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Keith Ouellette
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The amount of material you go through each week might feel overwhelming since it's a 6-week summer class, but the tests are very straightforward. If you do only the homework and fully understand/memorize how to do computational problem-solving processes and the more important linear algebra definitions, you'll be adequately prepared for the tests. (I ditched almost all discussions.) The final basically reused questions from the midterms, and the midterms basically asked the same questions as the homework. I do think that the grading is pretty strict, since I made a silly mathematical mistake on my second midterm that messed up the rest of the problem, and I basically missed all those points. (Each midterm had 5 problems, each problem worth 10 points.) As a result, I got a bad score on the second midterm (72%) compared to my first one (92%). However, I learned from my mistakes, aced the final (which was 2 hrs, 8 problems), and managed to pull through with an A.
As for the class itself, expect to sit through a lot of proofs of the more minor theorems you won't really use; it's incredibly easy to zone out. Ouellette is pretty kind-hearted, approachable, and genuine from what I've seen, but you won't get to learn anything in-depth about linear algebra because of the rush to cover all the content. Overall the class kinda felt like a rushed high school math course. If you just need to take this class to fulfill engineering reqs or something, I highly recommend it, but if you want to feel satisfied that you've learned something significant and useful, you should probably take this class with a passionate professor during the academic year.
The amount of material you go through each week might feel overwhelming since it's a 6-week summer class, but the tests are very straightforward. If you do only the homework and fully understand/memorize how to do computational problem-solving processes and the more important linear algebra definitions, you'll be adequately prepared for the tests. (I ditched almost all discussions.) The final basically reused questions from the midterms, and the midterms basically asked the same questions as the homework. I do think that the grading is pretty strict, since I made a silly mathematical mistake on my second midterm that messed up the rest of the problem, and I basically missed all those points. (Each midterm had 5 problems, each problem worth 10 points.) As a result, I got a bad score on the second midterm (72%) compared to my first one (92%). However, I learned from my mistakes, aced the final (which was 2 hrs, 8 problems), and managed to pull through with an A.
As for the class itself, expect to sit through a lot of proofs of the more minor theorems you won't really use; it's incredibly easy to zone out. Ouellette is pretty kind-hearted, approachable, and genuine from what I've seen, but you won't get to learn anything in-depth about linear algebra because of the rush to cover all the content. Overall the class kinda felt like a rushed high school math course. If you just need to take this class to fulfill engineering reqs or something, I highly recommend it, but if you want to feel satisfied that you've learned something significant and useful, you should probably take this class with a passionate professor during the academic year.