MA 15200X Ground Rules Spring 2011 1 • CLASS PERIOD Students are expected to attend every class meeting and to read the appropriate sections of the text before coming to class. Instructors often may not have time to cover every topic in class. Refer to your textbook lessons for help. A large amount of algebra content and material is covered at each class meeting. You are advised not to miss class, if at all possible. Cell phones should be turned off when in class and not used. Be considerate of other students when in class. Do not talk or disturb the instructor or other students. • HOMEWORK/QUIZZES Most homework will be done online using MyMathLab (coursecompass). Doing your homework is your best way to be prepared for quizzes and exams. Homework assignments are scaled to 50 points of the 600 points toward the grade. There are a few problems in bolded print on the assignment sheet that are to be completed by students on their own (not online), but these problems are not usually collected. However, students are responsible for these problems and your instructor has the option of occasionally collecting them. There will be some worksheets of homework problems that will not be on coursecompass and will be found under other information/worksheets on the course web page at www.math.purdue.edu/MA15200X. It is extremely important that students complete these problems. Your instructor has the option of collecting these problems for a score in place of or in addition to a quiz (even during dead week). A short quiz will be given in class almost every class, starting with the second class period (Tuesday, 01/18). Quizzes are scaled to 50 points out of 600 points toward the grade. Quizzes will be usually unannounced. Assume you have a quiz each class day, except possibly during exam evenings and during ‘dead week’. The quiz is usually over the previous class’s lessons. Quizzes are not usually cooperative, take-home, or open book/notes. No make-ups will be allowed for the quizzes or online homework, for any reason. Only under unusual circumstances will an extention of a deadline for an online homework be granted. Only the course coordinator can extend a deadline for a homework. The three lowest scores for online homework and the one lowest quiz score will not be counted. To have a fourth online homework score (or more) or a second (or more) quiz score not counted at the end of the semester will require acceptable written justification for having missed all quizzes or homework. Note: If you have documentation for a more than one excused absence, you need to see the course coordinator. Only she can excuse a second or more absences or quizzes. You must provide her with written justification for all absences. If additional excused absences or quizzes are granted, she will notify your instructor. Excused absences may be granted for documented illnesses or hospitalizations, Purdue sponsored activities, death of an immediate family member or very close friend, or documented religious observances. The final decision on excused absences rests with your instructor for the first excused absence and then the course coordinator for additional excused absences. A student who has excessive absences may not be granted additional excused absences upon request. • EXAMS There are three multiple-choice, machine-graded exams scheduled for your class this semester. The dates are as follows. (Mark them on your calendar.) EXAM 1: Tuesday, February 15th, 2011, 6:00 PM EXAM 2: Tuesday, March 8th, 2022, 6:00 PM EXAM 3: Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, 6:00 PM Missing an Exam: If you miss an exam for any reason, contact the course coordinator as soon as possible. Make-up (alternate) exams can only be approved in writing by the course coordinator, Charlotte Bailey (MATH 802, (765) 496-3145, [email protected]). Make-up exams will be allowed for valid reasons. For non-valid reasons, a make-up may be allowed with a grade penalty of 20 points deducted from the student’s earned score. Not knowing the right date, time or location of an exam is NOT a valid reason for missing it. Emergency: If you have an emergency situation that will prevent you from attending an exam, you must contact Charlotte Bailey as soon as the situation allows, preferably in person or, if necessary, by email (do not use voicemail). To aviod missing important information, the sooner you contact Charlotte Bailey, the better. 20-Minute Rule: No one will be allowed to leave the exam site for the first 20 minutes of the exam. After that time, no one will be allowed to enter and take the exam. Students arriving after 20 minutes will be allowed to take the make-up (alternate) exam. If they arrived late for a non-valid reason, a grade penalty will be deducted from the make-up exam score.MA 15200X Ground Rules Spring 2011 2 Make-ups (alternate exams) will be given only once for each midterm exam, on the following dates and times: MAKE-UP EXAM 1: Friday, February 11th, 2011, 6:00 PM MAKE-UP EXAM 2: Friday, March 11th, 2011, 6:00 PM MAKE-UP EXAM 3: Friday, April 22nd, 2011, 6:00 PM If you miss a regular exam and the alternate exam, you may have a score of 0 (zero) recorded for that exam. To prepare for the midterm exams, students should review all of the material covered by their homework assignments, quizzes, and the review problems on the posted exam memo. Past exams (available online) are a source of additional review problems and can also give students a rough idea of the length and difficulty level of their own exams. However, many students have the mistaken impression that just by reviewing some past exams they will have seen all that is expected of them for their own exams. Past exams should absolutely not be used as a guide to the exact content and wording of the exams. The final exam is a 30-question, multiple-choice, machine-graded exam that is given on Tuesday during the sixteenth week of the semester. Students may get a copy of practice questions for the final online (posted later in semester on the course web page). The semester end on Saturday, May 7th, at 9:00 PM. NO ALTERNATE WILL BE ALLOWED IF YOU PLAN TO LEAVE before your final exam takes place. • CALCULATORS No calculators are allowed on quizzes or exams until after exam 1. However, you will need a calculator for some of the homework problems prior to exam 1. After exam 1 is
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