MA 11100 Ground Rules Fall 2010 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 frequently may not have time to cover every topic in class. Refer to your textbook pages for help. • 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 is scaled to 50 points at the end of the semester. There are a few problems in bolded print on the assignment sheet that are to be completed by students on their own, but these problems are not usually collected. However, students are responsible for these problems and instructors have the option of occasionally collecting them. A quiz will be given in class almost daily, starting with the third class period (Friday, 08/27). No make-ups will be allowed for the daily quizzes for any reasons. Only under unusal circumstances will an extention of a deadline for an online homework be granted. The three lowest scores for quizzes and the three lowest scores for online homework will not be counted. To have a fourth quiz score (or more) not counted at the end of the semester will require acceptable written justification for having missed all four quizzes (or more). Only the course coordinator can extend a homework deadline for an individual student or for a class or grant additional excused absences or excused quizzes. • EXAMS There are three multiple-choice, machine-graded evening exams scheduled for your class this semester. The dates are as follows. (Mark them on your calendar.) EXAM 1: Tuesday, September 21st, 8:00 PM, Elliott Hall of Music EXAM 2: Thursday, October 14th, 8:00 PM, Elliott Hall of Music EXAM 3: Thursday, November 11th, 6:30 PM, Elliott Hall of Music Missing an Exam: If you miss an exam for any reason, contact the course coordinator immediately. Make-up exams can only be approved in writing by the course coordinator, Charlotte Bailey (MATH 802, [email protected], 496-3145). 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. Academic Conflict: If you have an academic conflict with any of the evening exams (e.g. another exam or class at the same time) you must let the course coordinator know no later than two business days (M-F) before the exam takes place. Emergency: If you have an emergency situation that will prevent you from attending an evening 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, 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 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 will be deducted from the make-up exam score. Make-ups will be given only once for each midterm exam, on the following dates and times: MAKE-UP EXAM 1: Friday, September 24th, 2010, 6:00 PM MAKE-UP EXAM 2: Friday, October 22nd, 2010, 6:00 PM MAKE-UP EXAM 3: Friday, November 19th, 2010, 6:00 PM If you miss an exam and the alternate you may have a score of 0 (zero) recorded for that exam. 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 homework assignments (bolded problems and online problems), quizzes, and the review problems from the exam memo. Past exams (available on the web page) 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 during the sixteenth week of the semester. Students may view or print a copy of the practice questions for the final online (posted later in semester on the course web page).MA 11100 Ground Rules Fall 2010 2 THE SEMESTER ENDS ON SATURDAY, December 18th AT 9:00 PM. NO ALTERNATE WILL BE ALLOWED IF YOU PLAN TO LEAVE EARLY. PLAN TO BE ON CAMPUS TO TAKE YOUR FINAL EXAM. • CALCULATORS No calculators of any kind are allowed on quizzes or exams. You will need a calculator for some of the homework problems. However, as much as possible, limit the use of a calculator on homework problems. On exams and quizzes, you will have to perform arithmetic using integers, fractions, decimals, and percents. • SUPPLIES Other than the textbook and MyMathLab Student Access Kit (purchased together), students will need to have the following for this course: a 1-line scientific calculator (see above); some loose-leaf paper and graph paper for homework and/or quizzes; a 3-ring binder to store all documents (quizzes, exams, etc.) in an organized manner; the usual pencils and erasers; a 3-hole punch (optional); and a straightedge (optional). • OFFICE HOURS Any student can get help from any MA 11100 instructor during his/her office hours. You are strongly urged to go to office hours if you have questions. It is the best way to get individual help. Additionally, Room MATH 205 is ‘The Math Help Room’ and is open Monday-Thursday 10:30AM to 5:30PM & Friday from 10:30AM to 2:30PM. • ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENTS Students who have been certified by the Office of the Dean of Students-Disability Resource Center 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. It is not the same as last semester. This
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