This Course is Cross-Listed

• MATH 3110 COLLEGE GEOMETRY Section 100 (Class Number 4111)
• MATH 5110 COLLEGE GEOMETRY Section 100 (Class Number 4136)

Course Description: We will begin with an introduction to axiom systems and axiomatic geometry. Then we will consider plane Euclidean geometry from an axiomatic viewpoint.

Prerequisites: (3050 Discrete Math or CS 3000), (3200 Applied Linear Algebra or 3210 Linear Algebra)

Class Meets: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:55pm - 1:50pm in Morton Room 313

Syllabus: This web page replaces the usual paper syllabus. If you need a paper syllabus (now or in the future), print this web page.

Textbook Information

What is it?

The textbook is two volumes, spiral bound in gray covers.

• Volume 1 is pages 1 - 324 and contains Chapters 1 - 15.
• Volume 2 is pages 325 - 366 and contains Chapters 16 and 17 (the appendices).

The reason for binding the textbook in two volumes is that Volume 2 is used as a reference on quizzes and exams.

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Is it required?

The printed book is required for students in MATH 3110 Section 100.

Where do you get it?

Beginning on Monday, August 22, 2016, the book will be available at Minuteman Press, 17 W. Washington Street, Athens (next to Donkey Coffee), (740) 593-7393.

Cost?

The two-volume set costs $38.10 plus tax.

What do you ask for?

Tell them that you need the MATH 3110 book.

Online version:

There is an online version of the text at the following link: ( Geometry.Textbook ) But students in MATH 3110 Section 100 will still need to purchase the printed book when it comes out.

Special Needs: If you have physical, psychiatric, or learning disabilities that require accommodations, please let me know as soon as possible so that your needs may be appropriately met.

Attendance Policy: Attendance is required for all lectures and exams, and will be recorded using sign-in sheets.

Missing Class: If you miss a class for any reason, it is your responsibility to copy someone�s notes or download my notes from the course web page, and study them. I will not use office hours to teach topics discussed in class to students who were absent.

Missing a Quiz or Exam Because of Illness: If you are too sick to take a quiz or exam, then you must

1. send me an e-mail before the quiz/exam, telling me that you are going to miss it because of illness, then
2. then go to the Hudson Student Health Center.
3. Later, you will need to bring me documentation from Hudson showing that you were treated there.

Missing Quizzes or Exams Because of University Activity: If you have a University Activity that conflicts with one of our quizzes or exams, you must contact me before the quiz or exam to discuss arrangements for a make-up. I will need to see documentation of your activity. If you miss a quiz or an exam because of a University Activity without notifying me in advance, you will not be given a make-up.

Missing Class Participation: If you miss a class, your class participation score for that day will be a zero. That score cannot be made up. (There is no way to make up participation.) However, notice that if you attend all 36 lectures and are well-prepared for the discussion, your participation grade will be 108 points, which amounts to 8 points of extra credit. This is meant to give you a cushion in case you have to miss two or three classes.

Cheating on Exams or Quizzes: If cheat on an exam or quiz, you will receive a zero on that exam or quiz and I will submit a report to the Office of Community Standards and Student Responsibility (OCSSR). If you cheat on another exam, you will receive a grade of F in the course and I will again submit a report to the OCSSR.

Grading: During the semester, you will accumulate points:

(* Notice that it is actually possible to score 108 points through Class Participation. Any points scored over 100 will be considered as extra credit points.)

At the end of the semester, your Total will be converted to your Course Grade:

Note that although this grading scale may look easy compared to the usual 90,80,70,60 scale, it is actually not easier. The reasons are:

• The letter grades in this course mean the same thing as the letter grades in other courses.
• When I grade homework and exams, I give out fewer points. (In this course, if you do grade C work on a 20 point exam problem, you will get between 11, 12, or 13 points for the problem. That is in the range 55% - 69.9%. But in somebody else's course that uses the 90,80,70,60 scale, you would have gotten 14 or 15 points for the problem. That is in the range 70% - 79.9%.)
• There is no curve.

Course Structure: One learns math primarily by trying to solve problems. This course is designed to provide structure for you as you learn to solve problems, and to test how well you have learned to solve them. This structure is provided in the following ways.

• Class Participation: The class meetings will be run as seminars, not lectures, so your participation is essential. Often, I will give you work to prepare for discussion in class. Your class participation grade will be a measure of how well-prepared you are for the class meetings, and how much you contribute to the discussions. The class participation grade for each class meeting will be either 0, 1, 2, or 3, computed as follows:
  • 0 point: Did not attend class.
  • 1 point: Attended class but did not participate in discussion.
  • 2 points: Attended class and participated in discussion, but had not prepared for discussion.
  • 3 points: Attended class and participated in discussion, with adequate preparation.
• Exercises: The goal of the course is for you to be able to solve all of the exercises in the textbook. These exercises are not to be turned in and are not graded, but you should do as many of them as possible and keep your solutions in a notebook for study.
• Textbook Readings: To succeed in the course, you will need to read the textbook. Some material for the course will be presented in the textbook and not discussed in class.
• Quizzes and Exams: Quiz and exam problems will be based on textbook exercises and on material that I have assigned to you for the in-class discussions.

Schedule: