Math 40 Section 701 (Summer)
Professor Mike Weiner
Office: 101E
Phone: 949-5558
email: mdw8@psu.edu

Text: A Primer for Calculus/Holder
Office hours: MTRF: 10:10am-11:50am
Class: MTRF: 7:50am-10:05am CLRC 165

The Rules:

Grading: The grading breakdown is as follows: 20% for quizzes, 25% for each of the two tests and 30% for the final. Attendance is strongly recommended but not required. There will not be a curve of the final grades, though in a rare occasion one of the tests may be Slightly curved if I personally believe it was an unfair test. Do not be mislead by inflated early quiz grades! Previous classes have all had a drop in the average persons grade after both the second test and the final.

Calculators: are required but graphing calculators are only recommended as they will provide a small advantage on tests. The minimum you need for this courses is a scientific calculator (i.e. a calculator that can do trig, yx , etc.)

Homework: will be assigned by the truckload but will not be collected. It is your responsibility to do as much homework and ask as many questions in class as you need to. (See Quizzes)

Quizzes: There will be 6 quizzes. They will be on 6/26, 7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24 and 7/31. The quizzes are guaranteed to be taken from the homework assignments. There will probably be one dropped quiz.

Tests: will be challenging. There will always be partial credit for good work. The tests will be on 7/7 and 7/21.

Final: Failure to take the final will result in a failure of the course. The final is cumulative and traditionally quite difficult.
 

Final: Friday, August 7, 1998
7:50 - 10:05am
CLRC 165

Make-ups: Generally there are no make-up quizzes or tests except in exceptional cases. Regardless of the problem, there will never be a make-up given if I am not contacted before the test or quiz is given.

How to succeed: Ask as many questions as you can. If you don’t understand a part of what we’re doing now you definitely won’t get anything of what we’re doing later. Visit me as much as you need.