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Is it appropriate to set a minimum number of contributions to the core themes (header topics)?

Should a contribution to a core theme have the same value as one to a secondary theme (complementary, transversal, or appendix)?

Should it be more important to work on topics that are more 'connected' to what is discussed in the classes (see the learning plan)?

Is it correct to give less value to contributions that are mere translations?

Is it effective to add more examples or exercises to the learning plan page?

Would it be better to transfer the solutions to these exercises to other sub-pages of the plan?

Do we open other sandbox sub-pages to upload our solutions, which are different from the solutions worked in the classroom?

Do we the students propose more examples with solution?

How could we include such proposals as examples in existing articles in the English Wikipedia?

Do we the students propose more topics of our interest?

Is it necessary to open a section on the exact format of the exam?

All this discussion, in addition to being necessary as a matter of common sense, is essential for the project's progress in the English Wikipedia.

Welcome to the course and to its learning plan strengthened by the English Wikipedia (academic year 2019-2020)

Estimable and respectable reader:
My name is Juan Miguel León Rojas and I am part of the teaching staff that will accompany you during the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year.
I would like to welcome you to the course 'Further Mathematics', aimed at the study of basic concepts of Discrete and Numerical Mathematics.
Now, I briefly introduce you to the course.
As you know, you have the possibility of taking it in Spanish or English. In both cases, I will try to use a clear and simple language without forgetting the university environment we are working in.

The course program (sheet 12a)

You can consult the course program (sheet 12a), here:

https://zurbaran.unex.es/cloud/index.php/s/9ZYJep76byeHsKB

The learning plan for the course

The aim of the learning plan, published on the English Wikipedia, is to successfully carry out the course program (sheet 12a):

Wikipedia:School and university projects/Discrete and numerical mathematics/Learning plan

You should devote attention to:

(You can find a set of lecture slides and 13 question selections on the course website on the UEX virtual campus).

The project 'Discrete and numerical mathematics'

The learning plan includes, as an optional continuous evaluation out-of-class practical activity, the learning project 'Discrete and numerical mathematics' (MATDIN, MATemática DIscreta y Numérica). The academic component of the present fourth edition of the project, for the academic course 2019-2020, starts on Thursday, 30 January. You should read its descriptive web page:

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:School and university projects/Discrete and numerical mathematics

Once you have read all the information on that web page, and if you are interested in participating in the project and only if you have queries or need help to do what you have been told (on that web page) to do or want to help your colleagues to do it or want to share questions, concerns or suggestions about the project, you could go that day, Thursday, 30 January, at 4:00 p.m., to Room O5 (the meeting will end no later than 5:30 p.m.). (Bring a computer if you need help). (This meeting will be in Spanish).

It is important that you become aware that joining the university project 'Discrete numerical mathematics' is optional. Therefore, it is entirely up to you to do it. But if you do it, remember, you are required to:

(a) use your true identity on free, open and public access web pages (Wikipedia) — although you can use an alias as your username, you must report your real identity (first, middle and last name) on your user page on the English Wikipedia —;

(b) be polite and respect diversity (please remember, diversity is a wealth, it is neither a problem nor a threat);

(c) comply with the rules and obligations laid down by the project coordination (click and read them here), in particular, the dynamic commitments (click and read them here);

(d) help the individuals involved in the project as much as possible;

(e) above all, commit yourself to you.

Assessment of your work in the course

You are offered two ways in which your work in the course could be assessed. You may choose:

(a) to take only the final exam, or
(b) to take the final exam and collaborate, optionally, in the project described above (in accordance with the planned timetable).

Your work will be assessed according to the way you opt for, since attendance at the classes is not mandatory. None of these two ways involves any kind of discrimination with respect to the other in relation to the maximum grade that you can achieve, 'sobresaliente (10)'. (The distinction 'matrícula de honor' is not a grade but a mention; please read, below, the corresponding section).

Only the final exam

In making this choice, the final exam score (FE) will constitute the 100 percent of your final course grade.

As mentioned above, you have access to past real exams with some solutions. You can therefore turn what you have learned into action and practise your skills on a real basis (click here).

The final exam plus the project

MATDIN: On grades

The result that you have achieved in the project (provided that you have done so according to the project’s work schedule) will be added to the final exam grade (FE) only if the latter — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) — is: at least 4.0, in the case of your individual participation and at least 6.0 out of a maximum of 10 points, in the case of your participation in a team and all the members of the team have done their own individual work according to the aforementioned work schedule.

Your collaboration during the academic year 2019-2020 will be taken into account only along with the June and July 2020 final exam grades.

After crossing reference similar projects by other university professors and based upon the experience in past academic years, your individual involvement in the project may represent up to 30 percent of your final grade and up to 15 percent in the case you are a member of a two-person team or up to 10 percent if you collaborate as a member of a three-person team —approximately a total of 45 percent of your final grade—. Thus, the following partial qualifications would form part of such final grade. For the academic year 2019-2020:

(a) For your individual work (IW) (i.e., as a 'one-person team'):
- (1) for having done a mandatory minimum of 4 major contributions, at least one per each header topic, up to 2.40 points (that is to say, if you would make exactly one major contribution per topic, it would correspond to o.60 points per contribution);
- (2) for having substantially contributed to an article in such a way that it be quality marked by the English Wikipedia community, up to 0.12 more, up to a total of 4 articles (0.48 [= 0.12 × 4] points);
- (3) 0.05 points more for self-organization.

MATDIN: On major contributions
In this project, we understand as major contributions, those whose bodies (that is, not counting indexes or titles of sections or image captions or footnotes or references or bibliography or annexes or adornments or other additions) have a minimum approximate size of 7500 bytes (as in English, the average word length is approximately 4 bytes, this results in about 1500 words).

(b) For your collaborative work (CW) within a two- (resp., three-) person team:
- (1) for having done a mandatory minimum of 4 major contributions, at least one per each header topic, up to 1.20 (= 0.30 × 4) points for each team member (resp., 0.80 [= 0.20 × 4]), although team members could distribute the total score gained as a team according to its own team self-evaluation;
- (2) for having achieved that their contribution as a team has been quality marked by the English Wikipedia community, up to 0.24 (= 0.06 × 4) points more for each team member (resp., 0.16 [= 0.04 × 4]) or the inner score distribution they could make;
- (3) for organization and having worked as a team, 0.10 (= 0.05 × 2) more for each team member (resp., 0.15 [= 0.05 × 3]) or the inner score distribution they could make.

MATDIN: On the requirements

Having read the project descriptive page, you sure remember that there are four requirements to do a team work:

(a) Self-selection of the team, i.e. it is up to you to decide with whom you want to carry out the activity.

(b) The maximum number of people in the same team is 3.

(c) The work of the team must comply with the project work schedule.

(d) To ensure that the work of the team will be taken into account as part of a team member grade: 1^st, such person must have obtained a final exam score of 6.0 or more — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —, and 2^nd, every team member must have done their own individual work according to the afformentioned work schedule.

In no case forget the dynamic commitments that you are undertaking while participating in the project.

(c) For your final exam (FE): from 40 percent for individual participation and from 60 percent for team participation — once again, and as mentioned above, tell you that you have access to past real exams with some solutions; accordingly, you can turn what you have learned into action and practise your skills on a real basis (click here) —.

The final course grade

Given the above, the final course grade would consist of:

If you have collaborated in the project, individually and within a team, according to the work schedule, then:
- If your final exam score (FE) is such that $4.0\leqslant FE<6.0$ — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —, then your team participation is not taken into account, and then: $\left\{{\begin{aligned}TC&=0\\EF+TI&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+TI\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)\end{aligned}}\right.$
- If your final exam score (FE) is such that $FE\geqslant 6.0$ — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) — and every member of your team have done their own individual works according to the work schedule, then your team participation is taken into account, and then:
  - If your team is a two-person team: ${\begin{aligned}EF+TI+TC&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+TI+TC\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)+TC\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant {\overline {1.20}}\right)+\left(\leqslant {\overline {0.24}}\right)+\left(\leqslant {\overline {0.10}}\right)\right)\end{aligned}}$
  - If your team is a three-person team: ${\begin{aligned}EF+TI+TC&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+TI+TC\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)+TC\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant {\overline {0.80}}\right)+\left(\leqslant {\overline {0.16}}\right)+\left(\leqslant {\overline {0.15}}\right)\right)\end{aligned}}$

where

{\overline {\mathit {n}}}

denotes the 'fuzziness' of the number

{\mathit {n}}

, as team members can distribute their team’s qualification internally.

For example, if you gain, say, 2 points because of your collaboration in the project, it would be enough for you to obtain a final exam score of 5.0 points to earn a 7.0 as the final course grade — grades expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —.

If you have collaborated in the project only individually, provided that you have done it according to the work schedule, and you have obtained a final exam score (FE) of 4.0 or more — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —, then: $\left\{{\begin{aligned}TC&=0\\EF+TI&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+TI\\&=\left(\leqslant 10\right)+\left(\left(\leqslant 2.40\right)+\left(\leqslant 0.48\right)+0.05\right)\end{aligned}}\right.$

Otherwise, but provided that you have handed in your final exam paper: $\left\{{\begin{aligned}TI&=0\\TC&=0\\EF&\leqslant 10\end{aligned}}\right.$

Grading with distinction ('Matrícula de Honor')

One of the rewards for a hard and well-done work is to grade with distinction ('matrícula de honor'). According to art. 9.3, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish), you can be given this mention if you:

have obtained a final grade equal to or greater than 9,0 points — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —,

and, in addition, it is strongly recommended that you:

have attended classes (large group and seminars/laboratories) regularly and have played an active and substantial part in them (except in the case of students who have to take the course again and justify the time incompatibility), and
have collaborated with the learning project 'Discrete and numerical mathematics' on the English Wikipedia, according to the conditions that appear in it for the academic year 2019-2020 (this year, it is enough to obtain a final exam score of 8,0 or more — once expressed according to the current regulations (art. 9.2, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish): 'se calificará de 0 a 10, con expresión de un decimal' [grades will range from 0 to 10, to one decimal place]) —).

Nevertheless, as the Department of Mathematics of the University of Extremadura has given me the teaching assignment of this course, that mention granting is always at my discretion. In any case, the number of students eligible for this mention is limited by statute to less than 5 percent the number of students enrolled in the course in the corresponding academic year unless the number of students enrolled is less than twenty, in which case, the distinction could be given to only one student — cf. art. 9.3, 'Normativa de evaluación de la UEX' (UEX Assessment Regulations) (in Spanish) —.

See you soon:
Once the introduction of the course has been made, it only remains to reiterate my welcome and encourage you to participate fully in the collaborative project with Wikipedia. I am sure it will help you gain confidence and trust in yourself, understand teamwork as well as assuming a commitment.
Finally, let me remind you that on Wednesday, 29 January, 2020, we will have our first class meeting, which we will dedicate to Propositional Logic.
May I wish you best wishes and success for the course.
Kind regards,
Jmleonrojas (talk) 12:20, 27 Jan 2020 (UTC).

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