Important dates

• Cr/D/F Grading Change Dates
  Last day to change between Credit/D/Fail and percentage grading (grading options cannot be changed after this date): January 17, 2017
• Withdrawal Dates
  Last day to withdraw without a W standing :    January 17, 2017
  Last day to withdraw with a W standing
  (course cannot be dropped after this date) : February 10, 2017
• Winter Session Term 2 mid-term break: February 20 - 24. 2017.
  

About the Course

• Math 121 is an honours version of Math 101, covering mostly the same topics but in greater foundational depth and with more emphasis on harder and/or theoretical exercises.
  Precise definitions and statements of theorems will be given. The final exam will have a certain overlap with the Math 101 exam. This will be used to normalize the final course grades in Math 121. The prerequisite for Math 121 is a grade of 68% in Math 120 or 80% in Math 100, 102, 104, 180 or 184

Course Outline

• Integration (Ch. 5) (2 weeks):
  
• Techniques of Integration (Ch. 6: 6.1-6.3, 6.5-6.7) (2.5 weeks):
  
• Applications of Integration (Ch. 7: 7.1-7.6, 7.8-7.9) (2.5 weeks)
• Conics, Parametric Curves and Polar Curves (Sec. 8.2-8.6) (1.5 week)
• Sequences, Series and Power Series (Ch. 9: 9.1-9.7, 4.10) (3.5 weeks)
• Additional topics, review (1 week)
  

• It is very important to learn mathematics by "doing". For example, it is not enough to read a worked out example from a book or lecture notes. It is not enough to understand each step in the solution. You have to struggle to work out examples or problems by yourself, without looking at the solutions. This way, you have to build up mathematical intuition on the subject.
  

• Midterm 1: Tue, Feb. 7, 2017. in class.  45 min.
  
• Midterm 2: Tue, Mar. 14, 2017. in class.  45 min.
  
• Final Exam:  TBA. 150min.
  

• No calculators or other notes will be allowed!
• There are no make-up midterms but if you miss a midterm for a legitimate reason (e.g. illness), allowances can be made. To claim legitimate emergency: Instructor must be notified within 48 hrs of missed test. Doctor's notes or other relevant official documents must be present.
• Students will be required to bring Photo ID to all tests and exams.
• To ask change of the marking of your exam, you have to follow a certain procedure. Namely, if you have any complaint on the marking, you first study the solution provided very carefully, and then give me a written note to explain in detail what was wrong in the marking.  I will handle only such written notes.
  Such a note should be handed in as soon as possible.

Homework Assignments Policy: Careful work on the assignments is the best way to prepare for the midterms and the final exam.

• There will be written HW (WHW)'s. Written HW (WHW)'s are due mostly on  Fridays  in Class.
  
• Late homework is not accepted.
• Unreadable homework will get a zero mark.
• Work must be shown.
• Missed homework will count as a zero mark.
• The number of each homework problem should be clearly printed.
• Written HW (WHW): There is a total of  9 written HW (WHW) assignments to be turned in, but only the best 8 will count towards your final grade.
• It is probable that only a subset of those problems turned in would be graded, and you will not be informed (in advance) which ones these are. For example, if your homework does not contain any of the problems to be graded (which will be known only after the due date), you will get zero mark. So, it would be better for you to do all the problems to be handed in.
• For the selected problems, only some important steps and the final answer will be checked.
• To ask change of the marking of your WHW, you have to follow a certain procedure. Namely, if you have any complaint on the marking, you first study the solution provided very carefully, and then give me a written note to explain in detail what was wrong in the marking.  I will handle only such written notes. Such a note should be handed in as soon as possible.

Grading

Your grade for the course will be computed roughly as follows:
Homework (Written HW (WHW)):   16%
Midterm 1:   17%  Tue, Feb. 7, 2017. in class.  45 min.
Midterm 2:   17 % Tue, Mar. 14, 2017. in class.  45 min.
Final Exam: 50%. 150 min exam.

Important Notes:

• All marks are subject to scaling.
  
• IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT that students know that IF THEY DO NOT FULFILL THE COURSE REQUIREMENTS DURING THE TERM (including not writing the midterm test(s) even if you agree to transfer the weight to the final) AND THEN MISS THE FINAL EXAMINATION, THEY MAY BE DEEMED INELIGIBLE FOR A DEFERRED FINAL.
• The final exam will have a certain overlap with the Math 101 exam. This will be used to normalize the final course grades in Math 121.