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MATA32F

Calculus for Management I

Fall 2013

Course Information and Policies


Website:
All course documents (e.g. assignments, solutions, announcements, past tests and
exams, etc.) are posted at our web site. We do not use the Intranet, Facebook, or Twitter, and we
very, very rarely (if ever) use Blackboard. The MATA32F web site address is

http://www.math.utsc.utoronto.ca/a32f/
Course Instructors:
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz Lec03
Oce: IC - 478
Phone: (416) 208-5108

Email: ragnar@utsc.utoronto.ca

Raymond Grinnell (course coordinator) Lec01


Oce: IC - 466
Phone: (416) 287-5655

Email: grinnell@utsc.utoronto.ca

Steven Rayan Lec02


Oce: IC - 482

Email: rayan@math.toronto.edu
Phone: (416) 287-7261 (UTSC) /(416) 978-5099 (STG)

Email protocol:
Please put the word MATA32F in the subject line when emailing any
instructor. Professor Grinnell will only read/respond to emails from a UTSC or UTORONTO
email address. He will not respond to emails that are written with text message/tweet shorthand
or those that are not written in proper English.
Textbook: Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business, Economics and the Life and Social
Sciences, 13th edition, by E. Haeussler, R. Paul and R. Wood. (the same book was used in MATA32
and MATA33 last year and is in the UTSC bookstore)
Grading Scheme:
Diagnostic Test Pass
Tutorial Quizzes
Midterm Test
Final Examination

2%
18% (your lowest score is dropped)
30% (date/time/place TBA)
50% (date/time/place TBA)

Further information about the Diagnostic Test is contained in a separate document called Diagnostic Test Information found at our home page. The Midterm Test and Final Exam is common
to all three sections (i.e. all MATA32F students write the same paper)
Prerequisite:

Ontario Grade 12 Vectors and Calculus or equivalent.

Weekly Schedule Overview: The rst day of fall classes at UTSC is Tuesday, Sept 3 and the
last day of fall classes is Monday, Dec 2. In MATA32F we will count Weeks as starting from
Tuesday, Sept 3 and extending one week in succession. Therefore, Week 1 is Tuesday, Sept 3 Friday, Sept 6; Week 2 is Monday, Sept 9 - Friday, Sept 13; Week 3 is Monday, Sept 16 - Friday,
Sept 20; / and so on. There are 12 weeks in total for the fall term and there are no MATA32F
classes or tutorials during the fall Study Week: Monday, Oct 14 - Friday, Oct 18. In each week
of MATA32F you will have one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour lecture. Beginning in Week 2 you

will also have a 1-hour tutorial. In addition to being active in all all of these, you should visit the
course web site at least a few times each week. There you will nd postings of important notices
and documents (like this one and the course schedule), assignments and solutions, past test papers
and exam papers, and so on.
Video-taped Lectures:
Professor Grinnell will have his Lec01 lectures video-taped. Each
lecture will remain posted for two weeks only. They will be viewable by every MATA32F student
and the access link is at our home page.
Assignments: Assignments will be posted at the MATA32F web site generally on a weekly basis
near the middle to end of each week. These will contain practice problems from the textbook and
other problems; information and dates about quizzes and relevant study sections from the text; and
often some important notes or remarks about upcoming events (such as the Midterm Test or Final
Exam). Assignment problems are not to be handed in. However, you are strongly encouraged to
work hard and consistently on the assignment problems as well as being active in your lectures and
tutorials. Attempt extra problems from the textbook exercise/review sections based on your own
judgement and experience. Detailed solutions to many of the assignment problems will be posted
at our web site.
Tutorials and Quizzes: You will have a 1-hour tutorial each week beginning in Week 2 (there
are no tutorials in Week 1). It is essential that you enroll in a tutorial during not later than the
rst week of classes. It is your responsibility to memorize your TAs (i.e Teaching Assistants) full
name, your tutorial number, day, and time. Starting in Week 3 there will be a 15-25 minute quiz
in your tutorial along with a brief review or problem demonstration session. The quiz will be on
material from the assignment and solutions from the previous week. Your TA will mark your quiz
out of 20, they will record your grade out of 100 in the course database, and they will return your
quiz in the following tutorial. Tutorials begin in Week 2, but here is no quiz in the rst tutorial.
The rst quiz is in your tutorial in Week 3. There are 9 quizzes in total. They are given in Weeks
3 - 6 and Weeks 7 - 11. You may only write a quiz in the tutorial you are registered in.
Changing Tutorials:
There will be an announcement at the MATA32F web site as to how
tutorial changes are are made.
Calculators: You will need a standard hand-held calculator in MATA32F and you may use it
during the writing of quizzes, the midterm test, and the nal exam. But your calculator cannot
perform any of the following: graphing, matrix operations, symbolic/numerical dierentiation, or
symbolic/numerical integration. Your TA will enforce this as will supervisors and invigilators during
the writing of the Midterm Test and Final Exam. There is no trigonometry in MATA32F but if
your calculator does trig operations, that is ne. If you have doubts as to the suitability of your
calculator, ask your Instructor to check it for you.
The following electronic devices are prohibited during quiz/test/exam writing either by accident
or intent: smart phones, i-Pods, laptop computers, tablets, cell Phones, i-Phones, or any other
electronic calculating/data storage/data transmission device that is not a standard hand-held calculator. Students may not use more than one calculator during the writing of a quiz, midterm test,
or nal exam.
Lecture Sections:
You may only attend the lecture section in which you are registered via
ROSI. You may attempt to change your section if and only if this is permitted by the ROSI system.

Oce Hours:
The course instructors and TAs will have oce hours where you can get help
with MATA32F. You are strongly encouraged to take advantage of oce hours ! A schedule and
location of oce hours will be posted at the our home page within the rst couple of weeks of
classes. During oce hours you can get help with assignments; you can ask questions about any of
our course material (including past tests and exams and general review); and you can informally
meet other students, TAs, and even your course instructors.
Policy on Missing the a Quiz or the Midterm Test: If you miss a quiz or the Midterm Test
because of any or only the following reasons: severe illness, injury or accident, family catastrophe,
religious obligations, or legal obligations, and you wish compensation, get a documentation note to
Professor Grinnell not later than three days after the missed quiz or missed midterm and he will
consider your situation. Your note can be a paper note and documentation or a scanned note
that is emailed. You may get your note and documentation to Professor Grinnell in person or you
may have someone else get it to him on your behalf.
The note must clearly state: MATA32F, your name, your UofT ID number, your signature (it can
be an e-signature), your TAs name, your tutorial number (not just the day and time), the name
of an authenticating reference (e.g. parent, police, doctor, lawyer), their position, their signature
(it can be an e-signature), and of course a thorough statement of the very good reason why you
missed a quiz or the midterm test. An email note by itself (without documentation details as
above) is insucient to warrant any sort of compensation. But an email is useful in informing
Professor Grinnell that a quiz or the midterm test has been missed and that a documentation note
is forthcoming.
The following reasons will not be considered for any sort of compensation for a missed quiz or
midterm test: work obligations, slight illness, misreading the time of day or location, lateness,
timetable conict, trac or other transportation issues. Paper or email documentation received
after the three day grace period will not be honoured. Professor Grinnell will reserve judgement on
your note and documentation as to whether it warrants any sort of compensation. If you miss a
quiz or the Midterm Test, and go beyond the three day grace period, or you do not present sucient
documentation within three days, your score on the missed item will be zero.
Missing the Final Exam: This is a very serious matter and is therefore not addressed at courseadministrative/course coordinator level. UTSC policies and procedures about missing the nal exam
are found in the back pages of the 2013/2014 UTSC Paper Calendar and at the UTSC Registrars
web site.
Administrative Problems/Issues: Direct any of your MATA32F course administrative issues
or concerns (e.g. web site concerns, AccessAbility issues, tutorial/TA concerns, etc.) to Professor
Grinnell. You can contact him by email (grinnell@utsc.utoronto.ca), phone, or in person. Remember: only emails from either a UTSC or UTORONTO address will be read by Professor Grinnell.
Student Responsibilities:

As a student in MATA32F, you are responsible for the following:

1. memorizing your TAs full name, your tutorial number, day, and time.
2. keeping a record of your quiz scores and your midterm test score.
3. if you miss a quiz or the the midterm test (and you wish compensation), you are responsible
for the appropriate documentation and communication as per the policy above.

4. to be active in all of your lectures and tutorials, and to not disrupt any of these by irrelevant
talking, electronic activity, or other annoying behavior.
5. to have read and know the contents of this General Course Information and Policy Sheet and
the Course Outline and Schedule Sheet.
6. to read and understand all postings to the MATA32F web site as they become available.
7. to be familiar with and abide by the University of Toronto Code of Behavior and Code of
Student Conduct (see the UTSC 2013/2014 Calendar or the UTSC Registrars web site.

MATA32F

Calculus for Management I

Fall 2013

Course Syllabus and Lecture Schedule


For the rst two weeks of MATA32F we study Mathematics of Finance (part of Chapter 5). Then
we spend about 4 5 weeks each on Limits and Dierential Calculus (parts of Chapters 10 13)
and Integral Calculus (part of Chapter 14 and Section 15.1). Here is a more detailed schedule. The
exact time on some topics listed below may vary.
1. Week 1 (Sept 3 - 6) Mathematics of nance: compound interest, present and future value,
eective rate, equations of value (Sections 5.1 and 5.2). (No Tutorial, No Quiz)
2. Week 2 (Sept 9 - 13) Continuously compounding interest, eective rate, annuities, amortization (Sections 5.35.5). Section 1.6 on summation notation is relevant). We only study page
228 of section 5.5. Omit amortization schedule concept on page 229 and omit memorization
of annuity formulas on page 229. (Tutorial 1, No Quiz)
3. Week 3 (Sept 16 - 20) Limits and continuity: limits at a point, innite limits and limits
at innity, continuity (Sections 10.1 10.3). Omit section 10.4. (Tutorial 2, Quiz 1...the rst
quiz)
4. Week 4 (Sept 23 - 27) Dierentiation: the derivative and tangent line concepts, dierentiation rules, interpretation of the derivative in economics/business, the marginal concept
(Sections 11.1 11.5). Omit technical proofs on pages 501, 502, 505, 518, and 521. (Tutorial
3, Quiz 2)
5. Week 5 (Sept 30 - Oct 4) Additional topics in dierentiation: derivatives of logarithmic/exponential functions, elasticity of demand, logarithmic dierentiation, Newtons
method, higher derivatives (Sections 12.1 12.7). Omit the technical proof on page 540.
(Tutorial 4, Quiz 3)
6. Week 6 (Oct 7 - 11) Applications of derivatives and curve sketching: monotonicity, extrema,
extrema on a closed interval, applications in economics, concavity, derivative tests, asymptotes, curve sketching (Sections 13.1 13.5). Omit oblique asymptotes on pages 602 603.
(Tutorial 5, Quiz 4)
7. Thanksgiving and Study Week (Oct 14 - 18) No MATA32F classes or tutorials.
8. Week 7 (Oct 21 - 25) Applications of derivatives continued: curve sketching continued,
applied word problems in economics and management (Section 13.6). (Tutorial 6, Quiz 5)
9. Week 8 (Oct 28 - Nov 1) Integration: the indenite integral, integration with initial
conditions, applications in economics, elementary techniques of integration (Sections 14.2
14.4). Omit section 14.1. (Tutorial 7, Quiz 6)
10. Week 9 (Nov 4 - 8) Techniques of integration continued: substitution, manipulations,
integration by parts, applications in economics (Sections 14.4, 14.5, 15.1). (Tutorial 8, Quiz 7)
11. Week 10 (Nov 11 - 15) The denite integral, fundamental theorem of calculus, area,
applications in economics (Sections 14.6, 14.7, 14.9) Omit section 14.8. (Tutorial 9, Quiz 8)

12. Week 11 (Nov 18 - 22) Area between curves, vertical and horizontal elements. (Section
14.9). (Tutorial 10, Quiz 9...the last Quiz)
13. Week 12 (Nov 25 - 29) Consumers and producers surplus (Section 14.10). (Tutorial 11)
14. Students who normally have a Monday lecture or tutorial will have their last lecture and
tutorial on Monday, Dec 2. This is to make-up for the fact that classes begin on a Tuesday
(i.e. Tuesday, Sept 3, and not a Monday)

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