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I took this online, Fall 2020. I was pleasantly surprised by Dan Hoff. He definitely cares about his students and he takes the clearest, most readable math notes of any math professor I have ever had (I'm a 4th year math major). I don't know if he posts notes online when covid isn't a thing, but he did it for online school and the notes were so great I never really needed to look at the textbook (except to see what the homework problems were). Also, he does a lot of examples in class that are similar to homework/test problems, so they were really useful in the exams. The exams were definitely fair, especially given the 24 hour time window and open note/book. It might be a bit harder if you are in person and don't have access to notes.
My overall opinion is that if you have to take 132, or are interested in taking it, it doesn't get much better than Dan Hoff. If you happen to take his class in person, be sure to take notes since his notes are more useful and concise than the textbook (I don't usually take notes in math classes but I probably would for Dan since his notes/lectures are so good).
Dan is a 10/10 professor! He's incredibly nice and friendly, very approachable, gives clear lectures that are on the slower side, and has a good sense of humor. He writes practice exams for both midterms -- highly recommend doing them as they're good prep for the actual midterm. The midterms themselves also are pretty reasonable: not so challenging that you have to devote several hours to them, but not so easy that everyone gets an A (I think I spent 2.5 hours on each midterm). The final was pretty long (10 or 11 questions, most had multiple parts) with a few tricky questions.
The workload was pretty reasonable -- homework was a bit on the long side occasionally, but the problems were mostly computational so they weren't too bad. We also had weekly quizzes that you could easily complete by reviewing lecture notes.
I took this online, Fall 2020. I was pleasantly surprised by Dan Hoff. He definitely cares about his students and he takes the clearest, most readable math notes of any math professor I have ever had (I'm a 4th year math major). I don't know if he posts notes online when covid isn't a thing, but he did it for online school and the notes were so great I never really needed to look at the textbook (except to see what the homework problems were). Also, he does a lot of examples in class that are similar to homework/test problems, so they were really useful in the exams. The exams were definitely fair, especially given the 24 hour time window and open note/book. It might be a bit harder if you are in person and don't have access to notes.
My overall opinion is that if you have to take 132, or are interested in taking it, it doesn't get much better than Dan Hoff. If you happen to take his class in person, be sure to take notes since his notes are more useful and concise than the textbook (I don't usually take notes in math classes but I probably would for Dan since his notes/lectures are so good).
Dan is a 10/10 professor! He's incredibly nice and friendly, very approachable, gives clear lectures that are on the slower side, and has a good sense of humor. He writes practice exams for both midterms -- highly recommend doing them as they're good prep for the actual midterm. The midterms themselves also are pretty reasonable: not so challenging that you have to devote several hours to them, but not so easy that everyone gets an A (I think I spent 2.5 hours on each midterm). The final was pretty long (10 or 11 questions, most had multiple parts) with a few tricky questions.
The workload was pretty reasonable -- homework was a bit on the long side occasionally, but the problems were mostly computational so they weren't too bad. We also had weekly quizzes that you could easily complete by reviewing lecture notes.
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