TLDR: THE G IN GANNON STANDS FOR GOATED

This man is honestly incredible. You will appreciate him as much as he appreciates Thursdays.

- lectures are so clear and organized. imagine using Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser on your kitchen sink - that kind of clear
- content is interesting. Discrete math was a boogeyman to my poor little cs soul but Gannon really broke down the concepts and made them super intriguing
- Gannon's love and appreciation for math was just so apparent and admirable. Whenever the class covers something that he thinks is cool, he will always stop to make a point appreciating the math for what it is. The passion for the topics was honestly really infectious
- exams are as fair as the skin on Orlando Bloom's Legolas

We had two midterms and a final all of which were 24 hours and online (as mandated by the math department). Don't be fooled they are still challenging and somewhat tedious.

He gives weekly textbook homework and then extra practice problems from the textbook which are actually very helpful to study from. His lectures are very relevant to what you get tested on. In essence, he sets you up for success but you have to be on top of it and make sure you're really doing the work because with the pace of this class, it's very easy to fall behind. Hmu (9174466062) if you want the notes for this class. Good luck!

Professor Gannon is absolutely fantastic for this class. Extremely clear explanations of everything, doesn't go crazy on exams, and just a genuinely nice guy. The hardest thing about this class are probably the proofs and recurrence relations, however with all the help from the prof and TA's it really isn't bad at all.

Gannon is def the best math prof I've had. i mean look at his rating-- he has like a solid 5/5.

His lectures are super chill- we were online but he made it feel like a real irl lecture. like he would have chalkboard lectures just to simulate the feeling of real lectures.

He's genuinely a great guy, HW was challenging but fair, midterms were half computational half conceptual, easier than the HW but still somewhat challenging (still fair tho), same for finals.

He gives a tiny bit of EC if you do the feedback form, and drops your lowest HW grade.

Workload is very fair- like 3-5 hrs of HW a week.

overall, 10/10 prof, someone tell him to teach math 170e/math170a cause i want to take him again!

Summary:
easy homework, tough test on series and sequences.
Overall would recommend to people just looking to pass their 31B requirement.
Must take if you are a biz-econ major as the lectures are easily found online and if you watch the lectures you would be chill.

I'm not a math person so this class was a bit rough for me but the professor was great. I took this during COVID and I liked how he made an effort to host a social hour on Zoom for the students in the class to get to know each other.

Lectures are engaging and well-structured. We had online tests this quarter (so I can't speak to what in-person ones are like), and they were fair and quite manageable. Homework workload is low (one assignment per week). Overall would recommend.

This is a 2022 Winter Quarter COVID-19 Review! I have not yet received the grade for my final so I am not sure what I will get for the grade but this class was tough. The professor seems like a nice guy, and his explanations are comprehensible, which is probably why he has many positive reviews, however, he goes very fast. I am already not good at math so I found myself having to look up a lot of topics online to study on my own afterwards. The grading for homeworks I felt was though very harsh for a homework assignment. As for the exams, it was online so it is most likely a very different experience than if it were in person, however, they were extremely difficult. Although the midterms and finals were made to take couple hours, I spend an average of 8 hours on each (24hours given). Especially, the true/false questions were brutal. I don't think I did horrible overall but that is solely because the exams were open notes, open book, open internet (excluding Chegg, coursehero etc.) I do recommend him as a professor, but be prepared to stress horribly for every exam.

Professor Gannon is an amazing professor. He is clear, concise, and passionate about the material. Every lecture was recorded, notes were posted online, and attendance was option. There was no curve, but Gannon does state in his syllabus that the lower bound for an "A" may be decreased, so adjustments to grades benefit everybody. Grades are computed as follows: "15% Homework (Best 7 scores); 27.5% Midterm 1; 27.5% Midterm 2; 30% Final exam. OR 15% Homework (Best 7 scores); 35% Best midterm score; 45% Final exam." Exams were 24 hours online for this winter quarter due to the pandemic, but they were pretty length probably to make up for the fact that they were online and rather manageable. The first two midterms had 6 questions total with anywhere from 2-3 parts, except for the last question which was a 10 part true-or-false conceptual section. The conceptual section can be a bit tricky, but it is manageable within the given timeframe. There were 8 homework assignments and the lowest homework grade was dropped. It is obvious that Gannon has a knack for teaching online by now because everything is structured well and classes run smoothly for the most part with many different options for all different students. Once we returned to in-person classes, some of us were able to still attend the lecture live over Zoom and others simply watched it later in their own time. Gannon knows his stuff and is willing to help you as long you do the work. For such a difficult math class at this level he made the course not seem so much like a weeder course, but more like an introduction into higher level math showing us how cool it can be. I took this same class last quarter and received a D because the teacher and my TA were so awful - fast-paced and hyper-focused on the technical aspects. I was thankful enough to get Professor Gannon and Eric Kim as my TA which made this quarter so much better, and helped restore faith in my abilities. Gannon isn't overly obsessed with the mechanics like some professors are, he wanted us to demonstrate technical skills as well as conceptual knowledge which I felt helped my structural understanding of the concepts better.

Gannon definitely knows what he's talking about and goes pretty in depth with the material. He does talk fast, so taking notes was a bit difficult, but they were clear notes. The grading consisted of homework, two midterms, and the final. The tests were 50% conceptual and 50% calculations. The conceptual questions were a bit challenging, but that might have been because the math department moved all exams online and 24hrs. In person, I'd imagine there would be less questions, and maybe a slightly lower level of difficulty.