Dear all, We had our weekly team meeting (without Arya, sorry), mainly to talk about the 1st mid-term exams. Here is a short sum-up of all what we discussed and what have been decided with the team: - no calculator for the students, - Vijay will produce a 2-pages document with main definitions and results saw in Lectures, to give to every students for the exam (and after), - the exam will be 2h long, Monday 8th afternoon. 6 rooms of 40 students, but we are just 5 teachers, - so the question paper have to be perfectly clear, without ambiguity or mistake, - it has to be done and proof read twice by next Wednesday evening (3th Sep), - we will write a detailed solution for the all exam, will be on Moodle, - we will give 5 exercises, each graded from 0 to 20 (0/20, to 20/20 being perfect), - every one of us will be in charged of grading one exercise, - we have to be quick and efficient on this grading (72 h for 230 students, even with just 5 minutes by exercise and filling the XL sheet, this still take around 20 hours!), We have decided the following, if anything feels wrong, this still can be changed: 1. real numbers, sup inf, max min, inequalities, density of $\mathbb{Q}$: Lilian, 2. complex numbers, arg modulus, geometrical interpretation, equations, exp cos sin, etc : Vijay, 3. real and complex sequences and series, limits : Jai, 4. functions, limits and continuity : Satya, 5. bonus part / general knowledge of calculus / axioms : Arya. During the 3 days week-end, every one of us should try to come with two 20-minutes problems for our respective part. On Monday afternoon we will select the best one, then decide of the marking scheme (it has to be clearly done). Of course, as always, feedback is welcome. Here are some ideas I have for all these parts. - Part 3: study of the harmonic serie ($\sum_1^n \frac{1}{k} \simeq \ln(n) + \gamma$) ? - Part 4: on hyperbolic trigonometry ? - Part 5: a short exercise on group axioms, with very simple properties, and example (group with 2 elements, $(\mathbb{R},+), (\mathbb{U},\times)$) ?