What do you like best about this course?:

Interactive learning environment and plenty of examples done in class

I didn't enjoy much of it.

Learning the real life applications of what I was doing.

The instructor was engaged and clearly excited to teach this material. Her enthusiasm was infectious.

Professor is very kind and helpful.

The subject itself (although it's often hard), the teacher, my friends.

Integration Techniques

If you were teaching this course, what would you do differently?:

Less rushed and more organized

I would not have a graduate student teaching a condensed summer course because it makes understanding the material much more difficult that in should be. Also, I would like for there to be more enthusiasm in teaching the course. I was extremely bored every class and found it very difficult to concentrate.

I would spend more time going over examples in class ranging from easy to more complicated problems so the students would have examples of how to do any type of problem. I would spend less time going over how equations are derived since most students just want to know what to do and don't care for why it's necessarily true.

This course is a backbreaking amount of work when compressed into the accelerated summer hours - recommend it only be offered to students who need to repeat the course. Also - Part 1 of the course is about Integrals, Part 2 on another topic, and Part 3 Applications of Integrals. Why separate integrals from their applications? By the time we reached Part 3, I'd forgotten most of Part 1.

Professor did very well.

I don't think I would be able to teach it better in any way.

I thought that some of the material was not delved into as much as it could have. If we spent more time in class challenging what we've learnt, like going into workshops maybe, we could have been more prepared to what the tests' challenged us with.

I would eliminate work shops, they are too advanced, especially after just learning the material. I would show as many possible cases or types of problems that come from a specific lesson.

In what ways, if any, has this course or the instructor encouraged your intellectual growth and progress?:

I was encouraged to look for answers on my own

The course has encouraged intellectual growth, but the instructor has not encouraged anything. Again, there was not enough enthusiasm.

She challenged me to use all of my knowledge when approaching problems.

The instructor encourages problem-solving skills, which is painful in the beginning of the class but pays off in the end.

It taught me more math, and definitely more calculus, than any of my courses in the past 5 years or so.

analytical abilities were nurtured, but not enough

Other comments or suggestions::

Assigning homework which is due in 24 hours and on every night gives little margin for error. If you have a difficult day, you may be forced to skip a homework. If you have a question on the homework, there is rarely time to get help. Why not allow homework be due in 48 hours or by the end of the week? Also, why not give students one or two "Turn in a late homework" cards for extra buffer time. Homework grader in this course was very, very harsh - I spent hours on some assignments only to get very low scores for trivial reasons. Also, I noted homework scores were not accurately recorded on Sakai.

Course is hard, but challenge accepted.

REMOVE WORK SHOPS, OR AT LEAST ASSIGN THE KNOWN WORK SHOP, NOT 3 RANDOM ONES TO WASTE CLASS TIME ON. SHOW US HOW TO APPROACH VARIOUS TYPES OF PROBLEMS FROM A GIVEN LESSON, NOT JUST WRITE A FORMULA IN 3 MINUTES AND THEN EXPECT US TO UNDERSTAND THE LESSON. TAKE MORE TIME INTO TEACHING. They way you taught the class was basically teaching use 1+1=2 during lecture and then asking us to calculate the mass of the sun on an exam. Show us the different ways to approach a lesson or problems, so students can be prepared to do a workshop and take an exam.