Course
Information for Math 126, section B, Spring 2008.
Instructor:
Richard Allen
Office:
phone
x3117
email:
allen@stolaf.edu
Office
hours: 10:30 – 11:30 PM, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
At other times, please make an appointment or
just look for me in my office. You are
always welcome to stop in when I am there.
Your
final grade will be computed using the following criteria:
(1)
3 in class tests (see syllabus for dates), each worth 16% of your final
grade;
(2)
A final exam, worth 31% of your final grade;
(3)
Daily homework assignments, whose average is worth 16% of your final
grade;
(4)
Friday quizzes and problem presentations worth 5% of your final grade.
The
final exam is taken in our classroom.
Since the role of homework is to keep you current in the course
and
prepare you for the next day’s lesson, homework to be counted in your
homework
grade is not accepted late. Homework is
due the class time after it is assigned (see syllabus for assignments
and
dates). However, I drop the two lowest
homework grades before computing your homework average, which
constitutes your
homework grade for the semester and counts 16% of your final course
grade. This system allows you to miss
turning in
homework twice for reasons beyond your control without penalty. The first two homework assignments that you
cannot or choose not to turn in are counted in the two that I drop. Any subsequent (beyond the first two)
homework assignments not turned in (for any reason) are then counted as
a zero
in the final average.
Our
class has an email alias through which I may send the class email
messages
concerning the running of our course and its requirements.
From time to time I may change the
assignments and their due date, though this happens very seldom. You are notified of such changes via the
class email alias. Not checking and not
reading your email do not constitute reasons for not being aware of
changes/updates announced via email
I
strongly encourage you to go to the math clinics for help with your
homework or
to get together with other classmates to form study groups to work on
homework. BUT BEWARE of working in
groups and letting all the others in the group do the work and,
consequently,
do the learning. Because your tests are
all taken alone, you will need to have learned all the material
assigned in the
homework problems and in the text and in the classroom
activities/lectures to
do well on the tests.
A
syllabus is being distributed to each of you during the first class. Please read it and keep it safe.
It contains all the dates and work for all
tests and assignments. However, a syllabus
is always a work in progress. The
assignments listed on the syllabus are those you are to do unless I
deem it
necessary to make changes. If I do make
changes, I will tell you in class and/or send you an email to our class
alias
to that effect. A copy of the syllabus,
as well as this information sheet, is posted on the web via a link from
my home
page. I am looking forward to getting to
know you and to helping you learn calculus in this course.
Rich
Allen
Any student with a documented intellectual,
physical
or emotional disability needing academic adjustments or accommodations
is
requested to speak with me during the first two weeks of class. All
discussions
will remain confidential. Students with disabilities must also contact
Ruth
Bolstad (bolstadr@stolaf.edu
),
Student Disability Services Specialist in the Academic Support Center
(x3288)
located in Modular Village: ASC Building.