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.

Took Math 21 with this professor at ucsc. The lectures aren't even worth going to, exams are easy if you study but you probably won't take away much from the class. Generous weighting (15 midterm 30 final 55 else). Curve hasn't been applied but iirc averages to 83%. Don't take if u don't have to but if u do it's not all that bad.

Math 21 at UCSC. Avoid at all costs. Lectures are mind-numbingly boring and completely unstructured so it's very difficult to get anything out of them. Average score on the midterm was a 66%. Group projects didn't have clear grading criteria, had to contact the prof directly, he gave us the okay and we still got a bad grade. He seems nice, though.

Currently taking Professor Pan at UCSC for Math 21. Maybe I missed the UCSC listing. Anyways, holy be ready. He does not teach out of the textbook he just lectures. Does proofs during the lectures but you are not tested on the proofs. He/They are a great person but I do not like his style of teaching. Taking as P/F hoping to be saved by curve.

I'll give an overview of Pan's 6a course. Hw is 25, Mt is 35, and Final is 40 percent of the total grade. Lectures are very detailed and fairly rigorous. Hw sets contain on avg. of 10-12 Q, which take on avg 1.5-2 hours to finish. Mt contains 7 Q, 12 subQ, 75 min. Final has 7 longer Q, 11 subQ, 100 min. Median score (45/70, 55/80) gets curved to B.

Most probably failed his class but not because of anything on his part. His lectures are well structured and very thorough. The homework is solid, and the exam questions are very similar to the examples he gives in lecture. Overall a difficult but well designed course and a solid professor.

Pan goes in depth in lectures but they don't apply to his homework OR his tests. Also, his tests are damn near impossible to finish within the time limit. I wish I had another professor this guy just isn't fun.

Prof. Pan is knowledgeable. However, there are no title for each note he gave us, so its hard to understand which topics he is talking about. The questions in the exams are not easy, including many details things. His curve is pretty generous though, which basically saved my grade. (Pumped from B- to A-)

Do not be fooled by the avg point 3.7/5! If you take his class, you will face a horrible quarter! He demonstrates theorems by using simple examples, but these example are useless when dealing with homework. I spent 6 hours on his hw each week! In addition to hw, students are graded by mid and final. Both of them are hard, minor mistakes mean fail.