Professor Roger Kraft
Office: Classroom Office Building, Room 368
Office phone: (219) 989-2696
Office hours: 2:00--4:00 TR, after class, and by appointment.
E-mail: rlkraft@pnw.edu
Text: Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 4th Edition, by Susanna Epp, Brooks/Cole, 2011.
Prerequisites: MA 14700 or MA 15300
The MA 20500 course covers topics in discrete mathematics which are essential to the discipline of computer technology. These include: logic, sequences, mathematical induction, basic set theory, functions, recursion, relations, graphs, and trees.
This course will cover parts of chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, and 12 from the textbook. Your grade for this course will be based on weekly quizzes, three midterm exams, and a cumulative final exam in the following manner:
25% weekly quizzes,
45% three midterm exams (15% per exam),
30% final exam.
Tentative dates for the exams are
Exam 1 Wednesday, February 7
Exam 2 Wednesday, March 21
Exam 3 Monday, April 23
Final Final exam week.
Each quiz will either be 15 minutes long and be held during class on Wednesday, or it will be a take home quiz handed out on Wednesday and due on Monday. Each student is responsible for doing their own work on the take home quizzes. There will be no makeup quizzes for the in-class quizzes and each take home quiz will only be accepted on the Monday when it is due. However, your lowest two quiz scores will be dropped.
There will be homework problems assigned in class each day but the homework will not be collected. However, the quizzes will be closely based on the assigned homework problems and so the best way to prepare for each quiz is to do the homework.
Regular attendance is crucial to successful completion of this course. Students who miss class are responsible for content covered and for any information given out to the class. Failure to come to class can result in a lower grade.
The final grades for this course will use a plus and minus grading system. The possible grades for this course, and a tentative grading scale for the grades, is given in the table below. The final grading scale that I use may not quite be the same as the one given below (the grade cutoffs might possibly be lower, but they will not be any higher than what is given in this table).
| A | 93 - 100 |
| A- | 90 - 92 |
| B+ | 88 - 89 |
| B | 83 - 87 |
| B- | 80 - 82 |
| C+ | 78 - 79 |
| C | 70 - 77 |
| D+ | 68 - 69 |
| D | 63 - 67 |
| D- | 60 - 62 |
| F | 59 or less |
In this web site you will find more information about Calculus 3 and this course. There are links to online multivariate calculus references and demonstration programs and all of your homework and reading assignments will be posted on one of these web pages.
The objectives for this course are that upon completion the student should understand the basic concepts of:
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