APMA 2120

Most people said that multi was easier than calc 2. Personally I found multi to be more difficult. I did not think Ryals was a particularly good or bad professor but she got the job done. She did have less homework assignments than other professors and was always willing to help students either after class or during office hours. There were 5 tests (4 "midterms" and a final) which made it seem like we were constantly having tests but I guess it also meant there was less content on each test making it easier to study. I found tests 1 and 4 the most difficult. Many students do not attend lecture but I recommend going because that is when she goes over nearly all of the content... even if it means waking up early. She also did not post completed notes from class only blank copies.
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APMA 2120 is a scuffed course for everyone, but Megan Ryals goes out of her way to make life horrible for you. We had a graded pre-class on a topic we had not learned yet (expected to just google it and figure it out) which was 5% of our grade, Additionally, we were assigned in-class worksheets in the last 10 minutes of class and expected to finish them in those ten minutes, even though we had just learned the content (15% of your grade btw). Outside of those, we had extended assignments every two weeks that were impossible to complete without instructor help during office hours (not allowed to work with other people for this assignment btw).
She also doesn't know how to lecture effectively, she'll just simply read off the notes without going into depth. If you go to office hours for clarity she'll just redirect you to a textbook and tell you to read from there. Overall, this course is a lot of work and you need to take it with an effective professor, not Megan Ryals

Prof Ryals is just a plain good professor - nothing overtly bad about her, and she gives you enough resources to excel in her class. She seems pretty enthusiastic about math, and that definitely helps the mood in class. Her classes consist of around 30-45 minutes of lecturing and 5-15 minutes of graded groupwork with the 2-3 people sitting next to you (assigned seats that mix up every midterm). She lectures with fill-in-the-blank notes that are available for you to print out, but I didn't and just took notes in my notebook and it still worked out well. One problem I had with her is that she never posted completed notes online, so I had to ask a friend to send their notes when I had to miss class.

Homework assignments are on WebAssign for every chapter, and for every midterm there is a longer and much more in-depth homework assignment that makes you think more critically with the covered topics. Make sure to at least try a couple problems on WebAssign for the section covered the day of the class, as that was what really solidified my knowledge. The tests weren't terrible, but some of my classmates struggled with them.

Overall, Calculus 3 is just Calc 2 except in 3D, and it's relatively easy as long as you have a decent foundation in Calc 2. It gets a little hard in the end, but it was definitely not that hard of a class.