Course introduction

• Welcome, introductions, and class description
• What’s a model?
• What’s calculus?
• What’s a function? A family of functions?
• Why use computers?

Before class

• Read Macalester’s document  Which Calculus Class Should You Take?
• Try to login to RStudio
• Try to login to piazza. If successful, reply to the post “Introduce yourself” with your own self-introduction.
• Begin reading the Preface of StartR.

In class

• Answer questions about  the course, including placement in calculus
• Math modeling activity
• Take a first look at R for calculations (section 1 of StartR).