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Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2025	Professor Long is the best teacher I have had so far at UMD. He is a really great math lecturer; his lectures are very engaging, well-prepared, and easy to understand. The class, MATH243, itself is very manageable. There is no mandatory homework, but we have optional textbook problems that are very helpful with keeping up with the content. We have two group MATLAB projects, the first one being pretty involved and the second being very easy. However, they are both free A's as long as you turn in completed work. There are discussion worksheets and quizzes, as well. The quizzes are pretty straightforward as long as you are keeping up with the course and the worksheets are a little more abstract, but never too complex. There are three midterm exams and a final exam, which are all pretty long, but straightforward. As a person, Professor Long is really nice, charismatic, and truly cares about students. I had a friend who bombed the first midterm because he didn't realize we had an exam and didn't study. When he went to Professor Long to tell him he was dropping the class, Professor Long motivated him and offered to drop the first exam and average the others if he improved in the future. Overall, the class is very fair and manageable with an appropriate amount of work, and Professor Long is definitely the best professor to take.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/12/2025	good professor, homework isn't always related to lectures so can be a little confusing, quizzes are pretty easy, a little unorganized with when there are quizzes, worksheets, and the 2 matlab projects, exams are almost exactly the same format as practice exam he posts with a slightly higher difficulty, usually takes entire class to finish
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/13/2025	He takes notes pretty fast and on a chalkboard board so you have to go to class, but the discussion was very helpful with simplifying what he was saying and giving practice, so go to all of those. There are some quizzes in discussion that they tell you about a week before, and are pretty easy. The midterms and finals were pretty packed with questions so I didn't have any time to go back and check my answers, so make sure to practice answering questions quick but they were fair and exactly like the textbook HWs.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2025	Professor Long has been my favorite professor so far at UMD. His lectures were very good and he made sure you understood the content and got plenty of practice. His exams were also quite fair and very similar to the practice exams given. Highly recommend.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/22/2025	The exams are really fair in my opinion and the cutoffs are fairly reasonable.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2025	Great lecturer who explains concepts and examples very clearly. TAs are also very helpful and expand on what you learn in class. The tests can be kind of tricky and usually have more difficult versions of problems than what is covered in class, but they are basically the exact same format as the practice exam so it's fair. Overall a great course.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2024	Great professor, funny guy, cool class. I loved the combined diff eq/lin alg as a concept, it really shows you how they interact and keeps the class a little more interesting. Plus you don't have to take two classes. Highly recommend if you're Physics/Engineering. Professor Long can sometimes go a little too fast with his lectures and be hard to follow, but that's what the discussions are for. The combo of both was fine for me and I almost never went to the Monday lecture. His exams are reasonable and the practice exams give you a great idea of what concepts will be on the real exam so studying for them is pretty easy. He doesn't do homework so you do have to actually go to class but he does have recommended practice problems if you want them. Not having busywork/homework was very nice though. Overall a really enjoyable class.
Terence Long MATH243 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/06/2024	Very fair tests. Releases practice exams which are the same format as exams. Overall class is not hard. Not good lecturer or teacher. TA basically would re-explain lecturer content every time. Didn't give us practice HW in textbook until the end of the semester. So basically had no practice. Gave up on going to lectures.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/27/2025

Professor Long is the best teacher I have had so far at UMD. He is a really great math lecturer; his lectures are very engaging, well-prepared, and easy to understand. The class, MATH243, itself is very manageable. There is no mandatory homework, but we have optional textbook problems that are very helpful with keeping up with the content. We have two group MATLAB projects, the first one being pretty involved and the second being very easy. However, they are both free A's as long as you turn in completed work. There are discussion worksheets and quizzes, as well. The quizzes are pretty straightforward as long as you are keeping up with the course and the worksheets are a little more abstract, but never too complex. There are three midterm exams and a final exam, which are all pretty long, but straightforward. As a person, Professor Long is really nice, charismatic, and truly cares about students. I had a friend who bombed the first midterm because he didn't realize we had an exam and didn't study. When he went to Professor Long to tell him he was dropping the class, Professor Long motivated him and offered to drop the first exam and average the others if he improved in the future. Overall, the class is very fair and manageable with an appropriate amount of work, and Professor Long is definitely the best professor to take.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/12/2025

good professor, homework isn't always related to lectures so can be a little confusing, quizzes are pretty easy, a little unorganized with when there are quizzes, worksheets, and the 2 matlab projects, exams are almost exactly the same format as practice exam he posts with a slightly higher difficulty, usually takes entire class to finish

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/13/2025

He takes notes pretty fast and on a chalkboard board so you have to go to class, but the discussion was very helpful with simplifying what he was saying and giving practice, so go to all of those. There are some quizzes in discussion that they tell you about a week before, and are pretty easy. The midterms and finals were pretty packed with questions so I didn't have any time to go back and check my answers, so make sure to practice answering questions quick but they were fair and exactly like the textbook HWs.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/23/2025

Professor Long has been my favorite professor so far at UMD. His lectures were very good and he made sure you understood the content and got plenty of practice. His exams were also quite fair and very similar to the practice exams given. Highly recommend.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/22/2025

The exams are really fair in my opinion and the cutoffs are fairly reasonable.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2025

Great lecturer who explains concepts and examples very clearly. TAs are also very helpful and expand on what you learn in class. The tests can be kind of tricky and usually have more difficult versions of problems than what is covered in class, but they are basically the exact same format as the practice exam so it's fair. Overall a great course.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/13/2024

Great professor, funny guy, cool class. I loved the combined diff eq/lin alg as a concept, it really shows you how they interact and keeps the class a little more interesting. Plus you don't have to take two classes. Highly recommend if you're Physics/Engineering. Professor Long can sometimes go a little too fast with his lectures and be hard to follow, but that's what the discussions are for. The combo of both was fine for me and I almost never went to the Monday lecture. His exams are reasonable and the practice exams give you a great idea of what concepts will be on the real exam so studying for them is pretty easy. He doesn't do homework so you do have to actually go to class but he does have recommended practice problems if you want them. Not having busywork/homework was very nice though. Overall a really enjoyable class.

Terence Long
MATH243

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/06/2024

Very fair tests. Releases practice exams which are the same format as exams. Overall class is not hard. Not good lecturer or teacher. TA basically would re-explain lecturer content every time. Didn't give us practice HW in textbook until the end of the semester. So basically had no practice. Gave up on going to lectures.

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