BASIC INFORMATION for MATH 107,
WINTER,1996
- INSTRUCTOR:
- Dr. Virginia Warfield
Office: Padelford C-437
- T.A.s:
- Adam Nyman
Office: Padelford C-113
- Rebecca Tyson
Office to be announced
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- OFFICE HOURS:
- Warfield Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30
- Nyman Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30
- Tyson Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00-5:00
- YOU WILL NEED:
- Mathematics, a Practical Odyssey, by Johnsaon and Mowry. Available at the University
Bookstore.
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- How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. Available at the University Bookstore.
- Mathematics: a Practical Art, by Arms and Warfield. Available at Professional Copy,
42nd and University Way.
- A calculator with ex and ln x on it (further described on p.vi of Mathematics: a Practical
Art.)
If you already have a calculator and are in doubt about it, show it to me or to your T.A. and
we will check it. If you do not have one, any reasonably simple (i.e., cheap) scientific one
should do fine. Avoid the Hewlett-Packard ones--they are full of things that computer scientists
love, but ordinary mortals get messed up by. YOU MUST BRING YOUR CALCULATOR TO
ALL CLASSES AND TESTS.
You might also find it useful and entertaining to read Lady Luck, by Warren Weaver (also
available at the U. Bookstore), but it is not required.-
- COURSE FORMAT:
- Homework will be assigned regularly (plan on an hour and a half to two hours per night.)
It will only be collected on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Homework and everything else will be
returned on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
There will frequently be mini-problems given and collected in class (mostly in the M-W-F
sessions) Their major function is to help me keep abreast of the state of your knowledge so I can
get the pacing right. They will be worth a smidgeon of credit, though, and will add up to
something like a quiz worth--maybe even two quizzes worth--by the end of the quarter.
There will be some quizzes--frequency and timing yet to be determined. You will have at
least one day's warning on them, but possibly no more than that. They will be designed to test
you on the nuts and bolts of the subject--the techniques and basic problems.
- SCHEDULE:
- Midterm 1 Wednesday, January 26
Midterm 2 Wednesday, February 23
Final Examination 8:30 AM, Thursday, March 17 in the regular classroom
- POINT DISTRIBUTION:
- Homework, worksheets and quizzes 30%
Midterms 15% each
Final 30%
Statistical Project (to be explained later in the quarter) 10%