MATH 300

Fall 2023

PROF. Laura P. Schaposnik

University of Illinois at Chicago

OFFICE HOURS on zoom (and office by appointment) for PROF. Laura P. Schaposnik:

Monday & Wednesday 11-12 a.m. zoom/office - email for appointment.

Email: schapos@uic.edu

Syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8RAt_lTCEEjsH9Oht1M2iOcTUAzcHPw/view?usp=sharing

Drop-In Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11-12 a.m.

Drop-In Hours location: Zoom Office https://uic.zoom.us/my/schapos and this Passcode:7z3JbKL4

Teaching Assistant: Lexie Wheeler, awheel23@uic.edu

Course Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/math-300-fall-2023/home

Lecture notes: Writing for Mathematics, by Laura Schaposnik, 2021. ISBN 978-1-7370584-4-1

Note on Chat-GPT: During the semester, we will embrace the existence of Chat-GPT, we will learn how to use it for our overall benefit to write (for) mathematics with a critical eye, and learn how to build upon its answers to produce high quality material (rather than very basic AI material recognizably sub-standard, which is what Chat-GPT would give us at the moment). We will be using AI back and both to produce and to check student's pieces, making sure nothing fully AI generated is ever submitted as final piece.

MATH300-Fall 2023-Schaposnik.pdf

Lectures: Lectures will be in person, whilst homework and assignments will be submitted online through Overleaf and Blackboard. See schedule in the link above for what work to complete each week.

Grades: The class will be passed with 40% (D=50-70%, C=70-80%, B=80-90%, A=90-100%).

The grades will be entered on Blackboard.

Work to be submitted or done in class: During the semester, students will have to prepare the following:

(I) 5 homework assignments:

Graded: Pass/Fail, worth 50% of final grade.

(II) 3 writing assignments:

Short Essay, worth 20% of final grade.
Survey design for Bio, worth 10% of final grade; and
Short Bio, worth 10% of final grade.

(III) Participation in class during in-person lectures (grading and discussing other student's assignments), worth 10% of final grade.

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