All official course information will be announced on LMS. You must follow the LMS announcements.

Any other information channels as unofficial and do not take your decisions based solely on such channels. For example if decision related to running the course is made during lectures and that decision contradicts what is on LMS, the information on LMS is correct.

If you need to ask a course related question post it on the forums. If you have to reach out to me first use the LMS messaging tools failing that send me email.

Deadlines: Beware of the deadlines. Extensions will not be granted! You have sufficient time to work and should you decide to leave a homework till the last minute any internet issues you may experience will not be accepted as excuse to grant extensions! All deadlines are on LMS.

Address your issues to the correct authority.

• If you have enrollment problems talk to Students' Affairs.
• If you cannot logon to LMS take the issue with UZEM or BIBD, whichever is appropriate.
• If you believe a quiz/homework problem is incorrect arrange a meeting with me (the course instructor).

In particular contact me only with issues related to the course content and evaluation, everything else is not within the scope of my responsibilities and authority. If other divisions fail to meet your expectations do not ask me to make accommodations resulting in poorer course quality: if the internet connection in the assigned classroom is weak instead of asking me to discard a quiz, contact BIBD to improve the available service. My duty to this course is limited to teaching and evaluation.

Due to the high volume of course related emails, associating emails with students, courses, homework and so forth takes extraordinary amount of time, which is wasteful and unnecessary. I am enforcing the following course related email rules:

domain

Your email must be sent from @std.iyte.edu.tr domain. The exceptions are:

• Graduate students their emails may be from @iyte.edu.tr.
• non-IYTE students who must in advance pre arrange official email contact with Student Affairs and use that eMail for contact.

In particular, personal email accounts with various providers will not receive any course related responses - those accounts however may be used to contact me for non-course related topics.

subject line

Your email subject line must start with the course abbreviation: Math 145

content

Restrict your email queries to topics that have a simple yes/no, a number, a date or a similar answer. For issues that require an answer longer than a sentence or two, either call or visit my office. Emails must be in English!

signature

Your email must end with your name and Student ID number. In particular the body of your email cannot be empty. At the very least your name and Student ID number must be present.

attachments

Emails with attachments are treated as spam. If you need to send me a file, share it via an IYTE cloud link. If the file requires compression use open standards such as tar.bz2 or bz2 style compression. I do not have access to proprietary compression tools included with some versions of rar and zip.

Do not send screenshots or pictures. Emails with such attachments are deleted upon delivery on the server. If your issue requires me to view a screen or read your hand solution, come to my office and present your point in person.

If you fail to follow the above rules your email is unlikely to receive a response.

Phone: (ext 7763). When in the office I answer phone calls. Be ready with your questions and do not forget to identify yourself.

Office hours. I will have dedicated office hours during which you are welcome to drop by and pose your questions.

Extra meetings. I will be available for in person discussion outside scheduled meetings. Such discussions will be held in my office but if arranged in advance alternative venues are possible. You may use these meetings to ask clarifying questions should you feel you missed for whatever reason the opportunity to ask your questions during scheduled meetings. The extra meetings must be prearranged by sending me email in advance that includes the following information:

1. Topic of discussion.
2. How much time you think you will need for the meeting.
3. At least three different time slots when your are available. These slots must point to a future time that is at least 24 hours after the email is sent and must be during regular work hours.

If reasonable, I will respond and attempt to arrange a meeting. Unreasonable request (e.g., a 24 hour meeting to discuss camel existence on Mars) will not receive any response.

MS Teams: I do not use this tool. Do not expect any response on that channel.

Your course grade will be based on homework, quizzes, two exams, a final and bonuses implemented during the current course offering. No other factors, such as your past grades or your other course performances, will be taken into account in the grade assignments. A Grade, which is an integer value out of 100 will be a basis for you course letter grade. If Grade is less than 40 you will be assigned course grade FF. To achieve AA and BA you must get Grade above 90 and 85 respectively. The remaining letter grades (including FD) will be distributed based on the overall grade distribution. Grades less than 40 and above 85 will not be taken into account in establishing the average, the standard deviation and the brackets for the remaining letter grades.

Your Grade value is calculated using the following formula

Grade = %10 (Hw) +%10 (Quiz) +%20 (Exam 1) +20% (Exam 2) +40% (Final)

In case of decimal digits in your grade, it will be rounded up before a letter grade is assigned.

Exams

There will be two exams during the term and one final exam. All paper-based exams are cumulative and cover topics up to and including the material discussed in the lecture preceding the exam.

There will be a single cumulative make up that will take place after the exam period is over. The make-up will substitute all exams and finals for which your department approved an alternative exam arrangements. To take the make-up your department must send the necessary paperwork over the official channels. Send all make-up related information to your own department. Any alternative make-up requests, such as sending email to a course instructor, will not be taken into account and will not receive response.

Quizzes

There will be ten quizzes all of equal value. Of the ten quizzes eight will contribute to your Quiz grade. For each student separately their highest eight quiz results will make up towards their Quiz grade. Thus even if you miss at most two quizzes you can still achieve the highest Quiz grade, as such there will be no quiz make-ups.

For each separate quiz you may attempt it up to five times over the quiz period. The highest attempt grade will be your grade for that quiz.

Homework

You will be assigned several homework all contributing toward your Hw grade. There will be no homework make-ups, but you will have at least a few days to work on it. There will be overlap between homework, quiz and exam questions so you are advised to attempt homework before quizzes and exams. Similar to quizzes you may attempt a homework multiple times and the highest grade will be your homework grade for that assigned homework. For homework the number of attempts has no limit within the period the homework is open.

Bonus

If your Grade is above %50 you will be have the opportunity to obtain extra credit. Extra credit is assigned if you assist in the efficient handling of this course. For example you may earn a bonus point if you fill in the front page of your exam paper as instructed during the exam. Bonuses may be retroactively lost, say if you request to view your exam outside the assigned review/objection times in which case your bonus (if any) will be reduced to zero. In other words the value of the Bonus is established at the end of the term. The maximum Bonus is five points and will be added to your Grade after the letter brackets are established.

Grading

Online quizzes and homework are computer graded based on your answer. Partial credit may be assigned should your answer meet certain criteria for that particular question.

When submitting your answer bear in mind that your answer is interpreted by an automated system! Writing 1/2*5 is an ambiguous expression in the sense that it may be interpreted as (1/2)*5 that evaluates to the number 2.5, when you mean 1/(2*5) which evaluates to 0.1. It is your responsibility to include brackets to avoid such ambiguities. Such errors on your behalf are no basis for reevaluation. You will have the chance to test the environment at your own leisure.

Objections

It is possible that during the encoding of the question some (programming) errors lead to incorrect evaluations. Always write the answer you think is correct. Raise potential issues afterwards. If your point is valid necessary arrangements will be made and the relevant question will be regraded or removed.

Objections to online questions are accepted at any time during office meetings. Be prepared to present convincing argument on a board or a sheet of paper that the question under scrutiny is indeed flawed.

Grading exam

Paper based exams will require you to state definitions, theorems and solve problems. The maximum number points in an exam is twenty, however, you will receive a number of questions whose total points exceeds twenty. Solve whichever question is easiest for you as all points are of equal value. Your score for the exam will not exceed twenty points - you simply have a pool of question to create your own exam. You may attempt all questions should you wish so.

A definition is worth two points. One point is assigned if the answer is written using the correct language and clear statements relevant to the definition. A second point is assigned if the definition is complete with perhaps minor ambiguities.

A theorem consists of assumptions and a conclusion. One point is given for stating the assumptions in a clear and complete way. One point is given if the conclusion is stated in a clear and complete way.

Problems are worth four points:

• One point for a description of a solution strategy. The strategy must be convincing that it has a potential to solve the problem and must be restricted to course content covered so far in the course.
• One point for applying the outlined strategy on the problem based on its specifics. Such applications must be part of this course material and in particular not topic outside the scope of this course (for example finding roots of polynomials is not in the scope of this course, but identifying how roots become limits of integration is part of the course)
• One point if there are some non-trivial steps beyond the initial strategy steps along with relevant justification with references to theorems and results from the course.
• One point if the problem has been successfully solved with a clear conclusion, full points are given even to answer with errors, provided those errors are not Course related - for example incorrect computation such as 6/3 = 3 instead of 6/3 = 2 are not penalized.

Remarks:

• At the discretion of the grader, if the solution is clearly written, systematic, justified and easy to follow, full marks are awarded even if the solution strategy is not explicitly stated.
• However, complete solutions that are not systematic, are poorly justified or hard to follow, will not be awarded full marks should the solution strategy be not explicitly stated.
• A written statement that coincides with the problem answer, but has incorrect/incomplete/wrong intermediate steps are given no credit (i.e., answers without justifications are given no credit).
• Partially correct results, that are not presented within the flow of the solutions are not given credit: for example a correct limit evaluation written at the top right corner of the page without being referred to, or identified why it is written is no basis for partial credit.
• Grades are rounded up: when undecided between a grade of two points or a grade of three points for a question, the question is awarded three points.

Objections

Exam solutions will be shared after the exam is over. You will learn your exam grade and will be able to see your exam paper along with the solution key before the next exam. However, grade objections to all paper based exams will take place simultaneously after the Make-Up exam and before the letter grades are posted on (depending on the Final/Make-Up exam schedule the date will likely be 27 August). Objections have to be written and made in person. Arrange your travel plans accordingly.

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