This 3-credit course is a face-to-face class, meeting 4th period (10:40–11:30) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Little 219.
- David Groisser's home page, with contact information
- Dr. Groisser's schedule (including office hours)
- Syllabus and Course Information
- Homework rules and assignments
- Grade scale page. (Will be updated shortly after each assignment or exam is graded; will not exist until after the first assignment is graded.)
- Miscellaneous handouts
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 from Canvas (possibly by navigating from this page). You will also be able to see your grades on Canvas.
I may also make some use of the "Announcement" feature in Canvas, so don't turn off Announcement-notifications.
As of this writing, I do not plan to make much other use of Canvas.
Some skills and traits needed for success in this class
- You must have the ability to write in clear, unambiguous, correctly punctuated, grammatically correct English sentences and paragraphs. An important goal of this course is to develop your ability to express mathematical ideas precisely and communicate them clearly to other people. Also, your arguments must be free of flaws in elementary logic. If your instructor cannot understand your written work without excessive re-reading, or if there are elementary-logic flaws in your proofs, you will not receive a satisfactory grade (meaning C or above) in this course.
- You must be good at following rules and instructions.
- You must be interested in, and good at learning from, the feedback you receive on your written work. Costly expression of disinterest include:
- not picking up as soon as possible any work that was returned on a day you were absent; and
- not making a serious attempt to incorporate feedback on a given piece of work into all subsequent work.
Above, "not making a serious attempt" includes failure to see your instructor to obtain clarification of any feedback you did not understand, soon enough to make a difference on your very next handed-in work.