MAA 4212 — Advanced Calculus II
Section 01B8, Spring 2014
Last update made by D. Groisser Apr 16 06:27 EDT 2014
Homework Rules
Homework will be collected at the beginning of the period on the announced hand-in
day, and must be completed and stapled together before the start of the class period.
Even when homework is well-written, reading and grading it is very time-consuming and
physically difficult for your instructor. In order that this process note be more burdensome
than it intrinsically needs to be:
- The homework you hand in must be neat, and must either be typed
or written in pen (not pencil!). Please do not turn in homework that
is messy or that has anything that’s been erased and written over (or
written over without erasing), making it harder to read. Anything that is
difficult for me to read will be returned to you ungraded. - Work everything out for yourself on scrap paper first. Carefully rewrite what
you’re handing on clean sheets of 8.5″ x 11″ paper, leaving wide margins
(left, right, top, and bottom) and enough other space for me to write
comments. - Staple the sheets together in the upper left-hand corner. Any other means
of attachment makes more work for me. The staple should be close enough to the
corner that when I turn pages, nothing that you’ve written is obscured. Also, don’t
use paper that’s been ripped out of a spiral-bound notebook; it will make a mess on
my floor. - Write in complete, unambiguous, grammatically correct, and correctly
punctuated sentences, just as you would find in your textbook. - Warn me about partial proofs. If a problem is of the form “Prove this” and you’ve
been unable to produce a complete proof, but want to show me how far you got,
tell me at the very start of the problem that your proof is not complete
(before you start writing any part of your attempted proof). Do not just start
writing a proof, and at some point say “This is as far as I got.” Otherwise, when I
start reading I will assume that you think you’ve written a complete and correct
proof, and spend too long thinking about, and writing comments on, false
statements and approaches or steps that were doomed to go nowhere.
Academic honesty. On all work submitted for credit by students at the University of
Florida, the following pledge is implied:
- “On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in
doing this assignment.”
For purposes of preparing your hand-in homework, no aid that involves anything but
your own brain, your textbook, your notes, and any handouts from me, is
authorized. The “no aid” restriction doesn’t apply until I have announced the hand-in date
for a given problem. Up until that announcement, you’re allowed to work with each other,
look at other textbooks, ask me for help, etc.
But once the hand-in date for a homework problem is announced, you are on your own.
Remember that you are supposed to do ALL assigned problems. It is very unwise
to procrastinate, waiting to see which problems I’m going to require you to hand in before
deciding which problems to work on.
- How homework will be graded
- Assignment 1. Due date: Friday 1/17/14.
- Assignment 2. Due date: Monday 2/3/14.
- Assignment 3. Due date: Monday, 2/24/14.
- A reminder from your class home page: “You must have the ability to write in clear,
unambiguous, grammatically correct English sentences. Having completed MAA 4211,
you are now expected to be able to express mathematical ideas in precise terms, and
communicate them clearly to other people. A factor in your grade will be whether your
instructor can understand your written work without excessive re-reading.” - Assignment 4. Due date: Monday, 3/17/14.
- Assignment 5. Due date: Wednesday, 4/2/14.
- Assignment 6. Due date: Friday, 4/18/14.
- Assignment 7. There are no hand-in problems.