College of Science
    Department of Mathematics  

   

Math 26200, Spring 2020
Revised Calendar	Ground Rules
Course Webpage	Practice Problems

Revised Course Policies, effective March 23, 2020:

Calendar for the rest of the semester: click here

Lectures

Course content is provided by video lectures recorded on Tuesdays and Thursday. Lectures will be accessible to students through Blackboard and/or links sent by email. The new calendar indicates which lessons will be covered in lecture. All students and TAs will follow the same schedule.

Lectures will be given by the following professors:
Week 10-11: Danielli-Garofalo, Donatella. Lectures will also be live-streamed through Zoom. A link with the meeting ID will be sent by email.
Week 12-13: Donnelly, Harold
Week 14-15: Xia, Jianlin

 

Lecture notes

 

Lesson 1: Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

 

Lesson 2: Section 4.4 Notes were revised on p. 9-10 from original ones.

 

Lesson 3: Section 4.5

 

Lesson 4: Review for Exam 2

 

Lesson 5: Sections 4.6 and 4.7       Notes from Prof. Donnelly’s class (4/7)

 

Lesson 6: Section 4.9      Notes from Prof. Donnelly’s class (4/9)

 

Notes from Prof. Donnelly’s class (4/14)

 

Notes from Prof. Donnelly’s class (4/16)

 

 

Lecture videos

 

Lesson 1: Part 1     Part 2     Part 3    Part 4      Part 5

 

Lesson 2: Part 1     Part 2     Part 3    Part 4

 

Lesson 3: Full class     Part 1     Part 2     Part 3     Part 4     Part 5

 

Lesson 4: Part 1     Part 2     Part 3    Part 4

 

 

Online homework

Online homework is done online using MyMathLab as usual. We will follow the updated schedule for homework assignments.

 

Handgraded homework

Hand-graded homework will be submitted via Blackboard or Gradescope and will be hand-graded by TAs. We will follow the updated schedule for hand-graded homework.

 

Recitation

Students can ask questions about specific homework problems or lecture material in an online Piazza forum.  Students will be sent an invitation to join the forum via email. Students should read the forum rules at least once before posting a question (in the Q&A section) for the first time. The rules cover forum behavior and posting policy. Students can use the forum at any time. The forum will be moderated by TA instructors—all recitation teaching times will be changed to forum moderation hours. The existing recitation teaching schedule will carry over to this new system. For example, if Mary is a TA teaching Tuesday, Thursday at 9:30, 10:30, then Mary will instead moderate the Piazza forum at those times. Mary will answer questions (or resolve posts) about either lecture material or homework problems posted by any student in the course while moderating the forum.

 

Quiz 

Each quiz will cover the lectures of the current week. Quizzes and quiz solutions will be posted as pdfs (handwritten or typed) in the Piazza forum under the Resources heading. Students should attempt the quiz under normal quiz conditions (closed book, no devices) and then grade their own quiz to get feedback. All students will receive full points for their quiz. Quizzes will not be graded by TAs. Students can post questions about the quiz in the forum. We will follow the updated schedule for quizzes.

 

Other modes of communication

Communication between students, TAs and lecturers will take place through email and Piazza forum. Course coordinators may decide to set up additional modes of communication using a variety of web applications (WebEx, Discord, Zoom, Skype, etc). Students and TAs will be notified of this by the course coordinator.

 

Exams

 

Exams will be done online using MyMathLab. We will follow the updated schedule for exams.

·        MIDTERM 2 Will cover Sections 8.2 to 11.5 (Lessons 12-22 in the original Assignment Sheet).

Midterm 2 will be an online exam available on MyMathLab from 6:30pm, Apr. 6 to 6:29pm, Apr. 8, Eastern Time. Students will be able to access the exam within a 48 hour period. Students are expected to complete the test within one 90-minute session. Students will have only 1 attempt for submission. In case the attempt is interrupted, the student needs to contact instructors to enable access.

·        A trial online exam will be available on MyMathLab from 6:30pm, Mar 30 to 6:29pm, Mar 31, Eastern Time. The trial exam is only for the purpose of testing the online exam system, and may not necessarily reflect the contents or depth of the actual exams.

Practice Exam for Midterm 1 (do not do #7)  Solutions

Practice Exam for Midterm 2 (do not do #5)  Solutions

You can also do # 7 in the Practice Exam for Midterm 1.