If your disability requires accommodation, please notify me within the first two weeks of the course so that we may make arrangements in a timely manner. If you have a documented disability on file with Disability Services, you may be eligible for reasonable accommodations in this course. No work will be accepted after the deadline unless you have a valid medical reason that is approved by the instructor before the deadline.ĭisability Services: UMass Amherst is committed to making reasonable, effective, and appropriate accommodations to meet the needs of students with disabilities and help create a barrier-free campus. Late submission policy: It is essential that the homework is completed on or before the deadline. This may come in many forms, e.g., active participation in Piazza discussions and office hours, and a sking good clarifying questions and answering other students’ or instructor questions on Piazza. Class participation (10%): Up to 10% extra credit may be awarded for class participation.These are very short quizzes (~15-30 minutes) to make sure that you are following the material. Quizzes (30%): A quiz will be posted right after the class slot due the following day by 11:59pm Amherst time.We will drop your worst homework when computing your course grade. Homework (35%): These will usually be assigned on Friday, and due the following Friday by 11:59pm Amherst Time.The last exam will take place during the final exam period. We’ll then post solutions to the practice exam with a few days to go. We will make up a practice exam, similar in length and difficulty to the real exam, and post it a week before the real exam.
for You will have up to two hours for an exam that we hope will be doable in one hour. The one with the highest grade with count for 15% of the course grade, and the other two each will count for 10% of the final grade. Midterm exams (35%): There will be three non-cumulative exams whose goal is to help you synthesize what you have learned.If you are experiencing technical difficulties, UMass IT technical support can be found at UMass IT support. Slides for the week’s lectures will be posted on Friday. In general, Lectures will be made available Monday (quiz due by Tuesday 11:59pm Amherst time) and Wednesday (quiz due by Thursday 11:59pm Amherst time). The quiz should be pretty straightforward if you have watched the lecture. After watching all of the segments of a lecture, take the brief quiz on the lecture. There will in general be two 1-hour lectures per week, each divided into roughly three 20-minute segments. Lectures are asynchronous and will be posted week by week, along with the lecture slides. (This course does not carry gen-ed credit itself.) There is no formal prerequisite, but an average high-school math background will be useful, e.g., the University’s R1 gen-ed requirement. A Spiral Workbook for Discrete Mathematics by Harris Kwong (pdf download)Ĭourse Prerequisites: The material of the course does not overlap much with that of the conventional pre-calculus and calculus courses, but it will demand some basic skill in calculation and algebra.Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd Edition by Oscar Levin (interactive website).(Note that you may need to enable Macromedia Flash in your browser.)Īs an additional source of explanations and practice problems, I recommend the following open source texts: The textbook contains links to (free!) online practice activities that can augment the lectures and assignments. Do not buy the paperback “solutions manual” in place of the main textbook. It’s pretty expensive (especially the hardcover version), but there are cheaper options of renting it or buying it used, e.g., on eCampus or here. Winston Crawley, ‘ Discrete Mathematics: Mathematical Reasoning and Proof with Puzzles, Patterns, and Games Wiley Press, 2005. The role of the textbooks is to provide additional examples and in-depth coverage of the topics, as well as homework problems and optional material that we will not have time to cover in class.ĭouglas E. Textbook: The recorded lectures together with the posted lecture slides will provide a self-contained coverage of the material. TA: Yutao Thursday 1-2 pm and Friday 5-6 pm, Yutao Office Hours Zoom Location: Online via Zoom, a calendar also invitation will be sent to students. Instructor: Mohammad Hajiesmaili, 2:30am-3:45pm EST
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