Dr. Morris W. Brooks
301C Willard Hall Building
(302) 831-6813 mbrooks@udel.edu
Office Hours
MW 11:00 - 12:00 a.m., TR 10:00 - 12:00 a.m., or by
appointment
Text
The required text for MATH 252 is Mathematics for
Elementary Teachers: A Contemporary Approach, Fourth
Edition, by Gary L. Musser and William F. Burger. Topics
for this course appear in Chapters 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11.
You should always bring to class the textbook, a
calculator, and a notebook.
Hours Exams
Exam I
Tuesday, March 3
Exam II
Tuesday, April 21
Grading
Hour Exams
200 Points
Quizzes/Graded Homework
100 Points
Attendance
27 Points
Final Exam
150 Points
The final exam will be comprehensive. Letter grades will
be determined using 90%, 80%, 70%, and 60% as general
guidelines for A, B, C, and D respectively.
Attendance
Attendance will be taken at the end of class using a
sign-in sheet. Experience has shown that for many
students attendance in the classes is essential.
Internet
Outside of the class meeting, we will be using e-mail as
the primary form of communication between the instructor
and the class. I will be sending announcements to all
members of the class using e-mail. This syllabus will be
available through the University of Delaware's World Wide
Web page. If you would like me send you periodic grade
reports through e-mail, please send me an e-mail message
with your student id (SSN) and clearly stating your
request to receive this information over the network.
This semester we will also have a Usenet newsgroup that
can be used for class-wide discussions. In Ed Tech II
students are introduced to reading and writing messages
in Internet newsgroups using Netscape Communicator. You
can also access the newsgroup from your Unix account
using rn. CNS User Services provides instruction on using
rn. If you have your own computer in the dorm or at home,
you may use either Netscape Communicator or Microsoft's
Outlook Express to read newsgroups as well as your
e-mail.
Quizzes
Approximately 6 unannounced quizzes will be given
throughout the semester. The lowest two quiz grades will
be discarded. You will not be allowed to make up any
missed quizzes.
Homework
Fully mastering this course consists of knowing facts,
being able to carry out procedures, understanding
concepts, and being able to solve problem. For each
class, you should work a selection of the exercises
at the end of the chapter. In class, I will assign a few problems
to be worked. On most days, solutions to the
assigned problems will be presented by students and
discussed in class.
Some more complex problems will be assigned as graded
homework. They will collected at the next
class meeting. They will count toward the final course
grade as equal to one of the quizzes. For some of these,
you may be expected to work using software available in
one of the computing labs in the Willard Hall Building.