The first Math Xa midterm will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 25th from 7:30 to 9:30pm in Science Center D.  There will be reviews held in lab on Tuesday, Oct. 24th.  There will also be a coursewide review held in Emerson 101 on Monday night starting at 8pm (if you want to go to the Monday review but can't make that time, you should ask someone else to take notes for you and explain what happened at the review).

Topics covered on this first test will include everything in the textbook up through chapter 5:

• Functions - basic terminology: increasing, decreasing, concave up, down, continuous, etc.
• Reading information from graphs and tables of function
• know the difference between a velocity vs. time and a position vs. time graph
• note difference between velocity and speed
• Graphs of basic functions - linear functions, 1/x, |x|, x², etc.
• Calculating average rates of change, graphical meaning
• Creating new functions from old functions
• including addition, multiplication, composition, decomposition of functions
• Altering graphs by stretching, shifting, flipping, etc.
• understand implications for both function formulas and their graphs
• Linear functions
• basic formulas, finding linear functions
• piecewise linear functions (as in section 4.4)
• using linear functions to make approximations
• Derivative functions
• meaning and definition of a derivative
• i.e. instantaneous rate of change, slope of tangent line, limit definition
• calculating derivatives using the limit definition
• sketching derivatives of simple functions

Midterm One - Oct.28, 1999

Midterm One - Oct.26, 1998

Midterm One - Oct.28, 1997