Math 224: August 21 to October 14
Math 225: October 18 to December 4
You are required to watch 1-3 videos before each class unless stated otherwise for that day in the schedule below. The videos are titled by section numbers from the text. The section covered in each class are the videos you need to watch before each class.
Math 224 begins Wednesday, August 21, and ends Monday, October 14
(Note: Schedule subject to change, depending on circumstances. Dates of Skills Tests to be determined.)
| Week | Dates | Sections | Topics | Basic Skills Tests |
| 1 | Aug 21 - 23 | Appendix A (no required video, but videos available in “Precalculus Videos” link on webpage) | Inequalities and Absolute Values | None |
| 1.5 | Limit of a Function (intuitive) | |||
| 2 | Aug 26 - 30 (Add Deadline - Monday, August 26) | 1.6 | Calculating Limits Using Limit Laws | |
| 1.8 | Continuity | |||
| 1.4 & 2.1 | Tangents & Velocity Problems, Derivatives and Rates of Change | |||
| 3 | Sep 2 - 6 (Drop Deadline - Tuesday, September 3) | No Class | Labor Day | |
| 2.2 | Derivative as a Function | |||
| 2.3 | Differentiation Formulas | |||
| 4 | Sep 9 - 13 | Appendix D & 2.4 | Trig Review & Derivatives of Trig Functions | Skills Test 1 begins on Sep 9 and you have until Sep 13 to take your first attempt, but can take other attempts this week as well. It covers Limits, Continuity, and Differentiation Formulas. You have until Sep 20 to take all 3 attempts. |
| 2.5 | Chain Rule | |||
| Review | ||||
| 5 | Sep 16 - 20 | 224 Exam 1 (Midterm) | Exam will take place in person during regular class time in your regular classroom | |
| 2.6 | Implicit Differentiation | |||
| 2.7 & 2.8 | Rates of Change in Science and Related Rates | |||
| 6 | Sep 23 - 27 (Withdraw Deadline is Wednesday, September 25) | 2.8 | More Related Rates | Skills Test 2 begins Sep 23. It covers Trigonometric Derivatives, the Chain Rule, and “Implicit Differentiation”. You have until Oct 14 to take all 3 attempts. |
| 3.1 | Maximum & Minimum Values | |||
| 3.3 | How Derivatives Affect the Shape of a Graph | |||
| 7 | Sep 30 - Oct 4 | 3.4 | Limits at Infinity | |
| No Class | Rosh Hashanah Holiday | |||
| No Class | Rosh Hashanah Holiday | |||
| 8 | Oct 7 - 11 | 3.5 | Curve Sketching | |
| (Friday Classes Meet - Tuesday, October 8) | 3.5 | More Curve Sketching | ||
| Review for Final | Exam is comprehensive, but emphasizing Sections 2.6-3.5 | |||
| No Class | Yom Kippur Holiday | |||
| 9 | Oct 14 - 16 | 224 Final Exam | Exam will take place in person during regular class time in your regular classroom | The last day to take Skills Test 2 is October 14 |
| No Class | (Math 224 is over) |
Math 225 begins Friday, October 18, and ends Wednesday, December 4
(Note: Schedule subject to change, depending on circumstances.)
| Week | Dates | Sections | Topics | Basic Skills Tests |
| 9 | Oct 18 | 3.7 | Optimization | None |
| 10 | Oct 21 - 25 (Add Deadline - Thursday, October 24) | 3.7 | More Optimization | |
| 3.2 | Mean Value Theorem & Consequences | |||
| 3.9 | Antiderivatives | |||
| 11 | Oct 28 - Nov 1 (Drop Deadline - Thursday, October 31) | 4.1 & Appendix E | Areas and Distances & Summation Notation | |
| 4.2 | Definite Integrals | |||
| 4.3 | The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus | |||
| 12 | Nov 4 - 8 | 4.3 | More on the Fundamental Theorem | Skills Test 3 begins on Nov 4. It covers Antiderivatives, Indefinite Integrals, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. You have until Nov 19 to take all 3 attempts. |
| 4.4 | Indefinite Integrals and Net Change Theorem | |||
| Review | Exam 1 covers sections 3.7-4.4 | |||
| 13 | Nov 11 - 15 | 225 Exam 1 (Midterm) | Exam will take place in person during regular class time in your regular classroom | |
| 4.5 | Substitution Rule | |||
| 4.5 | More Substitution Rule | |||
| 14 | Nov 18 - Nov 22 (Withdraw Deadline - Tuesday, November 19) | 5.1 | Area Between Curves | |
| 5.1 | More Area Between Curves | Skills Test 4 begins on Wed Nov 20. It covers the Substitution Rule and Area Between Curves. You have until Dec 5 to take all 3 attempts. | ||
| 5.2 | Volumes of Solids of Revolution (Disks/Washers) | |||
| 15 | Nov 25 - 29 | 5.3 | Volumes of Solids of Revolution (Shells) | |
| (Friday Classes Meet - Tuesday, November 26) | 5.2, 5.3 | Summary of Washers and Shells | ||
| No Class | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| No Class | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 16 | Dec 2 - 6 | 5.5 | Average Value of a Function | Last day to take Skills Test 4 is Thursday, December 5 |
| Review for Final | The final is cumulative and covers all topics from the course with a majority of the questions covering sections 4.5, 5.1-5.3 & 5.5 | |||
| Reading Day | ||||
| 17 | Dec 9 - 13 | Exam Period | Final Exam on Date and Time Assigned by Registrar, View Final Exam schedule here |