Tuesday "Lab"
Fall, 2007
| Professors: | Todd Feil (feil@denison.edu) |
| Jessen Havill (havill@denison.edu) | |
| Class time: | Tuesdays, 8:30-10:20am in Olin 221 |
| Web site: | http://personal.denison.edu/~havill/TuesdaysF07/ |
Description
This weekly component of Math 210 and CS 271 is intended to increase your proficiency and comfort level in effectively communicating Mathematics and/or Computer Science topics to others. The majority of the class will focus on oral communication, but will also cover two tools that effective Mathematicians and Computer Scientists frequently use in their work: a typesetting package called LATEX and a symbolic computation system called Maple.
Weekly schedule
Week(s) Topic(s) 1 Introduction, talk logistics, intro to LATEX and Maple 2 LATEX 3 - 4 5 minute talks 5 Wrap-up of first round of talks, prep for second round, and more LATEX 6 - 7 7 minute talks 8 - 9 Wrap-up of second round of talks, prep for third round, and Maple 10 - 12 10 minute talks 13 Advanced LATEX 14 Wrap-up
Grading
Your grade for this part of the course will count as 20% of your Math 210 or CS 271 grade. This 20% will be based on 100 points, distributed as follows:
- 75 points for oral communication
- 10 points for your first talk
- 20 points for your second talk
- 35 points for your third talk
- 10 points for five outside talk critiques
- -2 for each missed peer critique (more below)
- 15 points for LATEX exercises (mostly typesetting class homeworks)
- 10 points for Maple exercises
Expectations
You are expected to attend every class meeting. The schedule of talks will be determined randomly. No rescheduling, make-ups, or trading days with a fellow student will be allowed. During the weeks when you are not speaking, you will be assigned to critique other students. These critiques will be due the following day in class. Not handing in an assigned critique will cause 2 points to be deducted from your final grade for this class.
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