MTH 141 (Spring 2008): College Calculus I (sections X and Y)

Instructor: H. June Zhu
Office: 326 Mathematics Building.     Phone: 645-6284 ext. 131.
Office Hours: R 3:30-5pm and by appointments.
Email: hjzhu@math.buffalo.edu

Course Page: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~hjzhu/Courses/141/141-syllabus.html
Lectures: TR 12:30-13:50(section X) and 14:00-15:20 (section Y), see Lecture Schedule
Room: 218 Norton.  
Textbook: Stewart, Single Variable Calculus (Early Transcendentals, 6e).
TA's Labs (Starting from Jan 22nd)
Agegnehu Atena: aaatena@buffalo.edu. Math Building Room 129. ext 163. Office hours: TBA.
Section X1: T 14-14:50, 112 Talbrt. Section X2: R 14-14:50, 111 Talbrt.
Sandra Lacea: slacea@buffalo.edu. Math Building Room 137. ext ???. Office hours:  TBA.
Section Y1: T 13-13:50, 214 OBrian. Section Y2: R 13-13:50, 214 OBrian.
Math Help Center Graduate students will be at Room 110 of the mathematics building to answer any math questions you might have. See here for hours and more information.

 Homework Assignments.

Exams 10-minute in-lab quizzes will be given. There will be totally 5 quizzes (see the Lecture Schedule for time). The quiz problems are selected from the homework.

There will be three in-lecture term tests:
Term Test 1: T, Feb 19 (80 minutes).
Term Test 2: T, Mar 25 (80 minutes).
Term Test 3: T, April 24 (80 minutes).

No final exam. Calculators are not allowed in quizzes and term tests. No makeup quizzes.

Grading Policy The 2 lowest homework grades and the lowest quiz grade will be dropped. In other words, we shall count only your best 8 homework and best 4 quizzes.  No late homework will be accepted.

Your final grade will be determined by:
Homework: 20%      Quizzes: 20%, Term tests breakdown: lowest 10%, the rest 25% each.

Disabilities If you have a diagnosed disability (physical, learning or psychological) which will make it difficult to carry out the course work as outlined, or requires accomodations such as recruiting note takers, readers, or extended time on exams and/or assignment, please advise me during the first two weeks of the course so we may review possible arrangements for reasonable accomodations.

Important Dates
Friday,  Jan 25th.   Last day to drop the course - no record appears on transcript.
Friday,  Jan 25th.   Last day to file "Petition to make up an Incomplete" with the math department.
Friday,  March 28th.  Last day to RESIGN from the course - an "R" appears on transcript.

Making Up Incompletes To make up an Incomplete in a math course you must:
1) Not re-register for the course -- you are making up an incomplete in your original course.
2) Appear in person at the Mathematics Building, Room 237, and ask Rosemarie Marciniak to initiate an incomplete petition form for you.
3) Sign the petition.
4) a) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed with him/her, take the approved petition form to your original instructor for signature. b) If your original instructor determined that the work was to be completed by repeating the course, take the approved petition form to me for signature.
5) Return the petition form to Rosemarie Marciniak in Rm. 237 Math Bldg. by the last day of add/drop. Jan 25th.