Honors Mathematics

Math 203, Fall 2017
Honors Mathematics I

Instructors

Text

Calculus, Volume I by Tom Apostol, (Wiley) Second Edition, 1967.
Transition to Higher Mathematics: Structure and Proof by Bob Dumas and John McCarthy (Available free here)

Office Hours

Course Webpage

Prerequisites

Assistant to Instructor

Tokio Sasaki, sasakitokio@wustl.edu, Monday 12-1, Friday 3-4 at Cupples I, Room 6, and by appointment.

Lectures

You are strongly suggested to attend the lectures. No talk, food and drinking is allowed in class. Please close your cell phone or change it to ``silent". Information about materials covered and homework assigned every week will be updated on the course website.
The Discussion Sections, led by our AI, will be held on Wednesday at 11-12. Quizes will be given in the discussion sections on 09/13, 09/27, 10/10 (Tuesday), 11/1, 11/15, 12/6.

Homework

You will have graded homework turned in every Tuesday by 11 a.m. Late homework will not be accepted! The homework collected is to be considered a bare minimum of homework that you should do. You are encouraged to do more problems in the exercieses sections.
Put the following information at the top left corner of each page of your homework: full name, student ID, and the due dates. Your turned in homework will be graded on several factors including accuracy and neatness. It is your responsibility to make sure the grader can understand your work.
Homework is an extremely important part of the course. Whilst talking to other people about it is allowed, too often this degenerates into one person solving the problem, and other people copying them (often justified to themselves by saying "I provide the ideas, X does the details" - but the details are the key. If you can't translate the idea into a real proof, you don't understand the material well enough). So we introduce the following rules:
(a) You can only talk to someone else about a problem if you have made a genuine effort to solve it yourself.
(b) You must write up the solutions on your own. Suspiciously similar write-ups will receive 0 points.

Exams

Please do not bring the following with you to your exam:

Grading scale

Homework: 20%, Quiz: 10%, Mid1: 20%, Mid2: 20%, Final: 30%. The grades are assigned according the percentage you are in the class.
You are expected to take the exams at their scheduled times. If you are away because of a university sporting event or field trip, then you may arrange for your coach or professor to administer the exam. Excused absences may be granted in the case of illness or bereavement. All excused absences must be granted before the exam is taken. The final exam date cannot be changed for reasons of traveling convenience.
Letter grades will be given based on your overall score. The cutoffs for the various letter grades will be no higher than the following:

In total, we will collect 11 homework. You are allowed to drop the lowest homework score.
The score of the final test can be used to replace the lowest midterm exam score.

Calculator

You are NOT allowed to use a graphing calculator on the exams. You will be allowed to use a scientific calculator, (for example, a TI30X, generally available for $13 or less). Be sure the calculator you choose can handle logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric calculations. It would be wise to use this calculator when you work your homework problems so you will be comfortable with it when you take the exams.

Homework assignments

Week 1. (Due 09/12) Ex. I 2.5 1. A,B,C, 5, 9, 17, 18.