2013- 2014 Spring

Math 153 CALCULUS for MATHEMATICS STUDENTS

Instructors: Belgin Korkmaz, Semra Öztürk Kaptanoğlu

Teaching Assistants : Elçin Çalışkan, Elif Uyanık

Lectures : Monday, Thursday: 13:40 —15:30 (M104 and M105)

Recitation: Friday : 13:40 —15:30 (M104 and M105)

Office Hours : CLICK HERE (YOU CAN GO TO ANY OF THEM)

Textbook: Thomas’ Calculus, Early Transcendentals, twelfth, international edition, by G.B. Thomas, M.D. Weir, J.R. Hass

GRADING

Exam 1 30%

Exam 2 30%

Final 30%

HW (homework) 10%

Bonus: 5 points from CW (classwork to be done in groups

in the lectures or recitations as a pop-quizz).

NA GRADE: If the sum of your grades from 2 mid-term exams and homeworks is less than 15 out of 70 (or 45 out of 210), You will NOT be allowed to take the final exam and your course grade will be NA. (If you miss an exam for ANY reason, your exam grade will be counted as 0.) Please note that the students with NA grade CANNOT take the resit exam (bütünleme sınavı).

Homeworks will be assigned weekly and at least one question of the exams will be

based on homework problems. LATE HOMEWORKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

There will be suggested exercises assigned mostly from the text book other than Homeworks.

You should work on these BEFORE going to the recitation hours. THIS IS CRUTIAL!!

There will be no make-up exams.

BE AWARE THAT !!!: There are many examples of students failing the course

who are taking it to increase their grade. This assumption can be very wrong.

"Advice on Studying " (there are many good articles in

http://www.metu.edu.tr/~sozkap/HOW TO/index.html

You are strongly advised to read the following two as the first homework as soon as possible.

Advice on studying by Peter J. Cameron and also

Reading and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom by Mark Freitag

Course outline:

(1 Week) Appendix 1 (A1 at the end of the book) , Real numbers and real line

(2 Weeks) Chapter 1 all sections except 1.4, Functions

(3 Weeks) Chapter 2 all sections except 2.1, Limits and Continuity

(3 Weeks) Chapter 3 Differentiation

(5 Weeks) Chapter 4 Applications of Derivatives