Math 125 Spring 2010 Homepage
Course Announcements:
- May 17: Letter grades are posted in the gradebook. These letter grades are not official until they appear in the UI-Integrate/Banner system. Minor adjustments were made to letter grade cutoffs. Other than these small adjustments, the class will not be curved.
- May 15: Final exam scores are posted but letter grades have not yet been assigned. Until they are, the gradebook will display your semester average but not a letter grade. We will not be answering emails about grades until after letter grades have been assigned.
- May 8: Tim will be holding extra office hours in Altgeld Hall, room 108, between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 10-12.
- May 8: There will be an extra tutoring hour on Tuesday, May 11, between 5 PM and 6 PM, in Altgeld Hall, room 314.
- May 4: To ensure that we are able to give you 3 hours to take the final exam, we ask that everyone arrive at their exam room at least 20 minutes before the scheduled start of the exam. This will allow us to check everyone in and get the exam started as close to the scheduled start as possible.
- May 4: There will be no tutoring on reading day, Thursday, May 6th. Additional tutoring times for next week will be posted to the course announcements when they are scheduled.
- May 4: Tim will be having office hours on reading day, Thursday, May 6th. Additional office hour times for next week will be posted to the course announcements when they are scheduled.
- May 4: Blank copies of the supplement to Section 5.2 are posted to the lecture notes page.
- May 3: The room assignments for the final exam follow. You must take the final exam at the time listed for the lecture in which you are registered. To find the location of buildings on campus, check out the campus map and select the building you are looking for from the drop down menu.
Section X1 (12PM section)The final exam will be given between 7 PM and 10 PM on Wednesday, May 12th.
Students with last names beginning with "A" through "H" should report to the Chem Annex, room 112.
Students with last names beginning with "J" through "Z" should report to Gregory Hall, room 100.
Section F1 (2PM section)The final exam will be given between 8 AM and 11 AM on Thursday, May 13th.
All students should report to Gregory Hall, room 112.
- Apr 30: Homework 8 is posted. Homework 8 is optional. If you choose to do homework 8 then the score you receive will replace the lowest of your 7 previous homework scores. Homework 8 is officially due in class on Wednesday, May 5, but will also be accepted at check in during the final exam.
- Apr 30: Solutions to exam 3 are posted. Please submit any grade explanation forms by Friday, May 7.
- Apr 26: Curved exam 3 scores are recorded online. Please check that the score recorded is 4 points higher than the score on the front of your exam.
- Apr 26: To help you see how your performance on exam 3 compares with the rest of the class, we've created a statistical plot listing every exam score from the two sections. The scores listed are uncurved scores; the lines indicate letter grades after the 4 point curve is applied.
- Apr 26: The average score for exam 3 is 34 out of 50. A 4 point curve will be applied to exam 3. Exam scores are not yet posted to the gradebook. They will be posted by noon on Wednesday.
- Apr 21: Lecture will be cancelled on Friday, April 23rd.
- Apr 16: Homework 7 is posted. Problems 1 through 8 cover material that will be tested on Exam 3. Problems 9 and 10 cover material that will not be tested until the final exam.
- Apr 16: Exam 3 will cover sections 3.6, 3.4, 3.5, 4.VS (Vector Spaces), 4.2 (Revisited), 4.3 and 4.4.
- Apr 6: Blank copies of revised notes for the Vector Spaces section and Section 4.2 Revisited have been posted to the Lecture Notes page.
- Apr 4: Homework 6 is posted.
- Mar 30: Solutions to Exam 2 are posted. Please submit grade explanations forms for Exam 2 on or before Wednesday, April 7th.
- Mar 29: Exam 2 will be handed back in class today. The 6 problems are worth a total of 49 points. Following directions by circling your lecture and taking the exam in the correct room was worth 1 additional point. Please make sure the score recorded on the front of your exam is correct and that your score is recorded correctly in the gradebook.
- Mar 24: The average score for exam 2 is 33 out of 50. A 5 point curve will be applied to exam 2. To help you see how your performance compares with the rest of the class, we've created a statistical plot listing every exam score from the two sections. The scores listed are uncurved scores; the lines indicate letter grades after the 5 point curve is applied.
- Mar 24: Exam 2 scores are recorded online. To
check your scores, login to the gradebook. There you should see 2 scores for exam 2. One score is your raw score; the other is your curved score. For example, if your scores look like:
X1|LeSaulnier Timothy tlesaul2|hw1:16/20 hw2:19.5/20 hw3:12/20 hw4:16/20 exam1v1:39/50 exam1v2:39/50 exam1v3:--/50 exam2v1:--/50 exam2v2:33/50 exam2v3:--/50 exam2v1curved:--/50 exam2v2curved:38/50 exam2v3curved:--/50
then your uncurved score for exam 2 is indicated by the line exam2v2:33/50. Your curved score for exam 2 is indicated by the line exam2v2:38/50. Please check your scores to see that your curved score is 5 points higher than your raw score. Report any inconsistencies to Tim (tlesaul2).
- Mar 12: Homework 5 is posted. All material covered on Homework 5 will be covered on Exam 2.
- Mar 12: Exam 2 will cover Sections 2.6, 2.7, 4.1, 5.1, 4.2, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.
- Mar 12: Lecture will be cancelled on Friday, March 19th.
- Mar 4: Course packets are now available at TIS bookstore.
- Mar 2: Blank copies of the course notes for section 3.1 have been posted.
- Feb 26: Homework 4 has been reposted with minor changes to problem 8.
- Feb 26: Solutions to Exam 1 and Homework 3 are posted. Please submit any grade explanation forms for Exam 1 by March 5th.
- Feb 26: There will be no class on Friday, March 5th.
- Feb 23: Homework and exam scores are recorded online. To check your scores, login to the gradebook. Please report any discrepancies to Tim.
- Feb 23: Questions 9 and 10 on homework 3 have not yet been covered in class. They will be moved to the next homework.
- Feb 22: To streamline the grade explanation process we ask that you fill out the Grade Explanation Form. Staple the form to the course material you are submitting and return it in class, in office hours, or to Tim's mailbox in Altgeld Hall, room 250.
- Feb 22: The average score for exam 1 is 39 out of 50.
- Feb 16: Blank copies of the course notes for sections 4.1 and 5.1 have been posted.
- Feb 12: Homework 3 is posted. Problems 1 through 5 cover material that will be tested on Exam 1. Problems 6 through 10 cover material that will be tested on Exam 2.
- Feb 11: Exam 1 will cover all material covered in the course up to and including slack variables and initial simplex tables.
- Feb 9: Thanks to a student suggestion, blank copies of some of the past exams have been posted to the Math 125 Exams webpage. More blank exams may be posted as they become available.
- Feb 4: The last homework of the semester will be optional. The grade you receive on it will replace your lowest homework score of the semester.
- Feb 4: The purpose of this announcement is to resolve a few issues concerning homework grading so that they do not reoccur in the future. Your solutions to graded homeworks are to be written on stapled loose leaf paper. Points will be deducted if your homework is not stapled or is written on notebook paper that has rough edges. The graders for the course will be instructed not to grade any work that is written on a printout of the problem sheet. This is because, most often, any work written on the problem sheet is your scratch work and you didn't intend for it to be graded anyway. To ensure that you receive full credit for your work, please make sure to write any work you want graded on a separate sheet of paper. Also, detailed conclusions are necessary to fully convey that you understand a problem. Please be sure to provide enough information in your conclusions so that anyone involved in the course would understand. Using complete sentences in your conclusions is a good way of ensuring that you have done this. Lastly, as always, you must show your work to receive full credit. If you have any further questions, please email Tim (tlesaul2).
- Feb 3: Homework 1 is graded out of 16 points. Students that turned in the syllabus homework will receive an additional 4 points for a total of 20 points possible.
- Jan 31: Homework 2 is posted.
- Jan 29: Professor Muncaster's lecture presentation files from chapter 1 are posted on Compass in pdf format. Future presentation files will be posted section by section. Printing of these files is purposely disabled.
- Jan 29: In addition to TI-83, TI-83+ and TI-84 calculators, you will be allowed to use TI-84+ calculators on exams as well.
- Jan 27: Late syllabus homeworks may be turned in at office hours at 1PM in Altgeld Hall, room 108, on Thursday, January 28th, or placed in Tim's mailbox in Altgeld Hall, room 250, before 2PM the same day. No late homework will be accepted after this.
- Jan 26: Effective Wednesday, January 27th, tutoring will move to Altgeld Hall, room 241.
- Jan 25: Office hours with Tim will be held Thursdays between 1 and 2 PM in Altgeld Hall, room 108.
- Jan 20: Tutoring information is posted in the Math 125 Tutoring and Office Hours page. Tutoring will be offered Monday through Thursday starting Monday, January 25.
- Jan 19: Homework 1 is posted in the Graded Homeworks page. It is due Wednesday, January 27. There are two parts. Part one covers the syllabus. You may print this part and write in your answers directly. Part two covers course material. Solutions to part two must be turned in on loose leaf paper.
- Jan 13: Lecture notes for the sections covered in the first weeks of class will be posted in the Math 125 Lecture Notes page.
- Jan 12: The course website is live.