Course Policies

Syllabus

Reading Assignments

• Guidelines for Submitting Reading Assignments
• Due in September
• Due in October
• Due in November and December

Problem Sets

• Suggestions for Reading a Math Book
• Guidelines for Homework Presentation
• Due in September
• Due in October
• Due in November and December

Projects

• A Guide to Writing in Mathematics Classes
• Writing Checklist (used to grade the projects)
• Project 1
• Project 2

In Class Work

• September
• October
• November and December

Computer Use In and Out of the Classroom

• Etiquette for using computers during class
• We'll be using the computer algebra system Maple throughout the semester. As long as your computer is connected to the campus network (and your computer has a recent enough operating system), you may use Maple on it. Here are instructions for downloading Maple onto your computer, be it Mac or PC.
• Mike Pepe of Seattle Community College has created a helpful set of Maple tutorials called Maple Essentials . If you're using a PC, right-click on the link and select Save Target As ... and save the file to the desktop. If you're using a Mac, control-click or right-click on the link and select Save Linked File to Desktop. Then locate the file MapleEssentials.zip on your desktop and double-click on it to open it. (On a Mac, this creates a folder called Maple Essentials on your desktop, that you then open to find all the tutorial files).

• I have made up a list of some of the Maple commands you'll be needing in class -- I haven't updated it for Maple 11, but I think it's mostly the same.

Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 109
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278
jsklensk@wheatonma.edu