Course Syllabus and Policy
| Lectures Monday through Thursday 1:00 to 3:10 DRL -- Instructor Aditya Surapaneni (Adi) Office: 4C11 DRL email: adityasl@math.upenn.edu Office hours Monday through Thursday -- (Time and room TBA) For now, after class |
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Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, Goode & Annin, Third Edition
Syllabus. (The times indicated here correspond to a regular semester).
Homework problems will be assigned everyday, posted on the course calendar. You may write up the solutions and give them to me to read and make comments, but these will not be graded for credit. So you may, (and I encourage you to) work on them together. This means think about them on your own and then talk about them.
There will be about five quizzes during the course of the session, (tentative schedule on calendar) during the last 20 minutes or so of class. Quiz will be based on the homework assigned in the previous few classes. Quiz questions will be straightforward, with no long computations or tricks. Their purpose is to make sure you are keeping up with the material.
There will be a midterm on --
There will be a final on --
Both exams will be in class during class time. You may bring one cheat sheet. (Two sides of one A4 paper)
Quiz will count for 30% of your grade. (So each quiz 6%)
The Midterm 30%
The Final 40%
I expect the letter grade distribution to be around one third A's, B's and C's. You may use this to estimate your grade during the course of the class. But the final grade distribution might have more (or less) A's and B's depending on how the class does.
The department webpage for Math 240: This contains Syllabus, old final exams etc. It is a great source of practice problems for the exams.
Canvas: I will post your Quiz and exam grades here.
Summer calendar: This has important dates like drop dates etc.
Office Hours: After class everyday.
Math Help : There'll be a graduate student, Deborah Crook in DRL - from 9 to 1 Monday through Thursday. You can go to her with questtions. She's there to help all the students taking courses in the summer, not just 240.
Weingarten Learning Resources Center
Math department's list of approved tutors
Tutoring center