Dr. Z.'s Class Policy for Math437 (History of Mathematics), Fall 2021

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/math437policy.html

Last Update: Aug. 27, 2021

GRADE: The max. number of points is 500, with the following breakup.

9 Quizzes: 10 points each
Well-organized notebook: 10 points
2 Midterm Exams: 120 points each
Final Writing Project (with Oral Presentation given during the last two classes): 160 points.

460-500: A ; 430-459: B+ ; 400-429: B ; 370-399: C+ ; 325-369: C ; 280-324: D ; 0-279: F . No Curve!.

ALL QUIZZES AND EXAMS ARE OPEN (YOUR PERSONAL) "HISTORY" NOTEBOOK (see below)

VERY IMPORTANT:

Attendance is strictly mandatory and enforced!
It is mandatory to take notes of everything I say in class, and write on the board. Please buy TWO SINGLE-SUBJECT notebooks, and write on the cover: The course's name and your name and E-mail (in case it gets lost).
The first Notebook should be labelled "History", and will contain the history homework, in your own handwriting. You are allowed to use it during quizzes and exams. Don't use it for any other subjects.
The homework is posted in the
class web-page, and
should he emailed each Sunday 8:00pm to:
DrZlinear@gmail.com
with subject: hwx (where x is the number of the Lecture where it was assigned) e.g., for homework assignment 3, called hw3.pdf, the subject should be hw3)
and an ATTACHMENT, called
hwxFirstLast.pdf (or, if you prefer, hwxFirstLasthwx. For example: hw3DavidHilbert.pdf
The quiz on Wed. will not count unless the homework was submitted.
The second Notebook should be labelled "Real Math Class Notes", and is to be used to take notes in class. This notebook is NOT allowed to be used during quizzes and exams.

If you have a justified absence, then listen to the recorded lecture, and submit the attendance quiz.

Every Wed. (starting the second Wed.) will start with a weekly quiz. The quiz does not count unless you submitted your homework by Sunday, 8:00pm.

Every class will end with a 10-minute informal "quiz", asking you to do some problems covered in that day's class. It will be emailed to you. It doesn't count towards the grade, but I use it first, to check attendance, but more important, to make sure that you know how to do the problems, and in case that many (or even some) people didn't get it, I'll try to do a better job in reviewing it. After each lecture I will post the complete solution in the class' web-page decide whether or not you got it right.

Makeup exam policy: there are no make-up midterm exams or make-up quizzes. If you have a justified absence (and can prove it by a note from a doctor or a dean) in any exam or quiz, your score would be pro-rated. (For example, if you were absent from exam 1 or exam 2, then I will divide your total score by 380 and multiply by 500; If you were absent from both exams 1 and 2, I will divide your total score by 260 and multiply by 500, but let's hope that you will make it to all exams and all classes!). If you have an unjustified absence in a midterm exam or quiz, your grade for that exam or quiz would be 0.

If you believe that the grade that you got in an exam or quiz is in error, or have questions about it, write your question/complaint in a written note, and attach the graded exam/quiz to it, and email me. I will respond to you either with the corrected grade (if I agree with your correction, e.g. I made a mistake in adding-up), or with the same grade, with a note by me explaining to you why the grade you got is the correct one.

Math 437 (Fall 2021) webpage