MATE 4009 homework
Homework sets are incremental: each set contains the previous
ones. The reason is that I will grade only selected exercises, which
will be paired with some (not all) of the quiz and exam problems, and
regular quizzes and exams are comprehensive: they bear on all material
covered so far. For this reason, I recommend (correction: require)
that you keep all the homework exercises in a single notebook, which
we will exchange back and forth during the semester. Also, number the
exercises according to the practice set numbering, not according to
their source (Boas or NSS).
(Added) there seemed to be some confusion about what this means. So,
for instance, the second problem of the homework set is exercise 4 of
the practice set, which corresponds to exercise 7 of section 4 of
Boas. You must number it problem 4.
The twenty-fifth problem of the homework set is exercise 41 of the
practice set, which corresponds to exercise 13 of section 7 of
Boas. You must number it not 25, not 13, but 41.
- Homework 1 (due Sep 13): exercises 1,4,5,7,8,11,12,16,17,18,19,
23,24,25,26,27,28,31,34,35,37--43 of the practice problems.
- Homework 2 exercises 44--51 of the practice set. Section 066: due
Sep 27. Section 086: due Oct 4.
- Homework 3 (due Oct 27): exercises 52,54,58,65,66,73,78,86,90,
94,99,102,106,107,108,110,112,113,114 of the practice set.
- Homework 4 due Nov 22: exercises 115--153 of the practice
set.
- Homework 5 due Dec 6: exercises 155--160, 164, 166, 167, 168,
173--176, 178 of the practice set.
- A reminder that homework is cumulative, and to be handed in a
single booklet. The last collection will be used as follows: it is my
policy to give the student in good standing not more than one grade
less than the grade on the final, if it improves on the total
grade. This means that if your grade on the final is, say, B, then you
will receive at least a C on the course, even if your total grade
(counting the final) is D or F.
- You are in good standing if you have not accumulated excessive
absences (refer to my policy on attendance), and if, out of certain
problems randomly selected from homeworks one through five, you score
at least fifty percent. There will be ten problems, three of which
will be selected from the practice problems 44--49, 102, 106--108,
113, 114, 157--159, 167, 168, 178.
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