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I will do my best to help my students learn. But learning is not a passive process. Especially at higher levels of difficulty, a student must actively participate by reading appropriate texts, studying notes, and attempting problems. The best way to succeed is to understand WHY you're doing whatever it is you're doing; just memorizing the process you need to follow to solve a problem is not true learning. I will do what I can to help you understand the why--and also the how--but you need to be ready to receive that help.

Some notes on grading:

• If I mark a question with a tilde (~), I mean that what you've written is not technically correct but is close enough for me to not take off points. It will frequently occur in a question with many parts: if you answer the first part incorrectly, the subsequent parts are graded as though your first answer were correct. (Note that if your incorrect answer to the first part makes the subsequent parts significantly easier, this may not apply.)
• The bulk of the points in a question comes from the work that we are currently dealing with in the course. An algebra error will count less than not taking the derivative correctly.
• Read the questions!
• Show your work!
• If you don't understand what I was looking for in a question (and I will try to make notes to convey this information), ask me!

Last modified January 12, 2012.