Honors Multivariable Calculus AS.110.211
Honors Multivariable Caculus AS.110.211

  This is the website of the recitation sections for course AS.110.211, maintained by the teaching assistant Peng Shao. Certainly don't forget to check Prof. Salch's website for this course at least one time each week, to obtain any possible latest announcements about this course, and especially the homework assignment.





     Where and when we meet:
    Due to department's decision my office has moved from 112 to 201




     What we are going to do:

  In general I will begin the recitations with explaining the concepts, theorems, or any contents from the textbook or Prof. Salch's lecture which I think you may have difficulties in understanding. Also I will pick up, if there are, some questions from your submitted homework in which I found a significant portion of you have made some typical mistakes. Then, as Prof. Salch suggested, I will choose randomly one of you to present your proof to the assigned problem.


     What you should prepare:

   Of course you should prepare the homework before the recitations. Please staple your papers together so that the grader may orginize them easily. But please do not worry if you walk in the classroom and find you have not stapled them yet, since usually I will bring a back-up stapler for you.


     What else you can do:

   Ask questions. Remember you are supposed to ask questions in the recitation sections and this is the very reason why you and me should meet every week. I will try me best to fill the gap between you and the instructor but without your help I can hardly do anything, and your help is really easy: tell me what you want me to tell you. Most of time I will go to Prof. Salch's course with you and I will try to image where you may feel hard to understand. But I am not you, which means I cannot really know what your trouble is. I understand you may be afraid of asking "stupid" questions in the class since this happened to me before, "Oh I cannot ask this question, that is stupid! Everybody thinks I am wasting their time." Keep in mind, there is no stupid questions and you are the only person who will be responsible for leaving a question unsolved. Anyway, if you really think it is not a good idea to ask directly your question in the class, then try to send me email before the sections. One email such as "Hi peng I am confused about xxx, so could you talk about it in the following recitation" will be higly highly appreciated because it is not troubling me, but helping me to do my job better.