The Calculus I course was developed through the Ohio Department of Higher Education OER Innovation Grant. This work was completed and the course was posted in February 2019. The course is part of the Ohio Transfer Module and is also named TMM005. For more information about credit transfer between Ohio colleges and universities, please visit: transfercredit.ohio.gov.Team LeadJim Fowler                                         Ohio State UniversityRita Ralph                                         Columbus State Community CollegeContent ContributorsNela Lakos                                       Ohio State UniversityBart Snapp                                       Ohio State UniversityJames Talamo                                  Ohio State UniversityXiang Yan                                         Edison State Community CollegeLibrarianDaniel Dotson                                    Ohio State University                     Review TeamThomas Needham                             Ohio State UniversityCarl Stitz                                            Lakeland Community CollegeSara Rollo                                          North Central State College 

After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Express the sum of n terms using sigma notation.Apply the properties of sums when working with sums in sigma notation.Understand the relationship between area under a curve and sums of areas of rectangles.Approximate area of the region under a curve.Compute left, right, and midpoint Riemann sums with 10 or fewer rectangles.Understand how Riemann sums with n rectangles are computed and how the exact value of the area is obtained by taking the limit as n→∞n→∞ .

Prior to 1990, the performance of a student in precalculus at the University of Washington was not a predictor of success in calculus. For this reason, the mathematics department set out to create a new course with a specific set of goals in mind:

A review of the essential mathematics needed to succeed in calculus.
An emphasis on problem solving, the idea being to gain both experience and confidence in working with a particular set of mathematical tools.
This text was created to achieve these goals and the 2004-05 academic year marks the eleventh year in which it has been used. Several thousand students have successfully passed through the course.

This book is full of worked out examples. We use the the notation “Soluion.” to indicate where the reasoning for a problem begins; the symbol ?? is used to indicate the end of the solution to a problem. There is a Table of Contents that is useful in helping you find a topic treated earlier in the course. It is also a good rough outline when it comes time to study for the final examination. The book also includes an index at the end. Finally, there is an appendix at the end of the text with ”answers” to most of the problems in the text. It should be emphasized these are ”answers” as opposed to ”solutions”. Any homework problems you may be asked to turn in will require you include all your work; in other words, a detailed solution. Simply writing down the answer from the back of the text would never be sufficient; the answers are intended to be a guide to help insure you are on the right track.