(October 2005)

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS OF HEDVA 2M.

Bhatzlakha!!

There will be a mid term test lasting 90 minutes, and a final examination.

The final examination will be in two parts each lasting 90 minutes, with a break between them.

During the mid term test, and during each part of the final examination, students will not be permitted to leave the room. For more details about this please click here.

STRUCTURE OF THE TEST AND EXAM. "AMERICAN" QUESTIONS AND "OPEN" QUESTIONS.
The following information applies to BOTH the midterm test and the final examination.
There may perhaps be some "American" questions, (i.e. multiple choice questions), but there will DEFINITELY be "open" questions. In fact at least 50% of the the test and at least 50% of the examination will consist of "open" questions.
There will be (at least) one question from "MathNet" class or homework exercises in the midterm test and also one such question in the examination. To get full marks for these questions you will have to show your calculations and explain and justify the steps. Getting good scores for these particular MathNet questions can also help your "magen" as explained below.

HOMEWORK AND "MATHNET" EXERCISES

You will do exercises for this course using "MathNet", i.e. you will log in to a website which issues the questions and you will type your solutions directly on the computer. For technical details about using MathNet please see here.

Similarly to what you know from Hedva 1M, there are three kinds of MathNet exercises.
1. Preparatory exercises (shiurey hakhana)
2. Class exercises (shiurey kita). (These are intended to be a supplement to the tirgulim.)
3. Homework exercises (shiurey bayit)

Preparatory exercises (shiurey hakhana) are designed to be done BEFORE the lectures. We warmly recommend doing them. And, if you do them before the specified dates of the corresponding lectures, some bonus points will be added to your final grade. (Details below). CALCULATING YOUR GRADE
For a full explanation about this in Hebrew please click here. If you prefer an almost full explanation in English please click here. MILUIMNIKIM

If you have miluim, first of all, shimru al atzmeykhem! (v'gum al kulanu!).
If you need us to do something special because you had miluim (see below) I will need to see the ORIGINAL of your certificate ("ishur" NOT "tsav kria") that you had miluim. Please be sure to show it to me BEFORE you give it to Bituach Leumi. Sorry, but I will NOT accept a photocopy. (If you forget to do this there is another solution. There is an army internet site where you can order a new certificate confirming that you had miluim on certain dates. I understand that it takes about 2 weeks for you to get such a certificate by mail.) To avoid any misunderstanding or mistakes, when you show your "ishur" to me, I will immediately send an email message to you and to the metargelet akhrayit (and to myself) confirming and recording the dates of your miluim.
Please feel very free to contact me for explanations about material you have missed. If there are some special difficulties I may perhaps be able to give you extra classes/tirgulim. (And of course I will do my best to answer questions from all students, regardless of miluim.)
I plan to give a special "moed miluimnikim" exam for students who had miluimim on the date of moed alef or moed bet.
I will also offer students who had miluim on the date of the mid term test the option of answering a designated subset of the questions, from one of the final exams during a shorter time period, to get a mark to be used as their mid term score. But to be allowed to do this you must tell me two weeks before the examination that you need this repeat mid term.

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (Ha'arakhat Zman)
Both the mid term test and the final examination will be organized to allow the usual amount of extra time to students who have learning difficulties. This may perhaps mean that these students in the final examination may have to arrive and begin writing 30 minutes before other students. (Details will be announced later.)
To be given this extra time because of learning difficulties you MUST have the usual appropriate document authorizing this from Dekan Limudey Hasmakha. We will need to see the original version of it on the day of the test/exam.

LECTURES ON VIDEO
The Technion Audio-Visual Library has recordings made several years ago of lectures and tutorials for this course. This is excellent material and you may find them very useful. However you should note that there have been some changes to the syllabus since these recordings were made. So they do not cover some topics which you will be expected to know. On the other hand they may cover some other topics which you are now not expected to know.

KHOVERET OF LECTURE NOTES BY MICHAEL CWIKEL AND SHAHAR MENDELSON
Many years ago I wrote lecture notes (in Hebrew) for the course "Matematika 2-Khet", which was quite similar to the course "Hedva 2M". These notes consist of two hand written volumes ( "khovrot") and a third volume of past examination questions and their solutions. They do NOT cover some of the topics of Hedva 2M and they also deal with some topics that you do not need to know for Hedva 2M. However a considerable number of students and lecturers have found them to be useful for Hedva 2M. You can find these khovrot in various Technion libraries. Graphics files of the first two khovrot will hopefully also be available soon from the internet and/or from CDs in some Technion libraries.
Shahar Mendelson and I have begun writing a new version of these old lecture notes. Part of it has already been typed.
A very preliminary version of PART of this new document is now available as a postscript file. WARNING: It has NOT yet been carefully proof read. We know there are some misprints. Please let me know if you see misprints. IT IS BIG (ABOUT 2 MB) AND IS ABOUT 45 PAGES, WITH SOME 29 PICTURES. You can get it here .

Again we stress that those 45 pages of the postscript file cover only PART of the course.

(If you are interested in a student job to continue the work of typing these khovrot, see here.)

HERE ARE THE BOOKS LISTED FOR STUDY IN THIS COURSE.

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