Homework will be assigned approximately three times a week. The problems to complete will be assigned in class and on the section website at least two days before the homework is due.
Homework will be collected at the beginning of class. Late homework will NOT be accepted for any reason. If you know you will miss a class arrange with me to submit homework early. To make up for unforeseeable absences the bottom four homework grades will be dropped from the grade calculation at the end of semester.
Selected questions from each homework will be graded for correctness and quality of mathematical explanation. Problems to be graded will be chosen before grading begins. NO credit will be given for answers without supporting working - if you have a nice way of doing a problem without writing anything down then write me a sentence explaining it.
Specific Homework Procedures
Discussion of homework with other students is encouraged. However you must write up your own own solutions independently.
Quizzes will also be given on a regular basis. These will be announced at least a week before they occur. Missed quizzes CANNOT be made up. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped. There will also be an individual writeup of a 'lab' (doing some exercises with real world data) that will occur towards the end of the trigonometry section that will count as part of the quiz grade.
I will endeavour to mark homework and quizzes and return them to you in a timely manner. If you have a question about grading please submit your assignment to me in class with a note attached explaining your concern within a week of the assignment being returned.
Each homework and quiz will be marked out of 10. The homework grades minus the lowest four will be totaled and then scaled to a grade out of 100 points. The quiz grades minus the lowest will be totaled and then scaled to a grade out of 50.
There will be no 'curving' or 'extra credit'.