Math 127:  CALCULUS I FOR THE LIFE, MANAGERIAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,  Fall 2003

SYLLABUS

Text .  Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences , Eighth Edition; Barnett, Ziegler and Byleen; chapters 1-6.

Prerequisites .   High school precalculus.  It's essential that your precalculus  be in good working order. If you are having difficulty in this area, you might find the book Just in Time: Algebra and Trigonometry for Students of Calculus helpful. 
(It should be available in the bookstore as an "optional" text.  Most of you should NOT need to buy it!)  If there seem to be significant problems, it might be good to think about switching into Math 100, Foundations for Calculus.

Instructor .  Professor Rachel Roberts
             
                         Send email to Prof. Roberts at roberts@math.wustl.edu.


Office .   Cupples I  109, 935-8527

Office Hours.   MWF 11:30 am-12:00 noon (in Eliot 102)
                       MWF 1:00-1:40 pm (in Cupples I 109) .
You will earn one percentage point toward your semester grade the first time you visit me during office hours with a question about the course material, if your first visit is before Fall Break. If you
cannot make my office hours, please contact me with this information as soon as possible.


TA Office Hours.   The TA's will all have regular office hours and will be glad to help you with details or concepts. Your first choice should be the TA from your discussion section but either of
the two will be glad to help.


Greg Knese:  Monday 3-4pm, Wednesday 3:30-4:30pm, Thursday 11am-noon    in Cupples I Room 6


Paul Koester:  Monday 4-5:30pm, Thursday 11:30am -1:00pm   in Cupples I Room 9


Meeting Time and Place.   MWF 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Eliot 102


Communication.   The Daily Schedule gives the daily reading assignments and the recommended practice problems.  You should also check out the remaining links below, which are part of
this syllabus. The math department home page may be found at www.math.wustl.edu.  There are a number of useful links there, including a link to this syllabus online. Finally, there is a
"Math 127" bulletin board on the first floor of Cupples I.  This will be used mainly to post exam solutions.

Homework.   There will be daily recommended practice problems available on the Daily Schedule.  It is crucial that you work through these problems even though they will not be collected
for grading. The solutions to these can be found in the back of your textbook and, in more detail, in the Students Solution Manual.
                     There will also be weekly graded homework sets on Webwork, an internet based mathematics homework system.  These homeworks will be assigned via Webwork each
Wednesday, to be due the following Wednesday.


Discussion Sections.   You should be enrolled in one of the discussion sections for this course.  A quiz will be given at each discussion section (except during exam weeks and Thanksgiving
week), for a total of ten quizzes.

Quizzes.  A quiz will be given at each discussion section (except during exam weeks and Thanksgiving week), for a total of ten quizzes.  The quizzes in a given week will cover the material
listed in the Daily Schedule for the previous week. There will be no make-up quizzes;  if you miss a quiz, a grade of 0 is assigned. However, your four lowest scores will be dropped when
computing your semester quiz score. No notes may be used on the quiz.  Sometimes calculators will be allowed; sometimes not. Quiz solutions can be found here.


In-class work.  You are expected to complete the daily pre-class readings as listed in the Daily Schedule.  There will be T/F handouts to help guide this reading. T/F answers to these
handouts can be found here. There will be a mini-quiz modelled on this T/F handout at the beginning of each class. Occasionally, I will assign and collect other in-class work.  There will
be no make-ups for missed in-class work; however, your eight lowest scores will be dropped when computing your semester in-class score.


Exams .   Three in-semester evening exams will be given.  These will be held on September 17, October 15, and November 12, (all Wednesdays), 6:30-8:30 p.m.   
The final exam will be given on Wednesday, December 17, 6:00-8:00 p.m.  The location for each evening exam will be announced one or two days prior to it.  You should bring your
WU photo ID,  pencils/pens,  and your calculator.


If it is to your advantage, your final exam score will replace your lowest in-semester exam score.

Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illlness or family emergency) must be approved by Professor Jack Shapiro (Cupples 1, 107B, 935-6787).
In unapproved cases, a grade of 0 will be assigned for a missed exam. Students who miss an in-semester exam with a legitimate excuse will not take a make-up exam; instead the
statistical technique of multilinear regression will be used to estimate the missing score. (The details are complicated but the method takes into account both how the student did on
the exams he/she took and the difficulty of the various exams; so he/she is not penalized if the exam he/she missed was an easy one.)  Students who miss the final exam with a
legitimate excuse will take a make-up exam at the beginning of the next semester.


Grading System .   Your grade will be based on the following.

 A final scale for letter grades will be determined at the end of the course. It will be no more severe than the scale listed in the following table.

            Students taking the course with the "Credit/No Credit" ("Pass/Fail") grading option must earn a grade of "D" or better to receive a "pass".

            Any students taking the course on an "audit" basis should talk with the instructor to determine what criteria will be used to award a grade of "successful audit."

Links.

Notes.   (1)  Calculus is not just about memorization and computation, but about understanding and application.  Although studying the lectures and doing all  homework should lead to
good results on the exams,  do not expect the exams to be carbon copies of the homework.  Thought and application are required!