MATH 1210

I actually took this Summer of 2023 (wasn't a drop-down menu option). I love math so I didn't think this class was too bad. Taking math in the summer is the best way in my opinion because it is consistent and is a fast pace which is how I thrive. I also took AB and BC calc in high school so I found this class to be more review than anything. The content is EASY. The hardest part of this class is appealing to what Prof. Sherman wants when you turn in daily homework/exams. He wants people to write out all of their math in English sentences and only turn that in on some problems (requests NO other work shown). This was very frustrating for me because my past calc teacher would always tell us to just write out our work because he could follow along. This was very annoying because I was always chasing a good grade based on his own expectations that had nothing to do with the difficulty of the content. If you need to take it in the summer, just do it because I still ended with an A, and had fun being in a smaller class (getting to know other people). Just be prepared to be annoyed for 4 weeks until it is over.

Professor Sherman may have been a not so interesting lecturer, and can appear as sassy in class, but he is very helpful during his office hours. There were a few hand written homework on the history of math, book problems and graph drawings, but the homework that took a long time was the online work. It may be the same for every applied calc class though. If you do take this class, I would suggest in finding a partner to help each other on the online work; you would finish it faster and learn better. I would recommend Prof. Sherman because he's more experienced. I took two classes with a graduate before switching to Prof. Sherman's class, and I could obviously see the difference between the two.

He's sassy but an excellent teacher of the actual material. Take his class if you need help learning the material, everything is taught very simply.

He's pretty much your run of the mill math professor. Very intelligent, a little condescending, but and moves pretty quickly. He's a pretty nice guy though, and he doesn't have an accent like a lot of the teachers which is a huge plus. If you haven't taken calc before you should definitely read up a bit before the class no matter what professor you have. Not an incredably hard class to get an A in, just do the weekly homework and study for the exams and the curve will carry you home.

If you have to take this class, take it with another teacher. David Sherman was unnecessarily sassy pretty much all the time and frankly wasn't a very good teacher. I had already taken a calculus class so I knew everything we learned, but I found during group work I would be the one teaching my partner because he didn't. He had a rule for group work where every single time all semester we did it, we had to pick someone we had never worked with before. Towards the end of the year it took ridiculously long to find someone to work with, time that could've been spent working problems. He also said "minus" instead of negative, which are two completely separate things and caused confusion. Weekly webassigns, some random written homework, 2 midterms, and a final. The first midterm wasn't curved, the second was, and I think there's a curve at the end of the class as well.

Prof. Sherman is an excellent instructor.