Math
1420-008 (Foundations of Mathematics)
Spring 2008
Professor:
Office: 367 Dunn Hall;
Phone: 901-678-3089; E-mail: mmusat@memphis.edu
Schedule Assignments Exams and
Quizzes
o Lectures: TuTh 9:40-11:05 am, 129 Dunn
Hall.
o Office Hours: TuTh 8:30-9:30 am, 367
Dunn Hall.
o Textbook: Mathematical Ideas, Second Abridged edition
for the
o The hour-exams will take place during
lecture on the following dates: January 31, February 21, March 25 and April 8,
2008.
o The quizzes will take place during the
last 15 min of lecture on the following dates: February 14, March 13 and April
1, 2008.
o The final exam is on Tuesday, April 29,
2008, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, 129 Dunn Hall.
There are no make-up hour-exams, no make-up quizzes and and no make-up final exam!
GRADING POLICY
There
will be four one hour-exams, three quizzes and a final exam. The link to Exams
at the top of the page contains all the information about the dates and the
material that each exam covers. Each hour-exam is worth 100 points. The lowest
hour-exam score will be dropped, and only the best three scores of the
hour-exams will be used in order to compute your final grade. The homework is
assigned weekly (under the link to Assignments above), but it will not be collected.
The quizzes will be out of homework problems, therefore you are strongly
encouraged to do all the assigned homework. Each quiz is worth 10 points. The
final exam is cumulative, and it is worth 170 points. The maximum score you can
achieve in the class is 500 points.
The final letter grade will be assigned using the following scale:
95-100%=A, 90-95%=A-, 87-90%=B+,
84-87%=B, 80-84%=B-, 77-80%=C+, 74-77%=C, 70-74%=C-, 67-70%=D+, 60-67%=D,
0-60%=F.