Instructor
Dr. Jennifer Taggart
taggart@math.washington.edu
Office: Padelford C-334
Click here for Office Hours
TA:
Daeshik Choi (HA, HB),
ds77choi@math.washington.edu
Jonathan Cross (HC),
jacross@math.washington.edu
Exam dates:
Midterm 1: October 23
Midterm 2: November 13
Final exam: December 6
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Final Exam Information:
The final exam for Math 125 will be held on Saturday, December 6, from
1:30 to 4:20 p.m. Dr. Taggart's class will be in
Hitchcock
132. The exam will be cumulative. You should study all the material
presented in the course. You will be allowed to use a non-graphing
calculator and one sheet of handwritten notes. Please also bring photo ID.
You will find old final exams here.
Announcements:
- Announced 12/12/2008: Here are the
final grades.
Please read the following very carefully before e-mailing
me with question:
- Students are listed by the last 4 digits of their student ID numbers.
Any leading zeroes are omitted. So, for example, if your student ID is 510001,
then your ID is listed as 1, rather than 0001.
- Your Worksheet Total is out of 5 points.
- All of your homework scores are listed.
However, I have dropped the lowest score in the compuation of your grade.
Once again, you will see ALL of your homework scores listed
but I PROMISE I have dropped your lowest score.
- If any of your scores has been incorrectly recorded, please make
arrangements to show me the
graded item after the start of Winter Quarter.
I cannot change any scores without seeing the
graded assignment.
- The median on Exam I was a 43/50.
- The median on Exam II was a 42/50.
- The median on the Final Exam was a 72/100.
- I keep all of my final exams for one full quarter, but you are welcome
to stop by my office to take a look at your final. You can come in at the
beginning of Winter Quarter to see your exam. If you'd like to have your exam
to keep, stop by at the end of Winter Quarter.
- Have a great Winter Break!
- Announced 11/22/2008: Here are the
grades.
Please read the following very carefully before e-mailing
me with questions:
- Students are listed by the last 4 digits of their student ID numbers.
Any leading zeroes are omitted. So, for example, if your student ID is 510001,
then your ID is listed as 1, rather than 0001.
- All of your homework scores and worksheet scores are listed.
However, I have dropped the lowest scores in the compuation of your grade.
- Since, at the end of the
quarter, 80% of your grade will be based on your exam scores, I have
weighted your each of your midterm scores as 40% of your grade to
compute this estimated grade.
- I do not "curve" individual exam scores, but I have "curved" the
overall grades based on your total percentages.
- If any of your scores has been incorrectly recorded, please show the
graded item to your TA. We cannot change any scores without seeing the
graded assignment.
- The median on Exam I was a 43/50.
- The median on Exam II was a 42/50.
- The median grade in the course is currently a 3.0.
- I do not give extra credit. The way to improve your grade is to
do as well as you possibly can on the final exam.
- Announced 11/9/2008: Here are hints
and answers for the Sample Exam I posted earlier.
- Announced 11/6/2008: Here are hints
and partial solutions for the page of integrals I handed out in class
on Monday.
- Announced 11/6/2008: Exam II will be held on Thursday, November 13, in
quiz section. It will cover techniques of integration, improper integrals,
and numerical integration. The exam is not cumulative, but any material i
that appears in Homeworks 4, 5, and 5.5
may appear on the exami (which means, for example, you may be asked
to find the volume of a solid of revolution in which the necessary integral
requires one of the new techniques of integration).
To give you an idea of the length of the exam, here is a
Sample Exam. Solutions will be posted later.
You will be allowed a scientific (non-graphing) calculator and one sheet
of handwritten notes on the exam.
- Announced 11/2/2008: Here are the
grades.
Please read the following very carefully before e-mailing
me with question:
- Students are listed by the last 4 digits of their student ID numbers.
Any leading zeroes are omitted. So, for example, if your student ID is 510001,
then your ID is listed as 1, rather than 0001.
- All of your homework scores and worksheet scores are listed.
However, I have dropped the lowest scores in the compuation of your grade.
- The grader made a mistake in grading Homework #3. If you did not
receive a 10 on Homework #3, I have given you one extra point.
- Estimating grades at this point in the quarter is difficult
since we have so few grades to go on. Since, at the end of the
quarter, 80% of your grade will be based on your exam scores, I have
weighted your first exam score more heavily than homeworks and quizzes to
compute this estimated grade.
- If any of your scores has been incorrectly recorded, please show the
graded item to your TA. We cannot change any scores without seeing the
graded assignment.
- The median on Exam I was a 43/50 and the mean was a 40/50.
- I do not give extra credit. The way to improve your grade is to
improve your scores, especially on exams.
- Announced 10/28/2008: Here are the answers
for Exam I. I will post grades and exam statistics over the weekend.
- Announced 10/17/2008: Dr. Andy Loveless put together this fantastic
Exam I Review. This covers, in chronological order, all the topics
we've done so far. Make sure that you've practiced doing problems from
each of these sections. You'll also want to look at his comments
on Section 6.4 and 6.5 from this
Exam II Review. (Note that the work to lift a cable should be
from x=0 to x=b, instead of from x=a to x=b.)
- Announced 10/17/2008: Exam I will be held in quiz section on Thursday,
October 23. It will cover everything we've done in the course so far:
Sections 4.10, 5.1-5.5, and 6.1-6.5.
Please bring a scientific calculator (no graphing calculators) and one
sheet of handwritten notes. To get an idea of the length and difficulty
of the exam, you may want to attempt one of these two exams:
I highly suggest doing as much of these exams
as possible on your own, using only your sheet of notes, before checking
your work against:
Also, you may want to try #5 from this exam.
- Announced 9/28/2008: For homework #1, please do only part (a) on
Section 5.1 #22.
- Announced 9/28/2008: I've scheduled my office hours. Please see
my personal contact page for these hours.
- Announced 9/23/2008: We're now using the sixth edition of Stewart's
Calculus text. If you already own the fifth edition and do not want to
purchase the custom edition available in the bookstore, here's what you
need to know: section 4.9 in the sixth edition was section 4.10 in the fifth
edition and THE EXERCISES HAVE CHANGED. All assigned homework will be from
the SIXTH EDITION. You may download the exercises from the sixth edition free
of charge by following the instructions
given here.