Professor
Rachel Greenfeld
1 of 1
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2019 - I liked her! She's a standard good math professor - gives good examples to understand the concepts during class, gives good practice questions for homework and doing them all myself (even if it took like an entire day sometimes) really drove the math into my brain, which is basically how math works anyway. Her midterms aren't great because she gives you 10 extra credit points that just makes the paper unnecessarily long and that makes it harder to just get through the paper. But I think that's mostly because it takes place during the 50 minute lecture time and you can more than make up for it in the final when it's a kinda-longish paper but you have three whole hours to work on it. This class is just practice a lot and you should be okay. She's a good professor! I think a lot of people rated her badly because they aren't able to deal with the material properly - which could be for many other reasons than the professor.
Fall 2019 - I liked her! She's a standard good math professor - gives good examples to understand the concepts during class, gives good practice questions for homework and doing them all myself (even if it took like an entire day sometimes) really drove the math into my brain, which is basically how math works anyway. Her midterms aren't great because she gives you 10 extra credit points that just makes the paper unnecessarily long and that makes it harder to just get through the paper. But I think that's mostly because it takes place during the 50 minute lecture time and you can more than make up for it in the final when it's a kinda-longish paper but you have three whole hours to work on it. This class is just practice a lot and you should be okay. She's a good professor! I think a lot of people rated her badly because they aren't able to deal with the material properly - which could be for many other reasons than the professor.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2021 - I'm a student who majors in math. I love maths but I always felt lost in this class. She didn't explain well during the class and even sometimes confused herself when proving the theorem. The workload is medium and the exams are fair. However, it seems that she didn't curve the score at all even if the final average is less than 50%. Even though you achieved 60+ in the final, which is much higher than the average, you still get a C or C+. Even though you got 80+ and you were in the top 3 of the class, you may only achieve B+. Anyway, if you are confident to achieve nice scores in the final, you are OK to take this course. Only consider your own score instead of expecting her to curve.
Fall 2021 - I'm a student who majors in math. I love maths but I always felt lost in this class. She didn't explain well during the class and even sometimes confused herself when proving the theorem. The workload is medium and the exams are fair. However, it seems that she didn't curve the score at all even if the final average is less than 50%. Even though you achieved 60+ in the final, which is much higher than the average, you still get a C or C+. Even though you got 80+ and you were in the top 3 of the class, you may only achieve B+. Anyway, if you are confident to achieve nice scores in the final, you are OK to take this course. Only consider your own score instead of expecting her to curve.
AD
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2022 - Prof Greenfeld cancelled our midterms so we had no idea how her exams worked going into our final, and homeworks and final were graded incredibly harshly, forcing us to write out every step for basic integrals we know from 31b or proving results shown in discussion. Do not take this class unless you want to spend 11 hours on a final exam and have it nitpicked till there is nothing left.
Winter 2022 - Prof Greenfeld cancelled our midterms so we had no idea how her exams worked going into our final, and homeworks and final were graded incredibly harshly, forcing us to write out every step for basic integrals we know from 31b or proving results shown in discussion. Do not take this class unless you want to spend 11 hours on a final exam and have it nitpicked till there is nothing left.
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2021 - As a double major senior student in ECE and Applied math department, I have took more than 30 upper div classes in UCLA and I never felt this lost in any of my coding, engineering or math classes. The professor doesn't know what she's talking about and I noticed she got all her notes and hw set from Professor Killip's fall quarter. Basically her lectures were the worst lectures I have attended (so I stopped going to live lectures after week 3 and read the book instead) and the test are ridiculously long, time consuming, and hard. My advise as a UCLA Alumni : AVOID HER AT ALL COST EVEN IF SHES TEACHING BASIC ALGEBRA
Spring 2021 - As a double major senior student in ECE and Applied math department, I have took more than 30 upper div classes in UCLA and I never felt this lost in any of my coding, engineering or math classes. The professor doesn't know what she's talking about and I noticed she got all her notes and hw set from Professor Killip's fall quarter. Basically her lectures were the worst lectures I have attended (so I stopped going to live lectures after week 3 and read the book instead) and the test are ridiculously long, time consuming, and hard. My advise as a UCLA Alumni : AVOID HER AT ALL COST EVEN IF SHES TEACHING BASIC ALGEBRA
AD
1 of 1
