Course Grades Are Now Available
The Course
This course covers the basic nuts and bolts of Functions and Analytic Geometry: Lines, Parabolas, Circles, Trig Functions,
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. There will be a heavy emphasis on Mathematical Modeling and Applications. This means
there will be a lot of long, multipart story problems. If you want a good grade in this class, you should expect to spend
about 12 hours a week on homework. You will need a scientific calculator.
Grades
Your grade is determined by how you do relative to the class as a whole. Grades will be based
on total points earned.
There are 300 possible points:
- Homework--50
- Quizzes--50
- 2 Midterms--50 points each
- Final--100
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Homework
will be assigned daily, see the
syllabus for the problems due. You are responsible for all the
problems assigned (ie: any of it could appear on the exams). The problems assigned during the week will be collected in
Quiz Section on the following Tuesday.
Unfortunately, the amount of homework that can be graded is limited. Two of the problems will be chosen at random
to grade. They will be worth 3 points each. This makes a total of 6 points. In addition to this, you will receive a
score out of 4 points reflecting the percentage of the homework you completed. (For example, if you completed about 75%
of the assignment, you would receive an additional 3 points.) Thus the total possible score for each assignment is 10
points.
The lowest weekly homework score will be dropped. No late homework will be accepted.
Quizzes and Exams
- There will be a 20 minute quiz every Thursday, except for the weeks of the exams. These will usually cover the
homework from the preceeding Monday or Friday. They will be very similar to the homework problems. The TA's will grade
them and return them to you the following Tuesday. The quizzes are closed book/closed notes.
There are no make up quizzes, but I do drop your lowest quiz score.
- There will be 2 midterm exams. They
will be given on Oct. 18 and Nov. 15. They are 50 minutes long
and will be in Quiz Section. You must bring a Photo ID to all exams.
- The final exam
will take place on Saturday, December 8 from 5:00 to 8:00pm in Smith 120.
Note that this is not the day and time listed in the final exam schedule.
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Rules for taking exams
- You are allowed to use one handwritten 8.5 by 11 sheet of notes.
- Calculators are allowed on exams, but no laptops.
- There are no make-up exams. If you have a compelling and
well-documented reason for missing a test, speak to the professor about it.
Quiz section
On Tuesdays and Thursdays you will meet with a Teaching Assistant in a smaller group.
This gives you a chance to get more of your homework questions answered. Most
weeks there will be a quiz on Thursday. You will hand in homework on Tuesdays to your TA and
they will return it to you, probably a week later. The midterm exams will be held in Quiz Section.
The TA's are:
| |
| Sections | Name | Office | Email |
| EA & EB |
Andre Pestov | PDL C-8D |
pestov'at'math.washington.edu |
| EC | Walker Carlisle | PDL C-110 |
walkernc'at'math.washington.edu |
|
Text
UW Precalculus
2007-2008 Edition: A first course in problem solving
D.H.
Collingwood and K.D. Prince.
Available from Professional Copy 'n' Print,
4200 University Way NE
Calculators
Graphing calculators are allowed on exams, but a simple, scientific calculator is
sufficient. Other electronic devices are not allowed.
You should show all work not doable on a scientific calculator. For instance, when you solve a quadratic
equation, steps must be shown even if your graphing calculator can produce the solutions. Reading a
numerical solution from a graph on a calculator is never sufficient.
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