Learning Assistants Kira Fritsche and Xinyao Li will run (almost) weekly workshops during the semester. They will review and go into greater depth on some of the important topics from the course. These workshops are optional, but I strongly encourage you to attend. Most weeks there will be two identical sessions per week, Sundays 7-8 and Mondays 6:30-7:30, in Bullock Science Center 102W. For each week that you attend, you will get one point on the next exam (bringing your grade up to a maximum of 100). To get the extra credit, you must send me an email within a week pledging that you attended the workshop the entire time. Please bring your textbook to the workshop.
Guidelines for attending workshops.
This schedule is subject to change.
Sundays 7-8 and Mondays 6:30-7:30
Dates | Topics |
9/6 & 9/7 |
Lines and the derivative |
9/13 & 9/14 | Interpreting the derivative |
9/20 (Sun) |
Review for first exam |
9/27 & 9/28 |
Exponentials and their derivatives |
10/4 & 10/5 | Product, quotient, and chain rules |
10/12 (Mon) | Chain rule and trig functions |
10/18 (Sun) |
Review for second exam |
10/25 & 10/26 |
Practice for Differentiation Proficiency Test |
11/1 & 11/2 | Max-min word problems |
11/8 (Sun) |
Review for third exam |
11/15 & 11/16 | Approximating area under a curve |
11/22 & 11/23 | Interpreting integrals - the Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus |
11/29 & 11/30 | No workshop (because of Thanksgiving Break) |
12/6 (Sun) |
Graphical and algebraic antidifferentiation |