Section | Time | Place | Instructor |
101 |
8am |
75 Evans |
E. Sandine |
102 |
8am |
6 Evans |
A. Bardalai |
103 |
8am |
106 Wheeler |
I. Broudy |
125 |
8am |
87 Evans |
A. Subramanian |
104 |
9:30am |
87 Evans |
A. Bardalai |
105 |
9:30am |
81 Evans |
V. Cheekala |
106 |
9:30am |
71 Evans |
E. Sandine |
107 |
11am |
9 Evans |
A. Subramanian |
108 |
11am |
85
Evans |
V. Cheekala |
109 |
11am |
87
Evans |
P. Mysorekar |
110 |
12:30pm |
B56
Hildebrand |
S. Palit |
111 |
12:30pm |
201
Giannini |
I. Broudy |
112 |
12:30pm |
5
Evans |
P. Mysorekar |
127 |
2pm |
2
Evans |
S. Palit |
113 |
2pm |
70
Evans |
H. Powers |
114 |
2pm |
285
Cory |
Q. Zhu |
115 |
3:30pm |
121
Latimer |
Z. Jiang |
116 |
3:30pm |
110
Barker |
Q. Zhu |
117 |
3:30pm |
5
Evans |
H. Powers |
118 |
3:30pm |
201
Giannini |
H. Mandel |
119 |
5pm |
87
Evans |
M. Li |
120 |
5pm |
85
Evans |
Y. Feng |
126 |
5pm |
141
Giannini |
H. Mandel |
124 |
5pm |
3105
Etcheverry |
Z. Jiang |
121 |
6:30pm |
5
Evans |
M. Li |
122 |
6:30pm |
70
Evans |
Y. Feng |
128 |
2pm |
736
Evans |
E. Bajo |
Exam | Date | Material covered |
Midterm # 1 | February
23, 5-6:30PM, 150 Wheeler |
up to and including 11.4 |
Midterm # 2 | April 6, 5-6:30PM, 150 Wheeler |
up to and including 9.2 |
Final Exam | May 13,
3-6pm |
Everything |
GSI | Location of Final | |
Broudy,
Subramanian |
10 Evans | |
Cheekala,
Sandine |
245 Li Ka Shing | |
Li, Powers
|
105 Stanley | |
Bajo,
Bardalai, Feng, Jiang, Mandel, Mysorekar, Palit, Zhu |
150 Wheeler |
At the end of the term you will have five subscores, one for each of the following: homework, quizzes, the two midterms and the final exam.
Homework: 10%, no scores dropped.
Quizzes: 15%, 2 lowest scores dropped.
2 Midterms: 20% each
Final: 35%
Your quiz score, your homework score, your first midterm score, your second midterm score and your final score will be individually curved. After that, you can replace your lowest midterm score with your final score. I will do this for you automatically.
The grading will be based on a curve. However, I retain the right to determine what grade corresponds to the middle of the curve. (This can be to your advantage; if everyone does perfectly then I will be very happy to give everyone an A+.) As a guideline, in recent years the average grade for Math 1B was a B. The grade distribution was roughly as follows: 35% A, 30% B, 25% C and 10% D/F.
The homework will be on WeBWorK.
More information on WeBWorK is below.
The assignments for the material covered in class on given Mondays and Wednesdays
will be due at 11:59PM of the following Sunday.
Please do the first "orientation"
WeBWorK assignment HW1 as soon as possible.
You may collaborate with other students on the homework, provided that you work on each problem and enter it into WeBWorK yourself. If you do work together you will notice that WeBWorK creates different versions of the problems for each student.
Copying homework solutions done by another student or by an automated system such as Wolfram Alpha is not allowed. Although I have no way to enforce this rule, I can assure you that copying solutions you have not worked out yourself will end up costing you more in the form of poor preparation for exams than whatever few extra homework points you might gain.
There will be optional additional WeBWorK problems, which will not count
towards the homework score. There will also be
optional additional problems from the book posted below. These will not
be graded; unfortunately, we do not have the resources to hire graders.
There will be a quiz each Tuesday in the discussion section, except for
January 18, January 25, February 22 and April 5.
Quizzes will be written by your GSI.
Most of the quiz questions will be on material covered the previous week in class. Up to one quiz question may be drawn from earlier assignments, to make sure that you are remembering what you've learned. The lowest two quiz scores will be dropped.
Do you have a question that might be useful for other students to hear?
Ask it on Piazza! You will be enrolled automatically,
but the signup link is
http://piazza.com/berkeley/spring2022/math1b24788
More information on Piazza is below.
Your use of Piazza for this class is
completely voluntary. No important announcements will be made through Piazza.
Postings can be anonymous to your classmates (but not to me).
Posting homework answers is not allowed.
When lectures and discussion sections are online, my office hours will be, too. They will start at :10 after. If there is a span of ten minutes with no visitors then I will log off.
Following is the list of weekly topics and
additional optional homework assignments. The
lectures do not cover all the course material, so you also need to read
and understand the sections from the book. Reading ahead of the
lectures should help a lot.
I cannot promise that I am going to cover all topics with the same level of
detail. You are responsible for all of the material in the sections listed below, unless otherwise stated.
Reading the book CAREFULLY (there is no other way to read mathematics
or science) is necessary to master this material. A good approach is to
try to explain the material to your friends: only then will you realize that
this is good for you, too. I encourage you to form discussion
groups.
|
Date |
Content |
Optional additional problems |
1 |
1/19 |
7.1 |
7.1:15,27,35,49
|
2 |
1/24,1/26 |
7.4,7.2,7.3 |
7.4:39,65;
7.2:55,69; 7.3:31,39
|
3 |
1/31,2/2 |
7.5,7.7,7.8 |
7.5:21,35;
7.7: 29,44; 7.8:49,57
|
4 |
2/7,2/9 |
8.1,11.1,11.2 |
8.1:39,45;
11.1:55,79;
11.2: 67,85
|
5 |
2/14,2/16 |
11.3,11.4 |
11.3: 27,29; 11.4:28,43
|
6 |
2/23 |
First midterm |
|
7 |
2/28,3/2 |
11.5,11.6 |
11.5: 17,31; 11.6:39,41
|
8 |
3/7,3/9 |
11.7,11.8,11.9 |
11.7:21,29;
11.8: 29,33; 11.9:34,39
|
9 |
3/14,3/16 |
11.10 |
11.10:31,66
|
10 |
3/28,3/30 |
9.1,9.2 |
9.1: 4,9; 9.2:18,23
|
11 |
4/4,4/6 |
9.3, Second midterm |
9.3:19,47
|
12 | 4/11,4/13 |
9.4,9.5 |
9.4: 5,9; 9.5:15,37
|
13 | 4.18,4.20 |
Appendix H, 17.1 |
Appendix H:18,47;
17.1: 19,33
|
14 |
4/25,4/27 |
17.2,17.4 |
17.2: 13,15; 17.4:3,9
|
-- | 5/13 |
Final Exam, 3-6pm |
See box above for location |
Any given day of your discussion section will mostly be devoted to the
material covered in lecture the previous day. Because
WeBWorK is best suited to help with your computational ability, your
time in discussion section will put more emphasis on helping to develop
your problem solving ability.
Below is the topic of the discussion section on any given day.
The quiz will cover material as described above under "Quizzes".
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1/18: 5.5 |
1/20: 7.1
|
2 |
|
1/25: 7.4 |
1/27: 7.2, 7.3
|
3 |
|
2/1: 7.5 + quiz |
2/3: 7.7, 7.8
|
4 |
|
2/8: 8.1 + quiz |
2/10: 11.1, 11.2
|
5 |
|
2/15: 11.3 + quiz |
2/17: 11.4
|
6 |
|
2/22: Midterm review |
2/24: Recapitulation
|
7 |
|
3/1: 11.5 + quiz |
3/3: 11.6
|
8 |
|
3/8: 11.7,11.8 + quiz |
3/10: 11.9
|
9 |
|
3/15: 11.10 + quiz |
3/17: 11.10
|
10 |
|
3/29: 9.1 + quiz |
3/31: 9.2
|
11 |
|
4/5: Midterm review |
4/7: 9.3
|
12 | |
4/12: 9.4+quiz |
4/14: 9.5
|
13 | |
4/19: Appendix H + quiz |
4/21: 17.1
|
14 |
|
4/26: 17.2 + quiz |
4/28: 17.4
|
WeBWorK, accessible from the bCourses menu, is an online homework system that automatically checks your answers and records your scores.
To get started, do the homework set HW1 in WeBWorK,
which is a tutorial on using the system.
If you have problems getting WeBWorK to work properly, try clearing your browser's cache. We have updated to a new version of WeBWorK, which can cause problems if your browser has saved information while using the old version.
Regular homework sets are due one minute before midnight on Sundays.
Solutions become available soon after the due deadline.
Most problems will have a limit on the number of tries, usually 10.
If you don't get a problem right on the first try, check to be sure that the answer you entered is what you meant. If so, then double check your calculations for arithmetic mistakes.
If you still have trouble after checking for mistakes, re-read the problem carefully to be sure you understood it correctly. Then think again about your strategy for solving the problem—maybe the method you need to use is different from your first idea.
The numbers in the problem may change after
the fifth try.
For a quick guide to WeBWorK, click on "Complete a Webwork homework set'' at
the
UBC Student Student Guide. More detailed information is at the
WeBWorK wiki page.
If you have a problem with WeBWorK, you may want to ask on Piazza.
A few WeBWorK tips:
0. Preview, preview, preview! This does not use an attempt, and it will help you catch most minor errors.
1. WeBWorK is case sensitive. For example, a "pi" needs to be entered
in lower case, while the "+C'' in integration needs to be in upper case.
2. Do not use commas in your answer unless you are entering a list of
numbers. For example, 12500 means twelve thousand five hundred, while 12,500
means the two answers are 12 and 500.
3. If your answer includes decimals, unless instructed otherwise, always
enter at least four decimal places.
4. WeBWorK does not allow partial answer submissions. If a problem has 3
parts, all 3 parts have to submitted at the same time. If the student submits only
part (a), it will count as one attempt. However, if the answer for part (a) is
correct, it will be saved and the student does not have to answer part (a) again.
Before you post a question, consider the following:
• Is your question answered in the syllabus, textbook, or lecture notes? No need to post; just look it up
yourself! If you have checked those resources and found an answer you don’t understand, it’s totally
fine to ask for clarification, just be specific about where you looked and what is unclear.
• Has someone else already asked about the same problem? Scan/search for related questions before you
post, and read the posted answers to see if they help with your issue (or wait for posted answers).
• If you determine you really do have a new question, include the following info: which homework set or
reading assignment it’s from and which problem it is (including the problem number and statement).
We are not mind readers, and we don’t carry our books everywhere we go. Describe what you have
tried already, and where you are stuck. We are happiest to help students who are trying to help
themselves first.
• If you are really struggling with trying to even articulate what it is you don’t understand, probably it
is best to go see someone in person during office hours or at the SLC.
Also:
• Note that you can post anonymously on Piazza (many people appreciate this if they are feeling self-conscious about their questions), but you are only anonymous to other students; the GSIs and I can
see who you are.
• If your account does not show your full name, it may be disabled.
• Please keep in mind that students come into this class from vastly different backgrounds and with very
different goals. Things that are easy for you may not be easy for others. Remember to be kind in your
responses. If you are disrespectful to other students, your account may be disabled.
• Please feel free to discuss current homework assignments with each other on Piazza, but DO NOT post
any complete solutions for homework sets until after the due date. Just give hints or ideas for what to
try next.
• Sometimes Webwork will be set up so that everyone has different numbers, but still essentially the
same problem. This is part of why it is essential to explicitly say what your question is. Another large
part is that in figuring out how to phrase your question or describe your work, you will often discover
the answer yourself.
• Piazza is not a proofreading service. Do not post questions of the form “Here’s is my
work. Where’s the error?” It is fine to bring this sort of thing to office hours if you are having trouble
spotting your own mistakes, but it’s super tedious on Piazza. (In OH, you’ll be asked to explain what
you tried, and often that will help you find your own errors.)
• We don’t guarantee that we’ll be checking Piazza at any particular time. Don’t put homework off to
the last minute and expect to get help in time. You might get lucky, but you might not.