There will be a cumulative final exam worth 150 points. Attendance Attendance is required and will affect your grade. Each time you show up for class and stay the whole time, you will get 5 points, which will be added to your test scores. At the moment you get less than 90 on a test, you have to start coming again, until you get two tests in a row with score more than 90. To do well in math, it is necessary to both understand the procedures used in calculations and be able to carry out the calculations quickly and efficiently.
Calculators can be extremely helpful when used correctly and carefully.
They can also prevent one from seeing the correct solution in some other cases. While in some cases they speed up computations a lot, in other cases mindless use of calculator can slow you down significantly. In this class, we will try to learn both how to do things without calculators, and how to use calculators correctly and efficiently. Because of that, calculators will be permitted on some of the tests. Generally the tests that cover basic arithmetic skills will not allow the use of calculators.