Announcement Archive

• Nov 26: HW9 due on Friday in class; a worked example that will be helpful for Q2, approximating roots of functions.
  Friday's class will be in the format of a review/problem session.
  Extra office hours on Monday Dec 1, 1-3PM in MATH ANNEX 1102. Questions welcomed on Piazza.
• Nov 24: HW 9 due Friday 11/28 in class. No more WebWorks.
  Midterm 2 solutions are available on the main MATH104/184 course website.
• Nov 17: HW 8 due Wednesday in class. WebWork due Mon Nov 24, not this Wednesday. Workshops resume this week.
• Nov 15: Friday's notes are posted, which includes the Elvis problem formulation as well as solution. Review them before next lecture.
  Next week we will begin a new big Topic, Linear Approximation (Ch 4.5). Please preview that chapter for the next two lectures.
• Nov 14: Next Monday's office hours are cancelled.
• Nov 11: If you want a break from studying, check these out:
  Since we talked about optimizing UPS delivery routes on Monday, this article shows you why optimization problems are serious business.
  Also, cute dogs know calculus!
• Nov 12: HW7 Solutions
  On Friday, in place of a quiz, there will be a graded class activity on optimization problems that's worth the same as a quiz.
  
• Sep 25: To sign up for Piazza, use any email address with the access code: MATH184 https://piazza.com/ubc.ca/winterterm12014/math184section101102
  
• Nov 10: Midterm 2 Topics Overview and Summary of curves for critical & inflection points
  Review session notes
• Nov 9: Review Session for Midterm 2 on Nov 10, 6:00-7:30PM, BUCH A202
  Answers to Ch 6.8 practice problems
  Since HW7 is due on Wednesday the day of the midterm, I will go through the solutions in class on Wednesday.
  
• Nov 4: Quiz this Friday: Know your absolute/local max/min, and how to locate them, given an explicit function. (a la our notes from last Wed/Fri in Ch 4.1.)
  No HW due this week, but you should have gotten HW7 due next Wednesday.
  Review Session for Midterm 2 on Nov 10, 6:00-7:30PM, BUCH A202
• Nov 3: On Wednesday, we will have a guest lecturer present a lecture on curve sketching: how to put together everything we learnt about properties of graphs. Make sure to read the posted lecture notes beforehand!
  New due date for this week's WebWork: Nov 8 at 8:00AM
  
• Oct 31: Lecture notes for today's and Monday's lecture are available. Read them before Monday's lecture.
• Oct 27: On Wednesday we will begin a big topic on maxima/minima (Ch 4.1), concavity (Ch 4.2) and curve sketching (Ch 4.3). Lecture notes for Wednesday (Ch 4.1) have been posted. Make sure to read the notes and the textbook Chapter 4.1 before Wednesday's class.
  HW6, due Friday.
• Oct 26: NO quiz this Friday. However, you should use the extra time to practice your algebra with the exercises at the end of this book chapter: A Review of Algebra concepts.
• Oct 26: Lecture notes and Quiz 7 and HW 5 solutions are posted. You may find the first problem on this collection of problems, Related rates in business problems, useful for Q2 on the Homework #6.
• Oct 24: Midterm 2 is on Wed Nov 12, 6:30-7:30PM. A sample Midterm 2 is available under "notes" tab.
  Final exam is on Sat Dec 6, 8:30AM.
• Oct 22: Please take a moment to fill out this Mid-semester feedback and survey. Your feedback is very much appreciated.
  Assignment 5 due date is now Friday Oct 24.
  Quiz on Friday is on something we learnt this week!
• Oct 17: I may not be able to spend class time on WeBWorK, but if there are some questions you'd like solutions to, request it on Piazza and I may be able to post the solutions there.
• Oct 15: Friday quiz: log differentiation.
• Oct 10: Combining derivative rules worksheet with answers is available under Notes tab.
• Oct 8: Quiz on Friday: implicit differentiation.
  Implicit differentiation example: you may find this worked example helpful for Q3 of Assignment 4.
  Solutions to Midterm 1 are available on Course website.
• Oct 6: Office hours today are cancelled.
• Oct 1: Midterm 1 Concept Summary
  Quiz on Friday!
• Sep 27: Have a special request for problems/topics to cover during Wednesday's review session? Send them to me through email, Piazza forums, or the feedback form under the Resources tab. It can be problems from class, workshop, textbook, sample midterm or elsewhere.
• Sep 23:
  • Friday's quiz will be on derivative rules: power, sum, product, quotient. It will be a longer quiz, about 15 minutes. You will need to recall and use the rules from memory.
    Practice: Ch 3.3 19-24; Ch 3.4 7-14, 19-28, 57-60
  • Assignment 2 due on Friday.
  Agenda for this and next week:
  • Fri 9/26: Quiz. More derivative rules + examples
  • Mon, Wed 9/29, 10/1: Business problem, Rates of change (Ch 3.6), Brief overview/review. (Midterm 1 includes material up to here)
  • Wed 10/1 6-7pm: Review session in LSK 200.
  • Fri 10/3: Quiz. Chain rule (not on midterm 1)
• Sep 22: Today's lecture notes are posted. On Wednesday, we will cover Chapters 3.3, 3.4 (Derivatives rules, product/quotient rules), and spend the entire class working through examples. You will find this summary sheet helpful.
• Sep 20: Check out the new Piazza forums for Math184 Sections 101/102!
  The Piazza forums is an online community for you to ask questions and discuss concepts relating to MATH184 with your fellow classmates, and is a great way for you to benefit from the collective knowledge of your classmates and instructor.
  Sign up to access the forums: https://piazza.com/ubc.ca/winterterm12014/math184section101102
  A permanent link has been added under the Resources tab.
• Sep 19: Solutions for quiz 1 & 2 are posted under Lecture notes tab, as are today's lecture notes. Monday we will finish the last question on the handout and finish Chapter 3.2, and begin on Chapter 3.3.
• Sep 17: Friday quiz at beginning of lecture period. It will consist of one question on continuity of composite functions, and one question on Intermediate Value Theorem. Practice the problems at the end of Chapter 2.6, especially the suggested practice problems.
  Assignment 2 will be distributed on Friday.
  In Friday's lecture, we will continue with introducing derivatives and working with derivatives (Ch 3.1, 3.2). Make sure to read those chapters ahead of Friday's lecture.
  HW1 solutions and solution for shrinking circle problem on WebWork 1 is available under the Lecture Notes tab.
• Sep 15: Next class we will continue with continuity. You will find it helpful to read the subsections of Ch 2.6 on composite functions and intermediate value theorem. Especially for the intermediate value theorem, I'm sure it is completely new material for everyone, and you will benefit most if lecture is not the first time you see it.
  Reminder: Webwork is due Wed 8AM, assignment 1 is due Wed in class.
• Sep 12: NEW Midterm 1 time: 6-7PM, Friday Oct 3 (New time, date unchanged)
  Students taking Econ: the conflict is resolved. Ask your Econ instructor for details.
  Other students with conflict: Email me before Sep 19 with (1) your full name and student ID, (2) section number, (3) course number and time of the course that conflicts with our midterm 1.
  
• Sep 12: Assignment 1 is due on Wed Sep 17 in class.
• Sep 10: Friday quiz at beginning of lecture! The quiz is 5 minutes and will consist of one question that will ask you to find a limit, similar to what we did on Wednesday's lecture (see lecture notes).
  On Friday, I will distribute your first written assignment, which will be due on Wednesday Sep 17. More details to come.
• Sep 9: NEW WebWork due date is every Wednesday at 8AM. First WebWork assignment is due Wednesday Sep 17 at 8AM.
• Sep 8: For the rest of the week, we will be discussing limits and rates of change (Chapters 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.) To fully benefit from lecture, you are advised to read those chapters before class.
  Review session on algebra: I will conduct a review session on algebra on Wednesday Sep 10, 2-2:45pm in LSK 300B (during part of my office hours). I will go through some of the most common aspects of algebra that will be used in the rest of the semester.
  A book chapter on fundamentals of algebra can be found under the Resources tab.
• Sep 4: WebWork: weekly due date for WebWork is every Sunday at 8am Wednesday at 8am. Each assignment will be made available one week in advance. The first WebWork will be available on Sunday Sep 7 and due on Sunday Sep 14, 8am Wednesday Sep 17 at 8am. You will have a WebWork assignment every week thereafter, and no further reminders will be given.
  To help you get accustomed to inputting solutions through WebWork, a WebWork Introduction is now available on the WebWork portal. This Introduction is not part of your grade, and has no due date. You are encouraged to do the Introduction to learn the format for inputting solutions on WebWork.
• Sep 5: Look under the Notes tab for today's lecture notes and the reading material for next week.
• Sep 3: Quiz 1 on Friday, Sep 5. Material covered: from Wednesday's class (see lecture notes). Notes from Wednesday's class are posted, and contains a few exercises.
  
• Sep 3: Workshops begin next week. Office hours begin next week.