Syllabus

The instructor is Dr. Jason Grout, 492 Carver, (515) 294-8170, grout@math.iastate.edu. Office hours are by appointment.

The course website is accessible from http://www.math.iastate.edu/grout/.

The department's objectives for Calculus III are at http://orion.math.iastate.edu/calculus/obj/objectives_Calc_III.html. Previous department finals can be found at http://orion.math.iastate.edu/calculus/exams/exams.html. We will probably not take the department final or midterm, but the problems should provide helpful study material.

The material in the objectives is contained in chapters 11–14 in the textbook.

Calculus, 9th edition by Varberg, Purcell, and Rigdon. I will not be using the MyMathLab software that comes with some books.

In order to help you learn the material more fully, you will be assigned to prepare a written lesson plan for a 1/2 hour lecture on main topics of the course. The audience is someone who has been through this course before, but forgotten the material. A lesson plan should be no more than one page (front and back). The lesson plan should start with the objectives (i.e., what should be true about a participant after the lesson). You do not need to write down every word you would say; however, remember that you will most likely see a direct correlation between how careful you are in your lesson plan and how well you learn the material.

In designing a lesson plan, you might summarize important concepts, facts, and theorems, note shortcuts, include worked-out examples that illustrate the main points, and anticipate questions that might be asked.

You will have the opportunity to teach classmates from some of your lesson plans on several review days in class. I strongly encourage you to go further and teach all of the lesson plans; you most likely will know the material much better after actually presenting it to someone else, leading a discussion, and answering questions.

Specific homework instructions will be given on the course website or in handouts. These instructions may change throughout the semester.

Quizzes will be given periodically in class. Each quiz will have two scores: an original score and a corrected score. Only correct solutions will receive credit. The corrected score defaults to the original score and can be raised to 100% by correcting the problems as outlined below.

• You have two weeks from the time the quiz is given to submit corrections for the quiz.
• Use a clean sheet of paper with your original quiz stapled behind your correction. Label each problem. Do not change anything on your original quiz. If you lose your original quiz, contact me for another one.
• Before reworking a problem, describe in paragraph form the errors you made and what you will do to ensure that you don't make that kind of error again. This written explanation is graded as part of your correction score.
• When doing corrections, you may use outside resources. However, remember that you must be the one to do the quiz correction and are responsible for the material; I trust that you will understand your quiz correction fully when you turn it in.

There will be three tests throughout the semester. A final exam will be given at the end of the semester and will be cumulative.

Your course grade will be determined from the following components. These percentages are subject to adjustment.

If you have a disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor early in the semester so that your learning needs may be appropriately met. You will need to provide documentation of your disability to the Disability Resources (DR) office, located on the main floor of the Student Services Building, Room 1076, 515-294-6624.