FINAL EXAM

Final Exam Dates:
Friday, December 7, 9-10AM; BUS 141
Wednesday, December 12, 1-2PM, SE 215
Wednesday, December 12, 2-3PM, SE 215

Mathematics for Liberal Arts I

MGF 1106-4856
Fall 2001
General Course Information

For more specific information (grades, special announcements, etc.), please access the WebCT pages. The log in page can be found at http://webct3.fau.edu/webct/public/home.pl; once you are on that page, click on Log In. To bypass that LogIn page click on the links at the top or bottom of this page, or on http://webct3.fau.edu/webct/homearea/homearea. You should get the log in dialog box. Once you are logged in, you have to click on the course name, after which things might become self-explanatory.

Instructor: Tomas Schonbek
Office: Room 218, Science & Engineering
Phone: (561) 297-3355
Fax: (561) 297-2436
Email: schonbek@fau.edu

Class Time and Location: M W F 9:00 - 9:50 PM in BUS 141.
Office Hours: M W F 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM.

Assistants

The four sections of Math for Liberal Arts I have been assigned three assistants who will be holding office hours according to the following (still incomplete) schedule:

	M	Tu	W	Th	F
11-11:30	Mr. Wess	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess
11:30-12	Mr. Wess	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess
12-12:30	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Wess, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala
12:30-1	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Gonenc, Mr. Padavala
1-1:30	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala	Mr. Padavala
1:30-2
2-2:30	Mr. Gonenc	Mr. Wess	Mr. Gonenc	Mr. Wess	Mr. Gonenc
2:30-3	Mr. Gonenc	Mr. Wess	Mr. Gonenc	Mr. Wess	Mr. Gonenc
3-3:30
3:30-4
4-4:30	Mr. Gonenc		Mr. Gonenc		Mr. Gonenc
4:30-5	Mr. Gonenc		Mr. Gonenc		Mr. Gonenc

TEXTBOOK

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Student

Richman, Walker, Wisner, and Brewer;

Prentice Hall, NJ 2000

Course Outline

Mathematics for Liberal Arts is currently offered at FAU as a sequence of two courses, of which this course is the first one. If you are planning to take both courses it is probably better, though not essential, to take them in their natural order. Students passing both courses of Mathematics for Liberal Arts will have satisfied the mathematics part of the Gordon rule, which requires students to complete successfully, with grades of "C" or higher, 6 credits hours of mathematics ... in courses at or above the level of College Algebra.

In this course we will cover most of the topics in Chapters 1-5 of the textbook. We do not assume mathematical sophistication or calculational facility on the part of the students. We do assume that students will attend ALL lectures, read the text, complete the homework assignments, and study for the quizzes and exams. Grades will be posted on the web, using WebCT, about which more later. There will also be a goodish amount of supplementary material available on line, so students should be ready to spend some time in cyberspace every week.

GRADING

Homeworks

Homework will be assigned but it won't be collected or graded. Answers to the homework will be posted, in a timely fashion, on the web.

Quizzes

There will be one or two quizzes per week administered online using WebCT. Some details referring to WebCT are still to be worked out. These quizzes will count for 10% of the final grade.

Exams

There will be four exams, all together counting 90% of the final grade. The exams are tentatively scheduled as follows.

Friday, September 21
Friday, October 19
Friday, November 9
Friday, December 7, 7:45 - 10:15 AM

The grade of I (incomplete) will only be given for the reasons specified in the catalog.

GRADING SCALE

The grading scale is as follows.

A: 94% - 100%	B: 84% - 86%	C: 65% - 74%
A-: 90% - 93%	B-: 80% - 83%	D: 60% - 64%
B+: 87% - 89%	C+: 75% - 79%	D-: 55% - 59%

Classroom Etiquette

Due to the size of the class, it is necessary that all students remain quiet during lectures. Students who cause a disturbance will be dropped from the class. It is Florida Atlantic University policy that cell telephones must be switched off during class time.

Instructions on how to access course material online and how to use WebCT will be given in class, or can be found on line. WebCT will be used mostly for the quizzes and to post grades. To contact me, regular e-mail is preferable. To actually log into WebCT, the student login is the first initial of the first name followed by the first three initials of the last name followed by the last four digits of the ss # (ALL IN CAPS). The password is the first four digits of the social security number. So that if your name is Anna Karenina and your social security number is 236-05-8879, then your login name, userid, is AKAR8879; your password is 2360. Once you log in, you can change your password. If you do change it, write it down somewhere or use something you are not likely to forget. If you do forget it, let me know.

Links

Links to Course Material
Links to Supplementary Material You might find some of this material interesting and/or useful.
- The Archimedes' Home Page Archimedes (287-212 BCE) is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. If you like or want to like mathematics, check him out! If you hate mathematics, check out the man who bears so much responsibility for your having to suffer through this course.
- The Sand Reckoner in which Archimedes' argues about the fact that there is no end to the numbers.
- Supplementary notes on syllogisms
- Professor Richman's syllogism machine
- Other javascript programs. Professor Fred Richman has written a number of programs in javascript to illustrate the concepts of the textbook. Here are a few. More will be added later on.