Math 251: Multivariable Calculus, Sections 7, 8, 9

Fall 2007

Attendance:  I expect you to come to every recitation.  In recitation I will be explaining homework problems, answering questions, and in general helping your understanding of the course.  If you need to miss a recitation, please email me to let me know why.  Emailing me before class rather than after is vastly preferred, but I realize that things like car trouble are unpredictable.  There is not an attendance grade per se, but quizzes and homeworks cannot be made up without first explaining your absence. Oversleeping is not an excusable absence.

Quizzes and Homework: I will be in charge of administering and grading quizzes.  I will also grade homeworks.  There will not be a quiz every week, and I will not be collecting every homework assignment.  Something, either a quiz or a homework, will be graded every week.  It will not be announced the week before what will be graded, however, so you will need to come to each recitation prepared to either hand in your homework or take a quiz.

Maple Assignments:  There will be four Maple assignments.  You are expected to complete each assignment on your own time.  For each assignment you will each receive individual data and an instruction sheet listing calculations you are to do using that data.  Also for each assignment there is an associated background webpage explaining many of the commands you will need to use.  My webpage will have links to the relevant webpages as the assignments are given.

Email policy: I have a few simple rules regarding email:

  1. I cannot be expected to check my email every hour on the hour. Do not wait until the last minute to email me, and please be patient for a response.
  2. Please use subject lines so I can better keep track of messages.
  3. Please use correct capitalization and grammar.  Poorly written emails are answered last.

Grading:  Your recitation grade is 20% of the total grade.  Half of the recitation grade (10% of the total course grade) comes from quizzes, a quarter is from homeworks, and the last quarter is from Maple assignments.