1. Calculus I Math 250 Patrick Staley

2. Agenda Student Biographical Info Attendance Instructor Biographical Info Syllabus and Website Calculus Overview Preliminaries Crashers

3. Student Biographical Info Name (pronunciation) Major Occupation or Career Goal Feelings about Mathematics Any special information for instructor

4. Patrick Staley Major interests—digital photography, dancing, web stuff, computer simulations, problem solving with mathematics, statistics Career—mathematics teacher, application of computers to navigation, aircraft design, risk assessment, digital images, etc Attitude—like math, biology, learning

5. Syllabus Discussion

6. Calculus Overview Falling body problem/slope of a line Area (volume) problem/area under a curve The Duality Newton and Leibniz claims

7. First Assignment Buy the Text book Read “Preparation” (pages 1-26) Acquire TI-84/83/86/85 calculator Review Trig Basics Do assigned problems pages 37-38 Prepare for a Quiz on P1-P3 and Trig

8. Crashers Name & ID number on the crash list Lottery number (1-10) on the crash list