Suggested Lab Schedule/Assignments for Calculus I (Math 141), Fall 2012

Last modified: 11/05/2012
 
Lab
Topics
Assignment
Related Sections of Textbooks
Maplets/Maple
1 A: Maple Lab for Calculus I: An Introduction
B: New User's Tour
Complete New User's Tour Calculus Text: Chapter 1
Maple Text: Sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.4
Plot Builder
2 New Functions from Old Complete lab activities and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Section 1.3
Maple Text: Sections 2.1
Shift
3 Functions and Plots Complete lab activities and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Section 1.4.
Maple Text: Section 2.2
Plot Builder
4 Limits, Infinity, and Asymptotes See Lab Note Calculus Text: Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.6
Maple Text: Section 4.1
 
5 A More Rigorous Approach to Limits Review Lab 1 to Lab 5 for Lab Quiz 1 next week and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Section 2.4. EpsilonDelta
6 Hour Quiz 1
(completed in lab)
     
7 Differentiation and Tangent Lines Complete lab activities and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Sections 2.7 and 2.8
Maple Text: Sections 4.2 and 4.3
TangentLine
Tangents [C-SV]
8 Implicit Differentiation Problem 32 of Calculus Text on Page 214 and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Section 3.5
Maple Text: Sections 4.4
ImplicitDifferentiation
9 Differentiation Drill Complete lab activities and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Sections 3.1-3.4,3.6 DerivativeDrill
Derivatives [C-SV]
Dierentiation Methods [C-SV]
10 Project: The Ant and the Blade of Grass. 12.5 of the Maple text, Pages 201-203 Project Report/Grading Guideline    
11 Optimization Complete lab activities and review Lab 7 to Lab 11 for Lab Quiz 2 next week. Calculus Text: Section 4.7.
Maple Text: Sections 5.2, 5.3, and 5.6
 
12 Hour Quiz 2
(completed in lab)
     
13 Definite Integrals, Riemann Sums, and FTC Complete lab activities and your lab instructor will give other assignment for each section Calculus Text: Sections 5.1, 5.2,and 5.3
Maple Text: Sections 6.1 and 6.2
Riemann Sums [C-SV]
14 Do End-Of-Course Survey on Blackboard      


Notes:

  • There will be two hour quizzes to be distributed at the beginning of the given lab period and collected at the end of the lab period.  You can use the textbook, your notes, the computer, Maple, or any other inanimate source to answer the questions but have to complete it individually. The questions will be related to the concepts and techniques addressed in previous labs.
  • There will a project with related questions that can be answered with the skills and knowledge learned in the labs and lectures for this course. A project report will generally be due at the beginning of the next lab period.
  • Tools and Help can be accessed from the respective menus on the Maple 16 graphical user interface. Tutors marked with [PreC] are found under the PreCalculus submenu from Tools; those marked with [C-SV] and [C-MV] can be found under the Calculus - Single Variable and Calculus - Multiple Variable submenus from Tools, respectively.

  • If you have any questions, please send e-mail to wux@math.sc.edu