Mathematics 210, Section M03: Mathematics Appreciation Spring 2015

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1 Mathematics 210, Section M03: Mathematics Appreciation Spring 2015 Instructor: Dr. Patrick J. Morandi Office: Science Hall 242 Department Office: Science Hall 236 Phone Number: Department Phone Number: Address: Department Fax Number: URL: sierra.nmsu.edu/morandi Math Dept: Course Web Pages and Canvas: There are two web pages for this course. Most everything will be available on Canvas, including grades. The secondary website for this course is sierra.nmsu.edu/morandi/math210 At this web site you will all course materials: the syllabus, PDF copies of the lectures, assignments, quizzes, and any handouts. Because this is not a secure site, you cannot get your grades here. The Canvas page is available at learn.nmsu.edu. In addition to course materials and grades, there is a link to register your i>clicker 2. You may also me (or another student) through Canvas . If you have trouble using Canvas, contact the office of Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) at You can also come by my office for help. Office Hours: My regularly scheduled office hours are listed on both course websites. If the hours change during the semester I will announce the new hours in class. You do not need to make an appointment if you wish to come to office hours. If you need or want to see me outside these hours, you may make an appointment with me before or after class, by phone, message, or by . Prerequisite: High school algebra, and an adequate score on the Mathematics Placement Examination. Textbook: There is no textbook for this course. Course materials will be made available on the course website or from other internet sites. Clickers: The i>clicker 2 remote or the clicker app on a smartphone or laptop is required for this course. You will need it to take quizzes and to participate in classroom activities. You can get a clicker at the bookstore. You will need to bring it to class each day for quizzes and class participation. If you wish to use a smartphone, you will need to purchase a subscription for the app. A 1-semester subscription is $9.99, and longer subscriptions are available. See 1

2 for more details. There is no charge to register a new clicker. There is a $6.99 charge to register if you buy a used clicker. To register your clicker, go to Canvas at learn.nmsu.edu, login, select Math 210, and click on the link Register your clicker. Enter your clicker s ID, which is the 8 character code under the bar code on the back of your clicker. Then click register. DO NOT register at iclicker.com. If you don t register then the Canvas gradebook will show blanks in place of points you earn. You are responsible for bringing your clicker to class daily. If you forget your clicker, you can check with me to see if I have one to loan you that day; if you don t have a clicker to use you will not be able to participate in the day s clicker questions and will not receive points for any clicker questions. You also need to make sure the batteries are charged enough to last throughout class. If you get new batteries they may last all semester. Clicking for other students is cheating and is absolutely prohibited. Do not under any circumstances bring more than one clicker to your seat in the lecture hall, as possession of more than one clicker during the lecture will be a presumption of intent to cheat on the parts of both the possessor and the owner of the clicker. Additional clickers brought to the lecture for any reason should be left on the front lecture table for pickup after class. When you use your i>clicker 2, your response will appear in the LCD box. The checkmark indicates that your vote was received. There is no need to press your button continuously. Once you receive a checkmark, you know your vote was received and recorded. Catalog Description: Mathematics and its role in the development and maintenance of civilization. Course Objectives: The main objective of the course is to help students gain an appreciation for how mathematics impacts their life, culture and society. Grading: The grade for the course will be based on your performance on homework assignments, quizzes, and class participation. There will be a total of 1000 points. Each of the ten homework assignments will be worth 50 points and each of the 28 class participation/quiz points will be worth a total for 18 points, with a total of 1000 points for the semester. Each day there will be a beginning of the class question, worth 4 points, various participation questions, worth a total of 6 points, and a quiz question worth 8 points. Thus, there are 18 points per day possible to be earned through clicker use. Participation points are earned by answering a majority of the clicker questions; whether or not you answer correctly (when there is a correct answer) doesn t affect whether you earn points. We will start using clickers on the second day of class. To address the possibility of forgetting a clicker or having technical difficulties, I will give an extra credit assignment, worth up to 30 points, sometime during the semester. This is essentially worth two days of clicker points. The grading scale will be: 2

3 900 or more points A points B points C points D below 600 points F Some Expectations: You can expect me to treat you with respect, return your assignments in a timely way, be on time to class, and be in my office during scheduled office hours. What I expect from you is to treat me and your fellow students with respect and curtesy, and not to do anything which detracts from the learning of others, including talking on your phone or with other students. You are also expected to be on time to class. Our classroom does not have the best acoustics. If you are talking in class you will be distracting to your fellow students. Please be considerate. Material and Style of the Course: The topics we will cover will constitute a wide range of mathematical ideas and applications. Most of the class time will be spent in lecture, with quizzes and other student responses interspersed. At this point the topics we ll likely to discuss are infinity, art and tessellations, fractals, cryptography and coding, probability, poker, lotteries, voting, astronomical distances, statistics, graph theory, surfaces, interest rates, and exponential growth. Topics commonly will last about a week. University Communication: Official communication to you will often come through your NMSU . Please access it regularly, or forward it to your current use address, as your success in college may ride on your ability to respond quickly. Homework: Homework assignments will be assigned approximately once every week or two weeks. Homework may come in a variety of forms, including solving problems or commenting on short reading assignments or videos. Homework assignments are obtained by going to Canvas or to the course website and clicking on the Assignments link. Assignments need to be submitted in Canvas. You can upload a word document or a PDF file, or you can type directly in a window in Canvas. While not the best alternative, you can upload a graphic file. For example, if you have a hard copy and you take a picture of it with your phone, you can upload the picture. Exams and Quizzes: There won t be any exams. There will be short quizzes given during class. I will give quizzes every day starting on the second class period. There will be no makeup quizzes except for excused absences. Class Attendance/Absence Policy: You need to attend class in order to get the quiz and participation points. If you miss class, it is your responsibility to get the information 3

4 necessary to get homework assignments turned in on time. If you miss class or do not bring your clicker you will get a 0 for quiz and participation points. It is also important to arrive to class on time. Coming in late is a distraction to others in the class. To encourage being on time, I will give a question at the very beginning of class (right at 2:35). Those who answer the question will get 4 points, regardless of their response. If you are late to class you will not be there to answer this question, and so you will not earn the 4 points the question provides. Incomplete Grades: According to university policy incomplete grades may be given only if a student passed the first half of the course and is precluded from successful completion of the course by a documented illness or family crisis which genuinely precluded successful completion of the course. Excused Absences: For a university recognized absence, homework can be made up making arrangements with me. If an illness prevents you from attending class and/or submitting assignments, you must either bring in a doctor s note or, in the case of a less severe illness or other excuse, notify me by phone or before class. Student athletes should submit a complete calendar of excused absences within the first two weeks of the semester to allow for planning on my part. There will be no opportunity to makeup quiz and participation points, or assignments, for unexcused absences. Generally, if you have an excused absence, then you will be able to make up quiz and participation points by printing out the day s quiz from the website, answering the quiz question, and responding to two of the clicker questions from the lecture (which can be viewed from the website). You will get the participation points and, if you answer the quiz question correctly, the quiz points. If you are allowed to turn in an assignment late due to an excused absence, you will then need to bring in a hard copy to class. You need to arrange with me the due date for the assignment. Extra Credit: Other than the one extra credit assignment, there is no opportunity for extra credit work, so don t bother asking during the semester. Instead, make sure you do the work so that you aren t tempted to ask about extra credit. If you ask I ll remind you that there is no extra credit available in this class. Lottery Scholarship: Rules about the lottery scholarship have changed. Check out fa.nmsu.edu/front-page/lottery for more details. Important Dates to Remember: Last day to add a class without instructor permission: Friday 16 January Martin Luther King Holiday: Monday 19 January Last day to add a class with instructor permission: Tuesday 27 January 4

5 Last day to drop with a W: Monday 16 March Spring Break: March Spring Holiday: Friday 3 April Last day to withdraw from the University: Friday 17 April Last regular class period: 1 May Exam week: 4-8 May Academic Ethics: Plagiarism is using another person s work without acknowledgment, making it appear to be one s own. Intentional and unintentional instances of plagiarism are considered instances of academic misconduct and are subject to disciplinary action such as failure on the assignment, failure of the course or dismissal from the university. The NMSU Library has more information and help on how to avoid plagiarism at lib.nmsu.edu/plagiarism. Students With Disabilities: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers issues relating to disability and accommodations. If a student has questions or needs an accommodation in the classroom (all medical information is treated confidentially), contact: Trudy Luken, Director Student Accessibility Services (SAS) Corbett Center, Rm. 244 Phone: (575) sas@nmsu.edu Website: sas.nmsu.edu NMSU policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, retaliation, serious medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, spousal affiliation and protected veterans status. Furthermore, Title IX prohibits sex discrimination to include sexual misconduct, sexual violence, sexual harassment and retaliation. For more information on discrimination issues, Title IX or NMSU s complaint process contact: Gerard Nevarez, Executive Director or Agustin Diaz, Associate Director Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) O Loughlin House Phone: (575) equity@nmsu.edu Website: eeo/ 5

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