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Welcome to the Michigan Tech MathLab located on the third floor in Fisher Hall.

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[edit] MathLab Hours Summer 2012 Track A

There is a consultant on duty when the lab is open. They may be wandering around the labs helping students or at the desk in 331. Please report it if no one is around Report It! (you will be asked to sign in)

[edit] MathLab Software

  • Mathematica 8.0
  • MatLab
    • Industry standard Linear Algebra Software
  • SAS
    • Industry standard Statistical Software
    • Only in 330
  • Magma
    • Only on 4 machines in 330
  • C, C++, Fortran
    • Industry standard gcc compiler suite

[edit] MathLab Courses

Due to the large number of students in the lab, we must operate according to and enforce some simple and consistent policies concerning exercises, due dates, and grades.

[edit] Calculus Labs

The labs provide a hands on introduction to solving Calculus problems using the industry standard Mathematica software. The lab grade forms at least 10% of your total calculus grade and is based on weekly Mathematica labs (register at www.mathlab.mtu.edu/registration) and Blackboard (www.courses.mtu.edu) quizzes. Complete information is at www.mathlab.mtu.edu.

Talk to a consultant in F330/331 or contact the appropriate (calc1cc@mtu.edu, calc2cc@mtu.edu, calc3cc@mtu.edu) Course Coordinator for additional information.

[edit] Calculus 1 2, and 3: Go To Canvas!

All lab information will be distributed through Canvas.

Sign in using your MTU userID (email address without @mtu.edu) and your ISO password.


[edit] Calculus Lab Grades: Calculus 2 & 3

  • Quiz grades are recorded at Canvas
    • "Estimate" and "Guess" will have a percentage error of 10%. If the answer is 0.6ish e.g the x- coord of the intersection in Plot[ {Sin[x], Cos[ Sin[x] + x^2]}, {x, 0, 2}] then 10% is fine. i.e 0.54<x<0.66 should be acceptable!
    • "Compute accurate value" means use Mathematica accuracy and precision. This means 6 digits of accuracy. Percentage error 0.002% is acceptable.

[edit] MathLab Policies

[edit] MathLab People

Consultants

Learning Center Coaches

Faculty

Staff

[edit] MathLab Troubleshooting

  1. Open a terminal window. (Right-click on the desktop and select "Open Terminal".)
  2. Type in the rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/{lock,.parentlock} and hit enter:
  3. Restart Firefox.
  4. If this doesn't work, and you don't care if you lose your settings (such as bookmarks, history, etc), type rm -rf ~/.mozilla
  • For help with the lab programs (Canvas, Mathematica, OpenOffice, etc.), ask one of the lab consultants on duty.
  • Ccontact the appropriate Course Coordinator (calc1cc@mtu.edu, calc2cc@mtu.edu, or calc3cc@mtu.edu) for Canvas questions that consultants can not answer.
  • For hardware issues, or problems with/ideas for this website, contact the MathLab System Administrator (due to the amount of spam that this account receives, only e-mails from an @mtu.edu account will be read).

[edit] Consultant Pages (Restricted access)

Information for students employed in the lab.

The lab regularly has employment opportunities for undergraduates.


The application can be found at this link:

http://www.mathlab.mtu.edu/apps/MathlabApplication2.pdf

[edit] Links

[edit] Mediawiki Information

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