These assigments are approximately weekly (except for exam weeks), usually by SUNDAY NIGHT at MIDNIGHT,
and are in addition to your written homework.
They must be submitted electronically, via email, no later than Sunday night at midnight. I will not accept paper versions of these particular assignments. The assignment may be in the email itself or attached as a text file, MS Word 97/98 document, a Mathematica notebook, or a PDF file.
You should check the web page regularly to verify the assignment.
In general these assignments will be questions on material in the text that you are expected to read before it is covered in class. I will sometimes also provide specific questions or definitions to answer.
The general eReading assignment is to read the assigned sections of the text and write
approximately one paragraph (the length is up to you). The content of the paragraph should include the following:
- What are the key concepts of this part of the text?
- How would your rate the difficulty of this material?
- Where there any areas that you found particularly difficult to understand?
- Do you have any questions regarding this material (that you are able to formulate at this time)?
- Is there anything else you would like to say about this material?
eReading Assignment #1: due Monday Sept 4:
Discuss the following:
- Why should we study math? In particular, why does the business school require students to take calculus?
- Familiarize yourself with the text. What do you think of it? How does it compare to math books that you have used in
the past? To books in other subject areas? Are there any particular areas (subject matter) that the author covers
that look particularly interesting to you? Does any of the material look familiar?
- How are the ways you study math different from (or similar to) the ways you study other subjects
particularly in your major area)? Possible things to consider: noise level, e.g., absolute silence vs.
having the TV on; at a desk or table vs. in a recliner; a lot of reading before you do written homework;
amount of memorization versus amount of analysis; word problems in math versus word problems (essays) in
business law (or government or education or whatever ...); expecting the text to have examples exactly like
the homework (do you expect this in a psychology class?); anything else that you think is important.
eReading Assignment #2: due Sunday Sept 17 (click here)
