I really liked this class. Vectors are pretty simple to understand and the interaction of vectors gets complicated but if you study it's perfectly manageable. Penneys has two grading scales: one where both midterms count toward your grade, and another where you can drop the midterm with the lower score and the final is worth more. Both grading scales include weekly quizzes that you take at the beginning of discussion. I got a 90% on the first midterm without too much effort. The second midterm I did not do so great and I got a 60%. I got a B on the final and the professor ended up taking the second grading scale in which one of the midterms was dropped. I ended with a B- almost a C+ in the class. My advice is to get as high as possible on both midterms as they're both pretty easy and I could've avoided a 60% on the second one. The final is pretty tough. Penneys is really good at explaining the concepts and he makes a lot of cheesy jokes and puns but they're funny. Definitely attend his office hours. The textbook really helps with this class as well. Use it as a first and third exposure to the material and the lecture as your second exposure.

Penneys is a good math teacher, he makes nerdy jokes and the lectures were not boring. Although he could be rushing through the material sometimes, and there were times when he had to get subs because he had to go to meetings. Overall not bad math class. The midterms are like practice exams, they are appropriately formatted and reasonably approachable.

Professor Penneys is a mediocre professor. He teaches exactly out of the textbook which is not effective considering tests use problems that vary significantly with the formatting of the textbook problems. Because his lectures was mostly out of the textbook, his teaching style was mostly one-dimensional. The examples used were textbook examples and because of this, it gave little incentive to show up to lecture. His grading policy made up for this. Having the 20% quizzes,20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2, 40% final breakdown of our grades or the second option of dropping the lowest midterm was very helpful and needed. His tests were mostly straightforward and doable. Nothing extraordinarily surprising. What I think would make me more successful in his class would be more examples in lecture that I could not find in the textbook. Overall, Penneys is a great person and all I wish out of him as an instructor is to put more effort in ensuring students' understanding of the material instead of just writing stuff down I can look up in a textbook.