CALCULUS 30
The following page outlines important information regarding Calculus 30. Please take this sheet home for your parents to read.
1. Missed Exam Policy
As usual, if a student is ill please contact the office as soon as possible to clear the absence.
Any missed exams will be made up the last Friday of the semester before final exams. The reason this is done is that when the students are studying for their missed exam they are also studying for their final exam.
I strongly discourage students to be absent during final exam time. I understand, however, that circumstances occur. Under these circumstances, please contact the office.
2. Missed Quiz Policy
We will be writing series of short quizzes frequently. Any quiz that is missed will be written with your unit exam at the end of the chapter.
3. Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is essentially cheating &/or copying. Writing formulas on calculators, smuggling in electronic devices such as MP3 players or phones with notes typed inside, cheat sheets, or looking off of a neighbouring student’s exam constitutes cheating. This is a discipline matter and will be dealt with by the office. I take this matter very seriously.
4. Homework Policy
A major part of the course consists of carefully reading your notes and doing
assigned homework. Much of this work will be done on your own. It is impossible to emphasize the importance of doing your work and keeping up as the content of the course builds on each lesson taught. It is often easy to read a set of notes and feel that you understand the material, but real understanding only comes when you apply the ideas to problems.
*** IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU KEEP UP WITH YOUR DAILY WORK AND (WHEN NECESSARY) DO YOUR HOMEWORK IN MATHEMATICS. *** You will only fall behind if you do not keep up. It is impossible to learn a semester’s worth of material the night before a final exam.
5. Attendance Policy
Attendance is crucial to your success and understanding. I understand that situations arise when you are unable to attend school. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CATCH UP ON ALL MISSED HOMEWORK BEFORE ANY EXAMS OR QUIZZES ARE WRITTEN.
The following excuses are UNACCEPTABLE when you are writing an exam:
“I don’t know how do to this because I was at (insert school event/field trip/co-curricular course here)/on holiday.” I understand that extra-curricular activities and field trips sometimes require you to be outside of the classroom but it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to get your missed work, notes, and assignments before any exams. “I wasn’t here the day we learned this” is NOT a valid excuse at any time.
6. Evaluation Policy
Evaluation will consist primarily of unit exams and quizzes. It is therefore important that you attend regularly to maximize your potential for good grades. You mark will be calculated as follows:
UNIT EXAMS: 50%
QUIZZES, ASSIGNMENTS, HOMEWORK: 20%
FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM: 30%
7. Twitter Account
I maintain a Twitter account where parents and students can be up to
date with what is going on in our class on a daily basis. I primarily post daily
homework and reminders for exams and quizzes. You do not need to join
Twitter to see my “tweets” (posts). Go to www.twitter.com/mathmrh .
If you are already a member of Twitter, you can “follow” me so you can be
immediately updated. For Calculus 30, look for tweets prefaced with
“CALC 30:” as I use the same account to for my other classes.
8. Other Contact Info
Feel free to contact me via email at faron.hrynewich@spiritsd.ca OR
calculus@spiritsd.ca or by telephone 933-1022.
TOPICS:
1. Review and Preview
Properties of inequalities and absolute value
Functions and their graphs
Domain and Range
Piece-Wise Functions
Function Notation and Composition of Functions
2. Limits and Continuity
Limits at a point
Limits at infinity
One-sided limits
Continuity
3. Derivatives
Precise Definition of A Derivative
Derivatives of Polynomials
Product, Quotient, and Chain Rules
Implicit Differentiation
4. Applications of the Derivative
Curve Sketching
Max/Min problems
Related Rates
5. Derivatives of the Trigonometric, Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions
6. Integrals
areas under curves, integration by site, substitution, parts
integrals of exponential, trigonometric, and exponential functions
Applications