{"id":236,"date":"2013-09-23T02:47:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/groisser\/?page_id=236"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:13:06","slug":"syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/groisser\/classes\/4211_f13\/syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus and Course Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Syllabus and Course Information<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MAA 4211 &#8212; Advanced Calculus 1<br>\nSection 16G0, Fall 2013<br>\nMWF 7th period, LIT 205<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"..\/4211_f13\"> Link to class home page <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#contact\">Your instructor<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#officehrs\">Office hours<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#text\">Textbook<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#syl\">Syllabus<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#goals\">Goals<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#schedule\">Weekly schedule of lectures<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#exams\">Exams<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#hw\"> Homework<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#grading\"> Grading<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#makeup\"> What if you miss an exam? <\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#attendance\"> Attendance policy <\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#honor\"> Student Honor Code<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#religious\"> Religious holidays<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#accomm\"> Accommodations for students with disabilities<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#eval\"> Teaching-evaluations<\/a>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"#misc\"> Miscellaneous<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"contact\">Instructor<\/a>: Dr. David Groisser<br>\nOffice: Little 308 (southeastern quadrant of building)<br>\nPhone: 392-0281 ext. 261<br>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:groisser@ufl.edu\">groisser@ufl.edu<\/a>.<br>\nI receive a ton of email, so please read this before emailing me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\nI won&#8217;t answer math questions by email.\n<\/li><li> <strong> I will <i>never<\/i> provide<i>any<\/i> grade information by email. <\/strong>\n<\/li><li> <strong>I won&#8217;t answer anonymous email, or email that lacks an<br>\n<i>informative<\/i> subject line and your full name.<\/strong><br>\n<!-- When I look at my inbox, in --><br>\nIn the &#8220;Sender&#8221; field I should see something like &#8220;John<br>\nJones&#8221;, or &#8220;jj@ufl.edu (John Jones)&#8221;, or &#8220;johnjones@ufl.edu&#8221;; I should<br>\n<i>not<\/i> see &#8220;jj@ufl.edu&#8221; or &#8220;gr8g8r@hotmail.com&#8221;. In the &#8220;Subject&#8221;<br>\nfield I should see something like &#8220;May I make an appointment with<br>\nyou?&#8221;, not &#8220;Help!  Urgent!&#8221; Otherwise, your email will look like<br>\nspam, and I&#8217;m likely to delete it unread.\n<\/li><li> For reasons of time and safety, I delete, without reading<br>\ncompletely, any email that requires me to open an attachment whose<br>\nnature or purpose I cannot easily determine without opening.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"officehrs\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Office Hours: <\/strong><\/font> <\/a><br>\nMonday and Friday 8th period (3:00-3:50), and Wednesday 5th period<br>\n(11:45-12:35). Please come early in the period or let me know to<br>\nexpect you later; otherwise I may not stay in my office for the whole<br>\nperiod.  See <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/groisser\/my_schedule\/\">my schedule<\/a> for updates.<br>\nStudents who can&#8217;t make scheduled office hours may see me by<br>\nappointment on most weekdays (but <i><strong> never on a Thursday<\/strong><\/i>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you have the flu or similar contagious disease, or think you<br>\nmight, please do not come to my office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"text\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Textbook:<\/strong><\/font> <\/a><br>\nMaxwell Rosenlicht,<i> Introduction to Analysis. <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"syl\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Syllabus (course content):<\/strong><\/font> <\/a><br>\nChapters 1\u20135 of Rosenlicht, but I may not stick<br>\nreligiously to the presentation in the text.  General topics will<br>\ninclude: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> basic concepts of sets and functions (just a quick review, since<br>\nyou should have this in prerequisite courses)\n<\/li><li> the real number system\n<\/li><li> metric spaces\n<\/li><li> continuous functions on metric spaces\n<\/li><li> differentiation of real-valued functions of a real variable\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<a name=\"goals\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Goals:<\/strong><\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> For the student to master the course-content.\n<\/li><li> For the student to become accustomed to communicating mathematical<br>\nideas precisely and clearly, in written form.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a name=\"schedule\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/a><br>\n <i>Tentative, approximate<\/i> weekly schedule of lectures:<br>\nClick <a href=\"weekly_schedule\">here<\/a>.  Students are expected<br>\nto read the relevant material in the appropriate chapter-section of<br>\nthe textbook no later than the day after we cover that material in<br>\nclass, and preferably earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<a name=\"exams\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Exams: <\/strong> <\/font> <\/a>There will be two midterm<br>\nexams and a cumulative final exam.  I have not yet decided whether<br>\nthese will be in-class or take-home exams; there may be some of each<br>\ntype.  I probably will not make this decision until I know how many<br>\nstudents will be in this class.  I prefer take-home exams for a class<br>\nat this level, and have never given an in-class exam in Advanced<br>\nCalculus before, but security and the grading of<br>\ntake-home exams are difficult when there are more than about 12<br>\nto 15 students. I may try to arrange for two-hour non-take-home<br>\nmidterms a three-hour non-take-home final (&#8220;in class&#8221; exams, but not<br>\nliterally).  If I do give you take-home exams, I will probably give<br>\nyou 48 hours for a midterm and either 48 or 72 hours for the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> My <i>rough estimates<\/i> for the dates of the midterms are<br>\nWednesday, Oct. 2 and Monday, Nov. 4.  <i>These dates are subject to<br>\nchange<\/i>. The actual dates will depend strongly on our rate of<br>\nprogress. I will give you at least a week&#8217;s notice before any exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> If we have a non-take-home final, it<br>\nwill start at the day and time assigned us by the Registrar (Thurs.,<br>\nDec. 12, 12:30 p.m.). If we have a take-home final, I<br>\nmay allow different students to pick up and return their exams at<br>\ndifferent times, to work around their other exams as best possible,<br>\nbut no one will be allowed to start a take-home final before the<br>\nofficial start of UF&#8217;s final exam period (Sat. Dec. 7, 7:30 a.m.) or<br>\nto hand it in after Thurs., Dec. 12, 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Note: By registering for this section of this class, you<br>\n  are agreeing to be available for a non-take-home final exam on<br>\n  Thurs., Dec. 12, from 12:30 &#8211; 2:30 p.m.<\/strong> You are expected to arrange<br>\n  your post-semester travel plans accordingly, and should make those<br>\n  plans NOW.  I will have little sympathy for students who claim<br>\n  they are &#8220;unable&#8221; to take the final exam at its scheduled time, or<br>\n  that to do so would pose a hardship. If you put yourself in this<br>\n  position, expect a zero for your final-exam grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"hw\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><br>\n<strong> Homework: <\/strong> <\/font> <\/a> There will be regular homework assignments. A<br>\nsubset of the exercises will be collected at intervals of one to<br>\ntwo weeks. Do the homework when I assign it; if you procrastinate<br>\nuntil the due-date is announced, you won&#8217;t finish the homework in<br>\ntime. To help motivate you to do all the assigned problems, I will not<br>\nannounce which ones I am collecting until shortly before they are due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The length and frequency of assignments will vary. Please see<br>\nthe <a href=\"hw\"> homework page<\/a> for rules concerning<br>\nhomework. This homework page is also where assignments will be posted,<br>\nso you are responsible for checking it frequently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> It is impossible to overstate the importance of doing the<br>\nhomework.  The last time I taught MAA 4211,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> no student who turned in every homework assignment received a course-grade<br>\nlower than C, \n<\/li><li>\nevery student who a grade lower than C for the course had failed to<br>\nhand in at least two homeworks,\n<\/li><li> no student received a grade higher than C+ for the course<br>\nwithout handing in all the assignments, and \n<\/li><li> on the usual &#8220;A=4.0, B=3.0, &#8230;&#8221; scale, the average course-grade<br>\nof students who handed in all the assignments was 3.1, while the<br>\naverage course-grade for the entire class was 2.3.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"grading\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><br>\n<strong> Grading: <\/strong> <\/font><\/a> The system I  use in this class is based on the premise<br>\nthat some people put their best foot forward on homework and some do<br>\nit on exams. It works as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><br>\n<li>After each homework or exam, I decide a grade scale for that item<br>\naccording to the philosophy &#8220;A = excellent, B = good, C =<br>\nsatisfactory, D = unsatisfactory but passing&#8221;.  In setting these<br>\nscales, I don&#8217;t have a predetermined grade curve or predetermined<br>\npercentages for letter grades.  <!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li>At the end of the semester, I compute a numerical &#8220;raw score&#8221;<br>\nfor each student according to three different weighting schemes:<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><ul><br>\n<li> 20% each midterm<br>\n(total 40%), 20% final, 40% homework; <!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li> 20% each midterm (total 40%), 40% final, 20%<br>\nhomework; <!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li> 15% each midterm (total 30%), 30% final, 40%<br>\nhomework.<br>\n<\/li><\/ul><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li> By applying the same weighting schemes to the cutoffs for exams<br>\nand homework, I construct three different sets of raw-score grade<br>\ncutoffs. The homework assignments do not all count equally;<br>\nlonger assignments count more than shorter assignments.<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li>Using these data, I obtain three letter grades for each<br>\nstudent.  The final grade I assign is the highest of these three.<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p>I think that the weighting schemes above are varied enough to<br>\nallow every student a reasonable chance to show me his or her best<br>\nwork, while at the same time not allowing anyone to completely throw<br>\naway low scores that do, in fact, tell me something.  If anyone has<br>\nanother reasonable weighting scheme he or she thinks should be on the<br>\nlist above, I&#8217;ll consider it, provided it is presented to me early<br>\nenough. If at the end of the semester, none of the above schemes is<br>\ngiving you the grade you want, that will not be a good enough reason<br>\nfor me to consider another scheme in which your best component is<br>\ngiven inordinately high weight, and your worst component inordinately<br>\nlow weight. <\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> More about grading. <\/strong><br>\n<\/font> The grades that UF currently allows instructors to assign<br>\nare A, A\u2013, B+, B, B\u2013, C+, C, C\u2013, D+, D, D\u2013,<br>\nand E. (For grade-point equivalencies of these grades, see <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.ufl.edu\/ugrad\/current\/regulations\/info\/grades.aspx\">this<br>\ncatalog page<\/a>.) All of these are grades are possible in this class,<br>\nexcept possibly the D\u2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my approach to assigning minus-grades (the same as the approach<br>\nused by my professors when I was in college), a B\u2013, for example,<br>\nis <i>not<\/i> the lower end of the B-range; it is<br>\n<i>slightly but strictly below<\/i> the bottom of the B-range, and<br>\nmeans that your work falls a little short of &#8220;good&#8221;. (Said another<br>\nway: another professor whose estimation of whether your work was<br>\nsatisfactory is the same as mine, but who regards B\u2013 as meaning<br>\n&#8220;the low end of the `good&#8217; range&#8221;, would <i>not<\/i> assign you a<br>\nB\u2013; he\/she would assign you a C+.)  This philosophy of what<br>\nminus-grades mean is consistent with the degree-requirements for most<br>\nmajors at UF: courses that you&#8217;ve taken count only if you get a &#8220;flat&#8221;<br>\nC or higher because a C\u2013 means that your performance was<br>\n<i>less than<\/i> satisfactory\u2014not that it was barely<br>\nsatisfactory\u2014and therefore that you did not satisfactorily<br>\ncomplete the course. This philosophy is also consistent with UF&#8217;s<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.ufl.edu\/ugrad\/current\/regulations\/info\/grades.aspx#suoption\">S-U<br>\ngrade option<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For similar reasons, I have never given the D\u2013 grade. &#8220;D&#8221;<br>\nmeans &#8220;unsatisfactory but passing&#8221;.  I have always considered the<br>\nnext step down to be failing, which at UF is the E grade.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I don&#8217;t determine the exam-grade cutoffs ahead of time, I<br>\ncan&#8217;t tell you in advance exactly how many points you&#8217;ll need to get a<br>\nparticular grade for the course. For examples of past grade<br>\nscales, see the grade-scale pages for the last time I<br>\ntaught <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/groisser\/classes\/past_classes-original\/4211_f01\/grade_scales\/\">Advanced Calculus 1<\/a><br>\n(Fall 2001) and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/groisser\/classes\/past_classes-original\/4212_s09\/grade_scales\/\"> Advanced Calculus 2 <\/a> (Spring 2009).<br>\n<strong> However, there is no guarantee that this semester&#8217;s grade cutoffs<br>\nwill be close to those of the past classes<\/strong>; they could be higher<br>\nor lower.  Also, be aware that prior to<br>\nSummer 2009 UF had a bizarre &#8220;plus-grades but no minus-grades&#8221; system<br>\nthat forced me to decide whether to assign, for example, a C+ or a B<br>\nto someone who I thought deserved a B\u2013, in which case I rounded<br>\nup to a B.  So the cutoffs that you see in my past classes for A, B,<br>\nand C are approximately where I&#8217;d have set the cutoffs for A\u2013,<br>\nB\u2013, and C\u2013 had these grades been assignable at the time,<br>\nwhich would have made my class GPA&#8217;s a little lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"makeup\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> What if you miss an exam? <\/strong> <\/font><\/a><br>\nIf you miss an exam for a valid reason, I will work out something with<br>\nyou that is as fair as is feasible. I almost never give make-up exams,<br>\nbecause except in very large classes (which I don&#8217;t teach) with<br>\ncookie-cutter exams (which I don&#8217;t give), there is no such thing as a<br>\nfair make-up exam. To create a make-up exam that&#8217;s not extremely<br>\nunfair, either to the student taking it or his\/her classmates, usually<br>\ntakes me at least six hours. Therefore, rather than a make-up exam,<br>\nusually I will just give you a &#8220;bye&#8221; and simply re-adjust the weights<br>\nof the other components of your grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are too ill to take an exam, you should notify me by phone<br>\nor email before the exam starts, even if it&#8217;s just a few minutes<br>\nbefore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"attendance\"> <font color=\"blue\"><strong> Attendance policy. <\/strong><br>\n<\/font><\/a> Students are expected to attend every lecture, barring such things as<br>\nillness, weddings, funerals, family emergencies, team activities, and<br>\nreligious holidays of which I am informed in advance. <strong> Students<br>\nwho <i>choose<\/i> (for other reasons) not to attend class regularly<br>\nare forfeiting the right to my help in office hours, including<br>\nexplanations of their mistakes on homework and exams. <\/strong> Also be<br>\naware that the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.ufl.edu\/ugrad\/current\/regulations\/info\/attendance.aspx\"><br>\nUniversity of Florida Attendance Policies<\/a> contain the following<br>\nparagraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <i>The university recognizes the right of the<br>\nindividual professor to make attendance mandatory. After due warning,<br>\nprofessors may prohibit further attendance and subsequently assign a<br>\nfailing grade for excessive absences.  <\/i> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I expect students to arrive <i>on time<\/i> and to pay attention<br>\nfor all 50 minutes of the period. Coming late to class is disruptive<br>\nto both your instructor and your classmates.  If a non-optional<br>\ntime commitment (e.g. a class the previous period in a distant<br>\nlocation) will force you to be late on a regular basis, let me know at<br>\nthe start of the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Students with a contagious illness are asked to exercise good<br>\n  judgment and to be considerate of their classmates and instructor<br>\n  when deciding whether to come to class. Coughing and<br>\n  sneezing in an enclosed space like a classroom or office is a<br>\n  wonderful way to spread germs.<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"honor\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Student Honor Code: <\/strong> <\/font> <\/a>UF students<br>\nare bound by The Honor Pledge, which states, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold<br>\nourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honor and<br>\nintegrity by abiding by the Honor Code. On all work submitted for<br>\ncredit by students at the University of Florida, the following pledge<br>\nis either required or implied: <i>&#8220;On my honor, I have neither given nor<br>\nreceived unauthorized aid in doing this assignment.&#8221;<\/i> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Honor Code (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dso.ufl.edu\/sccr\/process\/student-conduct-honor-code\/\"><\/a>here) specifies a number of behaviors that are in violation of this code,<br>\nand the possible sanctions. Furthermore, students are obligated to<br>\nreport to appropriate personnel any condition that facilitates<br>\nacademic misconduct. If you have any questions or concerns about<br>\nstudent conduct, please consult your instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"religious\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Religious Holidays: <\/strong><\/font> <\/a>The following<br>\nis part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.ufl.edu\/ugrad\/current\/regulations\/info\/attendance.aspx#religious\"><br>\nUniversity of Florida Policy on Religious Holidays<\/a>.  &#8220;Students,<br>\n<strong>upon prior notification of their instructors<\/strong>, shall be excused<br>\nfrom class or other scheduled academic activity to observe a religious<br>\nholy day of their faith.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<a name=\"accomm\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Accommodations for students with disabilities: <\/strong><br>\n<\/font><\/a> Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with<br>\nthe Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide<br>\ndocumentation to the student who must then provide this documentation<br>\nto the instructor when requesting accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"eval\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Teaching-evaluations:<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br>\nStudents are expected to provide feedback on the quality of<br>\ninstruction in this course based on 10 criteria. These evaluations are<br>\nconducted online at https:\/\/evaluations.ufl.edu. Evaluations are<br>\ntypically open during the last two or three<br>\nweeks of the semester, but students will be given specific times when<br>\nthey are open. Summary results of these assessments are available to<br>\nstudents at https:\/\/evaluations.ufl.edu\/results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"misc\"><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong> Miscellaneous:<\/strong><\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Unless I say otherwise, you are responsible for knowing any material I cover in<br>\nclass, any subject covered in homework, and all the material in the<br>\ntextbook chapters we are studying. You are also responsible for most<br>\nof MAS 4105 and the Calculus 1-2-3 sequence (MAC 2311-12-13 or the<br>\nequivalent). However, remember you should not base any proofs in this<br>\nclass on theorems that were stated but not proved in the lower-level<br>\ncalculus sequence (unless we have previously proved these theorems in<br>\nMAA 4211).<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><\/li><li> Do not use your personal computer in class. Ditto for your<br>\ncellphone, except to receive emergency alerts from UF.  In particular,<br>\ndo not read or write text-messages in class. You may leave your phones<br>\nin &#8220;vibrate&#8221; mode so that if UF sends an Emergency Alert, you will<br>\nreceive it.  Note that in this case everybody&#8217;s phone will be<br>\nvibrating at the same time, so it will be obvious that something<br>\nsignificant is happening. If <i>your<\/i> phone starts vibrating and<br>\nnobody else&#8217;s does, please ignore it. Cell-phone ringers, audible<br>\ntext-message alerts, etc., should be turned off while you are in<br>\nclass.  (If you ever need me to make an exception to this rule,<br>\ne.g. if you have a seriously ill family member, let me know before<br>\nclass starts.)\n<\/li><li> Please avoid disruptive or distracting noises, such as the tapping<br>\nof pencils or feet, or the zipping and unzipping of backpacks several<br>\nminutes before the end of class.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Last update made by D. 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