Taken at UC Santa Cruz. Jiayin is a hilarious professor during lectures, who understands the pain that math can be. Very thorough and understandable lectures where he goes over proofs and practice problems and posts notes after each lecture so they are optional. Very accommodating outside of lecture too, and a Pokemon fan!

Lectures just made the class more confusing. Didn't have a clear rubric for the group projects, which really impact your grade. However, the exams are fair and very similar to the homework. Good curve. Khan academy and TAs saved me.

Lectures were very inconsistent, sometimes they were extremely clear and useful, and sometimes they were unorganized and circled around the same point never illuminating the topic. Grading criteria is very unclear for projects, multiple times points were taken off for criterion not mentioned in the rubric. Overall okay, avoid if is possible.

Took his linear algebra course at UCSC. He's funny af, but isn't good at teaching. You're better off learning from YouTube videos. Grading was 30% Hw, 15% projects, 15% midterm, 30% final, 10% quizzes. Hw is hard and time consuming. Tests are in person and LONG. Take a different professor

Hes a funny guy however he is bad at teaching. Gives good curves though 🙏

i took pan at ucsc winter quarter for linear algebra. im warning u to not take this guy. hes nice and can be funny, but his lectures are incredibly unstructured and unorganized. you literally wont know what hes covering because he wont specify. i learned more and better from watching 12 minute youtube videos. only thing he did right was the curve.