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.