MA 113, Sections 001-010, Spring 2017

Instructor:

Name:	Prof. Benjamin Braun	Email:	benjamin.braun "at" uky "dot" edu.
Office:	Room 831 in Patterson Office Tower	Office Phone:	257-6810
Office hours:	Mon 12:00-12:50, Wed 11:00-11:50, Fri 10:00-10:50	Homepage:	http://www.ms.uky.edu/~braun

Time and Place of Lecture and Recitations:

Lectures meet at 9AM on MWF in White Hall Classroom Building room 118. Notes from lecture will be posted below:

Recitations meet as follows.

Section 001, TA Karthik Chandrasekhar: TR 8:00-9:15, White Hall Classroom Building 237
Section 002, TA Karthik Chandrasekhar: TR 9:30-10:45, White Hall Classroom Building 334
Section 003, TA Jared Antrobus: TR 11:00-12:15, Dickey Hall 353
Section 004, TA Jared Antrobus: TR 12:30-1:45, Enoch Grehan Journalism Buildling 115
Section 005, TA McCabe Olsen (MathExcel): M 3:00-4:30, White Hall Classroom Building 343 and TR 2:00-3:30, Math House at 654 Maxwelton Ct
Section 007, TA Ashley Lawson: TR 9:30-10:45, Funkhouser Building B9
Section 008, TA Jessica Doering: TR 11:00-12:15, Chemistry-Physics Building 103
Section 009, TA Ashley Lawson: TR 12:30-1:45, Main Building 5
Section 010, TA Benjamin Brodie: TR 2:00-3:15, White Hall Classroom Building 347

Information specifically concerning sections 001-010 of MA 113 is posted on this page. All other information for MA 113 can be found on the Spring 2017 MA 113 common web page. These pages together constitute the syllabus for MA 113. In sections 001-010 we will follow the grading scheme described in the common syllabus, with no alterations. You are responsible for carefully reading the common web page. Pay particular attention to the following items:

WebWork -- the online homework system for this course
Course calendar and recitation worksheets
Written assignments
Quizzes
Exam dates and locations
Resources for getting help -- the Study, the Mathskeller, TA office hours
How your grade will be determined

You may view your exam and assignment scores through the UK Canvas system at uk.instructure.com.

The Canvas system will be used for all course-wide announcements. Please use my email address, not the Canvas system, to correspond with me.

In my lecture sections we will use REEF polling to take attendance. We will begin using the system during the second week of classes, and more information will be posted regarding REEF at that time. If you have already purchased a REEF account for another course, you do not need to purchase another one for these sections of MA 113. Note that other sections of MA 113 are not using REEF polling

Reading and Lectures:

You are expected to read the assigned sections in the textbook prior to lecture, as given in the course calendar on the Spring 2017 MA 113 common web page. For example, for class on Friday, January 13, you should read section 1.5 except for the material on log and inverse trig. I will assume that all students have read the assigned reading prior to lecture.

Lectures will NOT be a direct presentation of material as found in the textbook. Lecture will be used to motivate central concepts in the course, work through particularly complicated examples, and to highlight the most important ideas in the reading. For example, the first 3-4 days of lecture will combine ideas from sections 1.1-1.5 and Appendix D to motivate and clarify the ideas we will need from your precalculus courses. You must complete the reading assignments in order to have a complete understanding of the mathematical content of MA 113.

Suggestions for reading mathematics:

First: understand the story.
Even if you don't understand all the words, you can understand a lot by skimming the expository paragraphs. Is this portion of the text about a specific example? a general phenomenon? Does the author say it is related to something you know about? Does the section contain a lot of theorems and proofs, or mainly a collection of examples? What words are defined in the section?
Second: understand the broad ideas.
Read the definitions. Create small examples and non-examples. Read the theorems. Create small examples and non-examples to illustrate the theorem. Skip all proofs. Summarize the text in your own words.
Third: understand the details.
Read the examples and proofs. Create larger examples and non-examples. Create generalizations of the definitions and theorems. Try to prove your generalizations.
Continually repeat this cycle.
Read the section again. Create a short summary of the text in your own words. Create a short outline of the text. Explain the material in the section to your study group.