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Course Title/Number / Calculus/Analytic Geom II MTH 230 (section 101) CRN: 3258
Semester/Year / Fall, 2014
Days/Time / 9–9:50 M – Th
Location / SH 513
Instructor / David A. Cusick, Ph.D.
Office / SH725
Phone / 304-696-3038
E-Mail /
Office/Hours / 8-9 AM M--Th, 10-11 Tu & Th, 2-3 Wed. due to temporary family health issues.
University Policies
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Course Description: From Catalog

Course Description, Credits Prerequisites: (from the MU catalog) Applications of the integral, techniques of integration, and infinite series. A study of conic sections, polar coordinates and parametric equations. (PR: MTH 229)
Prerequisites below: (You only need one of these.)
MTH229 C, B or A or MTH229H C, B or A / or IST230 C, B or A

The table below shows the following relationships: How each student learning outcomes [sic] will be practiced and assessed in the course.

Course Student Learning Outcomes / How students will practice each outcome in this Course / How student achievement of each outcome will be assessed in this Course
Students will . . .
Desired Learner Outcomes/Objectives: Student will learn ...
  • that calculus is the study of limits.
  • to calculate derivatives and interpret them as rates of change.
  • to calculate integrals and to interpret them as accumulations and limits of sample sums.
  • to apply integrals to word problems.
  • to test for convergence of infinite series.
  • to see the infinite series expansions of familiar functions.
  • to apply derivatives and integrals to parametric curves and polar coordinate functions.
  • to understand the geometry and applications of conic sections and quadratic curves.
/ group work, discussion, in-class exercises, chapter reviews, low-stakes writing, practice presentations, questions and/or answers. Student attendance is expected. / exam questions, class participation and class attendance. Exams will have style-points questions.
Students will
Student will learn calculus in order to use it and to understand and trust the tools of technical analysts with whom the student will be working. / Evaluation of this outcome will extend beyond the course and throughout the remainder of your life.
Students will
Students will
Students will
Students will
Students will

Required Texts, Additional Reading, and Other Materials

Required Text:Rogawski, Calculus Early Transcendentals, 2nd ed., Ch. 6 – 8, 10 &11. Cloth: ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-0838-3 or ISBN-10: 1-4292-0838-4
Paper: ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-3184-8 or ISBN-10: 1-4292-3184-X
Recommended Materials:
  • A graphing calculator, which will evaluate integrals and derivatives
  • A nongrapher scientific calculator for exams. Graphing calculators & calculus-capable calculators will be prohibited from all (or most) parts of every exam.
  • No usage of any cell phone on any exam at any time for any reason.
  • Computer Requirements: Mathematica® (in MU computer labs)

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Course Requirements / Due Dates

Examinations: Exam seating will be assigned.
Exam 1:
Tue 9/16/14 / Exam 2:
Wed 10/8/14 / Exam 3:
Thu 10/30/14 / Exam 4:
Thu 11/20/14*
Comprehensive Final Exam: Mon 12/12/14 8 – 10 AM *
“All classes meeting at 3:00 p.m. and after will be examined in two-hour time blocks at the first regularly scheduled class meeting during the above examination period.”
* Be careful when buying plane, train, bus or ship tickets!

Grading Policy

Evaluation/Measurement of Learner Outcomes: MTH 230
Attendance ...... 10%, 67 points
Class Discussion ...... 5%, 34 points (zero-sum game)
Blackboard Work...... 5%, 34 points (zero-sum game)
Hour Exams...... 60%, 400 points
#Comprehensive Final Exam...... 20%, 134 points
Total...... 100%, 669 points
 Discussion and blackboard are two pools of points which will transfer from student to student. Each of these pools of points is a zero-sum game (Google it). Points earned by one student are therefore lost by the other students, and vice-versa. The sum of gained (positive) and lost (negative) is zero. These pools are situations of pure competition, but you can cooperate at the board. You can earn extra credit by getting points from other students, or you can lose points to others. Students who drop (officially or otherwise) will be dropped from these zero-sum games, and this can affect the point totals of students who remain.
# The final exam will be entirely, or partly, multiple choice.
Grading Policy: My usual scale is 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%. (So, 90% earns an A, 80% earns at least a B, etc.) We can discuss your grade at any reasonable time. At my discretion these percentages may be lowered (made easier to attain), but they will not be raised. On a multiple-choice exam they are very likely to be lowered, making a good grade available at a lower percentage.

Attendance Policy

[Note that for undergraduate courses, the attendance policy may not violate the University’s excused absence policy.]
Attendance Policy: Success will require several daily activities:
1. Read the books.
2. Do two or three hours of homework each class day. If you cannot finish an assignment for reasons of time, then skip every second problem. If you cannot do an assignment because the problems are too difficult, then see me ASAP.
3. Attend class, ask questions and volunteer for discussion and board work.
4. Use office hours to supplement (not replace) classroom hours.
5. Form a study group with other students.
6. Get enough food, sleep, recreation and exercise to keep you healthy and in good spirits.
7. Check your Marshall email account every few days, at least; or set it to forward your email. There will be an email quiz.
Assessment Evaluation Methods:
Attendance days are bydaily “sign-in” sheets. If you do not sign, then you are counted as absent; and this cannot be corrected after the class has dismissed for the day. Attendance points are proportional to days attended, adjusted for excused absences. If I forget to pass out an attendance sheet, then you are counted absent; so you should remind me!
Discussion/blackboard work will be counted by daily tickets awarded to students at the time of their efforts. These tickets will be signed and turned-in at the end of each class day. These course points will be awarded proportionally to the square root of the number of tickets credited to you during the term. Points which you lose will be awarded to other students. You can earn extra credit from other students, or they can earn extra credit contributed by you.
Extra credit (1%) for blood donations or deferrals. Red Cross paperwork is required. Extra credit may be available for attending or presenting talks, etc., but this cannot be predicted.
Hour exams are scored by awarding partial credit as appropriate. Letter grades will be given for each exam, but the course grade will depend on the exact point scores, not by averaged letter grades. There may be “style-points” questions. I grade slowly. Quizzes may be unannounced.
A multiple-choice final exam will be curved according to the number of questions answered correctly, without “correcting” for guessing. There will be no partial credit on a multiple-choice exam, but the A, B, C and D standards will be curved to compensate.
Other final exams may be graded only partially until your course grade is determined.

Course Schedule

Course Outline for Calc II: Rogawski, Calculus Early Transcendentals, 2nd ed., Ch. 6 – 8, 10, 11. FYI: Calc III starts with chapter 12. Note that chapter 9 is never covered.

Very tentative, nonbinding chronological schedule of chapters : Reviews & exams not included below.

Chapter 5 / 3 instructional days Review of the definition and properties of the definite integral.
Chapter 6 / 8 instructional days Creating applications of integrals as limits of Riemann sums.
Chapter 7 / 12 instructional days Finding antiderivatives in so many ways.
Chapter 8 / 6 instructional days Back to creating applied integrals – for more-sophisticated quantities.
Chapter 11 / 15 instructional days Infinite series. IMHO: Hardest topics in the 3 semesters of calculus.
Chapter 10 / 8 instructional days Early sections leading into ch 12 at beginning of Calc III

MTH 230 Course Syllabus 4 credit hours

Cusick: Calculus II MTH 230 (101) CRN: 3258 9–9:50 M – Th SH 513

Instructor:David A. Cusick, Ph.D. SH725 304-696-3038 preferred Note: When I am away from the office, I may not see emails, but I can get phone messages..

Office Hours: due to temporary family health issues. / 8-9 AM M--Th, / 10-11 Tu & Th. / 2-3 Wed.

Office appointments are possible. Drop-in visits are possible but “iffy.”

My office hours can change since I usually get extra duties and meetings as time passes.

Tutoring hours for MTH 230 in SMH 115: These change a lot, but updated times will be posted.

Course Description, Credits Prerequisites: (from the MU catalog) Applications of the integral, techniques of integration, and infinite series. A study of conic sections, polar coordinates and parametric equations. (PR: MTH 229)

Prerequisites below: (You only need one of these.)

MTH229 C, B or A or MTH229H C, B or A / or IST230 C, B or A

Desired Learner Outcomes/Objectives: Student will learn ...

  • that calculus is the study of limits.
  • to calculate derivatives and interpret them as rates of change.
  • to calculate integrals and to interpret them as accumulations and limits of sample sums.
  • to apply integrals to word problems.
  • to test for convergence of infinite series.
  • to see the infinite series expansions of familiar functions.
  • to apply derivatives and integrals to parametric curves and polar coordinate functions.
  • to understand the geometry and applications of conic sections and quadratic curves.
  • Student mastery will be evaluated solely by written test questions.

Student will learn calculus in order to use it and to understand and trust the tools of technical analysts with whom the student will be working.

Required Text:Rogawski, Calculus Early Transcendentals, 2nd ed., Ch. 6 – 8, 10 &11. Cloth: ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-0838-3 or ISBN-10: 1-4292-0838-4

Paper: ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-3184-8 or ISBN-10: 1-4292-3184-X

Recommended Materials:

  • A graphing calculator, which will evaluate integrals and derivatives
  • A nongrapher scientific calculator for exams.Graphing calculators & calculus-capable calculators will be prohibited from all (or most) parts of every exam.
  • No usage of any cell phone on any exam at any time for any reason.

Evaluation/Measurement of Learner Outcomes: MTH 230

Attendance ...... 10%, 67 points

Class Discussion ...... 5%, 34 points (zero-sum game)

Blackboard Work...... 5%, 34points (zero-sum game)

Hour Exams...... 60%, 400 points

#Comprehensive Final Exam...... 20%, 134 points

Total...... 100%, 669 points

Discussion and blackboard are two pools of points which will transfer from student to student. Each of these pools of points is a zero-sum game(Google it). Points earned by one student are therefore lost by the other students, and vice-versa. The sum of gained (positive) and lost (negative) is zero. These pools are situations of pure competition, but you can cooperate at the board. You can earn extra credit by getting points from other students, or you can lose points to others. Students who drop (officially or otherwise) will be dropped from these zero-sum games, and this can affect the point totals of students who remain.

#The final exam will be entirely, orpartly, multiple choice.

Keep this syllabus for future reference, including graduate school and/or transfer credits to other universities.

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Assessment Evaluation Methods:

Attendance days are bydaily “sign-in” sheets. If you do not sign, then you are counted as absent; and this cannot be corrected after the class has dismissed for the day. Attendance points are proportional to days attended, adjusted for excused absences. If I forget to pass out an attendance sheet, then you are counted absent; so you should remind me!

Discussion/blackboard work will be counted by daily tickets awarded to students at the time of their efforts. These tickets will be signed and turned-in at the end of each class day. These course points will be awarded proportionally to the square root of the number of tickets credited to you during the term. Points which you lose will be awarded to other students. You can earn extra credit from other students, or they can earn extra creditcontributed by you.

Extra credit (1%) for blood donations or deferrals. Red Cross paperwork is required. Extra credit may be available for attending or presenting talks, etc., but this cannot be predicted.

Hour exams are scored by awarding partial creditas appropriate. Letter grades will be given for each exam, but the course grade will depend on the exact point scores, not by averaged letter grades. There may be “style-points” questions. I gradeslowly.Quizzes may be unannounced.

A multiple-choice final exam will be curved according to the number of questions answered correctly, without “correcting” for guessing. There will be no partial credit on a multiple-choice exam, but the A, B, C and D standards will be curved to compensate.

Other final exams may be graded only partially until your course grade is determined.

Grading Policy: My usual scale is 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%. (So, 90% earns an A, 80% earns at least a B, etc.) We can discuss your grade at anyreasonable time. At my discretion these percentages may be lowered (made easier to attain), but they will not be raised. On a multiple-choice exam they are very likely to be lowered, making a good grade available at a lower percentage.

Examinations: Exam seating will be assigned.

Exam 1:
Tue 9/16/14 / Exam 2:
Wed 10/8/14 / Exam 3:
Thu 10/30/14 / Exam 4:
Thu 11/20/14*
Comprehensive Final Exam: Mon 12/12/14 8 – 10AM *
“All classes meeting at 3:00 p.m. and after will be examined in two-hour time blocks at the first regularly scheduled class meeting during the above examination period.”
* Be careful when buying plane, train, busor ship tickets!

Labor Day9/1/14Freshman & Sophomore Mid-Term D/F Grades Mon, 10/20/14

Last day to drop a full-term course Fri., 10/31/14 Thanksgiving Break (M-F) 11/24/14 – 11/28/14

Dead Week 12/1/14 — 12/5/14Assessment Day Tue 4/8 First & Last days: 8/25/14 & 12/5/14

Attendance Policy: Success will require several daily activities:

1. Read the books.

2. Do two or three hours of homework each class day. If youcannot finish an assignment for reasons of time,then skip every second problem. If you cannot do an assignment because the problems are too difficult, then see me ASAP.

3. Attendclass, ask questions and volunteer for discussion and board work.

4. Use officehours to supplement (not replace) classroom hours.

5. Form a study group with other students.

6. Get enough food, sleep, recreation and exercise to keep you healthy and in good spirits.

7. Check your Marshall email account every few days, at least; or set it to forward your email. There will be an email quiz.

Keep this syllabus for future reference, including graduate school and/or transfer credits to other universities.

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Daily class attendance and business-like manners are part ofyour responsibility. The class is your best source of informationfor the exams, and your attendance and participation count directlyin your course grade. To be counted present for a given day you must sign the class attendance sheet during that class period. Even ifyou are absent, you are responsible for any and all material coveredor assigned.

From BAD....: Illness, genuine personal emergencies, and university-excused activities are generally the only valid reasons tomiss a class or an exam. To count an absence as "excused" you mustdocument your justification in writing. If you are sick enough to miss an exam, you should be sick enough to see a physician. If youknow in advance that you must miss an exam, then, for your ownsurvival, tell me as soon as you can.

... to WORSE: An unexcused absence from an exam earns a ZERO, which is much worse than an ordinary F. If I choose to give you a make-up exam, it may be a more difficult one; moreover, I may give it to you during dead week or finals week. Alternatively, I might count the next exam double. All of these choices are at my discretion. By university policy, an unexcused absence from a final exam earns an F in the course--no exceptions and no fooling. This is very unpleasant; you can avoid these difficulties by not missing any exams.

In fairness to the students who take their exams as scheduled, my policy is to require verification of all claims used to justify a make-up exam. I may check these independently. Such checks do not imply anything personal; I try to be fair by treating everyone the same way. "Fairness" requires me to avoid giving you unwarranted advantages and undeserved penalties.

Course Philosophy and Themes to Be Developed:

  1. All of calculus is the study of limits.

2.Student will learn calculus in order to understand, trust and use the tools of technical analysts. While you are learning it you may as well get good at it.

3.This course is a partnership: Cusick and You. I am interested in you and in your course work. You may feel free to talk to me about any and all course-related problems, even when I am the problem. If you feel the need to do so, you can send me an anonymous note describing the problem.

The previous paragraphs show how I will conduct the grading and suggest how to get a better grade. Don't lose sight of the ultimate goal, learning new ideas. Although learning and thinking are hard work, I will try to make the class as pleasant as I can. I hope you enjoy it.

Course Outline for Calc II: Rogawski, Calculus Early Transcendentals, 2nd ed., Ch. 6 – 8, 10, 11. FYI: Calc III starts with chapter 12. Note that chapter 9 is never covered.