Prof Stopple gave a fat curve. He has his own textbook with all the theorems, propositions, and exercises. This quarter, he covered 13 theorems, 27 propositions, and 80 exercises. In order to ace the class, you should try to do the exercises not assigned for hw on your own. You can go to TA and professor's OH for help. Would take his class again.

He is truly a genius. I greatly admire his extensive knowledge and outstanding problem-solving abilities. His teaching is filled with passion, and he always uses vivid examples and clear explanations to help us understand abstract mathematical concepts. Grading is based on a curve, improvement and your overall understanding of the concept.

Stopped is good when it comes to lecturing, but grades unforgivably and will take off points even if your proof is correct. Do NOT fall behind on your work, and you'll be good since his midterms/final are just homework/textbook questions.

Don't take his math 117. It's awful. Doesn't give deatils in his notes. Exams extremely hard. Median score of midtern 1 was 6.5 out of 16. Ruined my GPA. The worst decision I have made is to take his 117.

He is smart and qualified. Tough grader. He would deduct points for writing too much, even if the correct answer is there. He doesn't give solutions to all exercises from the notes. There is much content in the notes and his exams did not cover all of the material. Overall, the pace of the class is manageable and homework load is relatively light.

There are 37 pages of typed notes on Canvas from day 1. The syllabus refers to them, and I referenced them in just about every lecture. And no one who got 10/12 on the first midterm dropped the class.

I dropped the course not because I did bad, (I intentionally didn't review the exam since I planned to drop it, but I got a 10/12 on first midterm, median was 5/12) but the course is unenjoyable. His writing is unclear and every letter is upper case. He doesn't post lecture notes. The class is not hard but strict and unenjoyable, not recommand

Exams account for 90% of the grade, homework for 10%, and homework access requires an $80 payment. There are no slides, notes, or supportive resources—Canvas only lists exam dates. No practice midterm or final is provided, and emails are often ignored. The professor overestimates students' prior knowledge, assigns unrealistic homework, etc.

most people put ZERO effort in the class but expected a good grade. unlike most 4b profs, stopple taught us meaningful concepts instead of forcing us to memorize how to do useless, tedious computations that a computer could do in two seconds. lecture notes were a little messy but useful if you actually try to follow along. grading was reasonable.

His lecture is difficult to understand, and the exam accounts for 90% of the total grade. However, he hardly provides any useful resources or practice exams. He should recognize that 4b is a lower-level math course, not all students taking this course are majoring in math or statistics. Just don't take his class

He is an alright lecturer, but as for most lower division math, you should be fine with learning from Paul's notes. Sadly he seems to not enjoy the content of the course and often made comments about how the course was useless to us. I got a 96 and 100 on midterms, and got complacent, got a F on final and somehow ended with B. So pretty easy tbh.

useless lectures, midterms and finals are not related to hw students are forced to sign an agreement in the final stating we will get an ZERO if we do the first question wrong

Lectures are very disorganized and often does not show reasoning behind work. Tests are very hard and do not relate to homework or any practice provided. You have to pay $80 just to do homework with limited attempts, you end up trying to gather points rather than learn the content. Makes subject far more confusing than it is compared to YT vids.

Worst professor I've had. Lectures are incoherent, homework is $80 and doesn't prepare us for any of the exams. 90% of the course are exams, and only 10% is homework. He doesn't work with the TAs to tell them what we do, he doesn't offer practice exams, and the review he hands out isn't even on the exams. Complete waste of our time.

Stopple weighted the final way too high and doesn't curve. He also WileyPlus instead of WebWork for homework which you have to pay for and have limited tries on, making it harder to learn the content. He got too conceptual instead of teaching the math.

I literally wasted a whole quarter taking this class just to end up with an F... literally so hard this professor does not know how to teach... AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS

Worst prof I've ever seen

Not always the easiest lecturer to follow because he doesn't really use or provide reviewable material and the textbook from WileyPlus is also a hard read. Speaking of WileyPlus has he just not heard of webwork. Someone tell him about webwork. Pls just use webwork

Terrible. Don't take him for 4B, he expects too much for a lower-division class and goes beyond what is supposed to be taught. Glosses over each topic as if we all have math degrees already and he didn't want to be there as much as we did. We have to pay for homework, and I basically learned everything online. More questions by going to lecture.

bro thinks we all tryna get a phD in math and physics like huh. lectures aren't helpful either bc it doesn't even compare to the exams. don't take his class even if its required, wait until the next quarter with a different professor. the homework is hard too, and we had to pay like $80 for it. cmon, we're all worth more than that.

This old geezer is so unpredictable you would never know what he would pull off next. He also expects students to know everything already and makes the exams EXTREMELY HARD. If you ever need to take 4B, please avoid this professor at all costs.

Don't take his class! Don't take his class!

Don't take 4B with him. This old guy always assumes you already have a degree in math, and his lectures were the most disorganized. It's really a suffering course that you will never know what to do. No practice exams. Review materials are helpful sometimes, but he doesn't give solutions so you'll have to figure them out on your own.

Made us pay $77 to do homework only for it to be worth 10% of the grade. Other 90% is exams which were unlike homework or lectures. They were based on vague review study guides that he refused to give the solutions to. Lectures were always confusing and more complicated than it needed to be. He was also uninterested in answering any questions.