MATH 1330: Precalculus
Fall 2012
Section 15813, SEC 100
Lecturer:
Office:
Email:
Website:
Mailbox:
Phone:
Conference Hours:
Leigh Hollyer
617 PGH
dog@uh.edu
www.math.uh.edu/~dog
641 PGH
do not contact me by phone, use email
Friday 10am – noon
in MathLab, 222 Garrison
or by appointment (make appointments by email, please)
First day: Friday Jan. 27
Last day: Friday April 27
Text:
online: in your CourseWare account. Please buy and enter an Access
Code as soon as possible.
Access code:
Access Codes are purchased at The Book Store at the register. Once
purchased, enter the code into the online form at casa.uh.edu by the
deadline. Students who have not entered a valid access code by the
deadline will be denied access to their course account and will not be able
to submit coursework until they enter a valid access code. The deadline is
the beginning of the third week of class.
ADA Policy:
A current Student Accommodation Form (SAF) must be presented in a timely
manner for accommodations to be approved. No retroactive accommodations
will be provided.
This course is a “no calculator” course. No students are allowed to have them so
a calculator is not available as an accommodation because it would change the
essential nature of the course and provide an unfair advantage.
Accommodations that are listed on your SAF that would NOT change the
essential nature of a course or provide an unfair advantage may be approved (e.g.
an extra set of class notes for lecture, testing at CSD, extended time*…). Please
review these with me during the conference hours for the class (not
immediately before or after a lecture).
*If you run over the agreed upon extended time you will be penalized in
proportion to the amount over.
Academic Conduct:
Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated in this class. Failure to
report a dishonest act is also categorized as “Academic
Dishonesty” in the UH Student Handbook. If you notice a
classmate committing a dishonest act, please talk to me about it.
(See page 8 of the Student Handbook for more details on the UH
Policy.)
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Calculators:
Calculators will not be allowed on any exam.
CASA Testing:
is the Math Department testing center. It is in 221A Garrison.
Students are not permitted to bring any personal belongings to the
testing cubicle; the department is not liable for any lost or
misplaced personal belongings.
A Cougar 1 id card is required to check in. Tests begin on the
hour; arriving late will shorten the time you have to take a test;
more than 10 minutes late and you won’t be seated…you may
reschedule on a space available basis.
Reservations are required; the link to the reservations system is on
the CourseWare homepage and on my homepage; or you may use
the url: casa.uh.edu. Reservations should be made by midnight
before the day the testing period begins.
There is NO “standby” provision; you may NOT hang around the
Testing Center hoping to snag an unused spot. Occasionally an
open spot shows up if there’s a cancellation; it will be posted
online and you may register for it online.
CLASS majors:
This course is not recommended for CLASS majors.
Please take Math 2311 if you are one of these.
Course Policies Quiz This is a mandatory experience. Take it on CourseWare during the first
week of school. A score of 100 is a requirement. You will not be
allowed to take any quizzes or practice tests nor can you take Test 1
until you’re finished this chore. Use the 13xx Policies statement from my
website to find the answers to the CPQ.
Exams:
There will be four online exams at CASA and a comprehensive final exam
at the scheduled time in our classroom.
Note that NO exams will be dropped or omitted and retakes are not
permitted.
You must bring your Cougar 1 card to every test.
Exam dates for Fall 2011:
Test 1:
Test 2:
Test 3:
Test 4:
Final**:
Sept. 5 - 7, online
Oct. 4 - 6 at CASA
Oct. 25 - 27 at CASA
Nov. 30 – Dec. 3 at CASA
Tuesday, Dec. 18,11 am – 1pm in our classroom,
bring a popper bubbling form
Finals are NEVER held during the class time of the semester. Plan on
attending ours at the correct time. If your holiday travel plans preclude
this, go enroll in a different section right now, please.
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** You will need a Math Department popper bubbling form for the final.
There are enough in the course packet for this.
Tests are 50 minutes long (despite the class time being 90 minutes – these
times are NOT correlated). I suggest 20 minutes for the multiple choice
questions, 20 minutes for free response questions, and 10 minutes to check
your work. You will be given 3 sheets of scratch paper as you enter the
Testing Center – keep it neat and use it to help you check your work in the
final 10 minutes of the 50. Push the “submit” button when you’re
completely ready to leave the Testing Center, AFTER you’ve finished
ALL the questions and checked your work. The final is 110 minutes long.
Extra Credit:
There are practice tests and a practice final on Courseware. 10% of the
highest score you earn will be applied to the relevant test as extra credit.
Pay attention to the “end” dates on these. None of the practice tests will
ever be re-opened. You have one time-limited shot at each of the 5 extra
credit assignments. There is NONE available at the end of the semester
except for the Practice Final.
Grading:
Test 1:
Test 2:
Test 3:
Test 4:
Final Exam:
Poppers
Homework
Weekly quizzes:
10%
15%
15%
15%
15%
10%
10%
10%
Total:
100%
You may use the Letter Grade Calculator to check your grade during the semester.
However it turns off at exemption. If you want to calculate your grade during
finals, use the following formula:
multiply your Test 1 grade by .10, multiply each of Tests 2, 3, and 4 scores by
0.15, multiply the Final Exam by 0.15, multiply your weekly quiz average by 10,
multiply your homework average plus your attendance average by 10, multiply
your popper average by 10. Add all these to get your semester score.
Grading Scale: If you call your score “x”…
A
AB+
B
93 < x < 100
90 < x < 93
87 < x < 90
83 < x < 87
BC+
C
C-
80 < x < 83
77 < x < 80
73 < x < 77
70 < x < 73
D+
D
DF
67 < x < 70
63 < x < 67
60 < x < 63
0 < x < 60
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Final Exam
Comprehensive and compulsory unless you’re eligible for an exemption.
No makeups/no excuses.
Bring the department popper bubbling form and your picture ID to our
classroom
NO EARLY FINALS
If you calculate your grade AFTER Test 4, using the grade calculator, and
your final grade starts with an “8”, you may choose to be exempt from
the final. Grades from A to B minus are exempt-possible. There is a
deadline for choosing exemption and once chosen, you cannot change
your mind. The exemption days are December 7 and 8, 2011.
Help:
The CASA Tutoring Center offers tutoring and is free to all students in
this course. The hours are MTu 9 a.m.  6 p.m., WTh 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., and
F, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. It is located in 222 Garrison.
Learning Support Services tutors this course (3rd floor Social Work).
Help with the problems and streaming lectures is available from
www.online.math..uh/Math1330.
Homework:
Homework is an important part of the class. Each homework assignment
is 20 problems and counts 20 points. In general it is due 48 hours after the
lecture on the material. At the beginning of the semester, the first few
homeworks have extended deadlines to accommodate students adding the
class late.
Makeups:
If you miss taking Test 1, you may have a Make-up Test at the department
makeup time (TBA). If you miss taking any single test, your final will
replace that grade. If you’ve already got one test being replaced and you
miss a second one, that grade will be a zero.
A makeup test is NOT a retake. If you’ve taken the test, you must keep
the grade you earned. You may NOT have retakes on any tests.
Modifications:
I reserve the right to make modifications to the syllabus during the
semester as necessary. If any modifications become necessary, I will
announce them in class, post them on my website, or email them to you.
Students are responsible for any announcements –
no matter which medium is used to announce them. Be sure to keep the
email address on CourseWare and with the University current and your
spam filters accepting my email. Note that Hotmail is especially
obnoxious about refusing to deliver class emails – if you can avoid using
Hotmail as your “forward to”, please do so.
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Online Quizzes:
Online quizzes will be given weekly in this course, starting the first week
of classes. You may take each up to 20 times during the time that it’s
available. Your highest score is retained as the score for that quiz.
There are no make-up quizzes. Once they’ve expired, it’s over. You may
hear students from last semester talking about “Amnesty Days” – that was
a failed experiment. We’re never going to do that again. The quizzes go
up once and are down for good once they’re over.
Please contact CourseWare tech support directly if you are having
problems. The email link is on the CASA homepage.
Opt-out
If, at the end of the semester, the Letter Grade Calculator shows a
cumulative score of 80.000000 or higher for you, you may choose to take
the grade and skip the final provided you have finished the online course
evaluation. The process is totally automated. You complete the
evaluation online through CourseWare and then, during the 48 hours
allowed for opt-out you follow the instructions, record your confirmation
number, and you’re done with the course. The dates for opt-out will be
announced during the last few weeks of class.
Poppers:
Beginning with the third week of school, I will give daily poppers…short
questions on the material from the lecture just prior to the one we’re
having. Each popper will be taken on a purple bubbling form. I will drop
15% of the points given out. Popper grades will be posted in your
CourseWare gradebook. There will be no make-up Poppers.
The forms are for sale in the University Copy Center in the Welcome
Center.
Prerequisites:
The prerequisite for this course is to have met one or more of the
following requirements:
1) Received credit for MATH 1310 or higher at UH;
2) Received transfer credit for MATH 1310 or higher taken at another
institution;
3) Placed out of MATH 1310 with a score of 10 or better on the Advanced
Algebra (AA) section of the UH Math Placement Exam; or
4) Placed out of MATH 1310 with a score of 13 or better on the Calculus
Readiness (CR) section of the UH Math Placement Exam.
Students with prior credit for MATH 1432 are not permitted to enroll in
this course.
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Parents:
I will be happy to call (even international long distance) your parents to
tell them that you got an A on any of the tests. All you have to do is ask
me. I will be happy to meet with you and your parents at any time, too.
You must initiate the meeting, though, and you must be present while
we’re talking.
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