MATH 140
Format for Professor Gulick's class

CLASSES: The course meets five days a week, MWF in large lectures and TTh in discussion-worksheet sessions. Each discussion section is designed to have approximately 20 students. The discussion sessions meet 80 minutes each on Tuesdays and on Thursdays.

GRAPHICS CALCULATORS: Graphics calculators are an integral part of the course. The Texas Instruments graphics calculators (especially the TI-83 plus or the new TI-84)) are the preferred types; they are available at book stores and other stores. We will furnish information about the use of these calculators. Other types of graphics calculators are admissible, but our information about them may be limited.  NOTE:  Neither calculators nor computers will be allowed during tests.

HOMEWORK:  Graded homework will involve the online WebAssign system.  The homework for our Math 140 class will be due by 8:00am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  The WebAssign exercises are normally close relatives of corresponding problems in the text. (See the Homework link for additional information about WebAssign.)  In addition to the WebAssign homework, we provide you with a supplementary list of exercises from the text -- these problems are not to be handed in, but you are  responsible for knowing how to solve these exercises.

TESTS: There will be 4 hour tests during the semester: after Section 3.2, and after each of Chapters 3, 4, and 5. The final examination (1:30 - 3:30pm on Monday, December 13, 2004) will cover all material of the course, including Section 10.3. 

QUIZZES: There will be frequent (approximately one per week) unannounced (pop) quizzes during the MWF classes. These quizzes will usually be on material since the previous hour test or quiz. There may be occasional quizzes during the TTh classes.

NOTE:  THERE ARE NO MAKEUPS FOR TESTS OR QUIZZES.

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Edited by D. Gulick, August 29, 2004