Lab meetings are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the semester. Below is a schedule of the lab meetings for the fall. The following paragraphs are meant to clarify a few terms used in the schedule below.

Labs: Labs are structured in-class activties designed to build your skills in mathematical computation, reasoning, and modeling and to build your conceptual understanding of the course material. Labs are required of everyone, and your lab average counts for 15% of your course grade. Labs are generally due in class on the Wednesday or Friday following the lab meeting. Out of fairness to the students in the course, late labs will not be accepted. However, your lowest lab grade will be dropped at the end of the course.

Each graded lab assignment is meant to take between 60 and 90 minutes, including the time spent during the lab meeting. However, sometimes we get overly ambitious and write labs that take too long. If you find yourself spending more than about half an hour on a given lab after the lab meeting is over, please email the course head (judson@math.harvard.edu) and the assistant course head (bruff@math.harvard.edu) and let them know immediately. If enough students report that a lab is taking far too long, then we might extend the lab's due date.

Problem Sessions: Problem sessions are those lab meetings during which no graded lab assignments are given. They are devoted primarily to working problems and reviewing material. Even if you find that you are not having difficulty doing the homework problems, you should still make a habit of attending these sessions.

Gateway Exams: Gateway exams are given during lab meetings. See the course syllabus for more information on gateway exams. Since taking a gateway exam does not take up a full lab meeting, the time remaining after a gateway exam will be use for an abbreviated problem session.

Lab Times and Locations