Archive of old announcements for Math 421, Winter 2011
[Date posted.]
- [12/28] It will be helpful if you bring to the first class either your
first year (124/5) calculus text or a photocopy of the table of contents
for such a text.
Syllabus and other first day information will be available
on this page later this week.
- [12/31] The textbook, Making Sense of Calculus, Volume 1:
The Mathematics of Change and Variation, is in at the bookstore.
- [1/4] If you did not attend the first class, please (1) email me ASAP
to make an appointment to see me before the second class, and
(2) Work through the activities done in class Monday by yourself, and turn in
the results to me no later than the start of class on Wednesday.
(See the first day handout at the "Handouts" link below.)
- [1/12] If you missed class today, here's a pdf of
some comments from class. If you want an excused absence, write up
your answers to SQ 10, 11, & 13, and make an appointment to bring them
in and discuss them with me.
- [1/20] If you were absent yesterday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 1/19, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence. See also Math Day information below.
- [1/27] If you were absent yesterday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 1/26, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence.
- [2/8] If you were absent last week and want an excused absence, please
contact me about makeup work.
If you were absent yesterday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 2/7, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence.
Here are some
solutions for HW 7 (returned yesterday). I have posted these to give
some models for how to write up your reasoning. At the beginning there are
some general remarks about avoiding errors I've seen on multiple papers.
- [2/12] If you were absent Wednesday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 2/9, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence.
- [2/15] If you were absent Monday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 2/14, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence.
- [2/17] If you were absent Wednesday, read this
pdf summarizing class on 2/16, and do this
§3.4 Exercise we did in class.
- [2/24] Details on the
Synthesis paper due the last week of classes.
- [2/27] If you were absent Wednesday, here's a
pdf summarizing class on 2/23, including suggested makeup work
required for an excused absence.
- [3/8] Catching up on posting announcements from class:
from Monday, 2/28,
from Wednesday, 3/2, and
from Monday, 3/7 - including correction of some typos in §5.6
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