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Math 13 Quiz Policy:
There will be a short quiz at the end of the class each Wednesday (see the
course calendar for exact dates). This quiz
will cover material from the homework and class lectures from the
preceding several days, including the previous class, so be sure to ask
any questions you might have on Wednesday before the quiz.
Quizzes will consist of two parts: an in-class section (generally two or
three questions) and a take-home portion that will be due on the following
Friday. The take-home portion will ask you to redo the in-class questions
carefully and fully, and it may include one or two additional problems.
Your score for the questions that appear on both parts will be a
combination of the scores on the in-class and take-home portions, so even
if you do the take-home portion perfectly, you will not get full credit for
the problem if you made errors on it in class.
You should use the following guidelines for the take-home portions of
quizzes that you turn in:
- Please staple your pages together, and trim the left
edge if they are torn out of a spiral notebook. Unstapled or ragged
pages will not be graded.
- Your solutions are due at the beginning of class on Friday. Late
papers will not be graded.
- Please print on only one side of the paper, clearly and legibly.
- Please leave some space in the margins or between problems for my
comments.
- Do not use graph paper except for graphs. Use lined paper for written
work.
You should write in complete, English sentences when you write up
your solutions (both the in-class and take-home portions); since
mathematical notation is shorthand for English words, you can incorporate
these into your sentences, but you must explain what you are doing
as you do it. Many students feel at first that this is extraneous, but it
is precisely this that should be central to your learning process. See the
course philosophy and the last paragraph
of the course expectations statement for
more details on why this is important.
Copies of the best solutions will be made available in a notebook outside
my office, as will any solution that I write up myself. See the discussion
of course handouts for more about this
notebook.
While you may work with other students on homework problems, the quizzes
are to be done independently, including the take-home portions. You may
not discuss the quiz questions with anyone until after the quiz has been
handed in. The cover sheet for each quiz will remind you of this policy.
See the discussion of the grading policy for
the percentage of your grade that will come from your quizzes, and for
policy on missed and dropped quizzes.
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Created: Aug 31 1998 ---
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