Math 109Q
Course Information
Spring 2007
Instructors:
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Name |
Section |
Office & Phone |
Office Hours |
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Dr. Kristen Sellke sellke[at]math.uconn.edu |
Course Coordinator |
MSB M233 486 2362 |
M 12:30-2 W 11-12:30 |
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Carly Williams cwilliams[at]math.uconn.edu |
Section 01: MWF 9:00-9:50 in CAST 206 |
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Matt Cheung cheung[at]math.uconn.edu |
Section 02: MWF 9:00-9:50 in ARJ 407 |
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Allison Haskins ahaskins[at]math.uconn.edu |
Section 03: MWF 10:00-10:50 in ARJ 407 |
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Text:
Pre Calculus, 3rd Ed., by Faires and
DeFranza
Lectures
You are
expected to attend all lectures and be on time. You are responsible for all material discussed in each class.
Therefore, it is important that you attend class regularly and actively
participate. See the Course
Outline for
more lecture details.
Homework/Quizzes
Each
instructor will individually assign and determine how homework and/quizzes will
be scored. Homework should be neat and easy to read. It is expected that you show all your work and include clear
explanations of your thinking for each problem.
Exams
There will
be three midterm exams and a final exam.
Each midterm will be given during lecture time. The following dates are TENTATIVE!!! Make sure to attend lectures to hear
any changes.
Midterm
1 will be Friday,
February 9 and covers Chapter 1.
Midterm
2 will be
Wednesday, March 14 and covers Chapter 2 and 3.
Midterm
3 will be Friday,
April 6 and covers Chapter 4 until section 4.6.
The Final
Exam will be during
the Math Common time on Thursday, May 3 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm. The location of the exam will be posted
later. The final exam is
cumulative.
Review
Sheet for Material Covered after Midterm 3
Solutions
to Review Sheet for Material Covered after Midterm 3
Final Exam: The final exam for all sections is
on Thursday, May 3 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm in MONT 143.
Makeups
Each instructor will individually institute a makeup policy for homework and/or quizzes. Makeup exams will only be given in extreme cases. If a true emergency arises which will cause you to miss an exam, you are responsible to notify your instructor before the exam and arrangements will be made at that time. The course coordinator reserves the right to refuse to allow a makeup exam and instead to determine the final semester grade by using Method 2.
Grading
The final
semester grade will be based on one of the following two schemes. Your grade will be calculated using
each method and you will earn the BETTER of the two grades.
Method
1
|
Homework/Quizzes |
10% |
|
Midterm 1 |
20% |
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Midterm 2 |
20% |
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Midterm 3 |
20% |
|
Final Exam |
30% |
OR
Method
2
|
Homework/Quizzes |
10% |
|
The 2 best Midterms |
25% EACH |
|
Final Exam |
40% |
Calculator Policy
Calculators
will be allowed during exams and quizzes; however all work must be shown in order
to receive full credit on each problem.
Calculators that can perform symbolic operations or store symbolic
formulas (such as the HP 28 or 48 or TI-92 or 89) are not allowed, even if all
programs are erased before the exam begins. If you bring a calculator to an
exam/quiz, make sure it does not do alphanumeric manipulation. The instructor
may randomly ask for calculators and check programs stored in memory. No
alphanumeric formulas stored as programs are allowable. Discovery of such
material will result in confiscation of the exam/quiz paper of the person using
that calculator, and assignment of a grade of 0 for the exam/quiz.
Resources
Your
first and main resource is your instructor. Additional help can be found at the
Q-Center. The Q-Center offers
peer-tutoring services, review workshops on specific mathematical topics and
other review programs.
Spring
locations and hours are:
LIBRARY-
Level 1......Sunday-Thursday, 1-11 PM
NW DINING
HALL......Sunday-Wednesday, 7:30-10 PM.
See their
website for a list of workshops and more information: The Q-Center.
Student Athletes
Inform
your instructor as soon as possible of class interferences due to your
commitments as an athlete. You
will be expected to bring in a letter from the Athletics Department. The sooner
you notify us, the better we will be able to accommodate you.
Students with Disabilities
Inform
your instructor as soon as possible of any special needs that you may have. You
will be expected to bring in a letter from the Center for Students with
Disabilities. The sooner you notify us, the better we will be able to
accommodate you.
Academic Integrity (Taken from the UConn Policy on Academic Misconduct)
A
fundamental tenet of all educational institutions is academic honesty; academic
work depends upon respect for and acknowledgment of the work and ideas of
others. Misrepresenting someone else's work as one's own is a serious offense
in any academic setting and it will not be condoned.
Academic
misconduct includes, but is not limited to, providing or receiving assistance
in a manner not authorized by the instructor in the creation of work to be
submitted for academic evaluation (e.g. papers, projects, examinations and
assessments - whether online or in class); presenting, as one's own, the ideas,
words or calculations of another for academic evaluation; doing unauthorized
academic work for which another person will receive credit or be evaluated;
using unauthorized aids in preparing work for evaluation (e.g. unauthorized
formula sheets, unauthorized calculators, unauthorized programs or formulas
loaded into your calculator, etc.); and presenting the same or substantially
the same papers or projects in two or more courses without the explicit
permission of the instructors involved.
A student
who knowingly assists another student in committing an act of academic
misconduct shall be equally accountable for the violation, and shall be subject
to the sanctions and other remedies described in The Student Code. Sanctions
shall include, but are not limited to, a letter sent to the Dean of Students of
the University; a grade of 0 on the assignment, quiz or exam; a grade of F for
the course.
Conflicts
If you have serious problems with the course, your first
action is to try to resolve it with your instructor. If this does not work,
next send an email to the Course Coordinator (sellke[at]math.uconn.edu) to
organize a meeting. If the problem
is still not resolved, contact the Department of Mathematics.