Math 54 (Summer '09)

Lecture Section 4

Instructor: James Tener
Email address: jtener@math.[yourschool].edu
Office: 848 Evans
Office hours: MW 11:15-12:00, TTh 2:00-2:45, and by appointment.

Course meeting time: M-F, 12:10-2:00 PM, 4 Evans
Course website: http://math.berkeley.edu/~jtener/54su09.html
Syllabus: (pdf)

Course schedule:

#	Date	Sections covered	Assignment due
1	June 22	Lay 1.1,1.2
2	June 23	1.3
3	June 24	1.4	HW 1: 1.1 #1,3,23,25; 1.2 #1,3,5,11,19,33,28,30 (see 29 for definition of underdetermined)
4	June 25	1.5	Quiz 1 \| Solution
5	June 26	1.7	In class: Worksheet 1 (solution)
6	June 29	1.8,1.9	HW 2: 1.3 #7,9,17,22; 1.4 #1,2,3,9,23,25,34; 1.5 #9,26,35; 1.7 #1,15,16,21
7	June 30	1.9	Quiz 2 \| Solution
8	July 1	2.1,2.2
9	July 2	2.3	Quiz 3 \| Solution, HW 3: 1.8 #3,8,32; 1.9 #8,13,17,35; 2.1 #1,9,22; 2.2 #1,5
	July 3	Holiday
10	July 6	3.1-3.3	HW 4: 2.2 #8,23; 2.3 #1,4,8,20,26,37
11	July 7	2.2,4.1	Quiz 4 \| Solution
12	July 8	4.1-4.2	In class: Worksheet 2 (solutions)
13	July 9	4.2-4.3,4.5	HW 5: 3.1 #9,11,19,20,31,32; 3.2 #19,21,24,32,26,43
14	July 10		Midterm 1: info, pracitce, practice solutions, exam solutions
15	July 13	4.2--4.3,4.5
16	July 14	4.5-4.6	Quiz 5 \| Solution, HW 6: 4.1 #1,11,15,26,32,33; 4.2 #15,26,34; 4.3 #1,2,9,26 (see example 2),29,30
17	July 15	4.4	Bonus worksheet (solutions)
18	July 16	4.7	HW 7: 4.3 #32; 4.5 #5,7,13,30,31; 4.6 #1,5,13,20,21,25,27,30
19	July 17	5.1-5.2	Quiz 6 \| Solution
20	July 20	5.2-5.3	HW 8: 4.4 #1,5,9,11,23,24; 4.7 #5,7,11; 5.1 #3,10,21,25,26,27,31
21	July 21	5.4	Quiz 7 \| Solution
22	July 22	6.1,6.7
23	July 23	6.2	HW 9: 5.2 #1,15,20; 5.3 #3,9,13; 5.4 #1,10,11,13,20,21,22,27
24	July 24	6.3	Quiz 8 \| Solution
25	July 27	6.4	HW 10: 6.1 #1,7,13,15,16,30; 6.2 #7,23,26,30; 6.3 #3,9,11,22,24
26	July 28	6.5,6.7	Quiz 9 \| Solution
27	July 29	NSS 4.2,6.1-6.2
28	July 30	4.3,6.1-6.2	HW 11: 6.4 #3,7,9; 6.5 #3,7,9,17; 6.7 #3,16,25
29	July 31		Midterm 2: info, pracitce, practice solutions, exam solutions
30	August 3	4.2-4.4,6.2
31	August 4	4.5,9.1,9.4	Quiz 10 \| Solution, HW 12: 4.2 #7,13,14,26; 4.3 #34; 6.1 #3,4,23; 6.2 #19
32	August 5	9.4-9.6
33	August 6	9.6,9.8	HW 13: 4.2 #4; 4.3 #35; 4.4 #1,2,3,7,8,9,13,21; 4.5 #3,33,47; 6.2 #15; 9.1 #5,7,11
34	August 7	10.1-10.2	Quiz 11 \| Solution
35	August 10	10.2-10.3	HW 14: 9.1 #3,8,11; 9.4 #9,25,32; 9.5 #12,13; 9.6 #1,21 9.8 #7,25
36	August 11	10.3-10.4	Quiz 12 \| Solution
37	August 12	10.4-10.5
38	August 13	10.5/Review	HW 15: 10.2 #12, 15, 27,33; 10.3 #9,12,15,24,28; 10.4 #1,3,7,12; 10.5 #2 (Optional - 10.3 #36)
39	August 14		Final exam: DEs review, "Quiz 13" (solution), solution

Final exam info

Solutions are posted.
The median score was 59. Preliminary, unofficial grade boundaries are:

70 - 85 A

58 - 69 B

43 - 57 C

27 - 42 D

0 - 26 F

Midterm 2 info

Solutions are posted.
The average was around 46.25, and the median was 48.5. Preliminary, unofficial grade boundaries are:

58 - 70 A

46 - 57 B

33 - 45 C

17 - 32 D

0 - 16 F

Note: The difference between 56 and 57 is the same as the difference between 57 and 58. It doesn't matter if you are right on the boundary; only the number is recorded. These boundaries are just to give you a rough idea.

Midterm 1 info

Solutions are posted.
The average was around 48/60, and the median was 52/60. Preliminary, unofficial grade boundaries are:

56 - 60 A

51 - 55 B

40 - 50 C

30 - 49 D

0 - 29 F

Note: The difference between 56 and 57 is the same as the difference between 55 and 56. It doesn't matter if you are right on the boundary; only the number is recorded. These boundaries are just to give you a rough idea. In particular, there was not a large difference between an A and a B on this exam.

Mid-semester quiz/hw grades

I did a mock run at calculating your homework and quiz grades at this point in the semester. It includes quizzes 1-8, and homework 1-9. I calculated your average assuming you would use 2 of each of your dropped quizzes and homework, and wrote those values on your quiz 8. The numbers have no inherent meaning (i.e. 9/10 quiz average doesn't mean you got 90% on anything), but to give you a rough idea of what the numbers mean:

Quizzes

Homework

9 - 10	A
7.25 - 9	B
5.6 - 7.25	C
4.5 - 5.6	D
0 - 4.5	F

11.25 - 12	A
10.25 - 11.25	B
9 - 10.25	C
6 - 9	D
0 - 6	F