This course is the first half of a two-semester calculus sequence. This sequence is designed for students who have not previously studied calculus. The course, together with MATH120, will cover limits, derivatives, and integrals. Applications of calculus to biology, economics, physics, and/or other fields will be emphasized.
The elements of good teaching will be discussed and demonstrated through lectures, practice teaching sessions, and discussions of problems encountered in the actual teaching environment.
Topics included in this course are organizing data, central measures, measures of variation, distributions, sampling, estimation, conditional probability (Bayes' theorem), hypothesis testing, simple regression and correlation, and analysis of variation.
In the Directed Reading Program (DRP), undergraduate students are paired with graduate student mentors to work on an independent study project. The culmination of the semester long project is a presentation by the undergraduate mentee to the Wesleyan community. I have had the pleasure to mentor three projects so far:
CAT(0) Cube Complexes
The Symmetries of Things