Very difficult to keep up. Feels like concepts would be easier if taught better. Sitting in class kind of feels like when a parent is trying to teach you math at the dining while you're on the verge of tears. Yells his words in a way that frustrates me.
Mechanical teaching, like performing a task without any consideration for anything else.
Run, my friend, run for your life. Super hard exams, unformatted syllabus. He delivers his lecture by writing everything (messy) in an OneNote file and starts explaining everything without looking up (that's why he ignored students' high-held hand) and post the recorded version in GS THAT'S ALL U GET, not even the OneNote file. JUST RUN, MY FRIEND.
He simply followed the textbook in class, proving every single process without any logical guidance or explanation as to why. The examples he provided were unchallenging, but he would spend a lot of time proving them due to his frequent calculation errors. His notes were nearly illegible and his English communication skills were severely lacking.
TTTTTTTTTTTERRIBLE!!!!!!!! I do not understand what he said in class???? messy notes!!!!
If you ever feel useless in life attend one of his lectures. His tests are as broken as the McDonald's ice cream machines. He will give you questions that look familiar, but very complex, and you actually don't know how to do them because they never appeared in the homework. During exams, you will be stuck there twiddling your thumbs with regret
Would never take this class again.
The lectures are not helpful at all and super boring. If you plan on going bring your textbook or something to do problems to fill the time when he takes thirty minutes to teach one theorem.
His lectures are just him solving problems without explanation and aren't much help. The syllabus is a copy of the online textbooks table of contents, doesn't include office hours or anything useful. In my opinion, someone who can't even put together a syllabus has no business being employed anywhere.
I would never take Ye again. He is a terrible lecturer as he simply proofs theorems. His class is test heavy and, while the tests have a huge curve, they are extremely difficult. Study the homework and do every problem in the textbook if you are able to, and utilize sections and tutoring services.
Prof Ye lectures from the book so you don't need to attend lectures but it is nice to go sometimes. He cracks jokes during class and only sometimes uploads a recorded lecture depending on how the tech is working that day. At first class was very difficult but test are based off of HW and lecture examples and you get a entire page note sheet
SUPERB teacher. Addresses were sound and coordinated and the schoolwork and tests were SUPER clear. Assuming that you go to addresses, you basically DON'T need to study. Individuals that are COMPLAINING simply didn't go to the talks and stepped through the examination BLIND. His work on the Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality propelled me to study math
Big curves but hard exams
Absolutely AMAZING professor. Lectures were coherent and organized and the homework and tests were SUPER straightforward. If you attend lectures, you pretty much DON'T have to study. The people that are COMPLAINING just didn't go to the lectures and took the test BLIND. His work on the Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality inspired me to major in math.
Go to his lectures, read the textbook, set at least one hour of study time each week if possible. I struggled because I did not study, but I began studying/trying I found the class to be easy. You won't pass the class if you want the professor to explain everything in detail; you need to set time aside if you are struggling.
Super hard. Never took calc and was struggling the whole time. Sign up for CLAS tutorial groups. Didn't care about helping students. HW on webwork was hard and time consuming. Breakdown of grade is also bad, very test heavy. Only redeeming quality is that he gave us bonus points on midterm and final after everyone failed. Huge curve at the end.
Math 3A with Professor Ye was difficult. Very unorganized, hard-to-follow lectures and gave very difficult midterms and final. I'd recommend looking over the textbook, attending section, and using external resources like Khan Academy to study if you have to take this class. HW was on Webwork, so unlimited tries.
His lectures are hard to follow but he has a good personality. If the entire class is struggling, he will do things to help. Otherwise, self-studying is needed for this class. He only goes through textbook examples so it's better to just read that and ask TA questions and not waste time in his lectures.
The tests were most similar to the hardest homework problems. Practice those. Sucks bc tests comprised most of your grade in the class. The prof is a nice guy, but a bad teacher. Lectures suck. But I regret not forcing myself to go to lectures and section bc with a little more effort I think I could have gotten a better grade. Curve will save you.
Do not take Math 3A from Professor Ye. His Lectures are not great. By week 2, 3/4 of the class skip his lectures. Tests are poorly designed. Problems on midterm and finals are much harder than practice problems. The class performs poorly on those tests, so he'll often add ten points to everyone's tests. He also heavily curves the class.
There is a 10% curve. If you took AP Calc, it should all be review, but if you didn't, don't expect to learn anything from him. He gave extra 10 points on the first midterm and in the final because everyone did bad. He allowed a whole sheet of paper as a cheat sheet. I'd say it is an easy class to pass given the extra points and cheat sheet.
Prof Ye's lectures were very confusing and hard to follow. I only passed because I signed up for CLAS. Whatever I learned in the class I learned in CLAS or self taught from the textbook. The test questions were unlike what we had learned in homework. Only good things- notecards were allowed on tests and there was a big curve.
Rick Ye manages to simultaneously waste your time and make you more confused. He does not explain problems or give study materials for tests. i would suggest not going to lecture and self studying instead. its less of a waste of time. if you have the option you should go onto the titanic before taking his class because your gpa will sink faster.
I took Calc in High School - I knew all the concepts, I used the book problems and his assigned homework to study for the tests but still managed to get a failing score. He leaves the grading up to his Ta's, and Prof Yusen marks your question wrong even if you got it right because wrong "method". IMPOSSIBLE DO NOT TAKE. take math 3A at a community