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Rodrigo Trevino MATH274 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2024	Dr. Rodrigo Trevino is a brilliant mathematician and a dedicated teacher. Obviously history of math is not a rigorous course and I think it's designed for education majors, but it would be a mistake not to enroll a course of his due to ratings from less motivated students who struggle with math in general. He is one of the few professors in the math department at UMD that is genuinely happy to teach fascinating things to students who are eager to learn.
Yanir Rubinstein MATH274 Expecting a C Anonymous 04/13/2022	I would not recommend this prof to anyone. I think he really did want us to understand but he did not know how to lecture effectively and also was not very good about answering questions. He would basically just write out a proof of something he found interesting on the board without explaining much of anything and did not go over the more complicated parts of it. This was a math history class and the exams were true/false for 30 points, each question was 5-10 points and if you got it wrong you lost all those points, and the rest of the exam was usually a proof of something he showed in class that you just had to memorize, but you never knew which of the examples he was going to put on the test and there were about 4 weeks of classes between exams so anything was up for grabs. The final was a 16-page single-space essay with little to no guidance which he graded extremely harshly. The only grades were the 3 exams and the final. It was really hard to get through this class every day but I had to since it was a requirement, if you don't need to take a class with him, don't.