Late work and/or extensions:
If you seek an extension on
an assignment and the request occurs after the due date or time, your
request will be summarily denied (except in the most extraordinary
circumstances). Such requests that occur before the due date and time will be
considered on a case-by-case basis.
Grading policy:
Your grade will be determined by your performance in four areas:
- Three tests (30%) -- Tests will occur during regular class meeting
times on 14 February, 21 March, and 2 May. Collaborative work on tests is not
permitted.
-
Quizzes (25%) -- All quizzes are
take-home and will be assigned and collected on a weekly basis
(except those weeks when tests occur).
Generally,
quizzes are available online
on Fridays and are due at the beginning
of class on the following Monday.
Although collaborative work on quizzes is
encouraged, each student must hand in his/her own quiz paper.
- Project (20%) -- The project is an opportunity for students to work
on a (hopefully) enjoyable problem related to the material we will be studying
throughout the semester. Students will form groups consisting of three or four
people each; each group will have a unique project. Each group, with the
permission and/or advice of the instructor, may design its own project, or may
choose to have a project topic assigned by the instructor. The presentation of
the project may be in oral or written form (or, perhaps, in a combination of
the two). It is the responsibility of the students of each group to meet with
the instructor (preferably not too far into the semester) to determine an
appropriate project and format. All projects must be presented before Friday,
9 May at 11:40 a.m.
- Final exam (25%) -- Thursday, 15 May, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Collaborative work on the final exam is not permitted.
Your grade will
be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be the number of points
accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and 100):
A: x
> 90
B: 80 < x < 90
C: 70 <
x < 80
D: 60 < x < 70
F: x < 60
The following paragraphs are taken verbatim from the Department of
Mathematics' "generic
syllabus" for MATH 170:
Learning Objectives
Our first semester calculus course has the usual objectives of a
calculus course which is used by other disciplines on campus. As a
service course taken primarily by non-majors, MATH170 stresses neither the
aesthetic side of mathematics nor the idea that of mathematics as the
study of patterns.
Through the course of the semester, successful students will be
expected
- To develop an understanding of the derivative and how it
can be used in solving problems.
- To understand the relationship between the derivative and the
graph of a function.
- To be sufficiently practiced in basic algebra to set up and solve
equations and inequalities involving functions and their derivatives.
- To recognize that the integral is an operator which can be
approximated through Riemann sums and is (in a sense) an
anti-derivative of the integrand.
- To have mastered the basic formulae for differentiation and
integration.
Assessment of Learning Objectives
Students will be assessed by evaluating their ability to do problems
based on the learning objectives. The problems will occur in several
contexts;
- Periodic problem sets for homework serve both as learning and
assessment tools. Classroom activities may vary depending on students'
performances on homework assignments.
- Problems given on in-class examinations are designed to give
students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply rules
and formulae to the solution of simpler problems.
- Instructor-optional take-home examinations designed to evaluate
the students ability to solve more complicated and time-consuming
problems. These problems give students the opportunity to demonstrate
their ability to use technology to solve problems that are not
amenable to simple analytic techniques.
This page was most recently updated on 20 March 2003.
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