Opinions on these math professors?

Fizast
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:33:51 +0000

^You don’t need a teacher for math. Just read the textbook, do the toughest problems in the textbook, and know the theorems by heart and have them ready in your mind and at your fingertips (be ready to exploit them on the midterms if necessary). I’ve had good and crap professors (Martin was the worst for me, but he was a good teacher but painful lecturer), but I’ve been able to ace all my math classes just by following the procedure that I just explained.

And please, to everyone who wants to do well in math courses (or in any other science/eng course in general). Do not abuse the discipline by memorizing the formulas and hoping that you’ll get a good grade. Learn it how math was meant to be learned. Understand and appreciate the derivations, do the toughest problems in the book so that you can understand how powerful these theorems can be.

Good Luck, math is awesome.