MA 11100 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 frequently may not have time to cover every topic in class. Refer to your textbook pages for help. Cell phones should be turned off during 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 is 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 instructors have the option of occasionally collecting them. A short quiz will be given in class almost daily, starting with the third class period (Friday, 01/14). 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 the optional review days and during ‘dead weeks. The quiz is usually over the previous class’s lesson. 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 each will not be counted. To have a fourth score (or more) not counted at the end of the semester will require acceptable written justification for having missed all four (or more). Note: If you have documentation for a fourth or more excused absences, you need to see the course coordinator. Only she can excuse additional absences or quizzes. You must provide her with written justification for all absences. If additional excused absences or quizzes are granted, she will otify your instructor. Excused absences may be granted for documanted illness or hospitalization, 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 the instructor for the first three excused absences and the course coordinator for any 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 evening exams scheduled for your class this semester. The dates are as follows. (Mark them on your calendar.) EXAM 1: Tuesday, February 8th, 8:00 PM, Elliott Hall of Music EXAM 2: Tuesday, March 8th, 8:00 PM, Elliott Hall of Music EXAM 3: Monday, April 18th, 8:00 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, (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. 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) before the exam takes place. You will need to see the coordinator to arrange for a make-up (alternate exam). 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 (alternate) exam. If they arrived late for a non-valid reason, a grade penalty will be deducted from the make-up exam score.MA 11100 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 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 quizzes, and the review problems from the 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 during the sixteenth week of the semester. Students may print a copy of the practice questions for the final online (posted later in semester on the course web page). The date, time, and location of the final exam will be announced later in the semester. The semester ends on Saturday, May 7th 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 use arithmetic involving
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