1. [Difficulty]: ★★★☆(FAIRLY EASY. Just as most reviews say, the two midterms are easy with an average score above 90 percent. The final is, indeed, much harder than the midterms but still reasonable. If you study hard enough and do enough practice problems, the final should be moderate. In conclusion, even if you do not perform well in the final, you can still get an ideal score with the easy midterms and some extra credits Dr.Gong provides. PS: she allows cheatsheets.)

2.[Workload]:★★★★(The workload is LIGHT, homework is little with no more than ten questions, all of which come from the textbook, so you can easily find answers to them from the internet. Also, the homework will not be collected, but similar problems may appear on weekly quizzes, so do them for practice.)

3.[Lecture]:★★★☆(The lecture is OK. Be sure to go to the lectures and review with the textbook at the same time.)

4.[Conclusion]: Do take her classes, if you attend lectures, do the homework and practice problems on the textbook, getting an A should be fairly easy. Definitely, recommend taking her for any lower-division math classes.

I really enjoyed taking 32A with professor Gong - not only did she do a good job of generally explaining the course material, but she really put in the extra effort to make sure the class ran well, and to make sure that we understood the material! She held extra office hours, responded to emails, and in-class would often re-explain previous concepts if the class seemed unclear on them - a really good skill! In my one-on-one interactions with her, she's been very helpful, even answering general questions I had about math; and my other friends in the class have found her office hours really helpful. In addition, the homework she gave was very pointed and relevant - if you did the homework every week, the midterms would be simple to do - no curveballs there! I will say, I did find the final to be quite challenging, and barely ended up getting an A overall - my only criticism of this class was that we didn't get a practice final, which made some of the questions a bit surprising. Overall though, Sherry is a great professor - she really puts in the extra mile to make sure her students understand her material, and I'd love to have her again!

I honestly feel that Sherry's dedication to this class is very underrated. Although she's not required to, she holds office hours 3 hours per week, and whenever she thinks we haven't fully understood a concept, she would explain it more in-depth during the next lecture. She constantly tries to make sure we're following her train of logic, answers all of our questions, and gives multiple interpretations of concepts/figures to help us visualize. In class and in her e-mails, she tells us very clearly what we have/don't have to know for an exam, and does her best to be fair on tests. On the second midterm, she allowed us to submit corrections for 2 questions for a regrade just because she thought that they were worth more points than necessary compared to other questions. Sherry clearly cares about her students and thinks it matters that they're learning. Maybe she tries hard to do the right thing because she's new, but I think she's a genuinely nice person at heart.

However, I agree with the other reviewers that the final was significantly harder than the (very easy) midterms and that she might not have given us enough "warnings" to help us prepare for it. But I have taken other classes in the 30 series and it was definitely not unreasonable compared to other math finals.