Math 231 FALL 2006, Discrete Math

• Instructor Jon Brundan
• Office Hours for Fall 2006: M 1:00-2:00, U 1:00-2:00, W 11:00-12:00 Deady 304.
• Please talk to me in class if you cannot make these office hours, and we can arrange an alternative time. You could also use e-mail to ask questions....
• Class meets MUWF 12:00-13:00, Deady 301.
• Book: Discrete Mathematics by Ken Ross and Charles Wright, Prentice-Hall, 5th edition.
• Syllabus: roughly chapters 1-4 but be warned I will jump around A LOT!
• Homework Assignments (25%). to be collected on WEDNESDAYS, first due W Oct 4. Late homework will not be accepted. Not all of the assigned homework problems will be graded.
• Test dates:
  • Midterm 1(15%): U Oct 17.
  • Midterm 2(20%): U Nov 7.
  • Final (40%): F Dec 8, 10.15am.
  You must bring photo ID to the midterms and the final.
• Grading: Homework 25%, midterms 35%, final 40%.
• Last day to drop: S Nov 12.
• I usually treat the Tuesday class as an extended office hour and devote the time to doing examples, answering homework questions and any other questions people have. You should plan to do as much of the homework as you can BEFORE the Tuesday class so that by the end of class on Tuesday -- or certainly by the end of my office hour at 1pm on Tuesday -- you are sure you can finish all the homework to be turned in the following day. The exception to this rule is on the weeks when there is a midterm -- on these two weeks you're on your own for homework!
• Please remember that if you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out what happened in that class. You can usually pick up any handouts from this web page.
• I am perfectly happy for you to find someone else in the class who is at the same level as you and work with them on homeworks. Just make sure you are understanding and learning from the homework -- not just copying what your friend tells you without digesting it!

Jonathan Brundan
Department of Mathematics
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1222 USA
Phone 1-541-346-4727
Email: brundan@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Web: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~brundan