Will be available on the course's BlackBoard site.
Assignment of exercises to individuals for the group homework have been performed using a random number generator. Problem allocations for LaTeXing for this week's group assignment are available on BlackBoard. This week's coordinator is in bold, and the exercises omitted from the group work are listed in parentheses.
There will be a weekly problem session held from 12:00-1:00 PM on Mondays in the Chapman 101 conference room.
When individual homework is collected, many of the individual problems will be graded. A homework grade on a scale of 0 − 10 will be recorded for your assignment, reflecting my assessment of both the completeness and the correctness of the assignment. Late homeworks will not be accepted except by prior arrangement.
In addition, for each assignment each student will be assigned several problems chosen by your instructor, and will be responsible for drawing up a complete solution in LaTeX. Each week a different student will be in charge of overseeing that these problems are compiled together for submission. You will also receive an individual grade on your contribution to these solutions (0-10 pts); style as well as attention to detail will receive greater emphasis than on the individual assignments.
Some more specific details:
Individual Homework Formatting Instructions
Homework submissions that don't meet these criteria will result in deductions from your grade or nonacceptance of the assignment.
Group Homework Formatting Instructions
Failure to follow these instructions will result in deductions from your grade.
Interpreting Graded Problem Scores
On the individual homework, I want to give you some idea of how to interpret your performance on each graded exercise, separate from the collective score (which takes into account completion rate). These scores inform the score I assign to your individual homework, but don't dictate it; for example, I may choose to weight the graded problems differently when assessing the homework assignment as a whole, and the completion rate may be more or less important on some assignments. Each graded problem will be assessed on a 5 point scale: 5=entirely or nearly correct, 4=nearly correct but solution is poorly presented or contains a notable error, 3=mostly correct but a significant mathematical error, 2=significant progress in the right direction but multiple errors, 1=a genuine attempt at the problem, 0=little or no real attempt at the problem.