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Announcements
- I've submitted final grades to the department; I believe these will be available online from the university. If you'd like to see your final exam or have other questions, feel free to email me or stop by my office.
Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 11:49
- The final exam will be in Dinwiddie 124 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 17 December.
Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 14:28
- The solutions to the practice final are now posted. Let me know if you have any questions (or if you find any mathematical typos).
Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 02:44
- I'm working on the solutions to the practice final, and will post them here as soon as they're done (late Friday or Saturday).
Friday, December 12, 2003 at 14:06
- I'll hand out your grades (except for the final exam) in the review session. If you're not there, see me to get yours. I've graded each component of the course (midterms, quizzes, HW) on a 4.0 scale. The `Current' entry on your handout shows your grade before the final exam grade is added in. The final exam will increase this by an amount between 0 (F on the final) and 1.2 (A on the final). The `w/ Avg' entry shows your approximate final grade value if your final exam grade is the average of your midterm grades; the `w/ A' entry would be your approximate final grade if you get a solid A on the final.
These grades are approximate and may change slightly (but not by too much). I will also take into consideration how your final exam compares with your previous exams (an upward trend is a good thing), especially if you're on the borderline between different grades.
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 17:38
- The practice final is now available (as a .pdf). I'll post the solutions here later this week.
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 15:43
- There will be a review session for the final on Monday, 08 December, from 6:00-9:00 in Gibson 310.
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 16:44
- I've posted the first and second midterms as .pdf files.
Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 02:17
Archived announcements
Course Information
- Lecture
- MWF 1:00 in Gibson 325
- Instructor: Dr. Aaron D. Jaggard (email)
- Gibson 309 (X3642)
- Office Hours: MWF 12:00-12:50 and by appointment
- Lab
- Tuesday 9:30 in Gibson 325
- TA: Chris Duncan (email)
- Gibson 313
- Office Hours: MWF 10:00-10:50 and by appointment
- Text
- Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, 5th ed., Kenneth H. Rosen
- (In stock in the bookstore)
Email is usually a good way to get in touch with me; feel free to use it.
Topics and Schedule
The first midterm covered chapters 1 and 2; the second covered chapters 3 and 4. Since the second midterm, we've covered 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, and 6.6. We'll cover 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, and 7.6 and then, in the final four or five lectures, highlights from chapters 8 and 9. I'm still distilling these chapters into lectures, but we'll cover at least simple graphs and directed graphs (from 8.1) and much, if not all, of 8.2.
Grading
Your grade in this course will be based on exams, homework, and quizzes. Notable information about these and their relative weights are as follows.
Exams (approximately 70%)
There will be two midterms, each worth about 20% of your final grade, and a final exam worth about 30% of your final grade. The second midterm will not explicitly test material from the first, but it may assume the earlier material as background. I am tentatively scheduling the midterms for the lecture periods of Wednesday 01 October and Wednesday 05 November. These dates may change. (I'll let you know of any changes as soon as I decide them.) The final exam will be on Wednesday, 17 December from 8:00--12:00 and will cover all material from the course. Calculators, etc., may not be used for exams.
Homework (approximately 15%)
In most lectures I will assign some problems for homework (these will also be posted on the web). It is important that you keep up with the homework. Homework assigned in one week of lectures (MWF) is due at the beginning of the following week's lab. Late homework will not be accepted.
You are strongly encouraged to do your homework in groups of at most three people. Each person should do the homework, but only one copy from each group should be handed in (this should list the names of all group members).
Quizzes (approximately 15%)
There will be brief quizzes in some (but not all) of the lab sessions. These will include one or two short questions on recent material. Calculators, etc., may not be used for quizzes.
Resources
Aaron D. Jaggard (email)
Department of Mathematics
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 11:49