This course is structured to be taken by those who either a) have already taken it once and failed or b) already have experience in the course material. There is little to no ability to practice the concepts taught in the course outside of graded work. Meaning that students must do with the underdeveloped and poorly presented explanations in class to be most of their learning, if you arent able to understand the in class explanations then you will likely do poorly on the course, there is little way to compensate.

You will never use the content in this course unless you are planning a future in mathematics, which the overwhelming majority isn't. The class covers the basis of mathematics, proofing the concepts that are assumed to be true in all other aspects of life. The only credible take away from this course is surviving threw it.

The lecturer I had was nice as a person but not ment to be a teacher. He writes extremely quickly and gives minimal chances to ask questions. The material he teaches in class is taking 1 to 1 from the textbook, meaning that the learning experience is no better then simply reading through the textbook on your own time. However, due to the unscheduled and random in-class assignment, you are discouraged from simply skipping class.

DO NOT take this course if you can help it. Unless it's specifically required, you will gain nothing from the information you are able to learn in the long term and the learning experience is insulting at best.

I didn't find this class very interesting. Evaluation methods: - Random 'In Class Assignments', 24 hrs to complete average of once a week but randomly spaced. - 5 assignments. Toughest part of the course, around 10hrs each depending how smart you are - 6 quizzes. 25 mins each. Questions are same difficulty as the practice quizzes provided by Prof. Gary MacGillivray. - Final exam: very similar to recent finals provided by Prof. Gary MacGillivray. No surprises, reasonable amount of questions. It is required for SENG so I took it, but the relevant portion is <20% of the course content.

I thought that chapters 1-4 linked together fairly well. Chapter 5 explores several topics, a couple of which fit together, but most of which seem random. The last 3 chapters are the least intuitive, but they follow from one another.

Prof Morrison did a good job of stopping to explain to students who had questions or needed clarification on a topic. I did not find her lecturing to be very engaging. I didn't go to any lectures after the first week and just studied the course notes instead.

The assignments were fairly easy but the final was insane. They had to change the 33% requirement on the final to 28% because so many people got under 33%

Best first year math course, and Chris makes it twice as fun! The topics in this course are used constantly in higher level courses, so make sure to pay attention.