He is kind. He does not go very in depth into the content and lectures are short. 102A is very group oriented which it makes it quite easy. Workload is light. I enjoyed the final project and presentation.

nathan loves math and wants us to succeed. if you do the hw and take notes from lectures and/or textbook you will do well. the course is well designed and lectures and hw are helpful, but people have bad attitudes and complain. tests aren't too hard you just need to know the concepts; lin alg is very conceptual. 11% extra credit for doing hw early.

He seems like he genuinely cares about his students. However, he's a pretty bad teacher and it seems like he doesn't really know what he's talking about. He makes a lot of mistakes during his lectures and honestly I'm more confused after attending his lectures. Take him as a professor only if you're good at self-studying.

If you ask me what I've learned for the past 7 weeks from this man literally nothing comes to mind. I review all his lecture slides and materials and still don't understand how I'm learning anything. he worst part is that although he doesn't make sense the TA Christine Alar is also unhelpful as well. He also rarely posts answers to his study guides

Lecture is a complete waste of time. Prof rarely does example problems with the class which is unfortunate considering how many he assigns. Spends most of lecture reading off slides he's forgotten. Material+tests are pretty simple and all it takes is a competent CLAS tutor to do well Easily the most useless prof/lecture I've had here (4th yr)

I'm sure he's a great person but this man cannot teach. My friend and I decided to teach ourselves the material instead of actually going to lecture. We've noticed we can get more done and actually understand it that way. 0/10 would not recommend. If you have the choice choose Peter Garfield as your math34b professor.

Seems like a lovely person who wants his students to succeed but he does not know how to teach. We went over his quiz question and even he was doing it wrong

I took Math 8 with Nathan in the summer, and I had a great time in this course. His lectures help you summarize the chapters of the textbook, so reading the textbook is very important. Please study for this course if you want a good grade! I didn't study enough and got a B+.

I took Math 8 over the summer with Nathan, and all I can say is that he was great. I think this is the first class I take at UCSB where I don't feel forced to watch online videos to actually understand what is going on. That said, we had lots of homework and some problems were very involved. Also, this guy takes deadlines very seriously.

I enjoyed his teaching more than I had anticipated based on his other reviews. He's incredibly dedicated to helping students understand course material. Lectures are heavy on student engagement: it's awkward when the class is quiet, but participate and you'll learn much better. Homework is harder than assessments; grading is generous w/ EC offered.

He is a fun teacher but doesn't have a focus on his lecture.

He does not accept any late homework even if you have appropriate excuses. He forces students to engage in class and no one responds, which is super awkward. He only spends time on the easy parts of the course but doesn't teach well on the hard parts.

I took his math111 series throughout my third year in UCSB. Even though the course material is really hard and tedious, he tried his best to make it funny and easy to understand. He is a really fantastic and friendly prof. Moreover, there would be some big curve (upward curve) for the students so that we could get good grade. He is really good!!!!

His lectures aren't organized, he has poor time management and expects us to know almost everything already so he teaches us as if we're reviewing the topics, never really getting deeper into how to do problems. He's very nice and wants his students to succeed but he is just horrible at teaching

This professor is absolutely horrible, he teaches only by giving examples and is horrible at explaining any of the concepts. The average on all of the midterms have been extremely low and he is claiming that he will not curve the class

Schley is one of the worst teachers I've ever had, for ANYTHING. He's very nice and personable, but his teaching style is impressively horrible, teaching the whole course through example problems and only briefly explaining core concepts. The homework is also useless and unhelpful, as he likes to jump around without ANY consistency whatsoever.

bro everyone said this was an easy class but there is no curve and the average on the midterms has been consistently below 60%

Horrible at explaining, and the homework and tests do not correlate to what we learn in class. this should be an easy class but he has made it extremely difficult

This class is terrible. The TA is unkind and not helpful whatsoever, he also is extremely judgmental. The teacher is nice but the lectures make zero sense and neither does the homework. Compared to the other teachers that teach this taking this class with him is like taking a completely different class.

He's a very caring professor and you can tell he wants his students to succeed but I don't think he prepares his students well because his lecturers consist of examples on topics he expects u to already know. I don't think he's good at teaching only because I never felt prepared enough even with CLAS, you basically teach urself all the material.

If you want to truely learn and grasp Abstract Algebra, stay away from this professor.

Does not explain anything and only uses examples to teach. I am always confused in lecture

I just started this course but genuinely wtf

Lectures were very helpful in understanding the content. Walked students through each step. Practice exams were very similar to the real exams. Explained concepts clearly and offered to go over hard homework questions before they were due. Book isn't the best, so youtube will be your friend.