Welcome to Calculus AB!!! Ms. Linda Rich Nuts and Bolts: You will need a notebook, be sure to have a folder or pockets in your notebook for handouts and tests, etc. You will need a TI 89 titanium graphing calculator Pencils are better than pens, but use what you are most comfortable with. Homework: Assigned daily, except after tests. Homework should take you between 20 40 minutes per day. A rested brain is an important part of being able to learn, so please use your discretion, feel free to do your best for 20 minutes, and then call it quits. (as long as it enables you to sleep, I don't think watching snapchats is more important than calculus). If homework consistently takes you longer than 30 40 min, please let me know. Even if you think you are doing something wrong, but can't figure out what, show your work. I am interested in helping you become a better problem solver. If you do not miss more than 1 hw per quarter, you are eligible for test corrections/ retake if any test if below an 80%. Grading: 85% tests and quizzes 15% homework and participation in order for homework to count, effort (work) needs to be shown. It does not have to be perfect. If you don't have time for all of it, do every other problem. Do give yourself time to try difficult problems.
Ms. Rich s re-take policy: If you have missed no more than one homework in a quarter, and you scored below an 80% on a test, yo 1. On separate paper, you do the problems you lost points on. Write a sentence or two describing your error ( ex. I forgot to distribute the minus sign or I didn t see that I could factor more) You should initially try to do this on your own, using your notebook or textbook. You may get help on it if you need to. Be sure that anyone looking at your corrections would see that you really understand how to do the problem. Hand the original test and the corrections in to me. (I will copy them for you if at all possible) 2. After I look at your corrections and believe you understand your mistakes *, or now know how to do the problem, I will make up problems similar to the ones you missed. You will take those problems and get back half the points you lost depending on your solution. The re-take cannot hurt your grade. Your new grade (which cannot exceed an 80%) will replace the old one. If your lowest grade is a quiz, we can talk about a re-take. *If I don t think you understand the problem(s) yet (based on what you handed in) I will give it back to
Academic Integrity Policy Academic Integrity Policy I hope that you value the trust I place in you as a member of our class. It is my hope that together we will create an atmosphere where your learning is maximized, where you will try your best, take risks, and grow as a problem solver and student of mathematics. In order to help you do that, I need honest feedback about how you are doing. In addition to making me doubt your integrity, cheating masks the weaknesses we should address, and in the end, hinders your ability to really learn. It also creates an atmosphere of dishonesty which I do not feel belongs in anyone s class. So, here is my definition of what cheating is and isn t. What is NOT cheating: Studying together for tests and quizzes Helping a classmate or getting help from a classmate or professional with homework (helping is NOT copying or letting someone copy your work.) What IS considered cheating: Copying another student s homework Letting someone copy your homework Copying answers from the back of the book or getting them online Copying answers from a classmate s test or quiz Letting someone copy from your test or quiz Bringing in information (cheat sheets, etc.) to a test or quiz Using a calculator or other form of technology when you have been instructed not to on a test or quiz Asking students in another section or your section (if you were absent) about what s on a test or quiz
Calculus answers 2 big questions: How do you calculate an instantaneous rate of change? How do you find the area bounded by a curve? Both Newton and Leibniz are credited with "discovering" calculus Isaac Newton 1643 1727 Gottfried Leibniz 1646 1716 But ancient mathematicians like Archimedes as well as contemporaries of Newton and Leibniz like Descartes did tremendous work on answering these questions. So why do they get the credit?