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Instructor Information |
Name: Jan Plane |
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Email: jplane@glue.umd.edu |
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Phone: 301-405-2754 |
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Office: A.V.Williams 1113 |
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Office Hours:
Monday: 10:00-12:00 and Tuesday: 2:00-3:00 Friday: 10-11:30 Office Hours are Also Available by Appointment |
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Lecture Sections |
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Lab Sections |
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Teaching Assistants |
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Assignment |
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Martin Paraskevov |
martin@cs.umd.edu |
Teaching TA for 0101 & 0102 |
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Mikhail Kobyakov |
mxk@cs.umd.edu |
Grading TA for 0101 & 0102 |
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Carlos Castillo |
carlos@cs.umd.edu |
Teaching TA or 0201 & 0202 |
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Chang Hu |
changhu@cs.umd.edu |
Grading TA for 0201 & 0202 |
The TA office hours will be provided on the web page.
For office hours, feel free to see the instructor or any of the 4 TAs.
All of the sections will be covering approximately the same information at the same time.
The TA office hours are all held in AVW 1112.
You
must be sure to sign-in on the CMSC 250 sign-in sheet every time you request
assistance.
Text: Discrete Mathematics with Applications Third Edition by Susanna Epp, 2004. ISBN 0-534-35945-0
Grading:
- Homework: 12%
- Quizzes: 18%
- 2 Midterms: 19% and 19% respectively
- Final: 32%
Exams will (most likely) be on the dates below
during your lecture period. The exam dates may need to shift if we have significant snow or other
lost days. I will shift to make
sure the material covered on each exam is appropriate. If you cannot take the exam at the
scheduled time, you must bring a documented university-approved excuse, and you
should contact the instructor before the time of the exam. You must bring
documentation that contains dates of incapacitation and contact information so
that I can verify that you had a legitimate excuse. With a legitimate excuse, your grade
will be calculated as if there was no exam that day (the weighted average for
your other hourly exam and final exam will replace the grade for the missed
exam). If any student misses more
than one hourly exam with appropriate documentation, the instructor may create
a comprehensive exam over all material missed to count as the exam grade for
all missed hourly exams. If you have another exam that conflicts with the final
exam, you must contact your instructor at least four weeks before the final to
discuss any necessary arrangements for a makeup final. All students must take the final exam,
there is no excused absence allowed for the final. You will not be permitted to
use calculators or any other aids on the exam, but you will be provided with
reference material as announced before the exam.
Documentation for excused quizzes and exams and for
extended time on homework assignments:
The absence must be documented to prove that you were unable to attend
the class or lab period corresponding to the quiz, homework or exam. If it is a medical excuse it must state
the dates you were unable to attend class and it must give contact information
for the medical professional so that I can verify the incapacitation. The self documentation form is NOT
sufficient for the documentation of an excused illness- It must state dates
of incapacitation. The excuse must indicate the specific dates when you were
unable to attend class. The form
must contain a phone number to the medical professional for verification
purposes.
Class Webpage: The class webpage will be located at http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2005/cmsc250. The website will have all of the
homework assignments on it, and you will be expected to visit the class webpage
regularly for updates on course information.
Homework: Homework will be handed out on Wednesday, and will
be collected the following Wednesday. Homework is due at the beginning of the
discussion section that you are registered for on Wednesday as indicated on the
homework assignment. (In the beginning means that it must be turned in within
the first 10 minutes - before the quiz for that day starts). Submitting it any later without valid
documentation will result in a 0 for that homework. You must work alone on your
homework, and homework answers must be written legibly, single-sided on your
own paper with the answers clearly labeled and in sequential order as assigned
(read further rules on homework description). You must put your name, your
university ID, and the name of your TA and the time of your lecture and
discussion section in the upper right-hand corner of your homework sheet. If
you have multiple pages, staple them together, and be sure that your name is on
every sheet.
Quizzes: Quizzes will be given every Wednesday during your
discussion section. Makeup quizzes will not be given, but if you provide a
valid documented excuse (as described above), your quiz grade will be
calculated using only your other quizzes. Your one lowest quiz grade for the
semester will be dropped - if you oversleep once you are still fine, don't make
a habit of it.
Worksheets: Worksheets will be done
during the discussion section on Mondays. These worksheets are an in-class
exercise and will not be collected, graded, or available at other times.
1. Chapter 1 and 2. Propositional and Predicate
Logic and Circuits. (approx. 4 ½ weeks)
2. Chapter 3. Elementary Number Theory.
(approx 2 weeks)
3. Chapter 4. Summations, Recurrences,
Mathematical Induction. (approx. 2 weeks)
4. Chapter 5. Sets, Venn Diagrams,
Cartesian Products, Power Sets. (approx. 1 ½ week)
5. Chapter 6. Counting and Combinations
(approx. 2 weeks)
6. Chapter 7. Functions, Pigeonhole
Principle. (approx. 1 ½ weeks)
7. Chapter 10. Relations, Reflexivity,
Symmetry, Transitivity. (approx. 1 week)
8. Chapter 11. Graph Theory. (optional)