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GROUND RULES for MA 152 FALL 2004• CLASS PERIODStudents are expected to attend every class meeting and to read the appropriate sections of the textbeforecoming to class. Instructors may not have time to cover every topic in class.• HOMEWORK/QUIZZESA daily score will be given for every class, starting with the third one (Friday, 8/27/04) until the endof the fifth week; scores will be recorded at least twice each week thereafter, except possibly during examweeks. The daily score will be based on eithera short quiz or on the homework due that day. Althoughhomework will only be collected occasionally for the daily score, doing your homework is certainly your bestway to be prepared for quizzes and exams. 29 homework assignments (for lessons 10-38) will be done onlinefor half of the recitation grade.No make-ups will be allowed for the daily scores or online homework, for any reason. Thefour lowest scores for each will not be counted. To have a fifth score (or more) not counted at the end of thesemester will require acceptable written justification for having missed all five (or more).• EXAMSThere are three multiple-choice, machine-graded evening examsscheduled for your class this semester.The dates are as follows. (Mark them on your calendar)EXAM 1: Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 7:00-8:00 PMEXAM 2: Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 8:30-9:30 PMEXAM 3: Monday, November 15, 2004, 7:00-8:00 PMPlease contact your course coordinator immediately if you miss an exam and also letyour instructor know. Make-up exams will only be allowed for a validreason and can onlybe approved in writing by the course coordinator, Ren´ee Roames (MATH 912, 494-1929,[email protected]). Carelessness in knowing the right date, time and location ofyour exams is NOT a valid reason.If you have an academic conflict (such as another exam or class at the same time) orother foreseeable conflict with any of the evening exams, you must let Ren´ee Roames knowno later than two business days before the exam takes place. If you have an emergencysituation that will prevent you from attending an evening exam you must contact Ren´eeRoames by telephone or in person (not by voice mail or e-mail) no later than 2:00 PM onthe day of the exam.Make-ups will be given only once for each midterm exam, on the following dates and times:MAKE-UP EXAM 1: Friday, September 24, 2004, 6:00-7:00 PMMAKE-UP EXAM 2: Friday. October 22, 2004, 6:00-7:00 PMMAKE-UP EXAM 3: Friday, November 19, 2004, 6:00-7:00 PMRoom assignments will be given to you later.If you miss an exam and its alternate you will have a score of 0 (zero) recorded for thatexam. No exam may be taken outside the regular and alternate dates scheduled underany circumstances.For each of these evening exams there will be one class period for which attendance is not required;however, it will not be cancelled: it will be a no-attendance-required help session for the exam.To prepare for the midterm exams, students should review all of the material covered by their homeworkassignments, quizzes and the announced review problems. Past exams (available online) are a source ofadditional review problems and can also give students a rough idea of the length and difficulty level of theirown exams. However, many students have the mistaken impression that just by reviewing somepast exams they will have seen all that is expected of them for their own exams. Past examsshould absolutely notbe 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 during the sixteenthweek of the semester. Students may get a copy of practice questions for the final online.THE SEMESTERENDS ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 AT 9:00 PM. PLAN TO BE HERE UNTILTHEN FOR YOUR MATH FINAL EXAM. NO ALTERNATE WILL BE ALLOWED IFYOU PLAN TO LEAVE EARLY.• CALCULATORSNO CALCULATORS OF ANY KIND ARE ALLOWED ON QUIZZES AND EXAMS UNTIL AFTEREXAM 2. Make sure you take your non-graphing, non-programmable, scientific calculator to the thirdevening exam and to the final exam. WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE SHARING OF CALCULATORSWITH OTHER STUDENTS.(OVER)• OFFICE HOURSAny student can get help from any of the instructors during their office hours. After thefirst week of classes, the office hour schedule will be posted on each instructor’s door and students may geta copy online. You are strongly urged to go to someone’s office hours if you have questions. It is the bestway to get individual help. Additionally, MATH 205 is a help room and is open most of the day.• ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENTSStudents who have been certified by the Office of the Dean of Students-Adaptive Programs as eligible foracademic adjustments should go to MATH 909 and request an Information Sheet for this semester, thatexplains how to proceed this semester to get these adjustments made in Mathematics courses. It is not thesame as last semester. This should be done during the first week of classes. Only students who havebeen certified by the ODOS-Adaptive Programs and who have requested ODOS to send their certificationletter to their instructor are eligible for academic adjustments.Students who are currently undergoing an evaluation process to determine whether they are eligible foracademic adjustments, are encouraged to find out now what procedures they will have to follow when theyare certified, by requesting the above mentioned Information Sheet from MATH 909.Large print copies of the Information Sheet are available in MATH 909 upon request.• GRADESDaily scores are worth 50 points and online homework is worth 50 points, each evening exam is worth100 points, and the final is worth 200 points. At the end of the semester, each student’s course grade iscalculated using his/her total points. The course grades are calculated as follows: Letter grade cut-offs aredetermined for the four common exams combined. Then, your instructor determines the number of eachletter grade his students earned based on their four exam scores. Next, your instructor lists all of his students’total points (out of the 600 total points available), in numerical order, highest first. (Those students who donot have grades on all 4 exams are not included in this list.) If ten of his students receive an A accordingto the four exam cut-offs, the first 10 students on the list of total points will automatically receive an A astheir final grade in the course, and so on down the list for the other grades. Further, students within


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