MCS 118
Calculus with Precalculus Review
Tentative Schedule
Week Dates Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 Sept
5 - 9
Syllabus
Review of High School Math
handout
Functions and Graphs,
What a function is
graphing a function
finding values from a graph P4, 1.1, 1.2
Linear functions
P5
2 Sept
12 - 16
Functions and Graphs
intercept
increasing/decreasing
concavity
P1, P4, 1.2
Word Problems
handout
Functions and Graphs,
graphs you should know.
2.1, 2.2, 2.6?
handout
Quiz #1
3 Sept
19 - 13
Derviative as rate
3.1
Finding limits,
what it means,
3.2, 3.3
Finding limits algebraically and graphically
3.3
Continuous Functions
3.4
4 Sept
26 - 30
Infinite Limits
3.5
Epsilon-delta
3.2
More Epsilon-delta
3.2
review
Quiz #2
5 Oct 3 - 7 More Epsilon-delta
3.2
handout
Nobel
Conference
Formal definition of derivative
4.1
4.1
continued
6 Oct
10 - 14
Sum, difference, and scalar multiple rules
4.2
4.2
continued
Product rule, Quotient rule
4.3
4.3
continued
handout
7 Oct
17 - 21
Derivative Practice Review Midterm Exam Combinations of functions
1.4
8 Oct
24 - 28
Reading
Day
Chain Rule
4.4
4.4
continued
9 Oct 31
Nov 4
Extreme Values
5.1
5.1
handout
Mean Value Theorem
5.2
First Derivative Test
5.3
10 Nov
7 - 11
First & Second Derivative Tests
5.3 & 5.4
5.4
continued
Quiz #3 Limits at Infinity
5.5
11 Nov
14 - 18
5.5
continued
Max / Min Word Problem
5.7
5.7
handout
5.7
continued
12 Nov
21 - 25
catch up
review
Quiz # 4 Thanksgiving
Break
13 Nov 28
Dec 2
Antiderivatives
6.1
Antiderivatives
continued
Area
6.2
Area
6.2
14 Dec
5 - 9
Area 6.2
Riemann Sums 6.3
handout
FTC
6.4
FTC
6.4
Quiz #5
15 Dec
12 - 16
FTC
6.4
U substitution
6.5
U substitution
6.5
Reading Day