Overview

Instructor: Dr. Biji Wong, Griffiths Assistant Research Professor in Math at Duke University

Email: biji.wong@duke.edu

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12-1p, and Thursdays 3-4p, in the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion, Room LL78C

Class times and location: Mondays-Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 4:00-5:15pm Hall of Arts Building, Room 160

This course is a review of functions, their applications to the real-world, and how our understanding of functions can be enhanced by using calculus (specifically limits). Here are some big idea questions that this course will attempt to answer:

How do we represent functions pictorially using graphs and identify key properties of functions from their graphs?
How do transformations such as translation and dilation affect functions and their graphs?
What does it mean to invert a function and how do we compute it?
How do we use functions to model and solve real-world problems?
How can the concept of the limit of a function give us information about the behavior of the function?