Class meets
at SAC 294 from 11:20 to 12:50 on MW. My office is SAC 528 and my office
hour is 10:10 to 11:10 am on WM or by appointment. Class meets
at SAC 294 from 11:20 to 12:50 on MW. My office is SAC 528 and my office
hour is 10:10 to 11:10 am on WM or by appointment.
There is free tutor service available. In
LPC, the location is 5th floor lounge area (outside my office).
It is also available at Loop. See
tutor
schedule now. More tutors are expecting to come so the
schedule may be updated periodically.
Do your
homework for the week.
A word of advice for this class and why working on homework correctly is important:
Math is a class that requires heavy practice in order to master it. It usually takes four stages to get it done: 1) understand the lectures and examples, 2) try to redo the examples own your own after you have seen how it is worked out in detail through example in class and in textbook and 3) work on your own with similar questions such as doing homework. Do the third step only after you finish the first two. The key is to work ON YOUR OWN. At the beginning of this stage you may get a few help by looking back examples to reinforce your concepts, checking solution manuals to pass over a hurdle, or asking tutors for occasional help. But if you always doing that, then it indicates you are not ready for this stage yet. You should be back to earlier stages and gain your experiences and skills before you are ready for this stage. By the end of this stage, you should do all the homework without any help and work them out in complete accuracy and proficiency. You may repeat doing them if necessary. 4) test yourself by working on additional questions beyond HW and see if you can do them well in a simulated testing environment. If the simulated test results are not well done, then find the reason why and fix them. If a same kind of problem appears quite often, you should spend time to fix this area so it will appear again. Tutors, SI sessions, and my office hours all can be your aide to go through these steps. As you can see it takes time and effort. A suggested minimum time is 9 hours per week in additional to class meeting time, more if you need make up your background deficiency or to improve your performance beyond current level. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee way to make you successful in math classes, but working hard is a necessary condition for student to do well in classes.
This section of MAT 150 was selected to
participate in DePaul’s Supplemental Instruction Program. Supplemental
Instruction (SI) is a series of weekly review sessions for students taking
historically difficult courses. SI is provided for ALL students who want
to improve their understanding of course material and improve their grades
Attendance at sessions is voluntary (and free to you!).
It offers a chance to get together with people in your class to compare notes,
to discuss important concepts, develop strategies for studying Mathematics, and
to test yourselves before quizzes and exams. At each session you will be guided through this material by your SI leader, a model student who has
previously taken the course.
Each week, the SI leader will
conduct three one-hour study sessions. You can attend the time the works best
for you. You may not be able to attend a session each and every week. That’s OK,
but the sessions will build on each other, so try to attend as many as possible.
Our class SI session has set to be on Sunday 12-1, Wednesday 5:30-6:30, and Friday 12-1, in JTR room 306. The location is Lincoln Park Library room 306. Note that that you may attend the sessions of any MAT150 SI leaders. The complete schedule of this and other classes can be found at the SI website, our class and another MAT 150 class. Again, you may go to either one.
Your
grade and
quiz and
answers will be posted after they
become available. If you get 20/20 in the quiz, you automatically get the full credit of the redo. Otherwise, please redo the quiz so to
understand it better and it is also part of "10th virtual quiz". See below.
Note the redo quiz is the same quiz you did in class, but you have about two days' time to re do it and hand it in at the beginning of the next class (Wed.) which will be counted up to 1/8 of the quiz grade. After you re do all 8 class quizzes, the sum of the redo quizzes adds up become one "virtual quiz" and it is in the all quiz pool. Two of the worst quizzes in the pool (9 class quizzes and one "virtual quiz") will be dropped and 8 remaining ones will be counted as total quiz grade, which is 40% total class grade.
The purpose of redo quiz (besides its rewarding purpose) is to compare what you did the first time in class with what you did the second time after class so that you may find out why you made the mistake in the first place and also find out a way to correct it in the future. If you keep making the same mistake, you need seek assistance as it may not be a simple "careless" mistake. Therefore, it is important that the redo work is done by yourself in order to achieve this purpose. Otherwise, the same problem may appear again in the future test and quizzes and it may continually hurt you.
Please
remove all the programs related to our class stored in your calculator. I may check yours during the test
and quizzes. If I
found any that may be used for our class, I will consider it as cheating and
your paper will be marked as zero. Other actions may be be taken. For more
details regarding Code of Academic Integrity, please refer to your Student
Handbook on Academic
Integrity Policy for details.
Please check this page
regularly for the latest news about our class.
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