Syllabus for M CC 130 – Section 01

 

 

 

M CC 130, Math in the Social Sciences, Summer 2003

Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance on Colorado State Mathematics Placement Examination-ENFORCED

Textbooks:            1) Peter Tannenbaum & Robert Arnold, Excursions in Modern Mathematics, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall

2) Worksheet packet

Calculator: a basic one

Website: 

 

 

Contact Information:

Stefan Cruceanu, Office: Weber 13, Tel: 1-2594, e-mail: cruceanu@math.colostate.edu

 

Class Dates/Time/Location:

May 19th – June 13th, MTWRF, 9:50 AM – 1:30 PM, the 1st part of each class (the teaching one) will be hold in GLOVER 130, the second part of each class will be in E204, E205.

 

Office Hours:

MTWRF 9:00 – 9:50 AM, or by appointment.

 

Course Content:

Social Choice: Mathematics of Voting, Weighted Voting Systems, Fair Division, Apportionment

Management Science: Euler Circuits, Traveling Salesman Problems, Networks

Statistics: Statistics, Probability, Expected Value (not in the required text book)

Miscellaneous: Spiral Growth in Nature, Fractal Geometry

 

Grading Criteria:

Worksheets......................................... 30%

Final Exam............................................ 20%

Homework............................................ 10%

Exam I     ............................................... 10%

Exam II    .............................................. 10%

Exam III  ............................................... 10%

Quizzes   .............................................. 10%

 

Grading Scale:

                                90%....................................... A

                                80%....................................... B                            

                                70%....................................... C

                                60%....................................... D

                                below 60%............................ F

 

Examinations:

There will be three mid exams (Fridays in the class, May 23rd, May 30th and June 6th: 9:50-10:50am). You are expected to attend these exams on the specific dates. The final exam for this course will be given on Friday, June 13th, 10:00am-11:50am. The room for all the exams will be the same as the room for the lectures: GLOVER 130. The exams will test any or all of the material listed on the course schedule, including the material introduced through the worksheet pocket. The only excused absences from these exams are official university approved absences. If you have an unavoidable conflict with a mid exam or final, you must speak with the instructor, and then, if he approves, you must submit a written explanation (email is preferred) of your conflict to the course coordinator at least two weeks prior to the exam. Include your phone number and email address in your message. The final exam will be comprehensive, with slight emphasis on material after Exam III. All the exams are closed note, closed book, calculator permitted.

 

Worksheets:

            The majority of them will be done in the lab as a group work; only a few of them will be assigned as homework. The section leader will grade all the worksheets; he also determines if a particular worksheet is individual work or group work. At the end of each lab, every group will submit the worksheets; only the students who attended that lab until the end will receive the grades for the worksheets; the students who did not attended that lab until the end will receive 0 points for each worksheet worked in that lab.

 

Homework:

Homework will be assigned daily (except for a few exceptions); they will be collected next day after they are assigned. To be “accepted”, homework must meet the following criteria:

·         stapled;

·         easy to read;

·         all problems attempted;

·         all work shown.

Only homework that is accepted will be graded. From each homework, only a random number of problems will be graded (the instructor will decide which of them will be graded). The assignments will be returned after 1 - 2 lectures.

Important Note: There will be no late homework accepted.

 

Pop quizzes:

            During any lecture, I (the instructor) can give a pop quiz covering the material just taught in the previous minutes. Your name on the page will be worth at least a half of the quiz. NO MAKEUPS. The idea of these quizzes is to see if you attend the class and if you are following the lecture.

 

Academic Integrity:

The University Policy on Academic Integrity, as published the current CSU General Catalog. Possessing reference information in any form that could be helpful on an exam while taking the exam, misrepresenting someone else's work as your own, and misrepresenting your work as someone else's on exams or in lab are all examples of cheating.  Students judged to have engaged in cheating might be assigned a reduced or failing grade for the course and/or referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs for additional disciplinary action.

 

Important Dates – Summer 2003

Date

Event

5/19/2003

Classes begin for 4- and 12- week terms

5/21/2003

Last day to register for 1st 4-week term

5/23/2003

Test 1

5/30/2003

Test 2

6/06/2003

Test 3

6/13/2003

Final Exam, Friday, 10:00 - 11:50 AM

 

For class schedule and for all other information visit

 

Course Coordinator:

email: thomas@math.colostate.edu

 

 

Last updated:   Sunday, May 18th, 2003