Math 2311 Syllabus

Text: Basic Statistics, an Inferential Approach, Third Edition. Available free on-line (see Web CT-Blackboard Math 2311 Homepage) and Hard copy at the University of Houston Copy Center. Please bring the book and calculator to class every day. I will be doing problems from the book. Weekly Quizzes on -blackboard 30% (on blackboard) Homework 8% In-class poppers (quizzes) 8% Need Popper forms Three Tests in CASA (each 18%) 54 % (in CASA) (Need to make reservation on CourseWare) Final Exam (18%) (Cumulative and replaces lowest test score) Optional (in class - Popper scantron required) Your grade can be estimated in the following way: Quizzes: 0.30 times your Quizzes average Popper 0.08 times your Popper average Tests 0.54 times your Test average Homework 0.08 times your Homework average The University standard grade system will be used. If x is your semester numerical score, then: x 93
90 x < 93

Exams:

Grading:

A A B+ B

B C+ C C

80 x < 83
77 x < 80

D+ D D F

67 x < 70
63 x < 67

87 x < 90 83 x < 87

73 x < 77 70 x < 73

60 x < 63
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You are responsible to create your own CourseWare account as soon as possible. www.casa.uh.edu (for test reservation, practice tests and grades) http://www.uh.edu/webct (for quizzes) 1) 2) You must have a working Blackboard Password in order to take Quizzes and CourseWare account for all grades recording and test reservations. Your Quizzes 1-6 Average must be > 70% to remain in the course. If it is not, it is YOUR responsibility to drop the course. The Instructor WILL NOT automatically drop you. The Highest scores will be retained automatically. Exam questions will be similar to Homework, Quizzes, Poppers, and the Worked out examples in the Textbook and Class Notes.

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There will be NO Quiz make-ups. There will be NO Test make-ups. There will be NO Popper make-ups and Homework makeups. Make arrangements with the teacher (or a classmate) if you are unable to bring the homework on the due date. NO Homework will be accepted after the due date. There will be a comprehensive Final Exam. You must bring your picture ID COUGAR CARD to ALL the EXAMS. Obtain one at the university center. No ID, No Exam.

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10) Please buy the book, calculator and scantron and bring it to class. 11) Popper forms should be purchased from the Copy Center with the correct Course Section Number. Bubble it correctly, otherwise you will not get grades for the Poppers. Practice Tests: Are for extra credit. 5% of your Practice Tests grade will be added to your test score. Homework: All should be completed and summited in class on the announced date. Check the calendar for dates. You may take each Quiz as often as you like during the availability period. It is your responsibility to check the Quiz Schedule on http://www.uh.edu/webct/ The highest score you receive on a particular Quiz will be automatically retained as your final score on that particular Quiz. Available daily on a walk-in basis in CASA in 222 Garrison (schedule posted in 222 Garrison) You will need a calculator (no cell phones!!) that has, at a minimum, exponentiation and square root keys. Graphing calculators provide no particular benefit in this course. You must bring your calculator to class every time. (TI-30XA is a good one to buy.) Calculators are available online for all tests. Although none is anticipated, I reserve the right to make changes to this document, course format and/or syllabus. Notice of changes will be posted in my website or announced in class. A grade of Incomplete is not available unless you have a 70% average or better (see Student Handbook for details).

Quizzes:

Tutoring:

Calculator:

Changes:

Incomplete:

What to Buy:

Text book Non-graphing calculator (TI-30XA). Popper forms with correct section number. Small stapler. Highlighter College rule paper for homework Binder to keep homework.

All grades will be posted on CourseWare. (Quiz grades will be on WebCT Blackboard) Accommodations for Students With Disabilities: A current Student Accommodation Form (SAF) must be presented in a timely manner for accommodations to be approved. No retroactive accommodations will be provided. Accommodations for undergraduate mathematics courses that could change the essential nature of the course or provide an unfair advantage to one student over another student will not be approved. Notably, in the event that calculators and/or formula sheets are allowed for all students in a course, then all students may have them. If, however, calculators and/or formula sheets are not allowed to anyone, then no one may have them. Accommodations that are listed on your SAF that would NOT change the essential nature of a course or provide an unfair advantage may be approved (e.g., an extra set of class notes for lecture, testing at CSD, extended time *). Please review these with your teacher during the Conference Hours for the class (not immediately before or after a lecture). * If you run over the agreed upon extended time, you will be penalized in proportion to the amount over the time. Announcements will be made at the beginning of the lecture, on your teachers website, via email, and on the CourseWare site. Your teacher reserves the right to make changes to the syllabus/policies of the course and to announce such information as needed. You are responsible for knowing the content of any announcements concerning changes. Bubbling Forms: You need to buy a Section-specific packet of bubbling forms from the CopyCenter. Each form has the Course and Section numbers already filled in at the top. You have to bubble in your student ID on each form. If you change Sections, you must buy the forms for your new Section you may NOT use the forms from your former Section or any leftover forms from a previous semester. Use a #2 pencil to fill out the forms; note that erasing well is quite important. Poorly erased marks can cause your form to be rejected or cause the Mark Reader to incorrectly mark your question wrong. These forms are SHREDDED after being read, so there is no way to check and re-grade them. The CourseWare site is located at www.casa.uh.edu. This site will be used for test reservations, testing, discussion board help, your grade book, and other course information. You are responsible for setting up your account online at the CourseWare site.

Cell phones must be turned off before class begins. Cell phones may not be taken to the testing carrels in CASA Testing Center. Text-messaging during class is not permitted. Cheating will not be tolerated. See page 8 of the Student Handbook for details. Course Completion Forms: If you are a student with financial aid and you do not pass the course, you will be required to have your teacher fill out a Course Completion form asserting that you participated actively in the course or that you did not. You MUST have at least 60% of the homework, poppers, and quizzes turned in and graded as well as taken the last test and the final exam to be actively participating by the Department definition of the phrase. If you do NOT have this work done and graded, you will have to repay 50% of the financial aid. Dropping Course: You are responsible for making arrangements to drop the course if you wish to drop. If you wish to drop the course, complete the online form before the deadline. Do not assume that your teacher will drop you for any reason nor that your drop will be processed somehow automatically you need to do this from your My UH account page. Pay attention to the deadline; check your course enrollment in your account to make sure your drop has been processed. Email: Students are responsible for information about the course that is emailed to them using the email address that the students provide to the CourseWare site or the My UH site. It is the students responsibility to keep the email address on file current and to make arrangements for email from the instructor, My UH, and CourseWare to reach the student. We have untold amounts of returned emails from Hotmail, Gmail, etc. if you are forwarding your UH email account to these, note that email rejection by these sites does NOT excuse you from finding out what your teacher has sent. Section Number: The Section number for your course is the five digit number assigned to your course by the University. It may be called Course Number on your fee bill. You need this number to buy the correct bubbling forms packet. Daily Poppers will be taken each class day. Multiple choice questions will be asked throughout the lecture. You will record your answers on the Popper bubbling form and turn the form in at the end of each lecture. It is your responsibility to bubble in the information at the top carefully and completely; incomplete, improperly bubbled or illegible forms will not be graded. Popper grades will be posted to your grade book periodically. Use a #2 pencil to fill out the forms; erase VERY well. You may buy a semester-pack of bubbling forms at the CopyCenter in the Welcome Center. Daily Popper bubbling forms WILL NOT be returned to students and will be shredded after scoring. You must use the special UH bubbling form and you MUST bubble in the Student Number information properly! Keep a record of your Popper answers separate from the bubbling form. Your teacher will post Popper solutions at regular intervals so you can check how you are doing. 15% of the number of poppers given during the semester will be dropped your teacher will pick your lowest scores for this purpose so there are NO make-ups on poppers. Weekly Quizzes: Soon after school starts there will be weekly online quizzes on your course site on CourseWare. You may take each quiz up to 20 times; your highest score for the period will be the grade recorded for the quiz. You must wait 10 minutes between attempts.

Please note the schedule for the quizzes. Each course has a different length of time that any particular quiz is available to students in that course. You are responsible for knowing the expiration date on each quiz. Do not wait until the last afternoon to begin working on an online Quiz! CourseWare/Blackboard has a finite number of logins that can be accommodated per hour and being unable to log on is not an excuse for missing a Quiz, neither are viruses or hardware failures. There are NO make-ups for online Quizzes. You may print out the quizzes and then get help on baffling questions in the CASA Tutoring Center. Tutors are glad to help on these questions off printed copies, but are not allowed to help you if you are actually taking a quiz in the CASA Tutoring Center. No amnesty week on quizzes! Test Information Testing Time: Tests during the semester are, in general, 75 minutes long. Please make sure to attend to the time while you are testing: do not spend too much time on any one question. You are expected to finish the whole test in 75 minutes. Do not spend time writing stuff down before you start your test you must finish the test within the testing period you are expected to begin the test promptly on the hour so you can leave promptly at the end of the 75 minute testing period (there is someone else scheduled to use that Carrel next and you may NOT overstay). Do NOT submit your test BEFORE youve worked on the free response questions and are ready to leave the center; push the submit button when you are DONE with the WHOLE test. Reservations are required for most tests. (Final exam is optional and in class. No final exam in summer or winter session). The reservations site is at CourseWare: http://casa.uh.edu. See your teachers website for a list of which tests are given online, which are given in class, and which are given by reservation in the CASA Testing Center. You will be able to make reservations online about two weeks before each testing period begins. Please take The Testing Center is also known as CASA. It is located in 221A Garrison. You will be required to show a Cougar 1 card to check in and take an exam in CASA (a drivers license will NOT be accepted). You need to have your photograph and fingerprints on file at CASA; there will be time at the beginning of the semester to get this done. You will be able to take advantage of this to get a convenient time and day. You may reschedule a test time subject to availability. There is NO STANDBY waiting at the Testing Center for an open slot. All reservations must be made through CourseWare. If you miss a test and the testing period is over, please see the information on Makeup Tests. Personal Belongings: You are not permitted to take personal belongings (including but not limited to purses, fanny packs, and backpacks) to your testing cubicle; you will be required to check them. You may not have a cell phone or a calculator with you in the testing cubicle. Neither the Department of Mathematics nor the University of Houston is liable for misplaced, lost, or stolen personal belongings. Tardy: Students who are tardy will NOT be seated. If you arrive more than 10 minutes after the test has begun (by CASAs clock, not your watch), then you will not be seated. You may reschedule the test into another time if one is available.

Excused Leave: Once you enter the testing facility you will NOT be able to leave for any reason without submitting your test for grading. This includes breaks to go to the restroom make sure you are comfortable BEFORE entering the testing facility. Rescheduling: It may be possible to reschedule a test appointment during the testing period (depending on space availability) by using the online scheduler. Do not assume that you will be able to reschedule check first! There are no make-ups for missing Tests. You will use your grade on the final exam to replace the zero on one missed test. Free Response questions: Most tests taken in CASA will have a free response part that is individually graded with partial credit. A pdf file of your Free Response paper will be posted to your CourseWare grade book about 10 days after the end of the testing period. Test papers without names and/or key codes will not be graded and the recorded grade for the anonymous work will be a zero. Also, note that the work included on your scratch paper WILL NOT be graded. Please do not push the submit key BEFORE finishing this portion of the test. Petitioning a test grade (Free Response portion): If you believe a mistake was made in the grading of your test paper, you should contact your teacher within five days after the grade is posted to your grade book. Key codes: Free response questions on tests taken in CASA will be worked on a special answer sheet that will be handed to you in CASA. DO NOT write in the key code; a proctor will handle getting your key codes on your test sheet. Verify that you have the correct form by checking the heading before starting your test. Identification on Tests: You must carefully and accurately fill in the identifying information. Free response test papers without names or which are mis-bubbled will not be graded. The recorded grade will necessarily be a zero. Make-up Tests: No make-up tests will be given. If you miss taking a test, the score will be a zero for each test that you miss. Retests: There will be no re-tests. If you earn a score that is not satisfactory to you, that is unfortunate but is no cause for you to be allowed to take the test again. Athletes from the UH need paperwork from the Athletics Department about their travel period. Athletes will need to talk to their teachers before the test period. All homework are due not after the due dates. Contacts for technical support are located in courseware and blackboard. www.casa.uh.edu http://www.uh.edu/webct/