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Homework Philosophy
Learning mathematics requires DOING mathematics.  For this reason, homework will be assigned and collected almost daily.  The more effort you put into your homework, the better your understanding (and your grades) will be.
 
Homework is your opportunity to express what you have learned in your own words.  Feel free to write notes to yourself  explaining your steps.  Show all of your work clearly and accurately.  Avoid skipping steps.  By putting a little extra time into your homework, your test preparation time will be drastically reduced!
 
Make Up Testing:
1. The SAA Math Department will conduct test and quiz make up sessions on Tuesday mornings from 7 am to 7:50 am and Tuesday afternoons from 3:25 pm to 4:15 pm. Tests and quizzes may also be made up at Saturday School from 9:00 am to 10:30 each Saturday.
Make-up tests and quizzes will not be conducted at any other time.
 
2. If you have missed a test/quiz you will have three opportunities ( Tue am - Tue pm - Saturday School) from the date of your return to make it up. Failure to do so will result in a zero for that test/quiz.
 
2. Make-up tests will be essay tests.
 
3.  Failure to show for a scheduled make-up will result in a grade of zero.
 
 
 
 
Honor Code:
Any instance of lying, stealing, cheating, plagiarism, or inappropriate collaboration will be reported to the Honor Council.
 
Inappropriate collaboration consists of copying the work or answer of another with little or no effort to understand the process.
 
The consequences of inappropriate classroom behavior will include a negative comment on the report card. A student with a negative comment will not earn recognition on the Dean's or Honors List.
 
 
 
Grade Calculation: First Quarter: Summer Math = 5% Homework = 30% Quizzes = 30% Tests = 35% 2nd, 3rd, 4th Quarters: Homework = 30% Quizzes = 30% Tests = 40% Math projects will count as a test grade PowerSchool “codes”: TBA = To Be Announced) EX = Excused 0 = Incomplete or Not Turned In Absent = zero the grade will change when/if the work is turned in according to the make-up work policy in the school handbook. Homework Grade Guidelines: 0 = nothing on the due date, no work shown 1 = 25% on due date, all work shown 2 = 50% on due date, all work shown 3 = 75% on due date, all work shown 4 = 100% on due date, some work shown 5 = 100% on due date, all work shown The instructor will determine when the appropriate amount of work was shown. As a rule, when the instructor models steps to working a particular problem, the student should also use those steps on that problem type. "Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. " -W.S. Anglin, Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 4, no. 4.
Photos are from the National Sculpture Gallery in Washington, DC.
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