WELCOME TO APPLIED DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Office: the cloud
Office hour: T 2:00 via zoom (and via email and by appointment)
MSI Tutors. The MSI sections are in the MSI portable near Cowell. If you go from the Cowell apartments down the main road to OPERS, the MSI portable will be the brown one on your right. It says LAS on it. The Conference room is the room straight through the main entrance to the back.
If you are going for the 5% extra credit from MSI/section attendance, you can only get 2% of it from Section attendance.
A tutorial on how to sign up for LSS tutoring!
Monday 10:40 A.M. – 11:40 A.M. via Zoom
Wednesday 4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. via Zoom
Thursday 5:20 P.M. – 6:20 P.M. via Zoom
Class location: The cloud (not sure if this works, but there are clickable links on CANVAS)
Class time: TTh 3:20-4:55pm
FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, Dec 8 4:00 pm (2 hour exam)
You can check your grades on canvas.
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Our book is Book of Proof, by Richard Hammack. We are using the second edition. You can buy it for cheap on Amazon, but the book is available for free online (legally and legitimately). If you use the third edition, it has different homework assignments and numbers for them.
Another book some students find helpful is The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs by Antonella Cupillari. You don't need to buy this book if you don't want to, but many who have been intimidated by proofs (especially inductive proofs) have found it useful. I've linked to some sample pages, but it isn' tthat hard to find the pdf online or to buy it at amazon.
Your grade will be 50% from the weekly quizzes, 10% from the homework, which should largely cover the quiz material, 40% from the final exam (which you have to pass to pass the course) and 5% extra credit for MSI attendance (you can get up to 2% from Section attendance, but to get the full 5% you have to go to MSI). We don't have the manpower to give you detailed feedback on the homework, but we will always publish a solution to the homework before the weekly quiz. It is in your interests to understand the homework, because I often use problems straight off the homework for the weekly quiz. Make sure to keep up with the required readings listed on the quiz preparation tab at the left.
There are no makeup quizzes in this class! However, your grade will come from your best 7 quizzes, so that should cover the odd family event or work emergency that causes you to miss a couple of quizzes.
Late submission policy: Late work will not be accepted for full credit. Late is any time after the assignment due date. Work turned in 1 day after the due date will reflect a 20 point or 20% loss of credit. Work turned in 2 days after the due date will reflect a 40 point or 40% loss of credit. Work turned in 1 week after the due date will reflect a 60 point or 60% loss of credit. Work turned in 2 weeks after the due date will reflect a 90 point or 90% loss of credit.
Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TA about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail, If you want to communicate anything to either of us anonymously, this is a good way to do it. You are always welcome to broadcast your opinions by using the webforum.
I welcome DRC students. Make sure you talk to me at the beginning of the quarter about your needs. As a note, I far prefer your emailing me a PDF of your DRC form instead of giving me a piece of paper.
I hate to talk about cheating, because I like to assume there will be none, but the School of Engineering says I must: If a TA finds or I find conclusive evidence that you have cheated on a quiz or exam, you will fail that quiz or exam. If you touch a cellphone or unapproved calculator during a quiz or final exam, you will fail that quiz or exam. It will not be possible to pass this course with a grade of 0 on the final exam. You should know that if you have been officially charged with cheating, and the provost has ruled that you have cheated, you get a black mark on your record: this could lead to either suspension or expulsion from this university.
Weekly quizzes will be "zoom proctored" in breakout rooms. You will be timed. At the end of the time period, you will upload a picture of your normal piece of paper with your answers to gradescope..
This all sounds ominous, but honestly, it is just so we all know that everyone is on a level playing field.