Course Syllabus

Finite Mathematics, M118

Please also read the Departmental Syllabus.

Section: 30353
Class Day and Times: MWF 9:05am - 9:55am
Class Location: Woodburn Hall (WH) 003
Text: Finite Mathematics, Sixth Edition, by Maki, Thompson, and McKinley  
Instructor: Alex Kruckman
Office and Office Hours: Rawles Hall (RH) 315, Mondays 2:30pm-3:30pm, Wednesdays 1:00pm-2:00pm, and Thursdays 10:00am-11:00am
AI Office Hours: Koushik Ghosh, Swain East (SE) 341, Mondays 11:00am-12:00pm
Junyan Xu, Swain East (SE) 223, Fridays 12:15pm-1:15pm

Announcements and class information: Official course announcements will be made through Canvas. You are required to set your Canvas notifications so that your receive these announcements. Failure to do so will not be considered a legitimate excuse for missing assignments or any other thing that might be announced via Canvas. Go to Account -> Notifications and set Announcements to be received immediately. 

Important dates: Last day for automatic withdrawals is Sunday, October 23. The common midterm exam for Math M118 is Saturday, October 15th from 8:00am-9:30am. The common final exam for Math 118 is Wednesday, December 14th from 2:45pm-4:45pm. 

Exams: In addition to the departmental midterm and final exams listed above, there will be two in class exams, held on Friday September 16th and Friday November 18th. Please make sure you can attend these exams: no make-up exams will be given. If you have a very good reason why you must miss an in class exam, please contact me about it as far in advance as possible. If you have a conflict with a departmental exam, you must submit a departmental Request for Variance form within the first three weeks of class.

Calculators: No calculators are allowed on the exams for this course. Smartphones must also be put away for the duration of the exam. Any violations of this policy will automatically be considered cheating.

Homework: The graded homework in this course will be done through the online homework system WebWork. There will be a WebWork assignment for each section of the textbook we cover.

Students who do not have access to a personal computer should plan to work their WebWork assignments from a Student Technology Center (STC) on campus. For locations, see: https://stc.iu.edu/framework/Apps/Public/SiteRes/LabInfo.cfm

Additional, suggested problems are recommended and included as ungraded homework assignments. I encourage you to do as many of these problems as your have time for, but you will not turn them in.

Quizzes: There will be a quick 8 minute quiz held at the beginning of class every Friday. There are three exceptions: In weeks 4 and 13, there will be no quiz, since we have in-class exams. And in week 7, the quiz will be on Wednesday (10/5) since there is no class on Friday due to Fall Break.

At the end of the semester, your two lowest quiz scores will be dropped. No make-up quizzes will be given for any reason: if you must miss a quiz, it will simply be one of your dropped scores.

Academic Misconduct: The Department of Mathematics expects its students to comply fully with Indiana University policies on academic integrity. The Penalties for a student caught cheating in M118 may include a final course grade of F* (the star tells the registrar that the F is due to cheating) along with probation, suspension, or expulsion from the University. Academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Student Ethics. Students should review the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct, posted at: http://studentcode.iu.edu/

Religious Holiday Policy: If you will miss class, especially a class during which there will be an exam or other required work, for a religious holiday, you must inform me during the first two weeks of the semester. Procedures and campus policy can be found at: http://vpfaa.indiana.edu/docs/religious_observances/religious-observances-statement.pdf

Resources: You should begin your homework as soon as possible after the lecture it is assigned. If you have difficulties, you have many resources available to help you: 

• Office hours: My office hours, and those of your AI, are listed at the top of this syllabus.
• Departmental Help Sessions: Listed in the Departmental Syllabus.
• Free tutoring available at the Academic Support Centers in the dorms from 7-11 Sunday-Thursday. See details in the Departmental Syllabus.
• Help videos at The Finite Show.
• Practice exams available at M118 Practice Exams.

Grades: Your course grade will be computed using the following weights listed at the side or bottom of this page.