| Day | Date | Activity | Assignment (due one week from assignment date, unless otherwise stated) |
| Mon | 1/8 | Day 1: Welcome & Diagnostic Test | Please begin work on our first handout: "Linear Things" |
| Wed | 1/10 | Day 2: Linear Things |
For next time, let's start getting familiar with your text:
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| Fri | 1/12 | Day 3: Section 1.1 | No quiz! Please read Section 1.2 for next time (Wednesday); do HW problems #1-7. We will wrap up section 1.1. |
| Mon | 1/15 | Day off: MLK Day | |
| Wed | 1/17 | Day 4: Sections 1.1 | Read Section 1.2, and do exercises #1-7 for homework problems. |
| Fri | 1/19 | Day 5: snow day | |
| Mon | 1/22 | Day 6: Section 1.2 and Quiz | Please read Section 1.3, and do exercises #1-7 for homework problems. (Always 1-7! I like you to do the easily activated ones, and then try one or two that require a little more thought....) |
| Wed | 1/24 | Day 7: | Finish your worksheet(s) in preparation for the quiz and for class next time. |
| Fri | 1/26 | Day 8: | More on Section 1.3: derivative at a point |
| Mon | 1/29 | Day 9: | Read Section 1.4: The derivative function, and do exercises #1-6, 8, 9 |
| Wed | 1/31 | Day 10: |
Prepare for exam; I really like this
exercise, referenced in the text (source). Fun
and challenging!
You should master this! Consider it a video game, and challenge yourself to become a black belt in this one. It will pay off. |
| Fri | 2/2 | Day 11: | Exam 1 |
| Mon | 2/5 | Day 12: | Section 1.4; continued.
For next time: read Section
1.5: Interpreting, estimating, and using the
derivative, and carry out the preview
exercise.
Homework: do exercises 1-6 from Section 1.5.
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| Wed | 2/7 | Day 13: | |
| Fri | 2/9 | Day 14: | For next time: read Section
1.6: the Second Derivative, and carry out the
preview exercise.
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| Mon | 2/12 | Day 15: Section 1.6 | Try Section 1.6 exercises #1-7 for homework. |
| Wed | 2/14 | Day 16: Section 1.6 (cont.) | You might try some of these GeoGebra animations, in particular those related to the second derivatives:
For next time:
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| Fri | 2/16 | Day 17: Section 1.8 | Homework: exercises Section 1.8, #1-5, and 8. |
| Mon | 2/19 | Day 18: | We're going to jump into chapter 2 next time. Please read section 2.1 to prepare, and do the preview exercise. For homework, do problems 1-11. |
| Wed | 2/21 | Day 19: | Please read over Section 2.3: Product and Quotient Rules, just to make sure that you understand them. Do homework problems #1-10, 12. |
| Fri | 2/23 | Day 20: | |
| Mon | 2/26 | Day 21: | Prepare for Exam: coverage from 1.4-2.1, 2.3 |
| Wed | 2/28 | Day 22: | |
| Fri | 3/1 | Day 23: Exam 2 | |
| Mon | 3/4 | Day off: Spring Break | |
| Wed | 3/6 | Day off: Spring Break | |
| Fri | 3/8 | Day off: Spring Break | |
| Mon | 3/11 | Day 24: section 2.2 |
Please read section 2.2, and carry out the three exercises at the end of the section.
Test revisions are due Friday, if you want to get 1/3 of the points you missed back. Remember not to mark on the original exam, and to submit the original with revisions. You only need to revise those on which you missed points -- if you got full credit on a problem, you don't need to revise that!:) |
| Wed | 3/13 | Day 25: Section 2.4 |
Please read Section 2.4: Derivatives of
other trigonometric functions.
Homework: please do problems 1-8 at the end of the section. |
| Fri | 3/15 | Day 26: | |
| Mon | 3/18 | Day 27: | Hopefully you've read section
2.5): The Chain Rule by now.
Please do problems 1-9 and 11 for section 2.5 homework. #11 is especially important, as a practical application of compositions, and how the chain rule naturally arises. |
| Wed | 3/20 | Day 28: | |
| Fri | 3/22 | Day 29: |
Please read Section
2.6: Inverse functions and their derivatives, and do the
Exercises #1-10 at the end of the section.
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| Mon | 3/25 | Day 30: | Please read section 2.7: Derivatives of Functions Given Implicitly for next time, and carry out the preview. |
| Wed | 3/27 | Day 31: | Please do problems 1-7 from section 2.7: Derivatives of Functions Given Implicitly |
| Fri | 3/29 | Day 32: | |
| Mon | 4/1 | Day 33: | Please read Section 2.8: Using Derivatives to Evaluate Limits; then do the exercises at the end #1-6 and 8. |
| Wed | 4/3 | Day 34: | |
| Fri | 4/5 | Day 35: Exam 3 | |
| Mon | 4/8 | Day 36: | Please read Section 3.1: Using derivatives to identify extreme values. Please do problems 1-6 at the end of the section. |
| Wed | 4/10 | Day 37: | |
| Fri | 4/12 | Day 38: | Please read Section 3.3: Global Optimization. Please do problems 1-4 at the end of the section. |
| Mon | 4/15 | Day 39: | Please read Section 3.4: Applied Optimization, and work on all nine problems at the end of the section. |
| Wed | 4/17 | Day 40: | |
| Fri | 4/19 | Day 41: | |
| Mon | 4/22 | Day 42: | Please read Section 3.5: Related Rates, and carry out problems 2-6 at the end of the section. |
| Wed | 4/24 | Day 43: | |
| Fri | 4/26 | Day 44: | |
| Mon | 4/29 | Rest | |
| Wed | 5/1 | Final Exam: 12:20-2:20 |