There are too many assignments. I prefer Dr. Banta's style of a few difficult problems and second pass where we can revisit the miss-steps for half credit. The jumping around feels jarring and the lectures a rough. I have to do a lot of self teaching. She clearly cares about her students though and promptly answers emails.

Such a boring professor and too many useless assignments.

I have seen professors that read off of slides. I have seen professors that just copy their lecture notes on a blackboard and then read it. Yet I have never seen a professor that hasn't written ANYTHING in lectures before this class. Prof Carlson basically reads her pre-made lecture notes and makes us attend all lectures for "participation grades".

half of the assignments in the class are completely useless. their only purpose is to pad your grade. a better solution would be just to curve the class. my time spent on all these assignments would be better spent reviewing lecture and solving actual helpful HW problems. so many of the HW problems do NOT reinforce what we learned in class. useless

There are a lot of padding assignments and EC in this class so its fairly easy to get a good grade. But it's hard to learn anything from the 2nd half of this class. The lectures become overly complicated and dont prepare you for the HW. You basically have to teach yourself, but the textbook is also useless because its meant for review, not learning

Do not take - so many homework and active learnings (plus section requirements and problem presentation) means you'll be writing about trivial obvious problems step by step for hours. This is more of a handwriting class than a math class. So mind numbing.