• Instructors:

Instructor	Rick Statman	Victor Adamchik
Email	statman@cs.cmu.edu	adamchik@cs.cmu.edu
Office	7214 Wean Hall	5121 Wean Hall
Office Hours	TWR:	M-Th 3:30pm - 4:30pm

• Teaching Assistants:

TA	Avi Gavlovski	Bayer , R	Shah , A	Michael Klipper
Recitation	G	H	I	J
Office Hours	??	??	??	??

• Schedule of classes:

	Days	Lect/Sec	Time	Room
Lecture	M-W-F	Lec. 3	02:30pm - 03:20pm	WEH 75000
Recitation	W	Sec. G	09:30am - 10:20am	WEH 8427
		Sec. H	10:30am - 11:20pm	SH 220
		Sec. I	08:30pm - 09:20pm	DH 1209
		Sec. J	1:30pm - 2:20pm	PH A21

• Textbook:

Gilbert and Vanstone, An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, Pearson Prentice Hall 2005. ISBN # 0-13-184-868-2.

• Course Requirements:

Participation in this course consists of the following activities

Attending and participating in lectures and recitations

Reading the lecture notes

Reading the textbook

Carrying out homework assignments

Taking the tests

Discussing appropriate aspects of course content with other students

Staying up to date on announcements on the bboard

Attendance is strongly encouraged. You will be responsible for all materials presented in lectures. You should not expect that all lecture materials will be given to you in written form, nor should you expect that lectures will be drawn form the textbook.

• Assignments:

The homework assignments is critical part of the course. Experience has shown that concepts are best learned by direct engagement---in our case by applying them to example problems. Each homework problem will be discussed in recitation before the student is expected to write up a solution and turn it in for grading.The TA is also responsible for grading and returning the homework in an expeditious manner and for posting the scores on the blackboard website. TA's may have grading help from undergraduate graders. The deadline for each assignment is on Friday at 4:30pm. Late homework is not accepted but partial credit is given; so, turn in what you have done by the due date and time.

• Collaboration:

Of course, we expect students to discuss the problems together and share portions of correct solutions. Indeed, we encourage you to discuss problems among yourselves and to work together if possible. However, each student is responsible for understanding the solutions he or she writes down and turns in, and the best measure of this is that.

• Tests:

There will be five 50-minute tests given in recitation. Each test consists of two problems or one two-part problem.

The final exam is 3 hour long and will consist of 5 problems.The final exam schedule is not determined until later in the semester. An early/makeup final exam, probably given on a reading day, will be arranged as early as possible toward the end of the semester. It will not be manditory and any student enrolled in the course can take the regularly scheduled final. The early final is available to anyone who has a good reason for not taking the scheduled final.If you are interested in the early final you should read the file

• Coursework Grade:

  Course Assignments	Weights
  Final test	20%
  Tests	40%
  Homeworks	40%

• Coursework Grading Scale:

  Final Grade	Final Course Percentage
  A	90 and over
  B	80 - 89.99
  C	65 - 79.99
  D	60 - 64.99
  R	less than 60

Last updated Monday, August 29, 2005

Victor S. Adamchik,  Computer Science Department,  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.