Instructor:  Ms. Sally Sievers.     Email: sievers@wells.edu   Website: aurora.wells.edu/~srs
         Office: Macmillan 102. Phone: 364-3210 (office), 607-257-7641 (home).

I am on campus MWF from about 9:20 to 4:00. Find me, I'm yours, usually. I teach at 9:30 and 11:30.  If not in my office, I am usually in one of the computer labs or math prof’s offices, or will try to leave a note on my door. After class is a great time to meet if you're free. Best is to let me know you want to see me and when (i.e. make an appointment, by phone, email, or at class time).

Text: Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna S. Epp (third edition)  This is an excellent text, and I expect you to read it, and to use the index as needed.    Other books and articles if needed.  Author's webpage http://condor.depaul.edu/%7Esepp/DMwA3e.htm 

Material Covered:   This course is a continuation of  Math 267.  Selected topics and applications include digital logic circuits and number addition, graphs and trees, recursion and recurrence relations, and other topics as time permits.

Grading:      Attendance / Homework / Participation   20%
                    Announced Closed Book Quizzes as needed  0-20%
                    Exams and Final  (take-home open book)    60- 80%

Tentative Exam Schedule:  given out approximately (+ a class or 2)
      March 5, April 16,  due (usually) 5-7 days later. out M of week 6, M of week 11
     Final, takehome, due probably Thursday May 17, noon

Homework: There will be daily assignments.  Each book section's work will be handed in on the class after we finish discussing it; but you should work on the appropriate homework daily and bring questions to the next class.  This is very important for class preparation and learning the material.

Help and Honor Code:  I expect you to get and give as much help as you can, as freely as possible, when doing homework assignments.  Mathematics is a social activity, and working together will strengthen your understanding and your powers of communication. However, you are personally responsible for understanding, and for creating as much as possible in your own words, the work you hand in.

Exams will be individual, no consultation with anyone but me.