MAT137 Course Outline Summer2016
MAT137 Course Outline Summer2016
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CONTACT INFORMATION, OFFICE HOURS AND MATH AID CENTRE
Sometimes tutorials and lectures are not enough to address all your concerns. For this reason, we will hold
regular office hours throughout the term.
Instructor Email Office Hours
Part I Beatriz Navarro Lameda [email protected] See Blackboard
Yuan Yuan Zheng [email protected] See Blackboard
Part II Rosemonde Lareau-Dussault [email protected] See Blackboard
David Reiss [email protected] See Blackboard
You don’t need an appointment to come during our regularly scheduled office hours. If you can’t make any
of our office hours, ask us for an appointment by email or by talking to us at the end of a lecture. We are
always happy to talk to students! Please include “MAT137” in the subject of any email you send to us.
In addition to our office hours, some TAs will hold office hours at various times. For the exact schedule, see
Blackboard.
TA Email
Valentine Chiche-Lapierre [email protected]
Qin Deng [email protected]
Jonathan Love [email protected]
Khoa Pham [email protected]
Matt Sourisseau [email protected]
Please remember to check Blackboard regularly for up-to-date hours.
LOGISTICS
Course website and Communication
• The official course website will be on Portal (Blackboard). All announcements, homework assignments,
grades, or any other information will be posted on it. Please check it at least twice per week.
• There is an online forum for this course on Piazza. This group is a resource for students to meet other
MAT137 students, ask questions, discuss problems, make study groups, and in general help each other.
Past-year students found the online forum a useful resource. Sign up here:
https://piazza.com/utoronto.ca/summer2016/mat137y.
• Please make sure that you check your University of Toronto email every day so that you don’t miss any
important announcements.
Very Important: When you email your instructors or one of your TAs, you must always use your official
University of Toronto email address, and you must write “MAT137” in the subject line. Emails sent from a
non-university address (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo) will be ignored.
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Textbook
Important dates
Whom to contact?
• For math-related questions about MAT137, you may ask any of the instructors, or the TAs. See our
contact information.
• For tutorial changes, contact Beatriz Navarro Lameda (May - June) or Rosemonde Lareau-Dussault
(July - August).
• If you have a conflict with a test date, contact Beatriz Navarro Lameda (May - June) or Rosemonde
Lareau-Dussault (July - August).
• For any other logistical issues or questions about the course, contact your course instructor.
• For questions about which math course is right for you, contact the Undergraduate Administrator Donna
Birch ([email protected], BA6291, 416-978-5082).
• If you require accommodations for a disability, or have any accessibility concerns about the course, the
classroom, or course materials, please contact Accessibility Services: [email protected]
or http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca
• If you have a personal situation and are concerned about how it will affect your academic performance,
please contact your college registrar.
Code of Conduct
We ask that you respect each other’s right to learn and fully engage in this course. For more information,
please visit this website: http://life.utoronto.ca/get-help/rights-responsibilities/.
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Academic Integrity
Your TAs and invigilators will carefully and diligently check for instances of cheating on quizzes and exams.
All suspected cases of academic dishonesty will be investigated following the procedures outlined in the Code
of Behaviour on Academic Matters.
We know that the vast majority of students are honest and hard-working. But sometimes even honest people
make bad decisions and accidents sometimes happen. Even if you think you know the rules, double-check.
As a student, you alone are responsible for ensuring the integrity of your work and for understanding what
constitutes an academic offence. The consequences of academic misconduct can be severe, and not knowing
the University’s expectations is not an excuse. Educate yourself! If you have questions or concerns about
what constitutes appropriate academic behaviour, please read the University policy on academic misconduct
at the following links:
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/newstudents/transition/academic/plagiarism
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/osai/The-rules.
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/osai/students
Use of Calculators: Calculators are neither required nor permitted for the midterm tests, or the final exam.
We do not permit use of any type of calculator or any other electronic device during term tests or the
final exam. Having them with you on your desk or on your person during a term test or final exam is an
academic offence.
TUTORIALS
In addition to lectures, you will have two one-hour tutorials per week. For each tutorial we will select a topic
that is particularly important or that we know students struggle with, and you will have the opportunity
during the tutorials to get very useful practice and to get help from your TA or your classmates.
Notice that you need to enrol both in a lecture section and in a tutorial section separately. For tutorials, you
need to enrol on ROSI to choose a specific tutorial section.
The first tutorial will be on May 16th.
Tutorials
Section Time Room TA
T0101 MW 11 BA 2135 Matt Sourisseau
T0201 MW 12 BA 2135 Matt Sourisseau
T0301 MW 4 BA 2135 Jonathan Love
T5101 MW 5 BA 2135 Jonathan Love
T5201 TR 5 BA 2185 Khoa Pham
T5202 TR 5 BA 2195 Valentine Chiche-Lapierre
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WHAT WE EXPECT YOU TO KNOW BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS
The single most common reason for failure in this course is a weak background in precalculus. To help you
with this, our department has prepared the following website: http://uoft.me/precalc. This website contains
a summary of the topics we expect you to have learned in high-school. There are self-diagnostic quizzes you
can take, as well as worked examples and practice problems.
“Problem Set 0”: You do not have to turn in any of these exercises. However, we expect you to review all of
them by the end of the first week of class. With the exception of the section on Logic and a few things here
and there, we will not review this material in class. However, you are always welcome to come and ask us
questions during office hours. Ignoring this material or letting it go past the second week will make it
very difficult to succeed in this course.
PROBLEM SETS
The only way to learn mathematics is to practice and receive feedback. To help you with this, there will be
8 weekly problem sets throughout the summer. The assignments will be posted on Portal (Blackboard).
Problem sets will be due in tutorial on Wednesdays/Thursdays. You must turn your problem sets in the
tutorial section in which you are enrolled.
We will mark your problem sets, post the grades on Portal, and return them to you in tutorial the following
week. For each student, we will only count the best 6 out of 8 grades for problem sets. If you need to
miss one homework assignment for any reason, justifiable or not, that will be one of the two grades that we
will not count for you. We will not accept late problem sets for any reason.
Problem sets will be due on the following dates
Problem Sets Due Dates
Problem Set Due Date Problem Set Due Date
01 May 18/19 05 July 06/07
02 May 25/26 06 July 13/14
03 June 08/09 07 July 27/28
04 June 15/16 08 August 03/04
In addition to the problem sets that you will turn in, we will also post practice problems from each section of
the textbook. We encourage you to work through them as we cover the sections in class. You have answers to
them at the back of the book, full solutions in the solution manual, and you can always visit us during office
hours to ask us questions.
On computations: We will not be including many routine computational questions on your problem sets,
since you do not need our feedback to become good at these. We will include them in the practice problems
and in some tutorials. You are responsible for getting enough practice so that you can solve such questions
on tests quickly and without error.
A note on collaboration: Discussing exercises (including graded homework problems) with your classmates
is a useful and mathematically healthy practice. However, when it comes time to write up your solutions for
submission, YOU MUST WORK INDEPENDENTLY and PRESENT SOLUTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS. To be certain,
work together with your classmates in the discovery phase, but do not work together when you are writing
your solutions, and never have the solution written by a friend in front of you when you are writing yours.
Doing otherwise amounts to academic misconduct, and the penalties are severe. For more information, please
read the section on academic integrity.
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TERM TESTS AND FINAL EXAM
Term Tests
There will be three term tests.
Day Time Room
Test 1 Friday, June 03 6:00 - 8:00 pm EX 100
Test 2 TBA TBA TBA
Test 3 Friday, July 22 6:00 - 8:00 pm EX 100
Test 2 will be held during the June examination period (June 20 - 24).
We will post detailed information about each test on Blackboard.
If you have an academic conflict for one of the tests (for example, a lecture, a tutorial or an exam for a
different course), then we will make arrangements. If you have an academic conflict, you will need to let us
know at least one week before the date of the test. We will post more information on Blackboard.
If you are unable to write any of the term tests for any other legitimate reason, we will accommodate you,
but you must notify us as soon as possible (no more than forty eight hours after the test), and you will have
to provide us with appropriate documentation within a week of the date of the test.
If you miss the test due to an illness or injury that prevents you from writing a test, you must see a health care
provider right away and notify us as soon as possible (no more than forty eight hours after the test), then
you must submit to the appropriate instructor the University of Toronto Verification of Illness or Injury form
[http://www.illnessverification.utoronto.ca] within a week of the test date. (You may submit it electronically,
if necessary, but you must bring a hard copy at a later time.)
The University of Toronto Verification of Illness or Injury form is the only form of medical documentation
acceptable in the University of Toronto. Note that, by University policy, only five identified groups
of practitioners may sign this form: physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, dentists and clinical
psychologists. Documentation on medical matters from anyone not a member of these five groups will not
be accepted.
There are other acceptable reasons for missing a midterm test (e.g. family tragedy). In these cases, appropriate
documentation must be provided, also within a week of the date of the test. Guidelines for non-medical
documentation may be found at http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/petitions/process#documentation.
If you miss a test but do not have a reason that is both valid and documented, then you will be assigned a
grade of zero (0) on that test.
Final Exam
There will be a three hour cumulative final exam during the August 2016 exam period. The exact date and
time will be posted by the Faculty of Arts & Science.
Please note that failure to attend the final exam is an extremely serious matter, and it will be handled by the
Faculty of Arts and Science itself (not by the Course Instructors, nor by the Department of Mathematics). For
more information, visit the following website
http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/exams/
We do not permit use of any type of calculator or any other electronic device during term tests or the
final exam. Having them with you on your desk or on your person during a term test or final exam is an
academic offence.
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MARKING SCHEME
Your final mark for this course will be determined by your term mark and your final exam mark.
We will calculate your course mark as follows:
• First, we calculate your problem set mark by averaging your best 6 out of the 8 problem set marks.
• Then, we calculate your term mark as follows:
– your worst test counts for 20%
– each of your other two tests counts for 25%
– your problem set mark counts for 30%
• Finally, your course mark will be
or
60% · (Term Mark) + 40% · (Final Exam Mark),
whichever is higher.
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TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE
• The numbered sections refer to the textbook. On some weeks, we will also post supplementary material.
Lecture Section Lecture Topic
01 May 09/10 1.2, 1.3, Intro to Logic, Sets, Quantifiers, Proof Writing.
Extra Notes
02 May 11/12 1.8, Extra Intro to Logic, Quantifiers, Proof Writing.
Notes
03 May 16/17 2.1-2.3 Limits. Definition of Limit. Some Limit Theorems.
04 May 18/19 2.4-2.6 Continuity. Pinching Theorem. Trigonometric
Limits. Intermediate Value Theorem. Extreme
Value Theorem.
May 23 VICTORIA DAY – University Closed
05 May 25/24 3.1-3.3 Derivatives. Some Differentiation Rules.
Derivatives of Higher Order.
06 May 30/26 3.4-3.6 Rates of Change. Chain Rule. Derivatives of
Trigonometric Functions.
07 June 01/ May 31 3.7, 4.10, 4.1 Implicit Differentiation. Related Rates. Mean
Value Theorem
June 03 TEST 1
08 June 06/02 4.2-4.5 Applications of the Mean Value Theorem.
Extrema. Optimization Problems.
09 June 08/07 4.6-4.8 Curve Sketching.
10 June 13/09 7.1-7.5, 7.7, One-to-One Functions. Inverses. Exponential and
Extra Notes Logarithm. Inverse Trigonometric Functions.
11 June 15/14 11.5,11.6 L’Hôpital’s Rule.
11 + June 16 Review (Lecture Section L5101)
June 20 - 24 TEST 2 – June Examination Period
12 June 27/28 12.1, 5.1, 5.2 Sigma Notation. Riemann Sums. Definite Integral.
13 June 29/30 5.3-5.5 More on Integrals. Fundamental Theorem of
Calculus.
14 July 04/05 5.6-5.8 More on Integrals. Substitution Rules.
15 July 06/07 6.1-6.3 Applications of the Integral.
16 July 11/12 8.2-8.4 Integration Techniques.
17 July 13/14 8.5, 11.7, More Integration Techniques. Improper Integrals
Extra Notes
July 17 Last day to cancel Y section code without academic penalty.
18 July 18/19 11.1-11.4 Sequences.
19 July 20/21 12.2-12.3 Series.
July 22 TEST 3
20 July 25/26 12.3-12.5 More Series. Convergence of Series.
21 July 27/28 12.6, 12.7 Taylor Series.
Aug. 01 CIVIC HOLIDAY – University Closed
22 Aug. 02/03 12.8-12.9 Power Series and Applications.
23 Aug. 04/08 Review.
August 09 - 15 FINAL EXAM – August Examination Period