GROUND RULES for MA 15400 Fall 2010 Class Period: Students are expected to attend every class meeting and to read the appropriate sections of the text before coming to class. Your instructor may not have time to cover every topic in class. Homework: Homework will be completed and graded on the Web. The assignment sheet contains the list of book problems on which your actual graded homework problems are based. Each assignment has to be completed by 7:00 PM EDT on the due date. All homework assignments will be graded on a 20 point scale based on the number of answer boxes answered for each lesson. The two lowest homework scores will not be counted. To have more than two homework scores not counted will require acceptable justification for all missed assignments. Quizzes: A quiz will be given at least twice a week throughout the semester, starting with Quiz #1 on Friday, August 27th. There will be no quizzes the last week of the semester. No make-up quizzes will be given for any reason. The two lowest quiz grades will not be counted. To have more than two quiz grades not counted will require acceptable justification for all missed quizzes. You do not get to skip two and then start bringing in excuses. There will be a quiz on the Friday before Labor Day and the Monday before Thanksgiving. No one will be excused. Exams: There are three multiple-choice evening exams scheduled his semester. (Mark them on your calendar.) Exam 1: Tuesday September 21st, starting at 8:00 pm, Elliot Hall of Music Exam 2: Thursday, October 14th, starting at 8:00 pm, Elliot Hall of Music Exam 3: Thursday, November 11th, starting at 6:30 pm, Elliot Hall of Music Missing an Exam: If you miss an exam for any reason, contact the course coordinator, Tim Delworth, immediately. Make-up exams can only be approved in writing by Tim Delworth (MATH 814, [email protected]). Make-up exams will be allowed for valid reasons with no grade penalty. For non-valid reasons, a make-up may be allowed with a grade penalty of 20 points being deducted from the student’s earned score. Not knowing the right date, time or location of an exam is NOT a valid reason. The sooner you contact Mr. Delworth the better. Academic Conflict: If you have an academic conflict with an evening exam (another exam or class at the same time) you must let the Tim Delworth know no later than two business days before the exam takes place. Emergency: If you have an emergency situation that will prevent you from attending an evening exam you must contact Tim Delworth as soon as possible. If you wait too long to make contact, options are limited. 20-Minute Rule: No one is allowed to leave the exam site for the first 20 minutes of the exam. After that time, no one is allowed to enter the exam site and take the exam. Students arriving after 20 minutes will be allowed to take the make-up exam. If they arrived late for a non-valid reason, a grade penalty of 20 points will be deducted from the make-up exam score. If you miss the exam and the make-up exam, you will receive a score of 0 for that exam. Make-up Exams: Make-up exams will be given only once for each midterm exam, on the following dates and times: MAKE-UP EXAM 1: Friday, September 24th, starting at 6:00 pm, Location TBA MAKE-UP EXAM 2: Friday, October 22nd, starting at 6:00 pm, Location TBA MAKE-UP EXAM 3: Friday, November 19th, starting at 6:00 pm, Location TBA The class period before each evening exam is an optional help session. There will be no quiz, or new material presented, during this class. You are encouraged to attend; however, that is your choice. To prepare for the midterm exams, students should review all of the material covered by their homework assignments, quizzes and the announced review problems. Past exams 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. Final Exam: The Final Exam is a 30-question, multiple-choice exam, given during finals week. The Final Exam covers all the lessons evenly, and does not emphasize the material after Exam 3 over the previous material. A practice final exam will be available online. Calculators: A one-line scientific calculator is allowed on quizzes and exams. No two-line, four-line or graphing calculators are allowed. A TI-30Xa calculator is preferred. THE SEMESTER ENDS ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH AT 9:00 PM. THE DATE AND TIME OF YOUR MATH FINAL WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER THIS SEMESTER. PLAN TO BE ON CAMPUS TO TAKE YOUR FINAL EXAM. EARLY FINALS ARE NOT GIVEN.GROUND RULES for MA 15400 Fall 2010 Office Hours: Starting immediately, Mr. Delworth is available in MATH 814, MTWRF, 9:00 am to 10:00 am, to help anyone. Starting immediately, MATH 205, Math Help Room, is open MTWR 10:30 to 5:30 and Friday 10:30 to 2:30. Academic Adjustments: Students who have been certified by the Office of the Dean of Students-Adaptive Programs as eligible for academic adjustments should go to MATH 242 with a copy of their certification letter and request an Information Sheet for this semester that explains how to proceed this semester to get these adjustments made in Mathematics courses. This should be done during the first week of classes. Only students who have been certified by the ODOS-Adaptive Programs and who have requested ODOS to send their certification letter to their instructor are eligible for academic adjustments. Students, who are currently undergoing an evaluation process to determine whether they are eligible for academic adjustments, are encouraged to find out now what procedures they will have to follow when they are certified, by requesting the above mentioned Information Sheet from MATH 242. Large print copies of the Information Sheet are available in MATH 242. Grades: Homework and quizzes are worth 50 points each, each evening exam is worth 100 points, and the final is worth 200 points, for a total of 600 points. Student course grades are calculated as follows: 1. Letter grade cut-offs are determined by the course