Math 101, Spring 2007

FINAL EXAM: April 30, 7-10pm, Sewell Hall 309
Time and Place: MWF 9:00 am, Herman Brown 427
Office Hours: MWF 10am - Noon, HB 48, and by apointment
Phone: 713.348.2786
Email: pershell@math.rice.edu
Recitation Sessions: T-Th 7-9pm HZ 210, Su 6-7pm HB427
TA Office Hours: Janine Dahl (HB 48, W 2-3)
Mike Cestarte (HB 42, Tu 1-2)
Zhi Zhang (HB 14, F 2-3)
Syllabus
Schedule
Schedule Update
Example Outline of Sections 1.1-1.2
Philosophy of Teaching Statement

Quizzes

Daily in-class quizzes are ungraded but serve as a means of highlighting the important points of the day's lecture. Quizzes will be posted here after each class. If you were not in class, I recommend that you still look over the quiz from that day. These also serve as a great study aid for tests.
Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6, Quiz 7, Quiz 8, Quiz 9, Quiz 10,
Quiz 11, Quiz 12, Quiz 13, Quiz 14, Quiz 15, Quiz 16, Quiz 17, Quiz 18, Quiz 19
Quiz 20, Quiz 21, Quiz 22, Quiz 23, Quiz 24, Quiz 26, Quiz 27, Quiz 28, Quiz 29,
Quiz 30, Quiz 31, 04/18/07 Handout 1, 04/18/07 Handout 2, 04/18/07 Handout 3, 04/18/07 Handout 4

Announcements

The classroom has changed from HB 453 to HB 427.
Even though we have not covered section 1.4, continue to outline sections according to the schedule.
01/12/07: By Wednesday, you should have turned in outlines through section 2.1, and HW through section 1.4. We are a day behind on the syllabus.
01/21/07: I have updated the schedule since we were behind and had classes canceled. Click on SCHEDULE above to see the changes. You will note that we have dropped sections 3.10 and 6.9 (you will get a handout on these sections), and will now only spend one day on section 5.6.
01/24/07: HW CHANGE 2.3(59,75,76) 2.4(41,44,63). (No change to section 2.4).
Extra Credit Opportunity: Correctly and completely write up #80 in section 2.3, to be turned in on 02/21/07 (Exam I).
01/26/07: You do not have to do problems 30-35 in section 3.1. (These will be moved to Monday's homework, so feel free to start them.) HELP SESSIONS: In case this was not explained, help sessions are where a few grad students sit in a classroom for a few hours, and you can go in, sit and do your homework, ask questions, and leave when you are done. You do not have to stay the entire time and it is not a lecture.
01/29/07: Homework problem 30-35 from section 3.1 will be due with 3.2 homework on Wednesday. 02/05/07: You do not have to do homework problem #54 from section 3.4.
02/07/07: Quiz 11 was not given out in class, but is now available on the website.
02/09/07: Recall EXAM 1 is on February 21, 2007. You will be able to start the test as early as 8:30am, but need to turn it in by 9:55am.
02/19/07: Homework for section 4.3 will be due Friday, February 23, not on the day of the test.
02/26/07: There will be a schedule change over the next week. I will list the date, the sections covered that day, and the homework problems from that section.
02/28/07, Sec 4.6, #16,24,48.
03/02/07, Sec 4.6-4.7 Sec 4.6 #77-82, Sec 4.7 #17-28.
03/12/07, Sec 4.7, #44,47.
03/14/02, Sec 4.8-4.9, Sec 4.8 #3,18,34, Sec 4.9 #6,27.
03/12/07: There was a handout in class today for curve sketching, which can be found here.
03/14/07: Homework problem 27 on section 4.9 will be extra credit, to be turned in by the second exam. A handout explaining the problem can be found here.
03/19/07: I reviewed Sigma notation (or summation notation), summarized in the following , handout.
03/21/07: I handed out a review sheet of trigonometric equalities, a list of integration rules, and today's quiz. None of these are in pdf format and so cannot be put online. Please come see me if you would like a copy. Also, homework problem #52 has been removed from today's assignment.
04/09/07: According to the registrar's list, the final exam for seniors will be Thursday, April 26, 9am, and for non-graduating students, the final will be Monday, April 30, 7pm. The room has not yet been announced for either. In the handbook, it states that "students can not be required to take more than 2 scheduled exams in 2 consecutive calendar days (this guideline does not apply to take home exams or assignments)." Please see me at least the week before the scheduled final if this applies to you.
04/18/07: We began a packet in class to review sections 6.2-6.4, but did not complete it today. We will continue the packet on Friday. Any problems from section 6.4 (from 04/16/07 and 04/18/07) will be pushed back to Monday, April 23. The homework due for Friday, April 20 is section 6.2 (#21, 23) and section 6.3 (#22, 23). Other homework and outlines due will be announced in class, and posted on the website.
04/25/07: Today we went over the format of the final exam. If you missed class today I strongly recommend that you meet with me or a classmate to go over the material. We will have a final review session on Sunday, April 29 starting at 5pm in the classroom, HB 427. The final exam will be Monday, April 30, 7-10pm in SH 309. I plan to be in my office Monday from 8-10am to answer any questions, or email me. Let me know by Sunday if you want your old homeworks and outlines back, otherwise they will be thrown out after the final exam.

Chapter Tests

Chapter tests are ungraded. After we finish each chapter in the book, I will post a ''test'' that you should be able to complete in about an hour. Chapter 1 Self Test, Chapter 2 Self Test, Chapter 3 Self Test, Graphs for Test 3
Exam I, Exam I Solutions, Chapter 4 Review List, Chapter 4 Self Test, Chapter 5 Review Sheet, Chapter 5 Self Test
Exam II, Exam II Solutions, Chapter 6 Review List

Additional Resources

How to Succeed in Calculus
This high school guide to AP Calculus applies just as well to college courses! By JL Stanbrough.

e-Review of Algebra e-Calculus from D.P. Story at Akron.

For a nice history of calculus, I recommend Wikipedia's Calculus. Or Eric Schechter's essay on why we should study calculus, in case you have been asking yourself that very question: Why Do We Study Calculus?

Teaching Experience

Summer Teaching
In 2006 I taught Math 101: Single Variable Calculus. The syllabus for that course is available here.

Courses I taught as an undergraduate are listed in my resume and under the link ''Academic Past.''

Teaching Assistant
I have been a teaching assitant for the following courses at Rice:
Geometric Topology, MATH 444 (Fall 2006)
Differential Equations, MATH 211 (Fall 2003)
Multivariable Calculus, MATH 212 (Sring 2004, Spring 2005)
Topics in Combinatorics, MATH 368 (Fall 2004)
Number Theory, MATH 365 (Fall 2005)
Graduate Algebra II, MATH 464 (Sring 2006)

Talks and Lectures

I have given several talks for the graduate students' Current Mathematics Seminar, as well as to different Math Clubs.

Grad School 101: Answering the Questions You Did Not Even Know to Ask
I gave this talk in October 2006 to the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Math Club.

Snakes on a Plane: Using the Cayley Graph to Understand the Word Problem
I gave this talk in October 2006 to the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) Math Club.

An Introduction to Rohlin's Invariant
This 2006 CMS talk introduced Daniel Ruberman's talk "Rohlin's Invariant and Gauge Theory".

Utility Theory
I was in a Fall 2005 VIGRE program studying decision theory. This is the only form of our poster I could find, although it is incomplete.