Math 160, Section B1, Spring 2007

Instructor: Qiang Meng

Office: Carver 439

Office Hours: Mon. 1-3pm, Fri. 1-2pm

Course Webpage: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~qmeng/

Help Room: The math help room is available to all students. Its hours are:

Course Description: The Prerequisites for this course is to have satisfactory performance on placement exam, 2 years of high school algebra, 1 year of geometry. This course covers analytic geometry, derivatives and integrals of elementary functions, partial derivatives, and applications.

Learning Disabilities: Please address any special needs or special accommodations with me at the beginning of the semester or as soon as you become aware of your needs. Those seeking accommodations based on disabilities should obtain a Student Academic Accommodation Request (SAAR) form from the Disability Resources (DR) office (515-294-6624), which is located on the main floor of the Student Services Building, Room 1076.

Text: The text used in this department for this course is Brief Calculus: Solving Problems in Business, Economics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, by Bill Armstrong and Don Davis, 2nd edition.

Requirements: I am planning on giving about 10-15 problems a day. We will have a quiz once a week every Friday unless we have an exam that day. The quiz questions will be similar to the recommended homework. There will be 3 exams and one comprehensive final exam.

Grading:

Quizzes        100
Exam1          80
Exam2          80
Exam3          80
Final             160
Total             500

Grades will then be given on the following scale:

466 ~ 500 (>93%) = A
451 ~ 465 (>90%) = A-
436 ~ 450 (>87%) = B+
416 ~ 435 (>83%) = B
401 ~ 415 (>80%) = B-
386 ~ 400 (>77%) = C+
366 ~ 385 (>73%) = C
351 ~ 365 (>70%) = C-
336 ~ 350 (>67%) = D+
301 ~ 335 (>60%) = D
0 ~ 300 (<60%) = F