EASY CLASS!

I took this class during a Covid/pandemic quarter and honestly, Jukka is a real one. He's very understanding and flexible about people's situations/if something unexpected happens and truly wants his students to succeed. He also responds to emails promptly and is always willing to extend deadlines for us if we need it.

The weekly homework assignments (problems taken out of the free textbook, you don't need to buy anything) were very time-consuming to me but I found that many people are willing to help and each other out and explain concepts if we didn't understand them. He also drops the two lowest homework assignments and does like half of the problems during his office hours (which he records and posts).

It depends on the TA, but attendance to labs were optional for me. If you have a good TA, you'll probably finish or mostly finish your coding assignments before the lab ends. If not, you have to work on them as homework and they get collected at the start of the next lab. During labs, the TA will briefly go over the coding assignment as a whole group and then you get put into breakout sessions with your designated group (the one you take the midterm and final with) for the rest of the time. You can choose to work on the assignment with your group or individually. It honestly depends on how close your group gets to each other. Your lowest lab grade gets dropped.

Weekly quizzes are kind of tough but they're 4-5 questions from 2-4 lessons each week. He gives you two attempts for it, but takes the average of your two attempts. The lowest weekly quiz score gets dropped. Make sure to read over the lesson slides before you take it.

There were 3 parts to the midterm and final: a study guide portion (60 points), an individual portion (80 points), and a group portion (60 points). The study guide and group portion are basically free points and you work on them with the group that you're put into in the beginning of the school year. It's really a gamble but my group was amazing and became good friends over the course of the quarter. He also posts practice midterms/finals (basically old exams from past years) and a general outline for us to study off of. On top of all that, he holds review sessions the weekend before exams to clarify and go over anything we didn't understand.

Since Jukka is amazing, he also has 20 points of extra credit automatically implemented in his grading scheme for everyone they're basically buffer points so you can miss 90 points overall in the class and still get an A (since the maximum amount of points are 1000 and he's giving you 20 free points).

Professor Jukka Keranen is a gift from god sent directly to humanity (and I’m literally an atheist so this means so much coming from me). Honestly, this class was a bit difficult for me because I had no previous calculus experience, but I still managed to do well because of how amazing he taught. He gives so much extra credit and help, but the course has a bit of a heavy workload, which is actually super manageable! So many things in my life went downhill this quarter, but because Jukka was such an understanding and kind person, he helped us through everything and went above and beyond his means to ensure every student was successful. There’s one midterm and one final for this class, and it helps to do the practice exam. They consist of three parts are graded super fairly. TA Qi Wu was phenomenal and honestly very good looking haha. The lab component got difficult as we progressed, but it was doable and you work with a group of 4 along with LAs to help you understand the material more! The entire learning team for this class is just amazing, I promise no one will ever disappoint you. Jukka always makes the funniest jokes, remarks, and honestly I was excited to go to class and lab everyday. Definitely a great course and super applicable. One last thing, the professor literally wants you to be a better person and use the course material to HELP people. If that doesn’t say what an amazing human being he is, I don’t know what does. It was a pleasure with Jukka, I was honored to have him as a professor.

I was nervous about taking a math series as I have never considered myself a "math person" or have enjoyed it much either. That being said, Jukka is hands-down one of the most helpful, engaging, and enthusiastic professors I've ever had at UCLA. He holds several 2-hour review sessions for both the midterm and the final exam, where he goes over the midterm or final he gave his students one year prior. He posts all of his slides on CCLE and encourages students to go over them.

The weekly homework came from the textbook and sometimes had difficult questions, but if I needed help, it seemed like there was always a TA holding office hours and I also found it helpful to go to the professor himself. They will take the time to explain concepts to you and ensure that you aren't confused. For the midterm and final, I thought that the material he tested was fair, as it followed directly from the (4!!) practice exams he put on CCLE weeks prior. Work aside, I really enjoyed coming to this class 3x a week. Jukka really cares about his students, encourages questions, makes detailed slides, and has a great sense of humor. He cares a lot about how his students are doing and it shows.

First of all, Jukka is a literal legend for (1) Being so damn helpful, (2) Keeping everybody reassured about their grades/exams, (3) Having a good sense of humor (as compared to other professors), and (4) Holding review sessions that involve the SAME EXACT questions as his midterm and final. The only downside that I could find would be the workload in this class, since it does require at least 3 hours a week to complete. While the workload of this class is pretty heavy as compared to the others, most of the studying you will do for this class will be the homework. Again, I cannot emphasize this enough, GO TO HIS REVIEW SESSIONS! HE PULLS QUESTIONS STRAIGHT OUT OF HIS PRACTICE EXAMS FOR HIS ACTUAL MIDTERM AND FINAL!

I am just not a math person, so this class was challenging for me. Jukka is very helpful though so if you have to take this class I would suggest having him. I was really struggling to understand the material and he was very accommodating in trying to help me as much as he could. I had the class online so this could be part of the problem. I feel like the grading is very fair. Almost too fair. I didn't understand anything in this class and still somehow finished with an A- which stunned me. So if you are like me and don't really like math, this class will be challenging, but if I was able to get an A I'm sure you will be able to as well.

I am going to be completely honest by saying that although I got an A+ in this class, I did not feel like I learned anything. The 30 series is decently confusing and most of the time you feel like you're learning the same thing every single week. Jukka overall was a good professor, but he was not very helpful and was honestly very passive aggressive when students asked questions. The exams are decently challenging, but the practice exams are very similar. There is much opportunity for extra credit in this class so getting an A is super attainable.

This class was decent definitely challenging if you are used to traditional math. I personally didn't enjoy this class but Jukka as a teacher was ok definitely moved a little fast I found the recorded lectures very helpful because you can pause and rewind. The hw assignments are pretty rough if you wait till the last minute. The final was very difficult so make sure to do well on the midterm to protect your grade.

Jukka is an amazing professor. He is really dedicated to his students. However, his class work is quite extensive. You should expect hours on hours of work. There are pre-class videos, pre-class reflections, post-class reflections, and participation quizzes for every lesson. At first this doesn't seem bad but as the quarter goes on his pre-class videos become quite long. I believe the longest was 30 mins. The homework assignments take a few hours as well(5-6). However, he assigns the homework assignments in the activities mentioned before. You should definitely stay on track. If you do, you will not struggle as much as I did. I was generally doing fine on the course until the final. I completely panicked and thats why my grade went from an A to a B+. Also the midterm materials and final materials have information you probably wont be tested on. I found quite often that I understood those materials but then came the exams they didn't test you on the same information. All the other reviews you see here are true. You are most definitely capable of earning an A but you have to stay on track and invest a lot of your time. Office hours are a great time to seek homework help. He goes over most of the problems there. Coding I struggled with, if you make sure to ask questions during your section and finish it during those two hours you should be fine. The point I am trying to get across is that to do well in this course you must invest a lot of your time. I often felt quite frustrated because I couldn't always balance the workload for all my classes. Thats a me problem. This is just a heads up but I would recommend taking his course. Seriously though, stay on top of the work and you will do fine.

I really enjoyed taking this class with Jukka. He cares a lot for his students and offers a good amount of extra credit. His lectures were recorded so it was very helpful to go back and rewatch confusing parts. Overall this class is not that difficult but it does get confusing at times because the math in this class can be really weird. There is a great amount of work that we have to complete. The amount of homework we got sometimes was a lot but I think it was manageable. He does go over some homework problems during his office hours so I recommend attending or watching most of his office hours. We also had weekly quizzes and weekly coding assignments. Some of the coding assignments were confusing but the TAs can help you. The midterm and final were not that difficult, for me the most difficult part was trying to finish the exams on time because the midterm had a 2-hour limit and the final had a 3-hour limit but you do have a 24-hour window to complete them.
Be prepared to work with other people. You are assigned a learning team at the beginning of the quarter and you're expected to complete the coding assignments with them and the first stage of both exams consists of completing a study guide with your learning team.
I recommend taking this class with Jukka! So take it with him if you can!!!