Projects are far off from lecture content. This course is designed for people who have iPads & Apple pencils. "Breakout rooms" in in-person classes which makes the delivery weird. At least it's online for now. Harsh test marking, and too many wordy problems on tests that were not given practice for in class. Don't want to walk into Myhal again.

The tests and projects in this course are so far off the lectures. Lectures are way too easy to understand, and tests and projects hit you like a truck. Prof Cindy treats us like children and the entire department doesn't give direct answers to our questions but instead says "why don't you think about this". I did highschool math but can't do this.

Teaches us like we are in kindergarten, but with really tough content. She gives very easy examples in the lectures but then the tests are extremely difficult. The group projects are almost entirely unrelated to the lectures, and you basically just have to be extremely smart or have prior knowledge of what the projects are on. Entirely unfair.

They literally teach you nothing and obsess over the use of iPads. Unfair grading and bad TA's

At first glance the class seems to be easy however when you progress it becomes a nightmare as the projects get much harder with the grading requirements becoming very unspecific and essentially BS. Projects are hard, term tests so far have been extremely difficult and far off from the lecture content. I would not expect a 4.0 with this course.

Breeze for the first 2 weeks. Prof seems nice at first, but that niceness is just to compensate how difficult the course is and the lack of resources they provide. To be honest, you think you'll be prepared but they want you to solve problems in their specific way. For future students going into commerce, pls refrain.

Cut test 2 marks for poor formatting

She acts nice to overcompensate for all the unnecessary projects, work, and super difficult midterms that she gives. When we asked for problem sets to practice, she wrote a 7 paragraph essay explaining why they don't give it rather than making one. She clearly has the time. Seems to spend all time on the logistics and no time on the actual content.

Literally horrible. Supposed to be the easiest math course, but they make everything so hard compared to the people in the other math courses. No one is in this course because they want to take math. They are in it because they have to have it for their degree, but we are covering concepts that are so random and difficult. Make it make sense.

Gives us a study guide to know our learning goals for the test, but the practice test is completely unrelated. Tries to advertise office hours and the MLC. Doesn't even give the solutions for the practice test and just gives us a number as an answer for us to 'learn' (to convince us to come for office hours). Childish & useless projects too.

So hard for no reason and the test is NOTHING like the practice

I cannot even express my frustration with this course. I put so much work into understanding the material and the questions on the test are completely unrelated and there is no way to prepare for them with the material they provide

Horrible. Nothing else to say.

I wish Cindy could be like my father and go take a trip to the grocery store to get milk and never come back.

Absolutely awful teaching style- lectures are useless, videos uploaded to teach students are long and inefficient. Seems as though this course was purposefully designed to make students hate not only mathematics but learning in general.

Horrible class. Poorly organized, harsh marking, too much going on at once. Unrealistic expectations of students. Too much going on at all times. Unfair. Far too excessive for a first-year class.

You cover so many concepts it’s impossible to keep them all straight

Goes far beyond the depth of the “easiest math course in the school”. We are doing SO MICH I can’t keep up honestly. This is like a 200 level course

The course itself isn't that hard, but the fact that most students have to use exterior recourses says a lot about the Prof. The professor isn't good at explaining the content. The lectures are of no use unless you chose to participate in lecture activities. The tests are not graded fairly, but that is UofT so can't say anything. A lot of projects.

Nothing you learned in highschool will prepare you for this course past the first few weeks. Unlike highschool, the material does not build on the previous week. You may spend painstaking hours trying to figure out some new obsurd unit for 2 weeks, just for it to be interrupted by something so atrociously irrelevant that you'll want to die.

While I think Cindy is a kind and funny teacher, the curriculum and course structuring is so abysmal that I find I have no choice but to leave this review. I sincerely apologize to anyone who takes this course, because it takes all the fun out of math. Have fun playing catch-up, and power to you if you can nerd this one out

She has made me have the worst experience with a class in UofT. The tests are so different from the content and the projects are so irrelevant from the topics. She doesn't teach, the lectures are so easy but then the homework and the tests are completely different and extremely hard compared to other course material.

Don't get me wrong this is class isn't extremely difficult, but when students are not properly taught the course, difficulty is magnified. She's a complete angel to the kids who don't complain, but is unwilling or unable to assist in any way other than following the abysmal course outline. Good luck to all her future students. You're on your own.

Focus on the actual teaching part of the class and not just "shushing" a dead silent lecture every two minutes. Also, mark some things so we know how we're doing and not just bombard us with graded material and group projects.

Look, I'm going to be blunt. If you did not know this content before hand, it will be saddening. Even looking at the textbook compared to the practice mid-term, the content is just different. I think if we spent less time at the start on some of the extremely basic things and spent more time on more difficult things, the course would be better.

If you have a question, you have better luck asking your friends than to get an answer from her - she would just repeat the question to the class and agree with majority. If there is no majority she "leaves it as an exercise after class to 'think about'". Also, a lot more would be learnt if she taught the content and stopped shushing us.

Words can not describe the amount of confusion I have when taking this class. We have to "explain" our math problems using multiple sentences, but at the same time, we have to explain to an "audience that does not understand math." We can't use formulas to explain our answers, but her answers are just formulas? I should have taken MAT135 :(

She spends the majority of time shushing and yelling at a quiet classroom. Her "teaching" method is that one should teach themselves complex concepts. She rarely explains topics or provides demonstrations on how to solve questions. Not to mention her exams are marked entirely on writing english essays as opposed to calculating answers.

Worst professor in the first year of Rotman by far and that is saying a lot considering econ professors are terrible. An obnoxious teacher who cannot go a lecture without yelling (and I quote) "Shut the hell up!" at her class, when the room is dead silent. UofT is one of the best schools in the world, it's time to replace Cindy and reflect that.

Absolutely terrible professor. Ignore the Blois-generated reviews, this prof is the worst. If you can get a different professor or take a higher level of first-year math, do so. Save yourself the horror and tears.

Don't take this professor unless you want to spend hours learning the material on YouTube instead

Lectures are near useless if you don't already understand the concept fully. She does not explain anything and relies on students to provide answers. Impossible to take notes and professors provide almost no help.

Basically a course with no professors.

Terrible lectures.

Useless professor that does not teach a single thing, has a fragile ego. Never been to worse lectures. Course should not be difficult be she makes it so.

Cindy Blois is so disrespectful during class. She will straight up tell the class to shut up and if you go to her during office hours she does not help you understand the problem and will leave in the middle of your conversation.

She goes through a slide, ten minute discussion and will literally chooses random people. WONT GO OVER THE MOST IMPORTANT SLIDES AT ALL. Doesnt even teach the material in the homework. God forbid you have a question. She directs everyone to office hours and doesnt even help then.This entire department needs to be fired and changed.

Completely incompetent. Doesn't even go through all of the lecture slides; will go through 5 slides out of 23. Majority of the class is spent "discussing answers" with our groups but they're easy multiple choice questions that are nothing like the actual exams. TA's are also HORRIBLE. They are 2-3 year students who don't even understand the topics.

does not go over the relevant slides, and spends the whole class discussing questions not even remotely like test questions. You're going to end up teaching yourself. does not actually teach, only repeats the answers of students and does not say if they are wrong or right so it gets confusing. DO NOT PICK HER.

Prof Cindy Blois does not update the slides online, does not use the textbook but tests on material learned, provides weekly homework and checkpoints that do not correlate to what we learn in class, and has never finished the daily slideshows. It is a pain to learn math, not because of the material, but because of her.

This prof pmo No rizz/aura