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Lecture details
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Instructor
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Alina Duca
(845) 437-5523
alduca@vassar.edu
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Time
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Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 1:00 -
1:50
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Room
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310 Rocky
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Web page
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http://faculty.vassar.edu/alduca/Math231
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Office hours
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Mondays 2:30
- 4:00
Wednesdays 8:30 - 10:00,
Thursdays 1:00 - 2:30, and by appointment |
Course Description
Grading policy.
Your final grade in
this course will be determined by marks earned on the final exam, two
midterm tests and the assigned homework. The weighting of these components
are as follows:
- Homework: 25%
- Midterm Tests: 25% each
- Final Exam: 25%
Homework
There will be homework assignments aproximately every week.
The homework is an important part of the course. Most of your learning
will take place while doing it. I will not accept late homework except in
very unusual circumstances. I will, however, drop 10% of the lowest homework
grades. Check your homework assignments here.
Please follow this link for
some suggestions for submitting your homework.
Exams
- Midterm 1: February 13, 2008
- Midterm 2: March 31, 2008
- Midterm 3: April 28, 2008
- Final exam (TBA)
Calculators, books, notes etc are not permitted in either exam.
Please note that there are no make-up or alternate exams, so make
sure you do not make travel plans, work plans etc. that will conflict
with any the midterm exams, or the final exam.
Working together and academic integrity
I have no objection in principle to collaboration on the homework,
provided that it is done in a way that maximizes the benefit of the homework
to all people involved. (One person simply telling another how to do
a problem totally defeats the purpose of the problem.)
You will get maximum benefit from a homework problem if you
work hard on it alone before combining your ideas with someone else's.
In any case, the paper that you turn in with your name on it should represent
your own solutions, written in your own words, regardless of whether
you arrived at some of those solutions in collaboration with others. In
particular, you may not simply copy someone else's homework and turn it
in as your own.
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