MATH 1210

I had Kristina King as my graduate teacher. She is kind and cares a lot for her students. Sometimes, she is not the best at explaining material in class but her office hours are helpful for clarification. I have taken AP AB & BC calculus in high school and I found this class a little challenging at times but not overly difficult. Overall, I thought it was pretty OK and nothing was surprising. No trig is covered in math 1210. The midterms and finals were a little tricky with word problems but overall nothing that is not covered in the course. If you want to go into engineering or be a math and/or statistics major, take math 1310 and not math 1210. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN CALCULUS BEFORE, TAKE MATH 1190. The textbook is not necessary for this course. I bought it and did not open it once.

I took Calc I and II in highschool, and this class threw some crazy curveballs at me. The quizzes, written homework, and online homework were easy and straightforward, but did not reflect the difficulty of the tests whatsoever. The first exam wasn't bad, second one was slightly more difficult, but the final was an absolute joke. There were some questions that I had no idea how to answer. Also, most of the instructors are bad. Only take this course if you need to fulfill a requirement AND you took calc in high school. If no calc in high school, take 1190.

My TA was Rebecca Claxton. She wasn't a bad TA, but she was new and very timid sometimes and that showed. She would sometimes get nervous and say something wrong which made our class disrespect her, but I knew she knew what she was doing, so I felt bad for her. As for the class itself, I took AP calc and high school and got an A, so I pretty much just slept through every class and was able to pass. I only showed up so that I could get participation points. If you did not take AP calc in high school then this is a gamble, and your grade really depends on if the TA knows what they are talking about. If you feel pretty solid on your calc skills I say take the class and get that easy A. It is that same as high school calc minus the trigonometry! The work load was easy and I usually got my homework done at the beginning of the week. I also got extra credit if I finished my homework 24 hours before it was due, so my final homework grade got capped at 100%. Overall, this is easy if you already know calc, and a gamble if you don't!

I worked so so hard in this class because I hadn't taken calc prior, and this class was quite difficult for me. My TA was Jiajun Yan, and she wasn't the best teacher, but she was helpful and she did host office hours to cater to students' needs. She was really proactive about helping students which was great, but her teaching skills in class were definitely lacking and she was quite confusing, which added to my difficulty in learning the material. Definitely don't recommend taking this if you don't have prior experience with the content, and the way the class is set up isn't that organized either.

I had Nick Collins as a professor. His quizzes are hard but I learned a lot and was prepared for Calc 1220

I do not recommend taking this course unless you've taken calc in high school. I took AP Calc AB senior year and definitely struggled in this course. I took it with Jinbo Ren, and I had a terrible experience. He only held office hours once a week at 9pm at night, was not responsive (it took him on average a week to respond to an email), couldn't teach and was kinda rude. The only saving grace I had in that class was my LA, Eleni. She was phenomenal! In all, I don't recommend taking this class at all. #tCF2020

This class is definitely easier if you have a Calc background from high school. Tests and Homework are pretty much the same across the whole course, and it's taught by grad students. I had William Craig for this class and he was helpful in office hours and held extra review sessions for us and also responds fast to emails.

imagine this: you have to teach yourself the material before coming to class. well, in class, you'd think you would then practice more challenging problems to really learn the material, right? NO. you are just going to review the most basic possible example for an hour. in the last 15 minutes, you will then do more difficult problems, but you probably won't know how (because you basically did nothing for the last hour) unless you already have taken calc. will those problems be explained? no, there is no time left. so, great job, you went to class for an hour and 15 minutes and learned absolutely nothing that you hadn't already taught yourself before. i literally can't imagine a worse way for this class to be taught. individual instructors might be good at explaining things, but as a whole, the flipped classroom thing is so bad. also, exams suck-- i get so many points off for correct answers (sometimes i understand why, but i swear sometimes they just take points off for the hell of it). i think there will be a small curve, and it's not a super hard class, but the idea of suffering through another semester of flipped learning makes me want to change majors.