- Welcome!
- There's a breakfast sponsored by the math/stat club, Thursday morning, 8:30-10, MEP 4th floor West Atrium.
- Name (that you want me to call you)
- Hometown
- What is your calling? ("a calling has to do with one's larger purpose, personhood, deepest values, and the gift one wishes to give the world.... A calling is about the use one makes of a career." David Orr, Earth in Mind)
- What is your dream job?
- What is something special about you?
- The course website will be useful (especially for assignments):
http://www.nku.edu/~longa/classes/mat329
- I hope that you will be willing to participate, by
- asking questions,
- offering to answer questions,
- going to the board,
- working in groups, etc.
- Syllabus (logistics, etc.)
- You should do the reading in advance of our discussion of
that section in class! Today is an exception of course, but
we're starting in on 14.1 today, and I'll hope that you've read
it by Thursday.
Directed reading worksheets are on-line, and quizzes will occur on Fridays based loosely on these.
- Quizzes will
be short, occur at the end of class on Fridays, and be conceptual (rather than
computational) in nature. Knowledge of definitions, classes of functions,
important examples, and theorems will be the emphasis. It is important to have
some information at one's fingertips (or synapses), and this is the information
that will be covered during these quizzes. I will drop at least two of your
lowest homework and quiz grades..
- Sign your classroom
agreement. Major upshot: no electronics (other than calculators,
and laptops if explicitly allowed) in class....
