Final exam scores and course grades
Lecturer: Professor Jean Taylor
Contact: taylor@math.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: VD 211, W 8:40 AM-9:40 AM; Hill 708 (Busch Campus)
F 11 AM-12 noon. 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:David Nacin
Contact: nacin@math.rutgers.edu
Recitation Instructors Office Hours:
Lecture: W 9:50-11:10 AM Fri 2:50-4:10 PM VD211
Section 10 Recitation: T 11:45 AM -12:40 PM FH-B4
Section 11 Recitation: T 1:25-2:20 PM FH-B4
Section 12 Recitation: T 3:05-4:00 PM SC-205
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 Tuesday 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.
First Midterm exam: Friday October 12, in class. Review session for exam: Monday October 8, 7:40 pm, FH B-4 (College Avenue Campus)
Second exam: Friday November 16 in class. Review session for exam: Wednesday November 14 7:30pm HH-A2 (College Avenue Campus)
Syllabus modification: Lecture 10 is eliminated. Attend the review session or office hours if you have questions concerning the review problems. The lecture on section 3.7 will occur on Wednesday October 10 prior to the first midterm exam, but the material of 3.7 will not be on the midterm exam. The webwork assignment which is due 3am Tuesday October 16 (3am) will be on section 3.7. The midterm exams will be returned and discussed in recitation on October 16. The quiz in that recitation will be on 3.7 plus a problem similar to a much-missed problem on the midterm exam.
Section 5.3 should be done along with section 5.6.
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. Finally, there will be in-lecture 1-point quizzes most days, for a total of about 20 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.