Your homework grade will be determined from your average percentage score on the homework assignments (counting all the reading reports as one assignment). Your test grade will be determined from the sum of your points on the two tests (with more points on the final than on the midterm). Your course grade will be the average of your homework and exam grades.
A homework average of 60%, respectively 96%, will earn a homework grade of at least 2.7, respectively 3.8. For the exam total, 60%, respectively 92%, will earn a test grade of at least 2.7, respectively 3.8. I reserve the right to make these scales more generous (that is, giving you a higher grade) at the end of the quarter.
S/NS grades. Instructors don't know if you choose to take a course S/NS unless you tell them. Instructors give numerical grades, and the registrar converts grades of 2.7 or higher to S, and lower grades to N. You should try to choose between the numerical and S/NS grade options by January 9, as making a change after that day will cost you a change fee.
Students who have passed prelims or are from another department and who just want a minimal acquaintance with the course material may choose the following option. Sign up to take the course S/NS, and email me (JMA) by January 21 saying you have done so. Turn in essentially correct solutions for (a) four substantial proof homework problems from four different chapters (not including Chapter 1), (b) two computational homework problems from two different chapters, and (c) one problem on each test. The computational problems will be marked as such in assignments, and will occur in Chapters 7, 8, and 9. If you have questions about whether a proof problem is "substantial", ask me. (Most are.) If you meet all these conditions, I will submit a grade of 2.7 for you.
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