Day 1 in Mat229

• Welcome!
  • Did you all get my email? Announcement on canvas?

  • Introductions (3x5 cards)
    1. Name
    2. Where are you from?
    3. Working outside of school? If so, where?
    4. 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)
    5. What is your career objective?
    6. Something special about yourself.

  • I'll take the roll while you fill those out. Please correct me on pronunciation.

• FACE: there are certain goals that we must strive to achieve everyday:
  • Focus
  • Attitude
  • Creativity
  • Effort
  All of these work together: when you improve one, the others will improve as well.

• Some course details:
  • The course website may be useful: http://www.nku.edu/~longa/classes/mat229
  • Syllabus (logistics, etc.)
  • We'll be using Mathematica in class, and you should use it on your homework, whenever possible and convenient. You can get a personal student copy as an NKU student by following these directions.
  • This will not be a "stand and deliver" course: expect to do your share of participating, at the board, in groups, etc.

    Use the "question wall"!

  • You should do the reading in advance of our discussion of that section in class. So tomorrow we're in sections 6.1/6.2. You need to get those read by 10:50 tomorrow! We will start each day with questions from the readings.
  • Schedule and Assignments
  • Directed reading/summaries (e.g. Section 6.1 summary)
  • The Departmental Syllabus for all Mathematics courses is a part of the syllabus for this course.
  • One of the more unusual aspects of the course was inspired by scenes like this:
    and this:
    

    I have instituted the "Class Agreement".

    

  • There is a calculus lab in MEP457, free to you. The hours will be posted soon. Usually there's no great rush the first week....

• Questions?

• Let's go!

Next time: 6.1/6.2