Math 175 Policies and General Information

Billy's Contact Information

• Email: billyhudson@boisestate.edu.
• Office Hours: MTuWF 12:40-4:30.
  • Priority will be given to Math 175 students from 12:40-1:30 & 2:40-3:30.
  • Priority will be given to Math 275 students from 1:40-2:30 & 3:40-4:30.
• Office Location: MG 238C.
• Office Phone: 426-1138.

Important Dates

• Last day to drop without a "W": Mon, January 30.
• Last day to drop: Mon, February, 27.
• Comprehensive Final Exam

Tentative Schedule

Text Book

• Everyone registered for the course will be given free online access to the electronic version of the following text:
  • Calculus Early Transcendentals, 7th Edition
  • James Stewart
  • ISBN-10: 0538497904 ISBN-13: 9780538497909 
• You are not required to have a hard copy of the text.
• We will cover

Grade Calculation

• Your final semester grade will be calculated according to the following:
• 20% - web assignment average
• 20% - quest average
• 20% - graded problem average
• 40% - final exam average
• Letter grades are assigned with the standard cutoffs: 90%+ = A, 80%+ = B, etc.
• There will be no extra credit, no dropping of lowest scores, no way to improve your grade, other than the four items above.

Web Assignments 

• There will be a weekly web assignment via WebAssign.
• There will be no extensions to the due dates of web assignments nor can they be made up.

Quests

• Every Tuesday there will be a 25 minute in-class quest consisting of 2 verbatim problems from the Web Assignment and 1 problem similar to the Web Assignment.
• You must do the Web Assignment problems enough times so that when you see a problem you immediately know what to do with it and are able to do it quickly.
• If you do not immediately know what to do with a problem and are not able to do it quickly you will not do well on the quest.
• Quests can not be made up.

Graded Problems  

• Graded problems that require you to formally write up a mathematical solution will be posted on WebAssign and collected every Tuesday in-class.
• There will be no extensions to the due dates of graded problems nor can they be made up.
• Graded problems may be turned in early by slipping them under my office door.

Final Exam

• The schedule for final exams can be found here.
• The final exam will be comprehensive covering all of the quest practice problems and graded problems.
• If you do not take the final you will receive an "F" for the course.

Grading

• I use the following abbreviations when marking your work.
  
  

  GPF#	:	Graded Problem Format #__ .
  wp	:	Wrong Problem.
  DTM		Do The Math
  =	:	Misuse or nonuse of equals signs and/or arrows.
  labels	:	Mislabeled or unlabeled axes.
  wdtcf?	:	Where Did This Come From?
  wdtg?	:	Where Did This Go?
  wbc	:	Wrong But Consistent.
  ee	:	Egregious Error.
  smw	:	Show More Work.
  r/s		Reduce and/or Simplify
  ss	:	See Solutions.

• If you see any of these, take the time to understand your mistake so that you don't lose future points

Calculators

• Calculators will not be allowed on quests or the final exam.

Attendance

• You are responsible for all information that comes up in class or that goes out via email.

• Advising and Academic Enhancement provides the following:
  • Math Drop-in Center.
  • STEM student mathematics tutoring.
  • Math learning assistants. We have been assigned the following three assistants. You are welcome to attend any one of their sessions:
    • Robert Kennedy meets MTuWF 7:00-7:30am in ILC 304, Tu 9:30-1:30 in ACS 102, and Th 7:40-11:30am ACS 102.
    • Bryce Gillespie meets MW 8:30-9:30am outside ILC 401 and 6:00-8:00pm in MG 106.
    • Katie DeChambeau meets TuTh 3:15 to 4:30 in B301.
  • A list of private tutors.

Conduct

• You are expected to know and adhere to the policies and standards in the Student Code of Conduct.

Miscellaneous

• I am committed to helping you succeed in this course and in my experience, the single greatest advantage is for you to ask questions when something is unclear to you. Please ask.
• If you think I have graded you unfairly please bring it to my attention within a week from the time that the assignment/test was returned to the class or I will be unable to consider it.
• You are only allowed to attend the section of a course for which you are officially registered.
• All policies and procedures are subject to change.