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Margaret Doucette
MATH246H Expecting a C Anonymous 05/27/2025 |
Lecture: This was her first time teaching so I expect it to get better but overall a mid to bad lecturer - she stutter a lot and go pretty fast sometimes. Obviously diffeq is a difficult class but I don't thinked it helped the majority of students' understandings when she would go over the proofs for formulas/methods for a long period of class. She got better at the end with more examples but other students and I completely stopped going to class after about 2/3s of the semester. I personally think that learning from the textbook website helped a ton, I would just either read through it or copy it and have ChatGPT explain it to me with examples, after I would do a ton of examples the textbook website gives. If you did this and went to lecture like a couple friends did you will understand lecture much more but probably not all of it. Tests: There were 2 midterms unlike other sections who had 3. The midterms were very fair she said multiple times that she doesn't want us to have to memorize the crazy formulas which was completely true, there was no mechanical vibrations or runge trapezoidal formulas on the tests or anything crazy even though she would go though them in class. If you don't procrastinate studying like I did then you will be fine on the tests just be really good at the main stuff and know when to use each method. Our averages were a B and a C with a B average on the final. The grading was also fair with a decent amount of partial credit, although she wouldn't give points back easily. Homework: There is homework in her class unlike other sections and if you take tests decently then I would recommend taking another section just because of this reason. If you take tests poorly then the homework will help because they were graded pretty easily if you put in effort. This was by far the worst part of the class there would be about 1 a week but they were insane especially if you weren't caught up on material. Pages and pages of work, on average I would say about 3-5 hours per homework if you do them with no help but some of them would be much worse. The matlab assignments were also crazy there were 3 but were definitely a lot. |
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Margaret Doucette
MATH401 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/27/2025 |
Pros: Pretty nice person Class is not hard at all for a math400 Pretty receptive to feedback IMO, this is her first time teaching at UMD Cons: Lectures are kind of all over the place, it's hard to learn/glean anything from them She also just reads off Justin's notes, once I realized this I never showed up for lectures Groupworks SUCK, they are done in groups of three but what always happens is one person does matlab one person writes and if you are not one of those you are kind of just sitting there. easy points but sometimes the most boring hr of my life Some of the homeworks are SO LONG Overall shes not the best, but if you have her you will be fine. She also improved over the semester and I can see her being a lot better in the future |