or y = f ''(x) and use it to identify
classify critical points as local maxima, local minima, or neither.
- Course Evaluation Forms (CEFs) for this course will be administered at the beginning
of the class on Tuesday, December 5.
- Exam 4 is coming up on Thursday, December 7 --
review sheet, practice questions; and
solutions for the practice questions.
- Review for Exam 4 in class on Tuesday, December 5 (after the CEFs -- see above) and Wednesday, December 6.
- Tori will run a review session on Wednesday, December 6, 7:30 - 9:30pm in Swords 359
(note slight time difference from the usual Thursday sessions).
- It's not too early
to start thinking about the final exam(!)
Here's the final I gave the last time I offered the course,
and solutions.
- Other materials to help you review for the final:
Related Links and Other Information
- Algebra review materials (from a different calculus textbook, but relevant for us too!).
- Bloom's taxonomy of thinking skills
- Biographical information on Isaac
Newton
- Biographical information on Gottfried
Leibniz
- Note: The Greek phrase appearing next to the heading of this page is one traditional rendering of
the reported inscription over the entrance to Plato's Academy in Athens
(founded about 387 BCE). It means (roughly) Let no one ignorant of geometry enter.
This is a reflection of the foundational role of geometry in Plato's ideas about knowledge and education.
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