WELCOME TO APPLIED DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
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Lots of important links off to the left!
Your teaching staff:
Instructor: Tracy Larrabee
Office hours: T 1-2, or send me email or use the webforum.
Office: 337A E2
Teaching Assistants:
Section:
Tuesday 2:00-3:10 E2 194
Office hour:
Tuesday 12:00-1:00 JBE 312C/D
Sections:
Wednesday 5:00-6:10pm Porter Academic 148
Wednesday 6:30-7:40pm Porter Academic 148
Office Hour:
Wednesday, 12:00-1:00 JBE 312B
Sections:
Monday 9:30-10:40am E2 192
Wednesday 8:00-9:10am E2 192
Office Hour:
Monday 11:00-12:00 E2 209
Section:
Wednesday 11:00-12L19pm E2 192
Office Hour:
Wednesday 1:00-2:00 E2 584
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MSI Tutors
Monday 5:00 - 6:10 Porter 250
Thursday 12:00 - 1:10 Porter 241
Thursday 4:00 - 5:10 Soc Sci II 363 (Soc Sci II is a building and 363 is a room)
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Class Locations and dates
Class location: Media Theater
Class time: T Th 6:00-7:45
Class Calender
Check your Grades!
Date and time of final exam: 4-7pm, Monday March 14
Textbooks
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Another book some students find helpful is The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs by Antonella Cupillari. You don't need to buy this book if you don't want to, but many who have been intimidated by proofs (especially inductive proofs) have found it useful. Discrete Mathematics and its Applications CUSTOM EDITION FROM THE BOOKSTORE (or 7th edition). You can buy the cheaper paperback version from the bookstore, or get the book any other way. The previous quarter's books will work.
Syllabus
- Week 1:Introduction & Logic
- Week 2:Logic & Sets
- Week 3:Functions, Sequences, & Summations
- Week 4:Integers & Intro to proofs
- Week 5:Induction
- Week 6:more Induction and Recursion
- Week 7:Counting: Permutations and Combinations
- Week 8:Probability and Recursion
- Week 9:Recursion and Relations
- Week 10:Relations and Equivalences
Assignments and quizzes
Your grade will be 40% from the weekly quizzes, 20% from the homework, which should largely cover the quiz material, and 40% from the final exam. We don't have the manpower to give you detailed feedback on the homework, but we will always publish a solution to the homework before the weekly quiz. It is in your interests to understand the homework, because I often use problems straight off the homework for the weekly quiz. Make sure to keep up with the required readings listed on the quiz preparation tab at the left.
There are no makeup quizzes in this class! However, your grade will come from your best 7 quizzes, so that should cover the odd family event or work emergency that causes you to miss a couple of quizzes.
Communications
Please feel free to tell either the professor or the TA about any comments or suggestions you might have about how to improve the class. The best way to do this is by electronic mail, If you want to communicate anything to either of us anonymously, this is a good way to do it. You are always welcome to broadcast your opinions by using the webforum.
Disability Resource Center Student Accomodations
I welcome DRC students. Make sure you talk to me at the beginning of the quarter about your needs. As a note, I far prefer your emailing me a PDF of your DRC form instead of giving me a piece of paper.
Cheating
I hate to talk about cheating, because I like to assume there will be none, but the School of Engineering says I must: If a TA finds or I find conclusive evidence that you have cheated on a quiz or exam, you will fail that quiz or exam. It will not be possible to pass this course with a grade of 0 on the final exam. You should know that if you have been officially charged with cheating, and the provost has ruled that you have cheated, you get a black mark on your record: this could lead to either suspension or expulsion from this university.
To receive credit for a weekly quiz, you must sit in one of the installed seats of the lecture hall, and you must put the names of your right and left neighbor on the top of your quiz page (put something like "end of row" if there is no one on one side). After you turn in your test, you must leave the lecture hall immediately, and if you have forgotten your backpack or other materials, you may not retrieve them until class time is over. You may not talk to anyone during the test time but the instructor or one of the TAs. Violations of this rule will result in a quiz score of zero on the part of the person doing the talking.
Just as something to keep in mind, you will have an assigned seat for the final exam. Don't grow too dependent on sitting with your friends during examinations.
This all sounds ominous, but honestly, it is just so we all know that everyone is on a level playing field.