Gannon definitely knows what he's talking about and goes pretty in depth with the material. He does talk fast, so taking notes was a bit difficult, but they were clear notes. The grading consisted of homework, two midterms, and the final. The tests were 50% conceptual and 50% calculations. The conceptual questions were a bit challenging, but that might have been because the math department moved all exams online and 24hrs. In person, I'd imagine there would be less questions, and maybe a slightly lower level of difficulty.

Very good professor! TAKE HIM if you can. I suck at math and his notes made it so easy to understand.

Professor has humor. Thankful the exams were ONLINE and 24 hours because the final(same thing with midterms) took me 10+ hours even though there were 6-7 questions with multiple parts!!!! Homework was not bad at all--easiest part of the course. Calc II was surprisingly super easy! It's just the exams you got to watch out for because the conceptual part gmfu but using the whole 24 hours was worth it because ended up passing all the examssss.

Professor was nice but lectures are super fast and can be confusing so you HAVE to pay attention because it's super easy to get lost and once you get lost it's hard catching up! I didn't go to discussions (not mandatory).

Overall a pretty easy class probably because exams are all 24 hours for this quarter. Workload is easy because you only have to do 8-9 problems a week which doesn't take more than a couple hours max. He is a really good lecturer, and his notes are goated. Attendance doesn't matter. You can choose to be in-person, online, or even asynchronous. Overall I definitely recommend Professor Gannon, and I hope to have him again as a math professor

I love this man. I struggled so hard with the content, but Gannon really is kind and clear. If you ask him a question, you will get a direct answer, and if you still don't understand, he has a glossary of ways to explain it. He encourages participation in lectures, even if you are wrong. He walks through the content quickly (as he must), but in the best way possible. Thank you so much Gannon

GOAT

We had two midterms and a final all of which were 24 hours and online (as mandated by the math department). Don't be fooled they are still challenging and somewhat tedious.

He gives weekly textbook homework and then extra practice problems from the textbook which are actually very helpful to study from. His lectures are very relevant to what you get tested on. In essence, he sets you up for success but you have to be on top of it and make sure you're really doing the work because with the pace of this class, it's very easy to fall behind. Hmu **********) if you want the notes for this class. Good luck!

Professor Gannon is the best math professor I've had at UCLA by far. His explanations always made total sense and his tests were relatively similar to the content gone over in lecture. His humor kept the lectures entertaining and engaging. When I took him he posted the lecture notes which were very useful throughout the quarter.

Before writing this, I asked my friends what they thought of Gannon and I actually got polarizing answers. Some hated his teaching style and I thought it was great. I'll let you decide by explaining it in the best way I can. So essentially, each lecture he has a short warm-up that is either about the last lecture or a little preview of that lecture. He gives the class about 3-4 minutes to just try it out and then he goes over it step-by-step and allows for students to ask questions. To me, this was really beneficial because it reminded me of the concepts from the day before and allowed me to form connections about the previous topics to the current topic that day. Then, for the rest of the class, he goes over the material. It is structured very well and notes typically will look like: definition/theorem, example (or two), and repeat. This again, was beneficial for me because when looking back at my notes, having specific examples for that section was good for review. Then, every lecture, he assigns a couple of problems from the textbook that are not to be turned in. I highly, highly suggest you do those BEFORE attempting the homework problems. If they aren't already super similar to the homework, they are probably a good review for the homework problems. There were an average of 8 homework problems per week. They were not the simplest problems and definitely required you to think harder. I recommend working with a group as that made it a lot easier for me to understand the concepts.

In terms of exams, I took this class during Winter 22 which meant that all midterms and exams were 24 hours online. If for some reason the math department makes this a thing again (lol), the exams are sorta difficult. I would say that I still studied for them etc, but there were some things in the exams that were very conceptual and not as much just calculations. I assume he made the tests this way because you can't really SymboLab those lol. Otherwise, the rest of the questions are pretty fair.

31B is definitely not an easy course. Not the most difficult in the 30 series, but not the easiest either. Do not fear because he is a very fair professor and you can go to office hours and ask anything and he will try his best to help you. Okay, some people say he's kinda snarky/curt with his comments, but I don't really think so. Gannon is awesome and I would definitely, definitely take another course taught by him :)

Gannon's voice is very soothing, but that might not be the best thing during lecture lol. Overall he is a good professor and explains material effectively. I would definitely take this professor again.