Professor
Konstantinos Varvarezos
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Fall 2023 - Professor Varvarezos gives me hope for the future of mathematics educators. He is very thorough in lectures and gives many examples, so taking notes go great. He also videos his lectures on Canvas, although the camera work is often so bad and annoying that I'll just go in person. His grading schemes are very forgiving, with an option where you can even drop your lowest midterm completely with more weight on the final. Test questions are very accurate to the practice sheets he sends out, with some variations in types of problem but with similar concepts. You get to make a cheat sheet for exams; both midterms were very straightforward, and the final was easy but utilized more critical thinking. Varvarezos is also very helpful in office hours, both on Zoom and in-person, he is great at explaining!!
Fall 2023 - Professor Varvarezos gives me hope for the future of mathematics educators. He is very thorough in lectures and gives many examples, so taking notes go great. He also videos his lectures on Canvas, although the camera work is often so bad and annoying that I'll just go in person. His grading schemes are very forgiving, with an option where you can even drop your lowest midterm completely with more weight on the final. Test questions are very accurate to the practice sheets he sends out, with some variations in types of problem but with similar concepts. You get to make a cheat sheet for exams; both midterms were very straightforward, and the final was easy but utilized more critical thinking. Varvarezos is also very helpful in office hours, both on Zoom and in-person, he is great at explaining!!
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Winter 2023 - I loved this class so much! I highly recommend Professor Varvarezos because he is such an engaging lecturer. He always pauses to ask if anyone has questions and answers them to the best of his ability. He draws very informative figures that help students visualize new topics well. I've attended a couple of his office hours and I would definitely say that it was worth my time! Overall, Professor Varvarezos is super approachable and very understanding. 10/10 experience.
Winter 2023 - I loved this class so much! I highly recommend Professor Varvarezos because he is such an engaging lecturer. He always pauses to ask if anyone has questions and answers them to the best of his ability. He draws very informative figures that help students visualize new topics well. I've attended a couple of his office hours and I would definitely say that it was worth my time! Overall, Professor Varvarezos is super approachable and very understanding. 10/10 experience.
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Winter 2024 - Professor Varvarezos's 120A feels like a lower-division class, in both material learned and also easiness. I did not learn much from this class as I would have wanted about differential geometry besides computations and brushing up on differentiation and picturing three-dimensional spaces, since that was primarily the highest dimension that we studied. He spent much of class getting caught up in the details of differentiating functions, which is beneficial for most of the mathematics of teaching majors but was not the most helpful use of time to me, a pure math major. I would have appreciated more of generalization to higher-dimensional spaces or more topics in the vast field of differential geometry.
Winter 2024 - Professor Varvarezos's 120A feels like a lower-division class, in both material learned and also easiness. I did not learn much from this class as I would have wanted about differential geometry besides computations and brushing up on differentiation and picturing three-dimensional spaces, since that was primarily the highest dimension that we studied. He spent much of class getting caught up in the details of differentiating functions, which is beneficial for most of the mathematics of teaching majors but was not the most helpful use of time to me, a pure math major. I would have appreciated more of generalization to higher-dimensional spaces or more topics in the vast field of differential geometry.