From milnikel Thu May  5 22:50:35 1994
To: harelb
Subject: [milnikel: Re: DRAFT  #1]
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 15:31:00 EDT
From: milnikel (Robert Milnikel - Grad - Dennis)
To: harelb
Subject: Re: DRAFT  #1
Cc: orlandi, gargova, milnikel, rishel, cliff, bailey

Harel--

	Some thoughts on Draft #1:


--Too many short projects will detract from homework time, and I hope
that there is still a "respectable" amount of routine homework. Maybe
a bit of class time could be given to a group project a couple of
times over the course of the semester. (I know how precious class time
is too...)

--My vote on individual vs. group would be certainly one group
project, the other-- well, my leaning is toward individual, but I'm
not staunch on this point. The thing I _am_ fairly strongly in favor
of is individual write ups of all projects. My experience is that for
group writeups, work is delegated and people don't insist on
understanding others' work, but if each student has to write up the
whole problem, there will be a need for each to understand the whole
problem.

--I like the idea of submitting a draft for comments and revision, but I think
that it should have a very definite maximum number of drafts attached to it,
maybe even just 2.

--A lot of the good mathematical writing techniques can be taught through a
couple of examples discussed in class.

--I'm not so hot on group timed exams. My guess would be that whoever in the
group is fastest at standard calculus stuff would do the exam for the others,
or the work would be delegated and copied.

--Completely off the top of my head:

Project 1	:15%
Midterm		:15%
Project 2	:20%
Final		:30%
smaller projects:10%
HW		:5-10%
Presentations	:Included in project grades
Participation	:5% or 0% "fudge factor"

--Possible Survey Questions:

	--Obvious stuff: Year, College, Major
	--Course Background
	--Math courses you plan on going on to
	--Other courses with 112 as prereq
	--Reasons for taking 112
	--(?)Had there been a 112R, would you have enrolled?
	--Material you thought was extraneous?
	--Material you wish had been covered or covered in more depth?
	--Comment space