Course Policies

Text: Excursions in Modern Mathematics by Tannenbaum (5th Edition)  ISBN 0-13-100191-4
            Some supplementary materials are available at the text's companion website.
Worksheets: Available at the campus bookstore

Sections and Instructors:  

001 (339030)	Ms. Mary Pilgrim	Meets TR 8:00--8:50 in Engineering 100	labs meet TR 9:00--9:50
002 (339037)	Ms. Mary Pilgrim	Meets TR 3:10--4:00 in Glover 130	labs meet TR 4:00--5:00

Course Coordinator: Dr. Holger Kley  contact: kley@math.colostate.edu

Grading Criteria:
   

Component Weight in Final Grade Quizzes: 10% Participation: 10% Worksheets: 25% Exams: 35% Final: 20%

Final Grade Final Letter Grade 90%-100% A 80%-89% B 70%-79% C 60%-69% D 59% and below F

 

Worksheets:
Worksheets will be done in groups of 2-4 people during the lab hours.  They will be assigned during the lecture hour and will be due, the same day, at the end of the lab hour.   Each person in the group must submit the assigned worksheets.  They will be stapled together, but only the top one will be graded.  Please put the names of each group member on the front set that will be graded.  Each worksheet will be graded out of 5 points.  They must be legible and handed in on time or your lab assistant cannot accept them.  The worksheets will be graded daily by your assigned lab assistant.  Worksheets 1--7 may be handed in until September 1st without penalty.  After the second week, no late worksheets will be accepted.  Note, however, that your seven lowest worksheet scores will be dropped.

Participation
On each lab day, you will receive either 0 or 2 participation points per worksheet for working on a problem assigned during lab.

Quizzes:
Each Tuesday of a non-exam week, your lab assistant will administer a brief (10 minute) quiz which will be directly based on a short list of homework problems from the text covering material from the previous week of class.   There will be no make-up quizzes;  note, however, that your two lowest quiz grades will be dropped.

Homework:
A short list of homework problems related to the material covered each week is provided.  Although the problems will not be collected, it is in your best interest to do them, as the weekly quizzes (see above) will be based directly on them.   Furthermore, some exam problems will relate to the homework assignments.

Exams:
There will be three in-class exams (each worth 100 points).  They will cover material from class notes, the book, worksheets, and homework assignments.  The exam dates are:
       Exam 1 - February 7            Practice exams:  A, B, C.
       Exam 2 - March 9                Practice exams:  A, B.
       Exam 3 - April 11                Practice exams:  A, B.
Please note that each exam will have 24 questions.

Final:
There will be a comprehensive, two-hour final exam.   Practice finals: A, B;  please note that the actual exam will have 48 questions.
       Section 001 (TR8) - Tuesday, May 9,  3:40--5:40 pm
       Section 002 (TR3) - Thursday, May 11, 9:10--11:10 pm
You may NOT arrange to take the final early or late;  NO EXCEPTIONS.

Absences for University-sponsored events:
If you will be missing class for a university-sponsored event, please contact your instructor (preferably by e-mail) one week prior to the event in order to make arrangements regarding the work you will be missing.  You will be required to provide written documentation (from your coach, director, faculty sponsor, etc.) of the event.

Absences for emergencies:
Occasionally, an emergency such as a sudden illness requiring a doctor's visit or a death in the family may mean that you miss a lab, quiz, or exam.  In such cases, you must notify the instructor of your section by telephone or email within 24 hours of the missed work.  If you are unable to reach your instructor, please leave a message for him/her with the Mathematics Department office:  491-1303.  You will be required to provide written documentation of your emergency before you will be allowed to make up any missed work.

Unacceptable absences:
If you miss course work for a reason not covered by the two previous paragraphs, you will not be allowed to make it up. In particular, "My mom bought this plane ticket months ago,"  "I have to drive to Dallas for a wedding," etc. are not valid excuses for missing work.  Questions about this policy should be addressed to the course coordinator.

Honesty Policy:
Exams must be completed individually.  No group work or outside assistance is allowed.  Any student found to have engaged in academic dishonesty (i.e., cheating on an exam or giving a false excuse for making up an exam) will receive a zero on the exam and be subject to further University disciplinary action.  

ADA Statement:
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accomodations be made for students with disabilities.  If you need such assistance, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.

Overrides:
Neither the instructors nor the course coordinator are authorized to give an override into the course.  If you have an extreme issue and need to take the course (i.e. graduating senior etc.) please talk to the associate chair of the mathematics department, Dr. Jim Thomas;   His office is located in Weber 101.

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Schedule

Week 1
January 17	Read Sections 1.1-1.2 in the text; WS #1- Plurality with Preference Ballots
January 19	Read Sections 1.3-1.4; WS #2- Borda Count, WS #3- Plurality with Elimination
Week 2
January 24	Read 1.5; WS #4- Pairwise Comparisons;  Organizing lab break-outs;  Quiz 1
January 26	Read 1.6 and Chapter 1 Conclusion; WS #5- Repeated Election, WS #6- Rankings WS #7- Fairness Criteria
Week 3
January 31	Read 2.1-2.3; WS #8- Weighted Voting, WS #9- Banzhaf I;  Quiz 2
February 2	Read 2.4-2.5; WS #10- Banzhaf II, WS #11- Shapley-Shubik
Week 4
February 7	Review for Exam ;  Exam 1 covering chapters 1 and 2, worksheets 1-11.   Practice exams:  A, B, C.  Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions.
February 9	Read 3.7; WS #14- Method of Markers
Week 5
February 14	Read 3.6; WS #12- Sealed Bids I, WS #13- Sealed Bids II;  Quiz 3
February 16	Read 4.1-4.4, 4.6; WS #15- Hamiliton's Method, WS #16 Lownde's Method
Week 6
February 21	Read 4.5-4.6; WS #17- Jefferson's Method, WS #19- Overview;  Quiz 4
February 23	Read 5.1-5.3; WS #20- Graphs, WS #21 Graph Modeling
Week 7
February 28	Read 5.4-5.5; WS #25- The Rumor Mill, WS #24- The Postal Problem;  Quiz 5
March 2	Read 5.6; WS #27-Fleury Worksheet
Week 8
March 7	Read 5.7; WS #26- Euler Circuits
March 9	Exam 2 covering chapters 3,4, and 5, worksheets 12-17,19-21,24-27.   Practice exams:  A, B.  Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions.
Spring Break!	March 13--19
Week 9
March 20	Last Day to W-Drop
March 21	Read 6.1-6.3; WS #28- Hamilton Circuits, WS #29- Traveling Salesman Problem
March 23	Read 6.4-6.8; WS #30- Nearest Neighbor, WS #31- Cheapest Link
Week 10
March 28	Read 7.1-7.3; WS #32- Trees, WS #33- Minimum Spanning Trees;  Quiz 6
March 30	Read 8.1-8.2; WS #34- Project Digraphs, WS #35- Precedents in Project Digraphs
Week 11
April 4	Read 8.3-8.4; WS #36 List Processing;  Quiz 7
April 6	Read 8.5-8.6; WS #37- Critical Paths, WS #38- Finding a Good Priority List
Week 12
April 11	Exam 3 covering chapters 6,7, and 8, worksheets 28-38   Practice exams:  A, B.  Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions.
April 13	Read 9.1; WS #54- Fibonacci Numbers, WS #55- Honey Bees
Week 13
April 18	Read 9.2 and pages 327-329; WS #56- Fibonacci Numbers, WS #57- The Golden Ratio;  Quiz 8
April 20	Read 15.1-15.2,15.4; WS #47- Probabilities, WS #50- Multiplication Rule
Week 14
April 25	Read 15.5-15.7; WS #48- What Chance Have You Got?, WS #49- Cars and Dogs;  Quiz 9
April 27	Read 16.1-16.2; WS #53- Normal Distribution, WS #52- Expectations II
Week 15
May 2	Instructor Option;  Quiz 10
May 4	Review for Final.
Finals Week	Practice finals: A, B;  please note that the actual exam will have only 48 questions.
May 9	Section 001 (TR 8) Final Exam, 3:40--5:40.
May 11	Section 002 (TR 3) Final Exam, 9:10--11:10.

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Homework

For Exam 1	For Exam 2	For Exam 3	For Final
Week 1: Chapter 1:  #10,20a,25,33a	Week 5: Chapter 3 #40,51 and Chapter 4 #14	Week 9: Chapter 6 #29,41,49	Week 13: chapter 9 #1,4,27a,29
Week 2: Chapter 1:  #20b,c;50,52	Week 6: Chapter 4 #19 and Chapter 5 #5,15	Week 10: Chapter 7 #1,22 and Chapter 8 #12,21	Week 14: Chapter 15 #1b,2b,8,14,17,42,50
Week 3: Chapter 2:  #6,15,29a,c;44	Week 7: Chapter 5 #19,20,22	Week 11: Chapter 8 #33,34,37,50a,b,c	Week 15: To be announced
Week 4: Exam Week - No new homework	Week 8: Chapter 5 #41	Week 12: Exam Week - No new homework	Week 16: Final Exam