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.
Contesting grades:
If you think I have graded you unfairly on a particular assignment, you must bring this to my attention within a week from the time
that the assignment was returned to the class. After a week I will not consider any requests to review and possibly change my
grading.
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 26 September, 31 October, and 5 December.
Collaborative work on tests is not
permitted.
-
Quizzes (30%) -- 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 (15%) -- 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 12 December at 1:40 p.m.
- Final exam (25%) -- 17 December, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 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 paragraph is taken verbatim from the Department of
Mathematics' "generic
syllabus" for MATH 175:
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students should:
- Be adept at finding antiderivatives in the easy cases.
- Be able to use tables to find antiderivatives for more difficult
cases.
- Set up as definite integrals those common application problems
involving volumes of rotation, arc length, surface area, work.
- Have an intuitive understanding of the definitions of limit of a
sequence and sum of an infinite series.
- Be able to find intervals of convergence of power series using
ratio, root, comparison, and integral tests.
- Have an understanding of separable differential equations and
the use of slope fields to plot solutions to simple differential
equations.
- Have an understanding of polar coordinates and the calculus of
functions described in those coordinates.
This page was most recently updated on 21 August 2003.
http://math.boisestate.edu/~brill/teaching/m175_f03/syll.html