Math 1432 Calculus II

Math 1432

Syllabus, Homework, Calendar
Connect to CourseWare (to access your textbook, discussion board, test scheduler, etc.)
Math Help (Math Lab, Learning Support Services, etc.)
Online Help and Practice Problems

The Course

Text: An on-line version of CALCULUS, 9th edition, by Salas, Hille, Etgen; John Wiley & Sons, Publisher.

This course covers Chapters 7 - 12 of the text. Your registration in the course provides on-line access to Chapters 1 - 12 and to the answers for the odd-numbered problems in the Exercise Sets. Click on the link to CourseWare. You will have to register there. At the CourseWare link, you will find the online text, test scheduler, and discussion board for Math 1432. The online text is in "pdf" format, suitable for printing.

Syllabus and Homework: Click on the Syllabus - Homework - Calendar link above to see the syllabus for the course and the assigned homework problems for the entire semester. The quizzes and exams will be based on the homework assignments and the in-class discussion and examples. NEW RULE: As in the other calc. 2 classes, homework will be collected, starting with the homework for 7.7. You will not be graded on if your final answer is right, or even on your working, but simply on whether it looks like you are doing your homework, and that you are trying. As in other calc. 2 classes, you will not get a grade for the homework, but if you do not do most of the homework questions, or if it looks like you really are not trying, then you will get a 0 for that weeks quiz (from your TA) in the recitation session.

Help

Help is available at several levels. The easiest place to get help is your recitation session. Here the TA's will answer questions and go over homework problems. Your instructor and your TA will have office hours and help is available there as well.

The Department of Mathematics has a mathematics laboratory (MathLab), located in 222 Garrison. MathLab has student tutors who, on a walk-in basis, offer help with individual problems. MathLab also sponsors test-preparation workshops prior to each of the examinations in the course.

You can get online help at any time http://online.math.uh.edu.

The Student Solutions Manual has full solutions to all the odd-numbered problems.

Quizzes and Exams

Exams: There will be three, one-hour exams during the semester and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the semester. The exams will be administered in the Center for Academic Support and Assessment (CASA), 222 Garrison. Each exam will be a combination of multiple choice questions and free response questions.

CourseWare Quizzes: There will be a CourseWare quiz every week. You will be taking these quizzes on-line. Your CourseWare quiz average will be included in the calculation of your grade for the course. Each quiz will be available for one week. You can repeat a quiz as many times as you want; only the highest score will be saved. Mock exams will often appear as online quizzes before tests, so be prepared for this: study for them as you would for the real test. There may be a chance that your old online quizzes will be reopened at some point allowing you to retake them, so watch out for this.

Recitation quizzes: These are 10 to 15 minute quizzes administered in your recitation class. There will be at least one rectitation quiz per week

Assessment

   300 points determined by exams 1, 2 and 3 (100 points each);
   100 points determined by quizzes [CourseWare (50%) and recitation (50%)].
   200 points determined by the final exam.
   600 points total
   The instructor may change this at his discretion if doing so will benefit the class as a whole.

The grading scale is (or hopefully will be close to): A: 540 - 600, B: 480 - 539, C: 420 - 479, and so on.

Attendance and other course policies

Failure to attend class and/or recitation sessions, or to take quizzes and/or exams, are grounds for dismissal from the course. Specific policies concerning attendance and any other policy issues that may arise will be communicated to you by your instructor.