| Weekly email journal | 5% |
| Homework | 10% |
| Quizzes and class participation | 5% |
| Lab and classroom activities | 25% |
| 2 tests (15% each) | 30% |
| Exam | 25% |
Comments
1. Email journal. Each student is expected to send me a weekly one-
or two-paragraph email message after class on Friday and before Sunday
evening. You may use this to summarize what you have learned during the
week, to ask questions, and to make suggestions. I will read each message
and respond to questions and comments. This will be graded by whether or
not the the message is received by me each week.
2. Quizzes. These will be short (5-10 minutes) of routine hand calculations. They will be closed book.
3. Tests. Each of these will have two parts. There will be an in-class part on which you may use your calculator, notes, and the text. For the take-home part, you may use all of the above plus Maple. The take-home part will be given out before the in-class test date and will be due at the time of the test. The in-class test dates are Wednesday, October 8 and Monday, November 17.
4. Exam. Again this will have two parts: a take-home part given out on the last day of class and due at the time of the in-class exam and the in-class exam itself. The ground rules are the same as for the tests.
5. Lab activities. On most Fridays we will meet in the laboratory rooms, 027 and 032 Physics. Here we will use Maple to examine graphical and numerical representations of the concepts developed in the course and to use the symbolic algebra system to simplify routine symbolic calculations. The lab work will be done in teams of two or three and will usually result in short reports. These reports will be done on the Maple worksheet and submitted electronically.
6. Classroom activities. These activities will be used to introduce, explore, or review material. Often they will be done in groups of three or four with a worksheet to be completed and handed in by the group.
7. Maple Version V Release 4. This general mathematics package has numerical, symbolic, and graphical capabilities. In addition to the lab activities, you will be required to use Maple for some individual homework activities. You may also use Maple to check your homework. The program is available on Sun workstations in 027 and 032 Physics and on machines in the clusters around campus.
8. Class web site. The class web site is http://www.math.duke.edu/~lang/math104/ I will maintain these pages and post assignments weekly, corrections as necessary, and other class information. You will be expected to check this site regularly.
Last modified: August 21, 1997