Each week's assignment will consist of: *The relevant core problems, *Problems from past final exams, and *A Maple assignment. In addition, I will occasionally assign some extra credit work from the text, the MAPLE/CALCULUS LAB MANUAL, and other sources. You are welcome to work on the homework together with a study group; but you MUST HAND IN YOUR OWN, INDIVIDUAL WORK, explained in your own words. Solutions must be written LEGIBLY. (Please be considerate to your poor, overworked TA who has to read your assignment...) Homework is due each Thursday at 4pm under Corey's office door. You may instead hand it in to Corey during any recitation before the deadline, or in class at the end of the lecture. IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU TRY TO FINISH THE HOMEWORK A FEW DAYS AHEAD OF TIME. Then, if you encounter difficulties, you will still have time to obtain help from the instructor, the TA, or a tutor. No late homework assignments will be accepted UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, (again, please be considerate to your poor, overworked TA), but the two lowest homework grades will be dropped. CORE PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS FROM PAST FINALS: Since there is much material to cover in math 115 and more problems to work through than we have time to cover in lecture or recitation, we have chosen some core problems to help define the course. The core problems are listed on page 12 of the LAB MANUAL. A copy of the list can also be found here.) In addition you will find problems from past final exams in the Lab Manual. Together, the core problems and past finals define both the material of the course and the level of difficulty expected. Your objective is to understand thoroughly how to solve them and to develop some facility with the underlying mathematics. Because of the limited time available to the TA, only a couple of problems chosen at random from each assignment will be graded. If at the end of the semester you feel that you have been consistently unlucky in that we always happened to grade the only two problems you did not do, talk to one of us and we'll see whether we can make some adjustment.
All sections of Math 150 will have a common final exam on Thursday, May 6. The final will be multiple choice, closed book, no calculators, but you may use a 5"x8" cheat sheet in your own hand writing. If you miss the final or perform poorly for any reason, you may choose to take the makeup final, which will be given in the beginning of next Fall Term. In order to do this, you will (of course!) have to agree (in writing, in advance) to give up the grade you received on the original exam. So your score on the makeup exam may bring your course grade either up or down.