Grading Policy - Professor Hedman



Grading Policy

Homework

Homework will not be collected, nor will it be factored directly into the grade. However, you must have at least attempted the assigned problems before coming to class in order to understand the lecture. The dates given are when I will do the problems in class.

Your Grade

There will be two midterm examinations, each worth 25 points. There will be a cumulative final examination, worth 50 points. These are the only components of your grade. Grading is “on the curve” according to the following scale. X represents the average total score of the class out of 100 points. s.d. represents the standard deviation of the total scores of the class.

A: above X + s.d.

B: between X and X + s.d.

C: between X – s.d. and X

D & F: below X - s.d.

After each midterm answer keys will be posted on HuskyCT. Don’t ask for “extra credit.” Because of the app “Wolfram Alpha,” NO CELL PHONES NOR CALCULATORS are to be seen during an exam. If I see a cell phone or a calculator, I will collect your exam immediately.

Make-up Policy

You are given the midterm dates on the first day of class. You are expected to be here these dates. No make-up exams will be given. If you are absent from a midterm, then your final exam will be worth more to make up for the points you missed on the midterm. But if you are present and sign the blue book, you must keep the points you earned on it.

Your Instructor

Prof. Bruce Hedman received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1979, and a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1980. After serving as an ordained Presbyterian minister, he came to the University of Connecticut in 1982, and was tenured as an associate professor of mathematics in 1988. In 1992 he won a Templeton Prize for his paper “Cantor’s Concept of Infinity.” During his last sabbatical leave he was a visiting professor during fall term 1998 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he edited unpublished manuscripts of the 18th century Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin. For thirty-five years he has also pastored a local Congregational church. He and his wife Sandy reside in Storrs with their puggle Samantha. He wrote an article “Archetypal Images in Haida Art” for the Journal of the International Society for Jungian Studies, which explores symbolism in the totem poles of the Northwest Coast First Peoples. He has a chapter on the mathematician Georg Cantor in the 2019 book The Infinity of God, published by Notre Dame University Press. He is an avid chess player.

Office hours: after class Email me at : bruce.hedman@uconn.edu

Class Website: Visit my website for class syllabus, exam study guides, and handouts. For exam keys use HuskyCT at lms.uconn.edu.

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