i absolutely adore queen rose & would love to have her for every class i take at ucla. had so much fun in her lectures and office hours, super engaging professor and welcoming person !! midterms were difficult but manageable with studying, and i would say i definitely learned a lot. 11/10

Queen Rose is the best professor I have this quarter! I was originally on the waitlist and she passed everybody into the course. The way of flipped-course teaching is awesome: we first learned about definitions and examples in pre-lec videos and questions, and then we post questions we find confusing for her to explain in the lecture with a more in-depth illustration. This way of teaching helps me a lot in the current remote setting. HW is short, though I personally think she left too few problems to get enough practice. Exams perfectly correspond to what we learned in class and most students can get a high score if they understand the concepts. Overall, I will definitely take Rose's class again!

Warning: this is a flipped classroom structure. You MUST watch the videos and do the short assignments before class time. However, the videos for the day are often under 30 minutes total, and you don't even have to go to class unless you have extra questions. I never went to the class because it was on Zoom and at 8am, and I found the recorded lectures very clear.
She does these outcome quizzes on each hyper-specific subtopic. They are only about 2 questions each and very easy because you know exactly what kind of problem you're getting yourself into and can prepare well. The quizzes are pass-fail, and you have 3 attempts to get full credit on the quiz as you must in order to get any credit at all (2x before the due date and another if you complete 2 tries before the due date, different questions each time, of course). The discussions are required because you have to turn in a group worksheet, graded on participation only.
Professor Morris-Wright is very kind, accepting, and accommodating. Her approach to teaching is that of someone who remembers how hard it was to be a math student. Do whatever you can to get into her class.

Would highly recommend this class. Despite being a bit disorganized to start off, I do feel like I learned a lot and all of the exams were fair. Not a hard course if you put any effort into it. Professor Morris is super helpful and caring and Ben is an incredible TA if you can get him. The class is very different than most of the other courses in the series and is an interesting break from calculus.

She is one of the most caring professors at UCLA!! We need more professors like Rose, she is a literal goddess. I am a math major and although this class has been my least favorite so far, I still enjoyed it. There are some really interesting topics that could be applied to many fields. Rose drops about 30% of hw assignments, pre-class assignments, and group worksheets. She also has two grading schemes:
Scheme 1 (Default)
• Pre-Class Quizzes (15% of your grade)
• Groupwork (10% of your grade)
• Written Homework (10% of your grade)
• Two midterm exams (each 20% of your grade)
• Final exam (25% of your grade)

Scheme 2 (Drops the lowest midterm and scales everything else up accordingly)
• Pre-Class Quizzes (18.75% of your grade)
• Groupwork (12.5% of your grade)
• Written Homework (12.5% of your grade)
• Maximum of 2 midterm grades (25% of your grade)
• Final exam (31.25% of your grade)

I would definitely recommend taking Math33A with Rose. Also reading the textbook is super helpful! Unfortunately, she does not curve at all because she does not like to cap grades and make grades a competition which I like cause, to be honest, it made me work a lot harder to receive a good grade in the class and it made me feel more proud that I received a good grade without curves.

*COVID-19 Review*

Professor Rose Morris-Wright is amazing! She's kind, helpful, and answers people's questions thoroughly. She makes it clear that she genuinely cares about her students' well-being and mental health. She also spent time showing us tangible ways to use the material we learned in class rather than just leaving it be some abstract, useless tool we'd never know how to use; one of our lectures in Week 10 was entirely dedicated to real applications of linear algebra.

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There are 2 possible grading schemes in this class. The first one is the one that is automatically applied. The second one drops a midterm and is reserved for a logistical, health, or mental health reason, or family obligation that requires you to miss an exam or not to be able to do your best on an exam (however she does not ask for proof because she'd rather not be intrusive into the personal details of your life); you have to notify her that you want this scheme before the exam you anticipate being dropped.

Scheme 1: Pre-Class Quizzes (10%), Groupwork (10%), Written Homework (10%), Two midterm exams (each 20%), Final exam (30%)

Scheme 2: Pre-Class Quizzes (10%), Groupwork (10%), Written Homework (10%), Maximum of 2 midterm grades (30%), Final exam (40%)

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This class is flipped classroom, which means you either watch pre-recorded videos or read the textbook chapter before each lecture. There are multiple choice pre-class quizzes about the material due before every lecture, and the 6 lowest scores are dropped. You also get multiple attempts per question, AND multiple submission attempts to do these so it's pretty easy to get 100% in this category in my opinion. Class lecture time was then spent on answering questions and clarifying concepts students were confused about, and sometimes expanding the ideas of the lesson. Admittedly some people just won't vibe with the flipped classroom model, and that's fine, to each their own. I personally however felt it worked fine for me, and I've heard from people who took the LS 7 series that Rose's version of flipped classroom is far superior to the LS version. Seeing the material multiple times helped me to wrap my head around it a bit better, especially since linear algebra can sometimes be a bit confusing. Rose was also quite clear and concise in her explanations, and she did a very good job clarifying things that people asked questions about in my opinion.

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Groupwork was basically just one worksheet a week. It was usually done in discussion sections, and you worked with the same group from week to week. Attendance to discussion sections actually wasn't required, but if you intended not to attend discussion then you had to tell her at the beginning of the quarter (she has a survey to fill out at the beginning of the quarter where you can tell her this info). If you do this, she assigns you to a group of students who also don't attend discussions, and your group can arrange to complete the worksheet on your own time. Personally, my group and I attended discussion as it was more convenient to ask the TAs and LAs for help/clarification there. The worksheets varied in difficulty, some weeks being more computational and others more conceptual, but honestly, that didn't matter because they were mostly graded on effort and completion anyways. This category was another easy 100% in my opinion, especially because the lowest 2 groupworks are dropped, so missing a week or two doesn't penalize you.

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Homework was assigned weekly, came out of the textbook, and was honestly always a pretty short assignment. I don't think assignments ever exceeded 15 problems, and if you felt you wanted more practice, she included a list of suggested practice problems from the textbook every week to help reinforce the concepts. Personally, I liked this as you weren't forced to do excessive amounts of busywork. Homework was graded partially on completion and partially on correctness; a few problems were selected to be graded, and the remaining part of your grade was completion. If you paid attention in class homework assignments weren't typically difficult, and even on the more difficult problems, using your resources and reasoning through it with peers usually allowed you to figure out the right answers. The lowest two homework scores are also dropped.

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All of the above items felt like good preparation for the exams, and additional resources were provided for those who felt they needed more. Before each exam, professor released a list of suggested practice problems from every section of the textbook that would appear on the exam, including some of the more conceptual true/false questions at the ends of the chapters. The LAs also provided review sessions before every exam, usually going over a shorter, more computational set of practice questions. Using these resources, it was always possible to prepare adequately and get a good score on the exams which fairly reflected the material we learned in class.

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Overall this class was a great experience for me and I would definitely recommend taking Math 33A with Professor Rose Morris Wright if you are afforded the opportunity.

I personally did not enjoy the "flipped-classroom" aspect of this class, but the content is clear. Also, her grading and exams are fair!

Rose was a clear and effective lecturer but in my opinion the class structure was not the best. It was a flipped classroom style, which meant we watched pre-recorded videos and/or read the textbook prior to class to answer questions from a pre-lecture quiz, and then we would come to lecture with questions to ask her. This may well have been a blessing for some students, but I personally hated this format since it de-emphasizes a student’s responsibility to show up to synchronous lectures.

That is not to say that she was bad at teaching by any means; in fact, I think she’s one of the clearest and most succinct lecturers in all my years learning mathematics. Her answers to student questions sometimes get a bit too convoluted for my liking, but she always tries to explain all the concepts both visually and with multiple different methods. At least one of those explanations will make sense to you. If she’s still teaching when 33A goes back in person, I would highly recommend you sign up for her class!

There are a lot of reviews here that describe her point distributions and whatnot, so I’ll just give my opinions and thoughts on all the assignments:

Homework: questions right from the textbook. While the number of questions assigned is minimal, each problem takes a very long time to complete. She also makes us write down the textbook question statement, which I initially thought was irritating, but eventually I realised it made reviewing for tests so much easier, as I could just refer to the same problem-solving algorithm I used in the homework. Also, she claims to pick three or four random questions to grade, but you can actually see which ones will be selected as they are worth 3 points rather than 1 point on Gradescope.

Discussion: Structurally, I found this to be the most annoying part of class. We were required to show up to a weekly discussion section to complete a discussion worksheet. While the worksheet itself was interesting and offered many interesting applications of and conceptuals insights into linear algebra, showing up was a nuisance. I wish she just gave us the worksheet and allowed us to complete it at any time before the due date on Friday.

Exams: In order to accommodate the online setting, she made them more conceptual so we could not just plug everything in Symbolab (however this was a very useful resource for carrying out tedious matrix multiplications). I had no idea what I was doing in the first few weeks of the class, so I struggled in studying for the first midterm (even though the average was 100%). However, I started doing some extracurricular studying (seriously, look up 3Blue1Brown Essence of Linear Algebra Series; he’s a lifesaver) and immediately understood the conceptual underpinnings of the class far better. The second midterm and final exams were harder, but I felt way more prepared for them. I got a 93% on Midterm 1, 100% on Midterm 2, and 93% on the Final.

TL;DR: Lecturers are not engaging but very informative. Homework assignments are long but straightforward. Tests are straightforward but extremely conceptual. Discussions are annoying but insightful.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Rose is a genuinely nice person. There were a bunch of us on the waitlist for 33A since the math department did not foresee such a large number of students that intended to take the class this quarter. She let all of us into the class!

Professor Morris-Wright did a good job. She really cares about the student's learning and put in effort to make sure that students feel welcomed to ask questions. The class itself isn't difficult, and the exams are not difficult either. The main way you learn in this class is through videos that she posts on CCLE. They are helpful, but I found that reading the textbook was sufficient (if you don't want to watch the videos). Overall she was great! Take this class w/ her you most likely won't regret it. Good luck!

This was one of the easier classes for an easy A. She stopped giving out midterms and finals, and moved to a different class format where your grade is entirely decided on outcome quizzes where you have up to 3 tries to get full points. Each outcome quiz is worth 3 points, and there are about 24 outcome quizzes in total. The other portion of your grade is decided from homework, participation on campuswire, and preclass assignments. Outcome quizzes are done entirely on bruinlearn, so you can take them at your own time. Lectures were also prerecorded, but she did also have regular zoom meetings where you could go in and ask questions about the material, kinda like office hours.
Workload was pretty light, every day before class you would have to take a preclass assignment which is basically a short quiz that tests you on the material for that day. Each week, there is a homework assignment due on Gradescope. Other than these two, there was only the outcome quizzes which you can take at any time throughout the quarter.
Prerecorded lectures are ok, but she only introduces the concept most of the time. I found it very hard to actually apply what I learned from the lectures to doing the homework problems, for example.
Overall I felt like I didn't learn as much as I should have in this class, but was an easy A all things considered