Instructor: Professor John Palmieri Phone: 631-8846
Office: 205 CCMB e-mail: palmieri.2@nd.edu
Office hours: Monday 9:30-10:30 am and 3:00-4:00 pm, or by appointment
Textbooks: Calculus and its Applications, 7th edition, by Goldstein, Lay, and Schneider
Outline of Calculus, Math. 105, by A. Howard
Both of these are for sale at the bookstore, and both will be used in the course.
Tests. There will be three one-hour exams. All of them will be held outside of class, on Tuesday morning from 8:00-9:15 AM, at a place to be announced later. The dates are:
Tuesday, February 2 Tuesday, March 2 Tuesday, April 13There will also be a two-hour final exam on Thursday May 6, 1:45-3:45, at a place to be announced.
An unexcused absence from any of these tests will result in a grade of zero for the test. If you are absent with a valid excuse, you will be given a make-up test at a later date. Excused absences must be arranged through the offices of the Vice President of Student Affairs or the Dean of First Year. Contacting your instructor on the night before or morning of an exam to say you are dizzy, nauseated, etc., will not be sufficient grounds for an excused absence.
Grades. Grades will be based on 450 points, distributed as follows:
One-hour exams 100 points each Final exam 150 pointsAfter each test, a scale for assigning letter grades will be announced. These scales are intended as guidelines only, so that you can judge your progress. The scale for assigning letter grades for the course will be decided by the instructors at the end of the semester. In borderline cases, your homework record may improve your grade, as explained in the next paragraph.
Homework will be assigned and collected regularly. Doing it diligently and on time is a major factor in how well you learn and how well you do on tests. It is in your interest to attempt every homework problem and do as much as you can, whether or not you can completely solve it. Students are encouraged to work together and help one another. Collaboration on homework for this course is not an honor code violation, but you will not learn anything by simply copying someone else's finished product.
A record of your homework grades will be kept. After the final grading scale is determined (based, as explained above, on 450 points), your instructor will add between 0 and 5 points to your total, based on your homework record.
Calculators. A scientific calculator (with exp, log, and ln keys) will be used in some homework problems. The use of calculators is permitted but not necessary on exams.
First Year Learning Resource Center is a great source of help for first-year students. It offers a weekly Math 105 workshop to answer questions and help students with the course material and problems. In addition, there are small-group tutoring sessions and collaborative learning sessions. Times and places for these sessions and for the workshop will be announced in class later, or you can ask your advisor for more information about them
Honor code. Exams and homework are conducted under the honor code. As mentioned above, cooperation on homework is permitted, but copying is not.
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