Web page: http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/martin/Math251/Math251.html
Text: Mathematical Reasoning for Elementary Teachers by Long & DeTemple (4th edition)

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING 
The total points you accumulate throughout the semester on the items below will determine your grade:
 

3 Exams @ 100 points each	300
Final Exam	150
Class Activities	48
Readings and Corrections	60
12 Homeworks @ 8 points each	96
Total	654

Your course grade will be determined by the following scale: 
93 – 100%   A         80 – 82.9%   B-          67 – 69.9%  D+ 
90 – 92.9%  A-        77 – 79.9%   C+        60 – 66.9%   D 
87 – 89.9%  B+       73 – 76.9%   C            0 – 59.9%    F 
83 – 86.9%  B         70 – 72.9%   C- 

HOMEWORK: Math is not a spectator sport. It is learned by doing. Thus, homework is critical to your success in this course. It will be assigned each day and collected in class on the following Wednesday .  Two problems will be graded for two points each; the remaining four points will be based on the neatness and completeness of the remaining problems. Late homework will NOT be accepted. However, your two lowest homework scores will be dropped. Assignments are due in class. Points will be deducted for homework that cannot be read, is not stapled together or does not show a reasonable amount of work. A guideline for how much work to include would be to show the work for all steps that cannot be done in your head. Also, in this course we will often be more interested in the process of solving a problem rather than the actual answer, so explaining your steps is important. If you are in doubt about how much work to show, include all steps and explain your reasoning. As long as your work is correct, organized, and legible, you will not lose points for showing "too much" work.

EXAMS: Exams will be fifty minutes long and will be given in class on the dates shown on the course schedule. Exams will be closed book, closed notes. You may use a calculator during exams. No make-ups will be allowed for exams except for prearranged absences with appropriate documentation. 

CORRECTIONS: After each exam, you will redo the questions you missed on the exam and explain briefly why you missed each question. You can use your textbook, homework, lecture notes and/or sample exam as a guideline. Exam corrections are worth 10 point. Students with perfect exams will get the 10 points automatically. Note that this process does not replace lost points; once you miss a point on an exam you will only get it back via extra credit and not by the exam correction process. Exam correction will not be used on the final exam..

LATE WORK: Late readings and exam corrections will be accepted but will lose 20% credit for each business day that they are late. Assignments received after 3 PM will be considered to have come in the following business day; i.e., an assignment turned in at 4 pm on a Wednesday will be considered to have come in on Thursday. 

Make-up work from excused absences will not be accepted after the last day of class.

FINAL EXAM: There will be a comprehensive final exam on Wednesday, April 30th  from 1 to 3 PM in Neill 5W. Early finals will not be given for any reason. Please make your travel plans accordingly.

EXTRA CREDIT: A few small extra credit opportunities will arise during the semester, but no more than 2% of your total grade will be available as extra credit. Extra credit assignments will not be negotiated individually, and will not be possible after the end of the semester.

ATTENDANCE: Some of the work done for this course is done as group work during class. Since this sort of material is difficult to make up if you are absent, it is strongly recommended that you do not miss class. You are responsible for all material covered in this course and for turning in all assignments, regardless of attendance.

If you find that you must miss class, there are two ways to arrange excused absences for this course. 

1. If you have an emergency situation resulting in an extended absence (illness or family 
    emergency resulting in an absence longer than one day), contact the Office of Student Affairs 
    (335-4531) immediately. They will issue letters to all of your instructors excusing you from the 
    necessary class days and assignments. 
2. Appropriate letters documenting excused university absences (such as participation in athletic 
    events) will be accepted if arranged before missing class.

TECHNOLOGY: Part of the learning experience in this course will involve the use of the internet. If you do not have internet access, consider arranging an account at one of the campus labs. Information is available from Student Computing Services at the Information Technology Building (ITB), room 2091, 335-0534. Please see me if you are not able to arrange internet access.

A NOTE ABOUT E-MAIL: In general, I find e-mail to be a great communication tool – but it has limitations. If you have an urgent need to reach me, e-mail is not the best method. Unless you receive a reply from me you should NOT assume I received your message; it is safer to leave a message for me on my office phone. I will not discuss homework problems through e-mail, but I can answer questions about what is expected on an assignment. Also note that e-mail is not always an immediate communication method. I will get back to you as quickly as I can.

STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: Reasonable accommodations are available for students who have a documented disability. Please notify the instructor during the first week of class of any accommodations needed for the course.  Late notification may cause the requested accommodations to be unavailable.  All accommodations must be approved through the Disability Resource Center (DRC) in Administration Annex 206, 335-1566.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: All assignments are to be done by you, not someone else. I encourage you to work together and to discuss homework assignments by asking questions such as, "How do you do this type of problem again?" or "What is the idea here?" But you should not sit down with someone else's paper in front of you and refer to it to get your work done. This is cheating and will not benefit you.  Complicity (providing answers for another student) is also a form of cheating. If I see even questionable evidence of cheating on an assignment or exam, all involved students will receive a zero on the assignment and I will keep the evidence while further action is considered. If I am strongly convinced that a student has cheated the situation will be referred to Student Affairs, which could result in failure of this course or even expulsion from the university.

CLASS CANCELLATIONS: If a class meeting is ever cancelled for any reason, whatever was scheduled for the cancelled day will be done the next time we meet. This includes scheduled exams, activities, and homework submissions. If a cancellation occurs, I will post a note on my office door and on the course web site explaining what is happening.

KEEPING TRACK:  All graded work will be returned to you with the exception of the final exam. Keep all of your returned work for reference and for the resolution of grade discrepancies. A password-protected grade web page will be maintained so that you may periodically check your points. However, you are expected to keep track of scores for your own information; the web page should only serve as a quick reference and as a check for accuracy. The web page will be updated once weekly.

EXPECTATIONS: Learning is an active process and is not accomplished by sitting and observing. Thus I expect you to work hard to accomplish our objectives. I expect you to take responsibility for your own learning by studying the textbook sections in advance. You should come to class prepared with questions about the reading, and ready to work problems from the topic covered by the reading. If you do not put forth this effort you will not learn, and you may expect that your final grade will reflect this. However, you are not alone in this venture -- please come to office hours for help if you are having trouble with the material, rather than giving up!

COVERAGE: We will cover the following sections of the text, in this order:

1.1 An Introduction to Problem Solving
1.2 Pólya’s Problem-Solving Principles
1.3 More Problem-Solving Strategies
1.4 Additional Problem-Solving Strategies
1.5 Reasoning Mathematically

2.1 Sets and Operations on Sets
2.2 Sets, Counting,and the Whole Numbers
2.3 Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers
2.4 Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers

3.1 Numerations Systems Past and Present
3.2 Nondecimal Positional Systems
3.3 Algorithms for Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers
3.4 Algorithms for Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers
3.5 Mental Arithmetic and Estimation

4.1 Divisibility of Natural Numbers
4.2 Tests for Divisibility
4.3 Greatest Common Divisors and Least Common Multiples

5.1 Representation of Integers
5.2 Addition and Subtraction of Integers
5.3 Multiplication and Division of Integers

6.1 The Basic Concepts of Fractions and Rational Numbers
6.2 The Arithmetic of Rational Numbers
6.3 The Rational Number System

7.1 Decimals
7.2 Computations with Decimals
7.3 Ratio and Proportion
7.4 Percent