6 th and 7 th Periods
Crapo Hall G-219
Instructor: R. G. Lautzenheiser
Office: Crapo Hall, G-309 Telephone: ext 8394
Office Hours: Posted on my door or email for an appointment.
Email: roger.lautzenheiser@rose-hulman.edu
Text: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra by C. H. Edwards and D. E.
Penney
Coverage: We will be covering material from Chapters 10, 7, and 9 as well as some material not in the text.
Class Grade: Your numerical grade will be determined by the following parts of the course listed below. Your letter grade will then be based on a scale very close to the 90-80-70-60 scale. Plus (+) grades are often given as a reward for doing better on the final than your numerical score would indicate (e.g. your numerical score is 73 but your final exam score was 85%
- probably your letter grade would be C+).
Please feel free to email me questions at any time. I check my email often, so getting an email response will usually be quick.
Daily Homework (0 or 7%). You will decide whether you want to count daily homework as part of your grade. If you decide to have your homework counted, Monday’s and Tuesday’s assignments will be due by noon on
Wednesday (either give it to me during class or put it in the bin outside my office), and Thursday’s and Friday’s will be due by noon on Saturday (again either give it to me during class or put it in the bin outside my office). In the upper right hand corner of the first page of each daily assignment, put your box number, your name, and the assignment number - in this order and vertically. If all three pieces of information are not there and there is not a proper staple in each daily assignment, the grader will not look at your paper. The grader will give you a point for each problem you do (note that you are to show your work – an answer without work will receive no points).

Your numerical score for this part, if you choose to have homework counted, will be Your Total / Total * 7 where Total is the total number of points .
If you decide not to have your homework counted, the extra 7% will be put on the quiz grade.
Daily Question Sheets (15%). You and your partner will turn in daily question sheets at the end of the class period. You will work in pairs on this sheet and turn in one sheet per pair. Regardless of who does the writing, both of you are responsible for what you hand in. I will grade these as
0 – sloppy, unreadable, messy, mostly incomplete
1 – readable but incomplete
2 – readable and almost complete
Your numerical score for this part will be Your Total /(2* # of sheets ) *15.
If you miss class, your grade will be your partner’s grade if excused absence and 0 if unexcused absence.
In the upper right hand corner of the first page, vertically put Week x – Day and then your names.
Quizzes (13% or 20% ( if you don’t count homework )).
Your numerical score for this part will be Your Total/Total * 13 or 20 where Total is the total number of quiz points .
If you have a legitimate excuse for missing a quiz, your quiz grade will be determined by your final exam percentage.
Two Class Exams (each 20%).
If you have a legitimate excuse for missing an exam, your exam grade will be determined by your final exam percentage.
Final Exam (25%)
Attendance: I expect you to be in class. My attendance policy is the same as the school’s official policy – see Page 3 of RHIT’s Academic Rules and
Procedures.
Classroom Etiquette:

1) Questions are encouraged. Please feel free to ask questions at any time of the class period. Ask about what is taking place, what you read the previous night, … ask, ask, ask!!
2) Everyone should be respectful of everyone else.
3) Please do not annoy me or others during the class period by reading the thorn, finishing a paper for another class, talking continuously, playing games on your laptop, checking email, etc etc
4) If you and your partner finish early with the daily sheet, then you are to help each other with the reading assignment or work on some of the assigned homework. Since we will be using the computer, I will allow computer shutdown to occur 5 minutes before the end of the class period,
before that time.
5)
Always willing to add to the list….