Math 166, Section D1
Calculus II
Fritz Keinert
Spring 2006

Final Scores

I have posted the final scores. If you want to look at your final exam, come by my office. On Thursday, I won't be in in the morning, but I'll be around part of the afternoon, and probably most of Friday.

Overall comments:

• As I was grading the final, it seemed there were a lot of easy questions that almost everybody got right, and a lot of high scores. In the end, the averages came out almost exactly like the midterm.
• During the final, it also seemed that it was quite easy. A lot of people got done in less than half the allowed time. We'll see how the overall averages between all the sections come out.
• There seem to be a number of people with very smart calculators that can do Taylor series and other things. Too bad that they can't show the required intermediate steps.

Have a good summer!

Quick Links

Instructor

Fritz Keinert
464 Carver
294-5223
keinert@iastate.edu
Office hours: M-F 10-11am
Class meetings: MTuThF 11:00-11:50am, Carver 160

About the Course

This is the second semester of the 3 semester calculus sequence. More information about all calculus courses can be found at http://www.math.iastate.edu/calculus/. This includes course objectives and old midterm and final exams.

[Syllabus] [Objectives]

Textbook

Varberg/Purcell/Rigdon
Calculus, 8th edition
ISBN 0-13-081137-8

[Errata]

General Organization of the Class

Your grade will be determined by your scores on the departmental midterm (30%), departmental final (30%), homework assignments (20%) and end-of-chapter quizzes (20%).

There will be departmental exams on February 23 (90 minutes) and sometime during finals week (120 minutes).

There will be a homework assignment for every section. Homework assignments will be administered in MapleTA, which is an online testing program. You can access it from any computer with a web connection. For the homeworks, you only need to get 80% of the points to get full credit. That is because every one of you will lose some points because you did not type in the answer in just the right form that MapleTA wanted. The homework problems come from the Edwards and Penney calculus book, because we don't have test banks for our own book.

We will also have a total of 5 in-class quizzes (see schedule)

Students With Disabilities

If you have a disability and require accommodations, you should obtain a Student Academic Accommodation Request (SAAR) from the Disability Resources office (Student Services Building, Room 1076, 294-6624 or TDD 294-6335, awoniyib@iastate.edu). Please contact your instructor early in the semester so that your learning needs may be appropriately met.

Approximate Schedule

Math Help Room

The Math Department maintains a Help Room in Carver 385. The tutors there can answer questions about any 100-level math course. Bring your own textbook, the tutors don't have any. The hours for Spring 2006 are

Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a nationally recognized academic support program offering free, regularly scheduled study sessions for selected difficult 100-200 level courses. SI sessions are facilitated by SI Leaders, undergraduate students who have previously taken the course and demonstrated academic competency in the subject area.

There are two different SI leaders for Math 166 this term, each offering 3 sessions a week.

SI 166-1

SI Leader: Chelsea

Session 1: Sundays 7:10pm @ Eaton Hall 1132
Session 2: Wednesdays 8:10pm @ Pearson 3119
Session 3: Thursdays 8:10pm @ Pearson 3119

SI 166-2

SI Leader: Rachel

Session 1: Mondays 7:10pm @ Maple-Willow-Larch Conf. Room (located above the C-store)
Session 2: Tuesdays 6:10pm @ Pearson 2149
Session 3: Thursdays 4:10pm @ Pearson 2149

Problem of the Week (Apr 17-21): From triangles to polygons

Let P be a regular polygon with 2n sides, n ≥ 2. Create the triangle XYZ in polygon P where X is any vertex, Y is the vertex directly across P from X, and Z is one of the two adjacent vertices to Y. Show that the area of polygon P is n times the area of ΔXYZ.

Previous Problems

ISU Problem of the Week Rules

1. A new problem will be posed Monday of each week, including dead week.
2. You must be an undergraduate enrolled at Iowa State University.
3. Solutions are due by 9:00am the following Monday. Solutions can be left in the manila envelope on the Contest display, or turned in to the Math Office, 396 Carver. Include your name, email, and the date and time of the submission.
4. For full credit, solutions must have the correct answer and complete supporting work. If your solution has more than one page, staple the pages together.
5. A solution to the previous weeks problem will be posted on Monday. Later in the week there will be a posting of names of successful solvers. Each week the solver with the best (or in case of a tie) earliest solution will be awarded a certificate.
6. The top solver for the semester will receive an invitation to the U. S. National Collegiate Mathematics Competition, held in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Mathfest in August, 2006.