There will be quizzes, some unannounced, and there will be some collected homework. There will also be five unit tests, one at the end of each of the five Units, and a comprehensive final exam.
In the past, I've permitted students to take up to two hours to do the regular exams and I will do so again this semester. These exams will be given in a room to be announced the day before the test.
Questions on the exams are like problems assigned from the text or problems considered in class, but with more detail and with more parts. Use of a calculator/CAS is permitted; in fact, it is often required. However, on parts of some tests, calculators are prohibited. Some formulas are either given on the test paper or on a formula sheet that is provided with the test.
Included here copies of the five unit tests from the last semester I taught this class (F,06). They are meant to illustrate the kind of questions that might be asked and what you might be expected to do. Please note that (1) most of the problems are "story problems" that involve a number of steps, and (2) work is to be shown and "answers" are to be written in sentences.
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R. Myers: rmyers@nmu.edu.