Prof. Nathan makes a concerted effort to focus on applications of concepts, which I find really great. IMO, he goes too slow. He assumes you've mastered the previous week's material, which was fine for me, but that's where he lost most other students. His grading's lenient: infinite HW retakes, quizzes are only 5%, and he drops our lowest midterm.

Really hard grader!

He was an ok professor. He dropped the lowest midterm and replaced it with your highest, dropped the lowest quiz, and gave 11% extra credit in the homework category, which was 20% of the grade. He lets you use index cards during all the tests. Quizzes every week in section. Lectures were difficult to understand, so self-teaching is necessary.

He is a real bozi txa.

He is a real bozi txa

40% HW, 15% per two Midterms, 30% Final Group Project. We don't know more than half of our hw grades by the end of the course; "lectures" are hand-out papers + some math joke + "yay do it yourself!"; midterm reviews is him verbatim reading midterm topics + not elaborating; office hours are with other classes so not too helpful; good grade = do hw

Homework assignments aren't too bad, and gives a good chunk of extra credit. However, lectures and slides aren't as comprehensive as they probably should be, and self-study is required to excel.

This professor is just not good. His lectures were just bad; they didn't help in the slightest. Another professor seemingly makes his slides and he will often presents as if its his first time seeing them. He simply doesn't care about a lower division class. The class was easy if instead of listening to him, you had math majors explain the topics.

Professor Schley is nice with grading, but lectures are boring and unclear at times. 11% extra credit if you do your HW early and lowest midterm grade is dropped. You'll have to teach yourself mostly since his lectures are a bit confusing. He has weekly quizzes which are fine if you know the material. Midterms are difficult, so practice a lot.

best professor ive had at ucsb as both a teacher and a person but he has adhd like a golden retriever

He is a very nice guy, but not a good teacher. He skips through his slides so fast, and his explanations are confusing (he confuses himself), so I have to entirely teach it all to myself. Usually 3-4 webworks per week, with extra credit if you turn it in 3 days early, BEFORE he teaches the material. I dedicated way too much time to this class.

Super sweet guy but my god the lectures aren't helpful at all. I had to figure out how to do the problems on my own. The quizzes are fine if you've been doing the hw but the midterms/exams are much harder and the hw does not prepare you for them. Also a lot of vocab for a math class but that's not his fault

Order of the class was all over the place and his lectures hardly ever matched what was on the homework. Very sweet guy, but confuses students by going off on long tangents in class. Tests were heavy on the conceptual ideas and not computation. Expected too much out of students who were seeing this material for the first time.

He's a great teacher, I believe the material is really hard to grasp just with his lectures alone. His class is really tough if you don't self-study for hours on top of that there is a lot of homework. 30% homework, 30% midterm, 40% final. A very tough grader.

He is a cool guy and a talented person. I have taken his math4b, which I think is interesting, so I chose his math117. However, he is not very good at teaching and it takes time to keep up with his lecture. More sadly, there is tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns of homework and many classmates feel the same. That's it and I have to keep working on my homework.

More homework than I can do in a lifetime

Dr. Schley is one of those instructors who very much cares about people learning. I greatly enjoyed his teaching style and willingness to revisit topics when needed. Of course, the material is difficult but he makes it much more exciting and gives motivation behind the proofs. I would definitely take another class with him!

He seriously cared a lot, and was genuinely happy that we did well. I've never seen a professor put in so much effort into his notes, albeit kinda messy. He did not lecture from the textbook, or use it at all tbh. Was willing to cover topics that were supposed to be but weren't taught in 4A. Lots of extra credit w/ homework, midterms were fair.

Don't take this professor. you will need to teach yourself all of the material. Jit claims he spends 7 hours on notes but notes have mistake in every lecture. He doesn't post the completed solutions to the notes online so you have to go to lecture but you wont learn anything. Exams arent too crazy but I taught the entire course material to myself.

I think I did well in this class simply because I already had a pretty good foundation of calc prior to taking this class, not necessarily because of his teaching. Lectures were sometimes confusing and students often had to correct him on several problems.

You could replace him with a bar of soap and learn more. Sign up for CLAS before signing up for him as a professor. You'll get away more from the tutors than the Pillsbury dough boy who runs that classroom. This is the 3rd time I am posting my comment after this dude requested to remove people's honest reviews twice, no shame!

He was always asking for ways to improve his lectures. However, I often found his lectures to be a bit unorganized. In my opinion, you definitely need to read the textbook to do well in this class. Gave lots of extra-credit. Overall a very kind and caring professor, lectures could be improved a bit so give him suggestions if he asks!

Schley is an amazing teacher and person. He was genuinely interested in the things he taught and that made his class all the better. His office hours were great and at the end gave copious amounts of extra credit so grades weren't an issue. Its a upper-div math class so you should prepare as such. If you don't like it take a comm class lol.

His lectures are extremely unorganized and complicate the material. He treats the textbook like it's a sacred text and his approach to teaching is "I am a guide but I can't make you learn the material." Unbelievable amount of homework. Despite this, he is very forgiving and accommodating when the class is struggling.