Office hours
Monday 4:00 – 5:00
Wednesday 11:30 – 12:30
Also by appointment. You should make appointments in groups of 3 or 4, unless you want to discuss your personal progress.

Reader  Qëndrim Gashi
Problem session:    
    Thursday 6:00 – 6:50 in E207
Reader’s office hours:    
    Wednesday 4:00 – 5:00, Thursday 1:30 – 2:30
Reader’s office:    
    Math/Stat 104

Text
Spivak: Calculus (3rd edition), Chapters 1–10, possibly 11, 12

Midterm test dates
Wednesday October 19
Wednesday November 16

Final Examination
Tuesday December 6, 4:00–6:00

It is the policy of the Department of Mathematics that the following rules apply to final exams in all undergraduate mathematics courses:

1. The final exam must occur at the time and place designated on the College Final Exam Schedule. In particular, NO final examinations may be given during the tenth week of the quarter, except in the case of graduating seniors.

2. Any student who wishes to depart from the scheduled final exam time for the course must receive permission from Paul Sally (office is Ry 350, phone is 2-7388, email is sally@math.uchicago.edu). Instructors are not permitted to excuse students from the scheduled time of the final exam except in the cases of an Incomplete.

Homework

• Homework is to be turned in on the given date at the beginning of the class. Usually an assignment will be set in almost every class and will be due the next Friday. Please staple the work you’re turning in.

• The point of the homework is for you to work out what you do and don’t understand. You should help each other to understand things and come and ask me or the Reader if a whole group of you gets really stuck together. When your homework has been handed back to you you should go through it and see if you understand what has been written on it by the reader. If you don’t, you should go to office hours and ask.

• The homework will not directly count towards your final grade, but a substantial proportion of questions on the tests will be taken from the homework assignments. Moreover, bonus credit is available.

Bonus credit

Bonus credit is available for the homework process. The homework process has the following stages:

1. You work on your homework sets and find out what you do and don’t understand.

2. You discuss the problems in groups and help one another understand things.

3. If you can’t work it out as a group, you come to office hours and ask for help.

4. You write up your homework so that you can get feedback for your written work. You should include any comments on your work that will help your Reader to help you eg specific things that you still don’t understand, questions you would like covered in the problem session. If you can’t do a question you should still write something – perhaps say what you didn’t understand, or describe some of the things you tried to do that didn’t work. This will help the Reader give you the help you need.

5. Your homework will be returned to you with comments, corrections and suggestions written on it by the Reader. This is your big chance to understand things better. It is important for you to go the Reader’s office hours and ask about anything he has written that you don’t understand. There will also be a problem session to cover common problems in the homework assignment. You can make requests for things you would like to see covered.

6. If you go through this process and reach enlightenment about some homework that you were unable to do the first time round, come to my office hours and tell me about it. Bonus credit is available.

Here is how the various components will be weighted:
2 Midterms 25% each
Final exam 50%
Bonus credit extra

However, if the grade for your final exam is better than your weighted average, I will use this as your final grade instead. This does not mean you can skip the midterms. You must sit both midterms in order to get a grade.

General

I rarely give Incompletes. If I ever give a make-up exam it is likely to be an on-the-spot oral. No class the Friday after Thanksgiving.