| Fundamental principles | I will try to conduct this class according to the principles expressed in Ardila's Axioms (and the logical consequences of these axioms) and will expect all students in the class to try to do the same. I welcome feedback about how well I am doing, and I encourage students to talk to me if their experience (in my class or elsewhere) is not consistent with these axioms. | ||||||||
| Prerequisites | Prerequisite: MA 141 with grade of C- or better or AP Calculus credit. Credit is not allowed for both MA 241 and MA 231. | ||||||||
| Credit load | 4 credits | ||||||||
| Instructor | Nathan Reading | ||||||||
| Office | SAS 4118 | ||||||||
| Telephone | 919-515-3261. This is an office desk phone that does not accept text messages. Email is a much better way to reach me than phone. | ||||||||
| reading AT math DOT ncsu DOT edu | |||||||||
| Course website and Moodle | This site is https://nreadin.math.ncsu.edu/241. You will be responsible for material on this site. You will be notified by email or in class when new information is posted on the site (except for regularly occurring changes like posting of assignments and solutions). There is also a Moodle page for this course, which you can find in the usual way through Wolfware. We will use the Gradebook and a few other features. | ||||||||
| Class email list | There is a class email list. You will be responsible for any information emailed to the list. You will be expected to check your ncsu email account at least every day. | ||||||||
| Class Sessions |
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 8:30 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. in Park Shops 210, or Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10:40 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Dabney Hall 124, or Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:45 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. in Dabney Hall 124. Attendance at lectures is required. (Attend the class session in which you are enrolled.) Classroom Guidelines MA 241 and you Here is the most up-to-date schedule for the class. This schedule (except for test dates) is subject to change as the course progresses. | ||||||||
| Recitation sections and recitation leaders | Each of you is enrolled in a recitation section that meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays (various times and places).
Attendance at recitation sections is also required, and will be quite helpful. The recitation sections are led by a graduate teaching assistant (or "TA").
The TA's are: For the 8:30 lecture: Jai Aslam (jkaslam AT ncsu DOT edu) Ian Livengood (lliveng AT ncsu DOT edu) For the 10:40 lecture: Jennifer Buettner (jdbuettn AT ncsu DOT edu) Matthew Elpers (melpers AT ncsu DOT edu) For the 11:45 lecture: Erin Bednarek (elbednar AT ncsu DOT edu) Julia Sanger (jsanger AT ncsu DOT edu) You will get more information from your TA at the first recitation section. | ||||||||
| If you (or I) are not well |
If you are not well, please stay home.
Class will be automatically webcast and recorded.
The link for webcasts and recordings is on the Moodle page.
The webcast basically live during class, and then after some short delay will be available as a recording at the same link.
I am also working on posting photos of the chalkboards to the moodle page. Hopefully, there will be a good way to do that. It would also be a good idea to find a "buddy" in the class (or preferably more than one) who takes good notes and is willing to send you copies of their notes after class. Depending on how well the recordings come out, the notes may be more useful than the recordings. If I am not well, but am well enough to teach online, we may move class to Zoom. There is a Zoom link on the main Moodle page. I think/hope we will not use it, but it's there so we can use it at short notice if necessary. (This is another good reason to check your email regularly.) |
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| Office hours |
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 9:35 a.m. to 10:25 a.m. in my office, SAS 4118 Scheduled office hours are a "drop-in" service. No need to tell me whether you are coming. You are allowed to come to whatever part (or all) of the office hour that fits your schedule and your needs. It may be possible to make appointments at other times, but please try to use the scheduled office hours as much as possible, because I am teaching about 250 students this semester. To make an appointment, email me. Your TA will also hold office hours. (See below.) I discourage students from simply dropping by my office outside of scheduled office hours. I also discourage students from hanging out in my office hours doing homework until they have a question. Regularly scheduled office hours are not held during the first week of class, on days when the university is not holding classes, or after the last day of class. Office hours may occasionally need to be changed to allow me and/or your TAs to fulfill all parts of our job responsibilities. | ||||||||
| Other learning resources | The TAs for my lecture will also hold office hours. You are welcome to attend any of these, whether or not it is your own TA. Jai Aslam office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:00 on Zoom Erin Bednarek office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:00 in SAS 3219 Jennifer Buettner office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 in SAS 3223 Matthew Elpers office hours: Fridays 12:30-2:30 in SAS 3201 Ian Livengood office hours: Fridays, 2:00-4:00 in SAS 4119 Julia Sanger office hours: Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 in SAS 4125 | ||||||||
| Other learning resources |
There is also drop-in tutoring at the Mathematics Multimedia center. This is staffed by graduate students who are qualified to teach this class (and possibly are teaching it this semester). You may also want to check out the Academic Success Center for other tutoring options and other help. | ||||||||
| Text | Calculus for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2 by Franke, Griggs and Norris. This is an online textbook available through Cengage/WebAssign. Look for the book under "My Resources." (Look below for information on how to get started with WebAssign.) | ||||||||
| Reading Assignments, Lecture Schedule and Tests | Students are expected to read the text in addition to attending lectures. Here is the most up-to-date schedule for the class. This schedule (except for test dates) is subject to change as the course progresses. | ||||||||
| Homework |
You will have weekly homework assignments, consisting of a written part and a WebAssign part.
The written homework and WebAssign homework serve to tell you what you need to learn in the course.
Your goal every week is to understand the homework problems well enough that you could do them again on a quiz or test.
(Quiz and test problems may have easier algebra and computations than homework problems, but you should expect to be quizzed/tested on any concept you learned in homework.) Don't be fooled: The goal is to learn everything from the homework assignment. You can get a perfect score on WebAssign without working hard enough to learn what you need to learn. Do every problem in every assignment (WebAssign and written) and get help from the instructor, from a TA, from classmates and/or from others when you have trouble with a problem. Here is a guide to getting started with WebAssign. The WebAssign key for your class is on the Moodle page for the class. For best success, I recommend writing out your WebAssign homework before you enter answers into the computer. Please refer questions about WebAssign to your TA first. They will bounce questions up to me as needed. Notice also that the guide to getting started with WebAssign (page 6) has an email address for WebAssign technical support. We are using an automatic extension feature on WebAssign, for the occasional times when you might get behind. From the page of a particular assignment, near the top-right, you can click on "Request Extension" and choose Automatic. It should show you the terms of the extension there, but in case it doesn't, here they are: "You can request up to 2 extensions for each assignment, but when you request an extension, you lose 25% of the points that you have not yet earned. (You do not lose any points already earned.) The extension lasts 48 hours OR until the assignment is exactly 14 days and 23 hours past due, whichever comes first." You are allowed to work in groups on the homework. However, if you do not put in your own effort on each problem, you may find that you are less prepared for quizzes and exams than you would like to be. In addition, for WebAssign problems, your submissions must reflect your own understanding of the problem. I encourage you to practice additional problems. Each section of the textbook has additional problems, and some answers are given in the book. Also, detailed written solutions to many of the textbook problems are available in a PDF available in the same place where you get your textbook. |
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| Quizzes |
On Mondays (and one Wednesday) when homework is due, there will be a quiz on the homework assignment due that day.
The purpose of the quiz will be to test your understanding of the assigned homework problems (written and/or WebAssign).
It will be my intention to write a quiz that students will do well on, if they have mastered every homework problem.
If you find that your performance on quizzes is not what you would like it to be, then you probably should be putting more effort into homework.
I will also occasionally give "pop" quizzes. |
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| Midterm exams | There will be four midterm exams in class on the following dates:
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| Final Exam |
If you are enrolled in the 8:30 section (001): Monday, May 1, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. If you are enrolled in the 10:40 section (003) Friday, April 28, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. If you are enrolled in the 11:45 section (004): Monday, May 1, 12:00 noon to 2:30 p.m. The final exam will be held in the usual room. Attend the final exam for the class in which you are enrolled. |
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| Calculator use | I will be writing quizzes and tests that don't need a calculator, and calculators will not be allowed on tests or quizzes. Similarly phones should be in a backpack or pocket where they are not accessible during a quiz or test. You can use any calculator you want for homework, but don't become dependent on certain functions (for example graphing) that you won't have on the test. | ||||||||
| Comments, answers, review sheets, etc. |
Here are some Comments and answers on quizzes and tests and some review sheets. |
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| Grading |
The student's numerical score will be determined by weighting exams and quizzes as follows: 13% for quizzes, 5% for WebAssign, 13% each for the four exams and 30% for the final.
Final grades will be determined on the scale below.
Precise cutoffs for + and -- grades will be determined after the final.
These gradelines may be adjusted slightly but only in a way that improves the letter grades assigned.
Please don't have unrealistic expectations about the gradelines being adjusted.
They will probably not be adjusted, or will be adjusted by only a very few points.
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| Grades on Moodle | We will be keeping track of your grades on Moodle, and you can always see them there. | ||||||||
| N.C. State Polices, Regulations, and Rules |
Students are responsible for reviewing the NC State University Policies, Rules, and Regulations (PRRs) which pertain to their course rights and responsibilities, including those referenced both below and above in this syllabus: Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Policy Statement with additional references at https://oied.ncsu.edu/divweb/policies/ Code of Student Conduct. |
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| Policy on Attendance and Make-ups | Attending every lecture and recitation (in person, in its entirety) is considered part of the course requirement. No provisions will be made for students to make up missed quizzes or tests except as spelled out in the University's attendance regulation available at http://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-02-20-03 . Excused absences: If you have an excused absense on a non-test/quiz day, email your TA to be marked excused. If you have an excused absence on a quiz day, email me (Nathan Reading). If you have an excused absence on a test day, please contact me. You might have to go through the NCSU absence verification process. Start at dasa.ncsu.edu/students/absence-verification-process. |
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| Policy on Incompletes | Incompletes are not offered except in cases where special circumstances (such as outlined in the attendance regulation mentioned above) make it impossible for a student to complete the course. Even in these special circumstances, incompletes will not be offered unless the student was in a position to pass the class before the special circumstance arose. In particular, incompletes cannot be used as a way to "bail out" when a student feels that they cannot pass the course or feels they cannot do all the work that they put off until the end of the semester. | ||||||||
| Statement on privacy | Students may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to other students in the course, via digital tools, such as email or web-postings, where relevant to the course. Examples include online discussions of class topics, and posting of student coursework. All students are expected to respect the privacy of each other by not sharing or using such information outside the course. | ||||||||
| Statement for students with disabilities | Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities. In order to take advantage of available accommodations, students must register with the Disability Resource Office at Holmes Hall, Suite 304, 2751 Cates Avenue, Campus Box 7509, 919-515-7653. For more information on NC State's policy on working with students with disabilities, please see the Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities Regulation (NCSU REG02.20.01). | ||||||||
| Academic Integrity | Students are expected to conform to standards of academic integrity as described in the Code of Student Conduct, which can be found in the Code of Student Conduct. The student, by signing or writing their name on a homework assignment or test, affirms that they have neither given nor received unauthorized aid. (See "Homework Assignments" above for guidelines on acceptable collaboration on homework.) Violations of academic integrity will be handled in accordance with the Student Discipline Procedures (NCSU REG 11.35.02). | ||||||||
| NCSU Counseling center | The Counseling Center offers confidential counseling to NC State students experiencing personal, academic or vocational problems. Check out counseling.dasa.ncsu.edu. | ||||||||
| Help for students in distress | Although the counseling center is a great help, sometimes it's hard to recognize when we need help. So we need to look out for each other too. Occasionally, you may come across a fellow student whose behavior worries you. You can and should report worrisome behavior to the NC State Cares website: https://prevention.dasa.ncsu.edu/nc-state-cares/about/. You can report anonymously, but if you share your contact information, they can follow-up with you personally. |