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\syllabus{Updates for Math 116}{Weeks 1-10}

\section*{Syllabus updates!}

Hello!  Based on class feedback on the week 3 survey, I proposed some changes to the class structure; these were voted on and passed in class by pretty heavy margins (24-3 in each voted-on case.)  They're listed here:


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\item Quizzes will no longer occur.  The quiz portion of your grade will be scaled to $6.\overline{6}\% = (3/9)\cdot 20\%$, as we took 3 of the 9 quizzes that occur throughout the class, and the original quiz score was designed to count for $20\%$.  The missing $13.\overline{3}\%$ of your grade will be filled in by proportional increases to the HW, midterm, and final grades.
\item HW will have a ``check-down'' required problem or two, along with a section where you choose 2-3 out of 5 or so problems.  The problems you choose between will remain at the difficulty of the first three sets; the ``check-down'' problems will be quiz-difficulty on average.
\item The midterm and final will be take-home.  Each will likely have a collaboration and non-collaboration section.  The tests will be time-limited, with the honor system used to enforce said time limit; time limits are likely to be about 12h for the whole test, with some appropriate division between non-collaboration and collaboration.  The non-collaboration section will have a few quiz-like problems, while the collaboration section will contain some HW-like problems.
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If you feel like these changes will adversely affect your performance in this class, please contact me within the next two weeks, and we can figure something out.  If I don't hear from concerned students\footnote{The reason for this request is a previous class I had, where a student decided that they objected to the take-home final (proposed in week 2 of the class) and wanted an in-class final.  Which I understood!  The thing is that they only made this desire known on the Friday of finals week after they left for home, which was\ldots not \textit{exactly} the right time to request these kinds of changes.} by (say) the end of week 5, I will assume that all other students are OK with this proposed set of changes, and will be much less likely to accommodate individuals who express concerns after the fact.  

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