Instructor: Haoyuan Xu ( haoyuan@math.uconn.edu)

Office:  MSB 324    486-4344

Office Hours:  Wed 2:00pm-4:00pm, Fri  10:00--12:00am and by appointment

Class Meetings:  Mon 10:00am--10:50am at MSB 319 and TuTh 9:30am--10:45am at  MSB 415

Textbook: Single Variable Calculus Early Trans. Vol I w/Ch 7 & two EWA Access Codes (6th 08 Ed.) by Stewart, Brooks/Cole (ISBN: 0538788836) or  Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Volume 1, (6th Edition), with WebAssign code.  Author: James Stewart

Quizzes:

There will be a 10 minutes quiz on every Thursday’s class (with some exceptions). I will tell you in advance if there is a quiz and what is the content it based on.

Web Assignment:

All homework is online. Visit Website www.webassgin.net to login your account.  To create your account on Webassign,  go to https:www.webassign.net/login.html, click on "I have a class key" and follow the instruction. I will give you the class key in the first lecture.  If you don't know the class key, please email me. Once you have your account,  you can login on the same page;  Enter "uconn" as Institution.

There is 2 weeks grace period for accessing your assignment without an access code. After this, access code is needed (purchased with your textbook or from your bookstore). If you are buying an old book, you can purchase the access cold online.  The assignment is given on each class day and due by the next Monday before lecture time. Make sure that you are doing your assignment before the due time. Else your answers will not be recorded. Each problem will have its own attempts. For example, for a problem that has 5 attempts, you can change your answers at most for 5 times.

Class key: uconn 0855  2932

Exams

There will be two midterm exams and a final exam. Each midterm will be given during lecture time. The following dates are tentative. Make sure to attend lectures to here any changes.

Midterm 1 will be on Tuesday, Sep. 29th.

Midterm 2 will be Tuesday, Oct. 27th.

The schedule of final exam will be announced later.

Grading. The final semester grade will be determined using the following method

Web Hw/Quizzes 15%; Midterm: each 25%; Final Exam: 35%

Makeups:

There is no make-ups for quizzes due to the reason that only the best a few scores from your quizzes are used to compute your final grade. Makeup exams will only be given in extreme cases such as a true emergency or illness.