Administrative Syllabus

MA 122 Administrative Syllabus

Instructor: Stephen Sawin, BNW 105, x2573. My office hours are provisionally Monday 1:30-2:30, Tuesday 11:00-12:00, Wedensday 1:10-2:00, Thursday 2:30-3:30.

Time:

122D: MTh 9:30-10:20, W 9:00-9:50 BNW 131
122A: MTh 12:30-1:20, W 12:00-12:59 in BNW 253
Text: Lial, Greenwell and Ritchey's Calculus With Applications

Grading:

Homeworks

on Mathonline

Most classes

Average, drop lowest

Write down the
final score 4 times,
test avg 3 time,
quiz avg 1 time,
hmk avg 1 time,
erase the two
lowest numbers
and average

Quizzes

Mathonline / In Class

Once per 1 or 2 weeks

Average, drop lowest

Test 1

Chap 6,7 approx Integration

Feb. 21, in class

Average

Test 2

Chap 8, 13 approx, Techniques and Applications

April 10, in class

Final

Cumulative! Chap 7, 8, 13, (10, 11)

Mo. May 5, 1:30 (D, MWT 9:30)

Thr. May 8, 1:30 (A, MWT 12:30)

Keep

In other words, if you do well on quizzes and homework (if you keep up with them you should get in the 90s at least) they will each count for 14.3% of your grade, otherwise they will not effect it. This grading system also works out very generously, to account for the fact that my tests tend to be hard. Don't panic!

This number I will round to the nearest 10th and turn into a letter grade as follows:

A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D F

>93 >89.9 >87 >83 >79.9 >77 >73 >69.9 >59.9 All else

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D	F
>93	>89.9	>87	>83	>79.9	>77	>73	>69.9	>59.9	All else

If you miss a quiz or test you can make it up if either it was a dire emergency or if both it was entirely unavoidable and you let me know well in advance. Make-up's are at my convenience, and will be no easier than the original.

Important Stuff:

Everything I hand out is available at my website, HTTP://cs.fairfield.edu/~sawin/MA122 .
While most classes I will give problems from the book to practice on, I will not collect or grade these. Most classes I will give a homework on Mathonline that is graded. You must create a Mathonline account (see attached sheet). The homeworks are pass/fail: it will keep giving you questions until it judges you understand the material, then give you 100%. Until then the assignment is viewed as not completed. You do not have to do it all at once, you can log in later and do more questions and it will keep track of how you did. Getting questions wrong means it will take more right answers to convince it you understand, so read the book and try some problems there first. If you finish the homework one or two days after the deadline, you can still get partial credit. Extensions are available for reasonable reasons. If you are willing to keep up and put in the time, there is no reason you cannot have a 100% homework average.
I will give a mixture of in-class and Mathonline quizzes. mathonline quizzes you can take for practice as often as you like, and can go to the Math Center and take proctored as often as you like, and the highest proctored score is your grade. Thus if you are willing to put the time in there is no reason you cannot get a perfect score on most of these as well.

Academic Honesty:

When you submit work to me to be graded, I take your name on it to be a promise that it represents your work. If that promise is broken it is plagiarism, and an offence I will treat as very serious. Cheating on a test generally results in failing the course and a permanent note on your record, cheating on a quiz may be treated slightly less severely. On quizzes and tests I will sometimes allow things like a page of notes, but will say this clearly ahead of time, and otherwise you are not permitted to get help from anyone but me under any circumstances (you are always encouraged to ask me questions). Despite my clueless demeaner, I have an excellent track record of catching those who stray from the path of academic honesty, and it is always a painful process for everyone involved.