This 3-credit course is a face-to-face class, meeting 8th period (3:00–3:50 p.m.) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, in Little 235.
"the UF Honors Program is a challenge—not a reward—for students who thrive on overcoming obstacles and constantly redefining success."
(https://www.honors.ufl.edu/about/mission-vision-and-values/)
- David Groisser's home page, with contact information
- Syllabus and Course Information
- Homework page
- Grade-scale page. (Will be updated shortly after each exam is graded; will not exist until after the first exam is graded.)
- Miscellaneous handouts
- Dr. Groisser's schedule (with office hours)
Important note for non-honors students:
There is a waiting-list procedure by which non-honors students may be able to enroll in this class. See this page (scroll down to "Non-Honors Student Registration"). However, whether you can enroll and whether you should enroll are two different things.
Some students enroll in this section, or want to, primarily because it's the only section of MAP2302 that isn't a large-lecture class or an online class. If you are a non-honors student, enrolling for such reasons is a VERY BAD IDEA for your chance at successfully completing MAP2302. (Even for honors students, it's not a good idea.) It's also unfair both to the instructor and to the honors students in the class.
Good reasons for taking an honors math class or section are reasons like these:
- You really love math (or at least like it a lot!) and want a challenge.
- You are significantly stronger in math than most of your peers, and don't want a class that's watered down to the level of weaker students.
- You are the type of student who frequently reads articles about math on Wikipedia (or similar sites), or looks at advanced math textbooks, not because you have to, but simply because you find these things really interesting.
I don't blame anyone for preferring a small(ish)-section format to large-lecture or online format. But if that's your true reason for wanting to take this section, then you're likely to do poorly unless you are REALLY STRONG in math and have been taking math (or a math-intensive class) every semester. (Math skills are "use it or lose it", and you should not expect your instructor to re-teach you prerequisites that you forgot long ago. Remediation is a time-sink that can be practically bottomless.) Students who enroll in the honors section because they need extra help to pass a math class not only do poorly, they interfere with the instructor's ability to give the students who truly belong there the experience they deserve.
There definitely are non-honors students who are so deeply interested in math, and so good at it, that an honors math section is where they belong. If that's why you want to take the honors section, then I encourage you to attempt to get in via the waiting list. (I'm not empowered to get you into the course myself, nor would it be right for you to jump over others on the waiting list.) Some of my best students have been in this category.
Use of Canvas
Most files and pages I create for this course will be housed on the website you're looking at now, not directly on Canvas. However, they will all be reachable easily from Canvas (possibly by navigating this page first). You will also be able to see your grades on Canvas.