Instructor: Christopher Hanusa -- email chanusa@math.binghamton.edu.
Instructor's Office: Library North 2233

Class meets: MWF 12:00-1:00pm in SL 310 and Thu 11:40am-1:05pm in LN 1406.
Class Web Site: http://www.math.binghamton.edu/chanusa/courses/221/07_Fall/.
Class Discussion Board: Hosted on http://blackboard.binghamton.edu.

Textbook: Calculus, 4th Edition, by Frank Ayres, Jr. and Elliott Mendelson (in Schaum's Outline Series)
This class covers: Chapters 1 through 24 and 29 and 30 from the textbook.

Screening Test: EVERYONE who takes Math 221 must pass the screening test.

Homework Policy: DO IT! The homework will be more difficult than the math homework you are accustomed to, and it will take longer as well. It will be common that problems will take longer than one minute and there will even be the occasional problem that will take longer than ten minutes. These are the problems that are the most satisfying to complete correctly.
      Every week, a new homework set will be posted on the course web site. You can not expect to learn the material and the underlying concepts without practice, which is the goal of the homework assignments. Each day at the start of class, one or two study groups will be presenting homework questions that were due by that day (they may be from previous assignments). Your group will be given time to write your previously completed solutions on the blackboard and then explain your solution to the class. Make sure to have your homework completed before the start of class each day. (You may also find that office hours are a good time to ask questions and go over concepts that are hard.)
      It is important to learn how to express yourself in the language of mathematics. I suggest that you organize a homework notebook, in which you will write the solutions to each of the homework problems. In your homework, you should show your work and explain how you did the problem. This is the difference between an Answer and a Solution. Notice that you have most of the answers for the problems, which gives you a chance to make sure you're on the right track. [One warning is that the book has quite a few errors, so you can not always be sure that the given answer is correct. If you have any doubts, email me.] It should be obvious to the person reading the homework how you went about doing the problem. This will often involve writing out explanations for your work in words. Imagine that you need an example to help refresh your memory for the final or even another class in six months!

Study Groups: For periods of three weeks at a time, you will be assigned a group of 3-4 classmates with whom you should work together on the homework. One goal of a learning community is to expand your community of contacts on campus, and this will give you the opportunity to meet and work with many of your classmates. Working as a group will allow you to solve more complicated homework problems. At the beginning the problems will seem easy enough to plug and chug on your own, but as the quarter progresses the questions become quite complex indeed. Study groups good. Copying solutions bad. When a group works on a problem, everyone can participate. But when you write up the answers to the problems, write it up in your own way, and make sure to write down who you worked with. Even if they haven't written your solutions, you certainly are including some of their thoughts and intellect, so you should always give credit to them, as they will to you!
      Study groups have several advantages: (i) you can practice and learn how to solve more problems in less time (doing as many problems as possible is the key to success), (ii) the best way to really learn something is to explain it to someone else (misunderstandings that you never knew you had come to light under someone else's questioning), (iii) no two people solve the same problem the same way, in a group you may discover new and more efficient ways to solve the same problem, (iv) seeing that others also struggle with this material helps to put your own level of understanding in a better perspective and will hopefully reduce some of your anxiety, (v) in making the homework assignments, I assume that you will be working in groups.

Participation Grade: Your participation in your group's homework presentation will be noted. If you participate each time your group is called up to the board, you will receive a full participation grade. Repeated active participation in class (asking questions, responding to my prompts) will increase your participation grade.

Tests: There will be five one hour midterm exams throughout the semester, and the Final Exam is two hours long. No calculators or study aides will be allowed.

Grading Scheme: (subject to minor tinkering)

• Participation Grade: 10%
• Each midterm exam: 10%
• Final Exam: 40%

Help and Office Hours: Please get help at the first sign of incomprehension. Each topic we cover depends upon what we learned earlier in the semester. This means that if you do not understand one topic, you will likely feel even more lost when we move on to the following topic! Luckily, you have many options to help you understand the topics along the way.
      The math help room is a great place to get help, even when I am not around. It is open most of the day and is located in LN 2216. Personal tutors are available free of charge through the discovery program. Find the College in the Woods discovery center (near the dining hall) and sign up there. Last but not least, I will hold regular office hours this semester. On Wednesdays, I will hold office hours from 2:30-4:00 in the Chenango Hall common area. On Fridays, I will hold office hours in my office, LN 2233. If these times are not convenient, I would be glad to meet with you some other time. Please contact me by e-mail at chanusa@math.binghamton.edu with some times that you are free. My schedule this semester can be found here. I plan to hold extra office hours before the exams and the final.

Cheating/Plagiarism: DON'T DO IT!   Both receiving and supplying the answers on a quiz or exam is cheating. I take cheating very seriously. If you cheat, you will receive a zero for the quiz/exam and I will report you to the Academic Honesty Committee. If you cheat twice, you will receive a zero for the class. Please do realize that working together on homework is not cheating.