Welcome
to
Math 103
|
Fall
2009 |
Professor:
Will
Wylie |
|
A2
DRL |
Office:
4N34
DRL |
|
TR
1:30-3 |
Office
Hours: Tues
3-4, Wed 1-2 or by appointment. |
|
email:
wylie@math.upenn.edu |
|
|
Teaching
Assistant: Priyanka
Vergadia |
Office: 4N11 |
|
email:
vergadia@seas.upenn.edu
|
Office
Hours: Mon
11am-noon, Wed 1:30-2:30 |
| Teaching Assistant: Andrea Kimmell |
Office: 4N11 |
| email:
kimmee@sas.upenn.edu |
Office Hours: Wed 4:30-5:30 |
Text:
Calculus, 6th
Ed. James
Stewart, Thomson - Brooks/Cole
course
webpage: www.math.upenn.edu/~wwylie/Math103/
Grading:
|
Homework |
20% |
|
Midterm
1 |
25% |
|
Midterm
2 |
25% |
|
Final |
30% |
Homework: Homework will be assigned during lecture and
posted
on the course web page. The homework assigned during the previous
week
will be collected on the following Thursday.
No late homework is accepted. If you are unable to
complete an
assignment on time for a legitimate reason (illness, family emergency,
etc.)
you must still do the assignment and show it to your TA.
If your TA determines that you have
successfully completed the assignment you will receive an “average” and
your
grade will be calculated as if that assignment never existed. Homework
will be
graded out of 10 points. Your lowest
homework score will be dropped.
Dummy
Points:
Eight of ten points on
homework assignments will be awarded for the content of your
work. I call
the other two points "dummy points" because you would have to be a real
dummy not to get them. To obtain your dummy points all you have
to do
is:
1.
Write your first and last name and the day of
the week and time of your recitation section in the top
right hand corner of the first page of the assignment. AND
2.
STAPLE
your
work
if it is longer than one page. (A paper-clip is not a staple.)
Failure
to do either of the above will result in two points
being deducted from your score.
Exams:
There
will
be two midterm exams and a cumulative final. All
exams will be common exams taken by all the Math 103 sections and will
be administered in the evening outside of regular class time. If you will not be able to make an
exam for some reason, contact the professor immediately in the
first week of classes so that we can make other arrangements.
You are not allowed calculators or any other kind of technology during
an
exam. The exams
are scheduled for:
|
Midterm
1 |
Wednesday,
October 14 (5:30-7pm) |
|
|
Midterm
2 |
Wednesday,
November 18 (5:30-7pm) |
|
|
Final |
Monday,
December 21 (9-11am) |
Blackboard:
We
will use blackboard to record homework and exam grades.
Please check Blackboard regularly to ensure your grades have
been
recorded correctly. No other course material will be posted on
Blackboard. All assignments and course policies will be posted on
the course webpage.
Grade
changes: If
you wish to have a grade changed on a midterm exam you must submit, in
writing,
a specific explanation of why the problem was incorrectly graded
and turn your explanation and exam back to the professor
within 3
weeks (21 days) of the date of the exam. After this time no
changes will
be considered. You may ask the instructor or TA to explain why
you lost
the points but the only way to change the grade is to make a request in
writing.
Office
Hours: I
actually enjoy it when you come to office hours. In addition to being
fun, discussing the course material with you makes my lectures better
by helping me to see the material through your eyes. In mathematics, you should always be able to
understand why each step
follows from the last, if you do not then I am not doing my job, so
please help
me out and ask lots of questions!
Get
Help:
There are
many forms of help other than asking lots of questions and coming to
the
instructor’s and TA’s office hours:
UPenn
policy on secular/religious Holidays: (From
Pennbook)
The
University
recognizes that there are several religious holidays that affect large
numbers
of University community members, including Christmas, Rosh Hashanah,
Yom
Kippur, the first two days of Passover, and Good Friday. In
consideration of
their significance for many students, no examinations may be given and
no
assigned work may be required on these days…If an examination is given
on the
first class day after one of these holidays, it must not cover material
introduced in class on that holiday.
The
University
recognizes that there are other holidays, both religious and secular,
which are
of importance to some individuals and groups on campus. Such occasions
include,
but are not limited to, Sukkot, the last
two days of
Passover, Shavuot, Shemini Atzerat
and Simchat Torah, as well as Chinese New
Year, the
Muslim New Year, and the Islamic holidays Eid
Al-Fitr and Eid
Al-Adha. Students who
wish to observe such holidays must inform their instructors within the
first
two weeks of each semester of their intent to observe the holiday.