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Profile of the Fall Term Students in the Introductory Courses Math 105 Data, Functions, and Graphs 25 sections Students take this precalculus class either as a preparation for the calculus sequence or in order to satisfy a variety of University course requirements. They have typically taken 4 years of high school math. However, their placement scores, which are based on the combined results of a short precalculus test, their Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and their overall high school grade point average (GPA), indicate that they lack some skills and mathematical maturity.
This is the first course in the standard 115-116-215 calculus sequence. Students in this course have different backgrounds. Some had a good high school course in calculus, some have had rudimentary high school calculus, and many have had only precalculus. The overwhelming majority of the students enrolled in this course are not math majors, but are required to take calculus for some other field such as engineering, business, or one of the natural sciences.
Some of the students in this course have taken 105 and then 115, while others are entering the University prepared to take second term calculus.
The sequence 156-255-256 is an honors calculus sequence for engineering and science concentrators.
The sequence 175-176 is an honors sequence in combinatorics, dynamical systems, and the development of calculus in the context of dynamical systems.
The sequence 185-186-285-286 is for mathematics, science, and a variety of other concentrators who want a calculus course with a somewhat more theoretical approach.
This is a lecture (~100 students) in multi-variable calculus combined with a Maple computer lab.
This is a lecture (~100 students) in linear algebra and differential equations combined with a weekly MATLAB computer lab. The students are largely in engineering and science.
The sequence 295-296-395-396 is the theoretical, intensive course. |