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In addition to lectures, you will have one hour of tutorial per week, starting in about the third week of the Fall Term.

Quizzes will take place in the tutorials, so you must enrol in a tutorial, and you must go to the tutorial in which you are enrolled. The deadline for
enroling in tutorials via ACORN is September 19.

As mentioned above, quizzes will focus on Basic Skills identified in the online course notes.

Quizzes will begin in about the third week of the Fall Term, and from then on, there will be a quiz (almost) every week. Different tutorials will have different
quizzes. Quizzes will not focus on the most recent material; instead, any given quiz may ask about any Basic Skills covered from the start of the year
to the week before the quiz.

Tutorials will also give you a chance to practice problem-solving skills, and they will introduce new homework assignments, to make sure that the
questions are clear.

If you would like to change the tutorial in which you are registered, please

1. first check the Arts and Science calendar to make sure that the tutorial you want to move to has space available.

2. if it does, please send email to marija@math.utoronto.ca with the subject Change MAT237 tutorial. The email should include

your name and student number,

the lecture you are enrolled in,
the tutorial you are currently enrolled in, and
the tutorial you wish to change to.

We cannot guarantee that the request will be granted (this is done centrally) but normally it is. You should hear back rather soon from marija@math....

Homework

There will probably be 4 homework assignments per term. They will be turned in online, probably via Crowdmark.

As mentioned above, your two weakest homewost scores will be dropped. If you need to miss one homework assignment for any reason, even if
competely justifiable, this will be counted as one of the two homework marks that will be dropped.

On collaboration: Discussing exercises (including graded homework problems) with your classmates is useful and a good way to learn. However, when
writing up your solutions for submission, you must work independently and present solutions in your own words. If two students hand in identical
homework assignments, then both students are considered to have commited academic misconduct, regardless of who copied whom. The penalties can
be severe. For more information, please read the University policy on academic misconduct.

Extra marks

You can earn extra marks by pointing out mistakes in the online notes or other course material. (Such mistakes are always present in material typed by
humans, although we will do our best to keep the numbers down). Mistakes should be pointed out by posting on piazza. Please put the word “typo” in the
subject line for the post, and please check to see that the typo has not already been pointed out by another student.

You can earn up to 1/2 mark per mistake you find, up to a maximum of 3 marks over the whole year. (Less than 1/2 mark will be given for some errors,
such as typing “ ” instead of “ ”.) For any given mistake, the bonus will only given to the first student to point it out. Typos (such as misspelled English
woords) do not count as mistakes, but mathematical typos (such as writing instead of in a formula, or getting a sign wrong) do.

Other opportunities for extra marks may be announced during the year.

Requesting that we remark something

If you think that we have made an error in marking a test or homework problem, please send email to admin237@math.toronto.edu explaining what you
think we have done wrong. Do this within one week of the date that the evaluation is returned to you, or we might refuse to look at it.

Here are a few points to keep in mind.

1. We rarely reply positively to requests that say something like “okay maybe I made a mistake, but taking off points is way too harsh in my opinion.”
The important thing is that the marking is consistently harsh (or lenient).
2. Related: we rarely reply positively to requests that say something like “okay, maybe I made a mistake but it seems like a very umimportant mistake
to me.” In cases like this, we often find that the student has failed to appreciate the underlying mathematical issue.
3. Remember that markers have the right to deduct points for unclear presentation of a proof. In writing mathematics, the goal is to communicate a
mathematical argument clearly to your reader. In a difference of opinion between a reader and an author as to how to judge clarity of writing, the
reader is more or less always right.
4. In particular we will almost never reply positively to remark requests dealing with points deducted for clarity of exposition, if (as with homework
questions) the number of points involved is worth something like .05% or .1% of your course mark.
5. On the other hand, we sometimes see clear errors in marking, such as when a TA fails to notice “see page ...”, or else when a TA types the wrong
number into crowdmark by mistake. We encourage you to bring any such errors to our attention.

Last word on marking

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It should go without saying that all grades in MAT237 are computed solely on the basis of student performance.

Whom should you contact?

For math-related questions about MAT237, ask any of the instructors. Visit any of us or any of the TAs during office hours or at the Math Aid Centre.
You do not need an appointment to come during regularly scheduled office hours.

Technical mathematical questions can only be answered by email if they are written very clearly, and have a very simple answer. Any complicated
questions should be asked in person.

Please keep in mind that we receive a high volume of email, and it may take some time before you hear back from us. Instructors may also decline to
reply to messages in which they are addressed in a highly informal way, such as “Hey!” or “Yo!”

For other administrative quesions about MAT237, talk to the course coordinator, Robert Jerrard, during his office hours, or send email to
admin237@math.toronto.edu

If you require accommodations for a disability, or have any accessibility concerns about the course, the classroom, or course materials, please
contact Accessibility Services.

If you have a personal situation and are concerned about how it will affect your academic performance, please contact your college registrar.

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