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Welcome to Precalculus!
Course objectives: first, to teach basic mathematical concepts to
students with any mathematical background; second prepare students for later
Calculus courses.
Required book: David Cohen's "Precalculus",
6th Edition, West Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-314-06921-6. There is also a
customized version of this book which is cheaper and can be found at Slug
bookstore.
News.
3-21 –
Provisional final scores and grades are posted below. Here’s the table
used to calculate the provisional final grade. Let Bruno know before tomorrow
4pm if you have any questions. Check
all the grades and calculations!
F: <66% in
final score or final exam.
D: 60%< final exam <66% and final score > 60%.
C: final exam
>= 66% and 66 <= final score <69.5%.
B-: final exam
>= 66% and 69.5% <= final score <74.5%.
B: final exam
>= 66% and 74.5% <= final score <79.5%.
B+: final exam
>= 66% and 79.5% <= final score <84.5%.
A-: final exam
>= 66% and 84.5% <= final score <89.5%.
A: final exam
>= 66% and 89.5% <= final score <94.5%.
A+: final exam
>= 66% and 94.5% <= final score =<100%.
Calendar for the last 2 weeks of
AMS003
3-13 (Tuesday) – Extra office hour with
Chris from 1:30-2:30pm.
3-14 (Wednesday) – Review class and instructor+TA evals.
3-16 (Friday) – Office hour with Bruno
from 1:00-2:00pm and homework is due at5:00pm.
3-19 (Monday) – Review section from 5:00-6:00pm with Bruno.
3-20 (Tuesday) – Final exam at 8:00am in class. Don’t forget the scantron form!
3-21 or 22 (Wednesday or Thursday
morning) –
Provisional final grades published online.
3-22 (Thursday) – Bruno is available from 10:00am to 4:00pm to address issues with
provisional final grade.
At 5:00pm provisional final grades become oficial.
3-8. Chris
will hold an extra office hour this Tuesday from 1:30 to 2:30pm.
3-8. Practice
final is available below.
2-28. Once
again our apologies for not being able to hand back the homework. These are
the times we you can pick it up in the next few days: Thursday from 1-2pm at Chris’s office, Friday from 10-10:45am at Bruno’s
office, in class, or from 1pm to 3pm at Bruno’s office. Let Bruno know if you need to come over at
another time.
2-21. Important changes for homework this week. Check the new homework
list below.
2-7. Midterm
scores are available below. Course average is above usual, but there are a
lot of people who need to find out the reasons behind their low scores. A lot
of work lies ahead.
1-24. Extra
office hours with Bruno: Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 2pm.
Index of class resources
Handouts — homework problem
sets, homework solutions, other helpful handouts
General Class Information — class and section
times, instructor and TA information
Handouts
Provisional final scores . Note: The worst homework score was dropped
and the worst quiz score was also dropped in the calculation of the final
score. Also, homework #10 and quiz #10 couldn’t be graded in time, so
everyone got 100% in these. In the next first few hours we might change the
list slightly to correct typos and such, but if all
your scores check and if you can confirm the calculation of the final score, you
final score will not change.
Lecture times: M-W-F, 11:00-12:10pm at Social Sciences 2, room 071.
Section times: Tu, 12:00-1:10pm
W, 8:00-9:10am
Th, 7:30-8:40pm,
all at Jack Baskin Engr, room 372.
Instructor:
Name: Bruno Mendes (mendes@ams.ucsc.edu)
Phone: ___
Office: 141, Baskin Engineering
Instructor Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays, 1:00-2:00pm at Baskin 141.
Teaching Assistant(s):
Name: Chris Simon
Phone: ___
Office: Baskin Engineering, 160
Office Hours: Fridays, 2-3pm .
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