Calculus IIA & IIIA

A pretty good and fair teacher.

Lectures:
For a good majority of the semester, his lectures were mostly straight out from the textbook's own examples, and I was tempted not to go to class, especially since his style is not very exciting. However it seemed near the end he started to pull questions from the textbook and demonstrate how to solve them. He tries his best to explain new concepts, but his explanations were often quite theoretical and I found that real-life examples (in the textbook) made the problems more accessible. He will spend a lot of the time on proofs, although towards the end, it was more problem-solving oriented. He tries to get the class involved occasionally by asking, "How do you think we should approach this problem?" but for the most part we just sit silent.

Office hours:
He's very free and very willing to help and repeat what he said in class. Very approachable due to his soft-spoken and mild nature.

Grading: course grade is curved, so that's nice.

Homework - TA grades the assignments. Picks 2 problems out of the 6-108 assigned a week to grade. I found the homework the hardest, in comparison to the midterm and the final. The questions were usually doable, but he would throw in a few really complex ones. Homework counts! So turn it in. You get to drop one though.
Midterm and final - 6 questions for mid (two midterms), 10 for final. One or two Extra Credit questions. The midterm and final are very straightforward, straight from the examples and homework. Virtually nothing was unexpected or highly complex like a few of the problems on the homework, or "a new twist on an old problem." When there were a few, he basically curved it so that those problems were dropped. He preps you pretty well for the mids and final by listing suggested problems to go over.