MATH 135, SECTIONS 16-18, Fall 2001

Lecturer: Professor A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh
Contact: shadi@math.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Th 3, Th 4; Hill 436 (Busch Campus). You are encouraged to come to office hours, without making any appointment, as often as you like. Just drop in, even if you don't have any specific questions!

Recitation Instructor: Peter Kay
Contact: pkay@math.rutgers.edu
Recitation Instructors Office Hours:

Lecture: M Th 2, Eng B 120

Section 16 Recitation: F 3, ARC 204
Section 17 Recitation: F4, SEC 218
Section 18 Recitation: F 5, SEC 211

First Exam is on Monday October 15, in class (M2, Eng B 120).  It covers material from
Chapters 1,2, and 3 of the textbook (all sections of each chapter).  It will have two parts.
Calculators will be allowed for the second part of the exam.  A formula sheet will also be distributed
with the second part. The exam is closed book and no other notes are allowed.

Second Exam is on Tuesday November 20, second period, in class (Eng B 120).  (That Tuesday is an honorary Thursday because of Thanksgiving holiday).  The exam covers material from chapters 1,2,3,4,5 of the textbook (all sections of each chapter) as well as sections 1-3 of chapter 12.  The exam will have two parts. Calculators will be allowed only for the second part of the exam, and a   formula sheet  will be provided with the second  part.  The exam is closed book and no other notes are allowed.

WeBWork: There are weekly WeBWorK assignments, starting the second or third week of classes, with the dates they are due listed with the assignments (usually Friday 3am). Information on how to access and submit problems on WeBWorK is posted on the course website, http://sites.math.rutgers.edu/courses/135/135-f01.

Routine communication about WeBWorK and other aspects of this course will be primarily by posting on the course webpage, and occasionally by direct email. You need to have an email account, preferably a Rutgers eden account, that the Rutgers registrar has recorded. If you do not receive an email concerning WeBWorK by the third week of class, there may be a problem in that regard, so let me know!

Grading: Each of the two midterm exams is worth 100 points and the final exam is worth 200 points. Additionally, there will be weekly quizzes in recitation that will be worth a total of 100 points, and homework (primarily webwork) will be worth another total of 100 points.  Points are added up at the end of the semester, and letter grades are determined by cut-offs together with considerations such as whether the grades are improving or getting worse. The grading scale is determined in part by a curve and in part by an absolute scale; the grade distribution for these sections should be roughly the same as that for these sections on the common final exam.