For this course, any effort a student is willing to put into extra credit would pay off more in additional studying for the quiz or homework. Students should bring calculators to all classes. At least 12 homeworks will be assigned. Each homework is worth up to 5 points, minus one for each class session that it is late. There will also be a short take-home assignment due toward the end of the semester which will count for about half the value of a quiz.
Students are to work on all home-works independently.
Thus, a good strategy would be to do extra homework on your own above and beyond what is turned it officially. There are plenty of examples available in the textbook, and it is also a good study technique to invent your own problems. This is optional, of course, but on each quiz I will ask you to report how many study problems you tried during your preparation for that quiz. Thus, the grade is based on 4 quizzes, the Final, the take-home, and the best 20 homeworks. Any description of the world, from a poem to an experiment, crucially involves deciding which aspects of the world must be included.