Math 106 LECTURE 207 – Online

Contemporary Applications of Mathematics

SPRING Semester 2011

3/28/11-5/19/11

SYLLABUS DATED 1/10/11

INSTRUCTOR:

Tom O’Bryan, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science. Office on campus is Holton 118, direct phone line is 414-229-5851 with voicemail, email address is , fax number is 414-229-4628 (shared by many colleagues in the building - be sure to send a cover page if you fax anything).

PREREQUISITE:

Either a grade of C or better in UWM Math 094 or 095 (or its equivalent on transfer) or a UWM math placement score of at least 20. This prerequisite is enforced without exception by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Textbook and Calculator Requirement:

There is no textbook required for this section of Math 106. All the material is available on the course d2l web site. You will need a calculator able to compute Combinations – ordinarily a calculator with an “nCr”button or capability.

Important Administrative Dates FOR MATH 106-207:

Monday / 3/28/11 / First day of classes for Math 106-207
Friday / 4/01/11 / Last day to add or change sections. Last day to change from graded basis to audit or to credit/no credit, or vice versa.
Friday / 4/08/11 / Last day to drop w/o "W" on record
Friday / 4/22/11 / Last day to drop
Thursday / 5/19/11 / Last day to complete graded course items for Math 106-207

GENERAL Course OUTLINE AND RECOMMENDED SELF-PACED SCHEDULE:

ITEM / TOPIC / Complete by
Module 1 / Methods of Voting & Extended Ranking / T 3/29
Module 2 / Methods of Voting & Recursive Ranking / F 4/01
Module 3 / Weighted Voting and Power / T 4/05
QUIZ 123 / F 4/08
Module 4 / Fair Division & Adjusted Winner / T 4/12
Module 5 / Sealed Bids / F 4/15
Module 6 / Apportionment / T 4/19
QUIZ 456 / F 4/22
Module 7 / Traveling Salesperson Problem / T 4/26
Module 9 / Probability - Introduction / F 4/29
QUIZ 789 / T 5/03
Module 10 / Probability - Combinations / F 5/06
Module 11 / Probability - Multiplication Rule / T 5/10
QUIZ 1011 / F 5/13
FINAL TEST / R 5/19

Grading Policies:

The course grade is based entirely on the FINAL TEST score. The FINAL TEST is an open-note, calculator allowed cumulative test that may be attempted twice. Past history in this course indicates that 95% of those qualifying to take the FINAL TEST get a grade of C or better. The tables below give the course grade that will be awarded based on the highest FINAL TEST score achieved by the 5/19/11 deadline:

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For those who have scored at least 5 on QUIZ 1011 prior to first attempting the FINAL TEST

HIGHEST FINAL TEST SCORE / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 0
COURSE GRADE / A / A- / B+ / B / B- / C / C- / D+ / D / D- / F

For those who have scored at least 5 on QUIZ 789 (but have not scored at least 5 on QUIZ 1011) prior to first attempting the FINAL TEST

HIGHEST FINAL TEST SCORE / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 0
COURSE GRADE / C / C / C / C / C / C / C- / D+ / D / D- / F

For those who have not scored at least 5 on QUIZ 789 prior to first attempting the FINAL TEST - Course grade is F regardless of FINAL TEST score.

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A grade of C (not C-) or better is required to satisfy UWM’s GER Mathematics Proficiency requirement.

There is no extra credit or make-up work available to improve the course grade.

A grade of Incomplete can only be given to a student who has carried the course successfully until near the end of the semester but, because of illness or other unusual and substantiated cause beyond that student's control, has been unable to take or complete the final test or to complete some limited amount of term work.

Course grades can be appealed by following the procedure outlined at http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/upload/grievance_procedure.pdf

FINAL TEST INFORMATION:

The FINAL TEST is a 60 minute timed paper test administered in person and cannot be taken until you score at least 5 on QUIZ 789. Scoring at least 5 on QUIZ 1011 before first attempting the FINAL TEST allows for the potential of a course grade higher than C as detailed above in grading policies. Not scoring at least 5 on QUIZ 789 by 3:30pm on 5/19/11 results in a course grade of F.

The FINAL TEST will have the same format as the quizzes and have similar questions to those on the quizzes. There is a PRACTICE FINAL TEST that will appear on Friday 5/06/11 (or earlier upon completion of QUIZ 1011 if applicable) and can be practiced 10 times.

The FINAL TEST may be taken a maximum of two times but each attempt must be at least 6 hours apart and all attempts must be completed between Monday, May 16, 2011 and Thursday, May 19, 2011.

For those who score at least 5 on QUIZ 1011, the FINAL TEST can optionally be scheduled at any mutually agreeable time prior to 5/16/11.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, you may take the FINAL TEST in a UWM classroom TBA at either 8:00am-9:00am on M 5/16. T 5/17, W 5/18, R 5/19 or 3:30pm-4:30pm on T 5/17, W 5/18, R 5/19. If these times do not work for you or if you are not in the Milwaukee area, you can arrange for a college instructor or a librarian elsewhere to proctor your FINAL TEST. I would need to approve of such an arrangement and have the name, email, mailing address, and phone contact of that person. Most Public Libraries offer a proctoring service, although a few charge a nominal fee. Be sure to get a specific contact name rather than just the name of the library. Proctoring arrangements require at least a 10 working day notice. More information about the FINAL TEST is available in the CONTENT section of the course d2l site.

For the FINAL TEST, you must present a picture ID to verify your identity and you may not use any device which can connect to the internet or which can communicate with another person.

QUALIFYING FOR THE FINAL TEST: QUIZZES 123, 456, 789, 1011:

QUIZZES 123, 456, 789, and 1011 do not per se figure in to your course grade. They qualify you to take the FINAL TEST which alone determines the course grade. These four 6-point quizzes (QUIZ 123, QUIZ 456, QUIZ 789, and QUIZ 1011) are open-notes with calculators allowed. It is necessary to complete QUIZ 789 with a score of 5 or 6 to qualify to take the FINAL TEST. Successfully completing QUIZ 789 without also successfully completing QUIZ 1011 allows a maximum course grade of C and requires the FINAL TEST to be completed between 5/16/11 and 5/19/11.

Each of QUIZ 123, QUIZ 456, QUIZ 789, and QUIZ 1011 is a timed quiz administered on d2l. Each QUIZ may be taken multiple times with only the highest score counting as the QUIZ grade. Your corrected QUIZ is available to you immediately after taking it. If you got anything wrong, re-study that material before the next attempt. You need to score at least 5 on each QUIZ before being permitted to continue with the next unit.

Each QUIZ may be taken up to 10 times until successfully completed by achieving a score of 5 or 6. If you have not successfully completed a QUIZ by the 10th attempt, you need to contact me for additional attempts. It should not happen that you use all 10 attempts. After 4-5 unsuccessful attempts, you need to get assistance – see QUESTIONS below.

It is important that you follow exactly the quiz directions in how you express your answers because the d2l system can only recognize answers in a particular form. In order to get your quiz graded correctly, please follow the instructions to the letter. I expect all quiz solutions to be submitted via the ‘QUIZZES’ area on d2l for online grading. IT IS MY EXPECTATION THAT YOU RECEIVE NO ASSISTANCE WITH QUIZZES.

Each QUIZ has a 40 minute time limit with a 1 minute grace period after the time limit is reached. Here is what d2l says about the time limit functionality: "After the time limit has been exceeded, the student cannot answer any additional questions. However, the student **must** submit the QUIZ anyway, just as usual, to get it to recognize the questions answered prior to the time limit. Note that a student *must* save answers as s/he goes along, because any answers not saved up to the point of the time limit cannot be saved after it has been exceeded!"

COURSE MANAGEMENT:

This course is designed as a self-paced mastery based course. The second paragraph below addresses the mastery based nature of the course. The first paragraph below addresses the self-paced nature of the course. Pretty much the only reason for not being successful in this course is simply not working through the material in a consistent and timely manner – primarily on your own. I see too many students who just keep putting this course off and then try to cram everything in at the end. While some are successful with this strategy, most are not. I also see a few students who depend too heavily on a friend or tutor

Life throws a lot of obstacles at us – illness, family emergencies, computer crashes, etc. To protect against these obstacles, you should work well ahead in the course. In fact, you can completely finish the course well before the end of the semester if you choose. You will need to exercise a lot of self-discipline and practice good time management skills to be successful in this course. I recommended a timetable above as a time model you might choose to follow. This model assumes 3 days for each module, 3 days for multiple attempts of the QUIZ associated with each set of modules, and time for preparing for and taking the FINAL TEST. I advise you to work ahead of this schedule to compensate for times when you are sick or more occupied with assignments in your other courses.

The lecture notes in each module are presented in parts with each part followed by a mini-quiz. The mini-quiz is an un-timed quiz of 1-3 questions. Your corrected mini-quiz is available to you immediately after taking it. If you got anything wrong, re-study that material before the next attempt. The mini-quiz may be taken up to 10 times until successfully completed by achieving correct answers to all items. If you have not successfully completed a mini-quiz by the 10th attempt, you need to contact me for additional attempts. It should not happen that you use all 10 attempts. After 4-5 unsuccessful attempts, you need to get assistance. One way to get assistance is to use the question board.

Each subsequent mini-quiz will not appear until the previous one is successfully completed. The intent of the mini-quiz is to check your understanding of the material and to prepare you for the four timed QUIZZES in the course. Since the QUIZZES are timed, you should strive for both accuracy and quickness with the un-timed mini-quizzes. The mini-quiz score does not count toward the final course grade. However, ALL mini-quizzes in a unit must be successfully completed by achieving correct answers to ALL items before the unit QUIZ can be accessed.

It is important that you follow exactly the mini-quiz directions in how you express your answers because the d2l system can only recognize answers in a particular form. In order to get your mini-quiz graded correctly, please follow the instructions to the letter.

QUESTIONS:

Questions may be asked either by phone or by email. In asking questions about specific problems, I expect you to tell me how you worked the problem so that I can point out where you went wrong. It is not acceptable to just say “please show me how to work this problem”.

ONLINE TUTORING:

http://www4.uwm.edu/pass/services/online.cfm

UNIVERSITY POLICIES:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SecU/SyllabusLinks.pdf