• Archana Receives the Donna B. Hamilton Award

    Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course.  Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus.  From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience… Read More

  • Yanir Receives a Do Good Campus Fund Grant

    Yanir’s proposal on “Incorporating outreach into the curriculum via experiential learning” is one of the only 27 projects out of 140 submissions that were funded by the UMD Do Good Campus Fund. Read More

  • Congrats to 3 CMNS Students Named Goldwater Scholars

    Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS: Junior physics and mathematics double-degree student Yash Anand Sophomore atmospheric and oceanic science and physics double-degree student Malcolm Maas Junior biological sciences and mathematics double-degree student Jerry Shen Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2… Read More

  • Maria Cameron Receives the 2024 MURI Award

    Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective… Read More

  • A $27.2M Gift to the Math Department by the Brin Family

    The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press… Read More
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Prerequisite:

1 course with a minimum grade of C- from (MATH112, MATH113, MATH115). Or must have math eligibility of MATH120 or higher; and math eligibility is based on the Math Placement Test.

Restriction:

Not open to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the biological sciences, biochemistry, chemistry, or the physical sciences.

Credit only granted for: MATH120, MATH130, MATH140, or MATH220.

Formerly: MATH 220.

Topics

The Derivative

Slopes 
Derivatives 
Rules for differentiation 
Rate of change

Applications of the Derivative

Graphs and relation with derivatives 
Curve sketching 
Optimization problems

Techniques of Differentiation

Product rule 
Quotient rule 
Chain rule

The Exponential and Logarithm Functions

Definitions and properties of exponential function 
Definitions and properties of natural log 
Derivatives of log and exponential functions

Applications of the Exponential and Logarithm Functions

Exponential growth and decay 
Compound interest

Integration

Antidifferentiation, 
Area 
Approximation by Riemann sums 
The fundamental theorem of calculus 
Applications of the definite integral

Functions of Several Variables

Partial derivatives 
Max-Min 
Lagrange multipliers 
Least squares

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