Took this class my first quarter at UCLA. It was a good transition into university life because it was not hard but it was harder than all my high school classes. Overall a good class

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Professor Brown is a lovely and nice teacher. She concerns about her student so much that she managed to answer every questions in the class. But that is a problem because a rather tangential question in class may cause her whole lecture without talking anything about the material. So save your question after class for the sake of others. Her lecture is a little bit disorganized but the exams are easy and the generous curve will give you a decent grade.

Definitely the most caring professor ever.

Dr. Brown was unfortunately an ineffective professor in my opinion. Her lectures failed to truly explain all the material. Her definitions and theorems in class were often less rigorous than those in the homework, requiring students to learn much of the material on their own. Her ability to draw graphs, however, was impressive.

I cannot speak to the quality of her office hours as I did not attend them.

As far as her grading goes, it was a textbook case of grade inflation. For both midterm one and midterm two, she curved the median test score to an A-. I assume that roughly half the students in her class received at least an A-.

I suggest avoiding this Tova if you truly want to learn the material. Without my very helpful TA, I would likely have struggled in this course.

Overall, she was an ok professor. Nothing special.
As a person, she's really nice, and wants all of her students to do well.
Some of the proofs she would do in class were hard to follow, but they never showed up on any exam. The midterms and final were very easy, almost too easy. The pace was pretty slow, and if anyone had a question, she would go over it in class, sometimes running out of time for the actual lesson.
Take her if you want a pretty easy A, but not if you want to get an in depth understanding of calculus

Tova was definitely one of the more colorful professors I've taken at UCLA. She immediately stood out with her dorky demeanor, making her adorable and endearing in lecture. That being said, despite the colorful personality, I felt that lectures were sometimes a bit confusing, leaving a lot of topics unclear in my head

She was definitely VERY concerned that her students were learning, constantly asking the class if we had any questions and holding MULTIPLE office hours. Having gone to some of these, I can say she was VERY helpful in office hours, clarifying much of the confusing material in the class.

Homeworks were straight from the textbook and easy, EASY points.

Tests were pretty tough, I felt, but she curved all the tests so that was nice.

I'd say take the class with her as she's caring, willing to clarify anything confusing, has a generous curve, and is a colorful professor teaching something like multivariable calculus.

Pros:
Professor's Brown's office hours were very helpful and enjoyable. In the more intimate setting, Brown was very understandable and helpful and even very funny at times. Though office hours were very full, the times I was able to go were very helpful and I gained a much better understanding of the content.

The way she asked us to understand the concepts was good. Encouraging us to think about the content very visually and conceptually helped understanding, though the ideas that she conveyed were not conveyed well.

Her pictures were always very detailed and understandable, though the use of different colored chalk would have been hepful.

Cons:
The pace of the lecture was incredibly, incredibly slow. For example, Professor Brown would say some sort of content about the course, then she would write it VERBATIM on the board, and then say it again. I would honestly be able to fall asleep in the middle of her lecture, wake up, and she would still be on the same thing. The board was literally all paragraphs of words. It would have been much better to go into tangible problems to help us understand the content instead of saying it, writing it, and saying it again.

Esoteric writing: no one understood the words on words on the board. More pictures and examples. She would talk on end about a concept but no one would understand. Better analogies and more preparedness to relate the content to something tangible would have been helpful. 

Also Brown stuttered and seemed very unorganized and flustered throughout the lectures, as if she was just going over it the first time.

She almost never did practice problems as well.

But overall the course was way to slow and inaccessible unless one went to office hours. 

Suggestions:
For lectures, unless you have background on multivariable calculus, you will likely be confused during the lectures. The way she teaches the content is only valuable to those who have a relative understanding of what the content is. Many of my friends in the class went to lecture but found it useless. I, however, found most the lectures actually very helpful when I skimmed the book 30 minutes prior. Either way you are going to have to read the book so might as well read it before the lecture so that you'll get the most marginal return for lectures. 

I again suggest you go to office hours to supplement any material you dont understand. She's pretty big on having students understand conceptually what is happening rather than just students knowing the formula.

Regarding the midterms and finals, they were almost all variations of the practice midterms and finals. So for the midterms, definitely know your content, but especially know what's on the practice midterm and related concepts to those problems. 
The final is a little bit more difficult, but still accessible. The practice exam is like a watered down version of the final exam, but the types of questions that the final exam covered were still essentially covering the same things.

Luckily the curve is REALLY REALLY GENEROUS so you'll be ok if you stay on top of your stuff.

Pro: Dr. Brown cares greatly about student learning. She is very approachable, maintains a casual learning environment, and is very eager to help students learn. She always tries to answer all questions thoroughly.
Her curve is very generous (insofar as I almost feel guilty getting an A). On the second midterm, she curved so that the lowest failing grade was a C-, and the median was an A-.
Her tests were very fair. They were well represented by the practice mid terms. If you know those concepts inside and out, you'll have a pretty good shot on the tests.

Cons: Her lectures were very disorganized, and she often seemed confused and disoriented. She would write every word she said -- most of which were verbose definitions. She never completed any practice problems, so the student is advised to thoroughly read the book. I stopped going to her lectures about week 6 when I realized I learned nothing from them.
She is also very visually oriented, so students approaching math from an abstract perspective will either struggle or learn a new method of approach.

Overall, I would not recommend this professor.
If you want an easy A, sign up for her, read the book thoroughly, and get a great TA like I did.
If you want a deep understanding of multivariable calculus, go elsewhere and never look back.

Professor Brown was a highly understanding and effective teacher. I learned a lot from her class. It is true that lectures sometimes are slow, and that you may be able to get more from the book in a shorter amount of time. It is true that she writes definitions and phrases verbatim on the board, but this ensures that you know them very well.
Finally, although she doesn't treat numerical examples often in lecture, she usually creates tests that have simple numbers in them. Overall, a very conceptual teacher and a nice breath of fresh air from the abstraction that is undergraduate math.
Finally, although I got an A in this course, I know some very smart people who did not. If you are considering taking this course because you think you will be able to skim the book and destroy the tests, you might find it harder than you bargain for due to her tests being unlike book problems (They involved a lot of sketching- just like in lecture).

Grade breakdown:
10% homework
25% midterm 1
25% midterm 2
40% final
OR
100% final
Whichever was higher was the grade you got for the class. The final and the overall grades of the class were curved at the end of the quarter.

In the beginning I wasn't happy with her teaching strategy. I thought she went too slow and went too in depth into things in a way that was too confusing. However, as the quarter progressed, I got more used to how she taught and am actually not too opposed to her teaching anymore.

For many in my class she was a horrible professor, but for me personally, I thought she was helpful in explaining the conceptual aspects of calculus. It may be because I took AP Calculus AB my senior year of high school, but I feel like once you have a firm grasp on the math conceptually, you should be doing more than fine on the midterms and final. She was a very concerned professor and answered everyone's questions in class. Just know that she most likely won't go over actual problems in class. That's where discussion comes in.

My TA, Chuyuan Fu, was not very effective at all. She was very quiet and couldn't really answer questions that well, which is why discussion attendance dwindled quickly week after week. However, she tried her best teaching, and I admire that, but it just wasn't for her.

As far as homework goes, it was incredibly easy. Not a big work load at all. Around ten problems due each week online. There were a couple to a few conceptual questions each week. With the computational questions, it was good because you could put in your answer and check it to see if it was right. If it was wrong, you could put in a new answer and check it again, but it would not show you the right answer. You could also work on it throughout the week and save your progress before turning it in. If you don't turn it in by the deadline, it turns itself in automatically. DO NOT BUY THE MATH TEXTBOOK. She never touches it. It may be used by other professors, but for Brown, no. There were eight assignments total.
Homework grade: 90.83%

There were two midterms which were nine questions each. I didn't think they were very difficult. As long as you understood the conceptual parts of it, you were fine. One thing I really liked though was how quickly she grades. For the second midterm, I took it on a Monday, and I got it back that same Wednesday. I thought this was excellent.
Midterm 1 grade: 44/45 98%
Class mean grade: 34/45 76%
Midterm 2 grade: 42/45 93%
Class mean grade: 30.9/45 69%

The final was fifteen questions and was similar to the midterms. It covered the whole breadth of the course and included both conceptual and computational questions. I was stuck on two problems in total. This too was graded quickly. Took it on Monday and saw my grade online on Friday.
Final grade: 62/70 89%
Class mean grade: 46.9/70 67%

Overall it was an okay class. Easy for me in particular, more difficult for some. But the professor, all in all, was fair.
Final course grade: A