Wednesday 4/26 – Last Day!

// Before class

  • Keep implementing your study plan for next week’s Final Exam

// During class

  • Double Daily Quiz (attendance only)
  • Hand back stray papers
  • Discuss the Final Exam
  • Online course evaluation (worth 5 points extra credit)
  • Paper departmental course evaluation

// After class

  • Study! Don’t forget to get lots of sleep before the Final Exam so that your brain works at 8 AM. Eat breakfast. You can do this.

Monday 4/24 – Chapter 7 Review

// Before class

  • You should be reviewing for the final exam, and in particular you should have reviewed Chapter 7 to prepare for today’s Daily Quiz

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on Chapter 7
  • Group work and discussions of Chapter 7 material

// After class

  • Continue with your preparations studying for the final exam. Be ready for a DOUBLE Daily Quiz on Wednesday (attendance only), so that everyone will be present to fill out course evaluations.

Friday 4/21 – Chapter 6 Review

// Before class

  • You should be reviewing for the final exam, and in particular you should have reviewed Chapter 6 to prepare for today’s Daily Quiz

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on Chapter 6
  • Group work and discussions of Chapter 6 material

// After class

  • Continue with your preparations studying for the final exam. Be ready to take a Daily Quiz on something from Chapter 7 in class on Monday.

Wednesday 4/19 – Chapter 5 Review

// Before class

  • You should be reviewing for the final exam, and in particular you should have reviewed Chapter 5 to prepare for today’s Daily Quiz

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on Chapter 5
  • Group work and discussions of Chapter 5 material

// After class

  • Continue with your preparations studying for the final exam. Be ready to take a Daily Quiz on something from Chapter 6 in class on Friday.

Monday 4/17 – Problems Day & HW Quiz

// Before class

  • Complete any leftover homework from Sections 7.5, 7.6, and 8.1 to prepare for today’s HW Quiz

// During class

  • Questions about homework strategies, probably especially from Section 8.1
  • 100% probability of HW Quiz on Sections 7.5, 7.6, and 8.1

// After class

  • If you haven’t begun implementing a plan for studying for the final exam, this is the time to start.
  • Wednesday’s class will begin with a Daily Quiz from Chapter 5, so be sure to review that material before class.

Wednesday 4/12 – Integration by Substitution

// Before class

  • You should have completed all of the homework from Section 7.6 and read Section 8.1

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on Section 8.1 reading
  • Group work and discussion of Section 8.1

// After class

  • Complete all homework for Section 8.1 by Monday’s class. Here is a set of suggested minimum problems:
    • Thinking Back – all problems (SERIOUSLY, this is a particularly good set)
    • Concepts – #0, #1, #2, and at least five more from #3–20
    • Skills – At least 20 problems from #21–68, 5 problems from #69–76, and 2 problems from #77–80
    • Applications – At least 1 problem from #81–84
    • Proofs – At least 2 problems from #85–90
  • Note that there is NO CLASS on Friday of this week.
  • On Monday we will have a Problems Day, with a near-100% likelihood of a Homework Quiz (covering Sections 7.5, 7.6, and 8.1).

Video: Definite integrals of functions with absolute values

Here’s a Khan Academy video that illustrates how to find the definite integral of the absolute value of a function, by writing that absolute value function as a piecewise function and then splitting the integral into multiple parts:

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Monday 8/10 – Areas and Average Values

// Before class

  • You should have read and taken notes on Section 7.6

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on Section 7.6
  • Note that the Calendar has changed and the day with no class has flipped to FRIDAY
  • Group work and discussion of Section 7.6

// After class

  • Here is a suggested minimum set of homework problems for Section 7.6, which you should complete before class on Wednesday:
    • Thinking Back – all problems
    • Concepts – #0, #1, #2, and at least five more from #3–22
    • Skills – At least 1 problem from #23–25, 8 from #26–37, 1 from #38–40, 8 from #41–52, 1 from #53–55, 5 from #56–67, and 5 from #68–73
    • Applications – At least 1 problem from #74–77 (I suggest #77)
    • Proofs – At least 2 problems from #78–82 (I suggest #78 and $79)
  • Before Wednesday’s class you should also read and take notes on Section 8.1 to prepare for the Daily Quiz. (Note that we will be skipping Section 7.7.)

Friday 4/7 – Proof of the FTC

// Before class

  • You should have completed all of the homework from Section 3.1 and half of the homework from Section 7.5

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on completed homework
  • Note Calendar update
  • Reminder of how to estimate your Grade
  • Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and examples of using it

// After class

  • Complete remaining homework from Section 7.5 before Monday’s class
  • Read and take notes on Section 7.6 to prepare for Monday’s Daily Quiz

Wednesday 4/5 – MVT and FTC

// Before class

  • You should have read both Section 3.1 and Section 7.5

// During class

  • Daily Quiz on the reading
  • Discussion of the Mean Value Theorem and its proof
  • Discussion of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (proof next time)

// After class

  • In addition to your usual homework from Section 7.5 you will also have to do a few selected problems from Section 3.1. I suggest doing all of the Section 3.1 homework and at least half of the Section 7.5 homework before Friday’s class. Both problem sets are below.
  • Here is a suggested minimum set of homework problems for Section 3.1:
    • Problems #9, #16, #20, at least two problems from #47–50, and at least three problems from #51–58
  • Here is a suggested minimum set of homework problems for Section 7.5:
    • Thinking Back – all problems
    • Concepts – #0, #1, #2, and at least five more from #3–18
    • Skills – At least 25 problems from #19–64
    • Applications – At least 1 problem from #65–71
    • Proofs – At least 1 problem from #72–76, and at least 1 problem from #77–80
  • Friday’s Daily Quiz will be taken either from the Section 3.1 homework or from the easier problems on the Section 7.5 homework

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