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Pretty easy if you go to class. If you miss class, get notes. Also she's got a bit of a thick accent so she's a little hard to understand.
thick accent, boring class :/really difficult course and very fast paced.
Very qualified, knows her stuff, but a terrible lecturer. First 12 of the course was review from 307 and 308, so easy to catch on. Second half was brutally challenging. Lectures were unorganized, online notes were useless. Had to research for notes online and do a lot of self studying. Easy grader. Course as a whole was not challenging, she was.
Mrs. Dos Reis is an incredible mathematician, very smart and very helpful. She has a very cool accent that positively adds up to her pleasant character. Would definitely take any other class taught by her. Eventhough, she goes over the material very fast, if you occasionally go to office hours, you'll do fine.
This professor is not good.
I learned that she is a very easy grader; however, she does not curve your final grade. Based on my experience from previous math classes at UW, grades were curved pretty heavily, so I was expecting a fairly high grade from this class. I was surprised and disappointed with the grade I got.
Her accent makes her difficult to understand and her lectures are EXTREMELY unorganized and confusing. She's obviously brilliant but she is a terrible lecturer. There is no fluidity and it seems as though were learning completely unrelated topics in each class.
Professor Dos Reis is clear and very passionate about what she is teaching. If you don't understand something, go to office hours, she is very helpful! Do the suggested problems because she picks those problems for the weekly quizzes and tests. Overall, best math professor I've had at UW so far. Would recommend taking her class.
take any other teacher over her, I mean it. It was the worst teaching I have ever received in math (and possibly my college career and I'm in my 3rd year). If you have a bad feeling about her the first couple lectures, it's right, get out & switch. no background info, jumps right in and you're like ?? confusing lacks explanations jusbad
Worst instructor ever. Only few students really listen and understand. Lots of mistakes on the notes.
Was very nice a good at explaining things. She was always willing to give you extra help in her office hours. Her accent may be difficult for some to understand.
One of the worst professors I've ever had. Her lectures were messy and all over the place, very unorganized, and her handwriting was extremely difficult to read. She's a great person and she's very nice and flexible with accommodations when needed, but she was still a horrible teacher.
Professor Reis is definitely a good instructor and does not deserve all the bad comments. Her lecture was clear in general and you could ask her whenever you have confusions since she was always patient with questions no matter in class or after the class. The every-week quiz and tests are quite easy. You will be fine if you do listen to the class.
I'm a math major and I studied my tail off for this class. Despite having the solutions to the various problem times hardwired, I was not able to finish any of the exams due to lack of time. I thought the curve would save me, but as previously mentioned, the class is *not curved* so I did worse than expected. Lectures are fast, but useful.
Professor Dos Reis is very friendly and generally teaches well. Does a lot of examples to show you each and every way to approach the solution. She's always happy to stop and answer any questions you have. Occasionally jumps around while explaining concepts, just pay attention and you won't be too lost. Assigns very reasonable amounts of homework.
Now I finally understand why her class always have open spots, DON'T take her class, her lecture is useless and she does not care if you understand the content or not, and she is super lazy, you don't get your midterms back until the end of the quarter and she doesn't even give you the answer for the midterm. She also doesn't showup to office hour.
Honestly not a huge fan of her. Extremely spacey and disorganized with grading and posting assignments, and answering emails or questions on piazza. It's actually very annoying as to how poor her communication is. Then I don't think her teaching is great either. Just kinda jumps right into class without prior explanations
Disorganization - this is key. She lectures like she's doing her homework - no stopping, no explanation, just writing and dictating (as well as she can) what she writes. Also, terrible accent, not fluent in english. This plays a factor in her terrible lecturing ability.
She is a great professor. If you come to her office hour, she is really helpful! One homework assignment for a week, easy to do. Exams are fair.
Her teaching style is very disorganized and lectures are not helpful as she only does practice problems to no end without teaching many concepts. Not very clear on due dates/ class schedule. Does assign reasonable homework.
Everything about this course was unclear. It took me days just to find a syllabus and even longer to understand where she was getting her material from. Content very loosely related to textbook, prepare to be insanely confused. After class we all talk about how hard it is to understand her.
Very disorganized, I gained very little from her lectures and mostly relied on the textbook and YouTube. Homework was very infrequent and tests were not hard. She does do in class quizzes so go to lecture for those. The material itself is not very hard, you just have to teach yourself a lot of it.
Best professor ever :(
Very disorganized and wings all proofs based on classroom input. Sounds like a good idea but means we get sidetracked with terrible proofs that last days to finish. You never get hw back with feedback so you go into the tests blind if you are doing anything correct at all. Hardly ever responded to questions on piazza.
Fanny is very friendly and nice. lecture is well organized and easy to follow. exams exactly correspond to what she covered in class. you should be totally fine if you go to classes and finish all the homework
She barely gives feedback. Her lecture is the worst one I've ever seen. Never take math course with her plz.
wish anyone who takes her class good luck, you might start to think about dropping out of math major after taking her brilliant class
Prof. Dos Reis' lectures somewhat follow the structure of the textbook, but in-class proofs are often different than the text. She does not spoon-feed proofs and instead has the class work together to solve a problem. Homework is difficult but there are not many assignments. Her accent is not hard to understand.
It's just weird. A lot of the time I don't know what she's doing.
Professor Does Reis is incredibly caring and wants students to succeed, but her lectures are confusing and hard to understand. The amount of homework is fair and her tests are reasonable.
Pros: VERY AVAILABLE outside of class Good amount of question for practice. Cons: Some accent. Question too Standard (Only basic knowledge, not stimulating) Class too Classis(prove thm, don't have personal style)
Exams are not that difficult. She is very nice and caring and I had no issues understanding her accents. Lectures sometimes feel like a quiz section where we work together to prove theorems, very fun if you participate but easy to dose off if you don'. Very rigorous structure: we proved basically everything so we didn't get through a lot of content
She is very nice and cares a lot about her students. Homeworks and exams are very reasonable, but it's almost impossible to understand her lectures. I have had a lot of instructors with accents, but she was definitely the hardest to understand. She is great otherwise, but her class will be difficult because of her accent, which is very unfortunate.
Professor Dos Reis is a very sweet and caring professor. But, this doesn't make up for the disheveled lectures and unreasonable exam questions. Her lectures are near impossible to follow and her typed up notes are also filled with errors. Part of me wishes I tried harder, but part of me feels like the instructor is also at fault.
Ridiculously easy grader. If you AT MINIMUM make a reasonable attempt for every question on the homework and exams there is absolutely no way youll fail. Strong French accent but those claiming that they cant understand a word she says, youre either disabled or just xenophobic. Not a great teacher by any means but extremely easy to pass.
Concepts easy to understand, helpful and nice to students.
she's a nice professor but horrible at lecturing. Hard to understand accent and her diagrams are impossible to understand. Handwriting is also pretty bad and all over the place.
She tends to state steps rather than explain. It's hard to understand her accent and on top to try to comprehend steps without explanation. First 2 lectures was her showing the side of her face and I mean literally. Imagine if you were standing at the very front corner of the classroom trying to look at the board in the middle. Self study class.
Would recommend! Haven't had any problem understanding her accent and find it kind of cool (anyone who understands English should be able to understand her). Cares a lot for her students and does want all her students to have a good grade. Easy grader. Very helpful in office hours. I mean math is a hard subject, you always have to spend extra time.
She is absolutely an excellent professor. Her graphs are clear and show all the key detials. Her accent might be confusing at first, but it’s easy to understand if you get used to it. Her grading is excellent. She only deducts a half point off for calculating mistakes.
Wasn't a fan of her teaching style but she's very caring and is probably the easiest grader I ever had. As long as you show an attempt at the problems on the exams she'll give you a good amount of points.
I think she is really a good professor, although her accent is a bit strange, but you will get used to it after listening to a few classes. Most of all, she is very clear and gives a lot of examples to help us understand new concepts and knowledge, I will definitely take her class again.
She's a really caring professor. Her lectures are a little fast-paced but she uses good example problems. I personally didn't do as well as I thought I would and wouldn't take her again, but others did really well. She gives a lot of partial credit and is very clear about what will be on the exams. Exams make up 90% of your grade, just beware
She is very nice and only wants to see you succeed. She gives a lot of partial points on midterm and exams. Lectures have lots of example problems. Definitely worth choosing her as your prof.
I really liked Professor Dos Reis! She genuinely seems to care about her students and she is helpful in office hours. Her lectures consist of mostly practice problems- I recommend reading the textbook section prior to class as she tends to quickly jump into to new topics. Tests are fair and very much related to the problems done in class.
Professor Dos Reis covers the materiel well in class. The thing is to listen carefully. She drops gems, great professional tips and advice from a PHD as asides. She explains things in the lectures that the books just don't cover. Well done.
I got a 90% on the final. If i could then anyone could probs.
Her notes were very neat. Explained everything well. Didnt need to rely on the book much. Unlike Neal Koblitz in math 208
Prof. Fanny Dos Reis is a an amazing professor. She explains concepts very well during lecture and really cares about her students. All those reviews saying that "you can't understand her accent" are all pretty biased. But in the end it is math, the main way to get better at math is to do practice problems.
Lectures are practice problems. People hate but she is a good professor and a really easy grader. Biggest complaint is how she wrote during lectures. She would print out slides and write on them underneath the document camera, but the exposure was too high so nobody could ever see anything. Also meant you could never look back at lecture slides.
Very nice person but not a great teacher...Struggles to use a document camera and never seemed organized/ was often late to class, sometimes by 5-10 minutes. She knows the material well but all the examples covered in class were significantly easier than homework, which at times was ridiculous and TA's struggled to solve.
She is very disorganized and sometimes can't articulate her explanations and reasons for how and why she is solving a problem in a certain way. Her lectures were boring and she was always behind. Her lectures are very example heavy, she doesn't give the time of day to explain the theorems or how they work into her examples.
Was almost always late to class. Didn't know how to use the doc camera, lighting and technology so everything she wrote was extremely hard to see. Very disorganized when trying to explain concepts and didn't link the theorems to example problems. The class felt rushed - she was always behind with material. Her exam reviews were not helpful
Lectures were good and her office hours were helpful, but overall she is a tough grader so avoid if you can. Our class's final went so poorly that she lowered the passing grade by 8%.
Dos Reis was a very good professor. The class was hard, but so is every math class at UW (at least for me). She was always helpful when I emailed her with a question and was quite funny at times in class. Only down side is that she doesn't reply to emails on the weekend (good for her, bad for me lol). Would recommend!
Prof. Fanny is an incredibly nice and caring person. I wasn't the biggest fan of her lecturing which is why I rated her a 4, but assuming you do the exam archives and homework, you will do great. I ended with a 4.0 and I studied a lot, and fortunately, Prof. Fanny's exams are very similar to the archives. Don't be discouraged by the other reviews.
Lowkey she not gonna teach anything
Consistently late to morning classes and explains topics in a roundabout and confusing way. She also insists on using a document camera, which made everything harder to see and understand. Class was paced poorly and I genuinely felt reading the textbook and doing online practice problems was more useful than going to her lectures.
She can barely speak English; it's constantly hard to understand what the heck she's saying the majority of the time. Workload is the worst out of the Calc series. It's often hard to follow along in her lectures. The only pro about Fanny is that her tests are easier than the other teachers. I would strongly advise against taking her.
She has a heavy French accent.
Her midterms and finals are wayyy harder compared to other professor's exams, which gave such an unfair disadvantage to us. Lectures also move very fast and are hard to understand.
Genuinely the most horrific final. The midterms and example exams (from past quarters) that she provided were nothing like the exam. The rest of the class was manageable, but you're going to have to teach yourself the majority of the course (the textbook is great). Be ready for her to make multiple mistakes in lecture too
Her final was way harder than past finals, difficult to understand during lectures, you will need to learn in your own time don't waste time on lectures,
Final exam was unlike review material and noticeably more difficult than prior years exams, professor was basically useless and class could be done as effectively without her presence. No curve as well and partial credit was sparse.
Prof. Dos Reis was a decent professor; she was helpful during office hours and worked to ensure students understood the material. She wrote easy midterms, which hurt the curve and didn't prepare us well for the final, but you could easily score well on these! She also had an intense accent and sometimes used convoluted methods to approach questions
Going to lecture is a waste of time, you will have to learn and teach yourself the math sections on your own time. Lectures are not clear whatsoever and she does have a thick accent that is hard to understand. There was many times where she was even confused on what she was doing. Would not take her class.
Professor Dos Reis's lectures follow the structure of introducing a concept, then spending the rest of the lecture going over example problems. I disagree with a lot of reviews on this site, I found her accent easy to understand, and I found the examples helpful for understanding and completing the homework. Just depends on your learning style.
never use PowerPoint, always hand writing, and always have time extension every class. The pronunciation is terrible and not easy to understand. The handwriting is unrecognizable.
She's kind of just not a good lecturer. Fanny Dos Reis is consistently late to class and the lectures make the material harder to understand (was better off just watching Thomas Carr on youtube).
You need to completely disregard every other review of this professor. You will never have trouble understanding what she is saying. Her lectures and homework are well paced and easy if you attend lecture (or read textbook), and she is extremely willing to answer even the stupidest of questions--probably from the writers of the negative reviews.
Heavy accent, if English is not your first language lectures may be very hard to understand. Even if you can understand her, she frequently gets lost in her own lectures and confuses herself in example problems so it gets hard to follow. She is a few minutes late very often. Homework and class in general isn't super hard but the lectures just suck.
most people overreact about the accent its really not an issue, however lectures are very unorganized and you'll be better off watching Thomas Carr lectures. Her tests are also ridiculously long and she would always be late getting them started so you will only have 45 minutes for a test that would take about an hour. in general DE is not that hard
Consistently late and doesn't respect anyone's time. Constantly got lost in her own lectures and couldn't figure out where she made the mistake. One of the worst teachers I've ever had in my life.
I would say, almost no homework which is great. But the pronunciation is somewhat "strange" I would say. It takes time for you to accommodate. Also, she sometimes forgets to record her voice on Panopto, which makes review being hard for us. She never uses PPT, always handwriting. You will easily get lost because you will forget about the question.
Having Fanny Dos Reis my first quarter at UW was my, "welcome to college" moment. Once you get past her thick French accent, it is still hard to understand what she is teaching at times. I'm sure she means well in her teaching, but do not take Math 124 with her at the helm. Quizzes have a large impact on your grade if you bomb them.
I thought her lectures were really bad and I just ended up doing all of the work on my own. The class isn't very hard in my opinion, you just have to be willing to put in the work. If you usually struggle in math, definitely take another section if you can.
Very nice and helpful in office hours but lectures are completely terrible. She is always 5-10 mins late to lectures, frequently gets lost in her own example problems. Going to lecture is a waste of time. Exams are not terrible but make up 90% of grade. Webassign homework is not very relevant to class problems. Avoid if you can't learn on your own.
She's funny, engaging, and understandable. For me, her answers to questions were really helpful to build mathematical insight. The class was memorization and formula heavy, but I think differential equations as a subject tends to be a bit "hand-wavy" so I don't think that was a fault on her part. You need to do extra reading to solidify concepts.
Good professor at analysis course, especially in comparison with other professors. She has a heavy french accent, especially on the word thereom, but except that, she did great at lecturing and proving the theorems. But her exams are the hardest, and made up nearly 80% of all the points you can get for this course.
Her lectures for 207 is pretty comprehensive and easy to follow. Apart from her strong french accent that can be hard to understand, she was able to explain the process and concepts well and clarifies people's questions effectively. Sometimes she comes late to the lectures which for a 50 minute lecture it can affect how much we learn by a lot.
Prof Dos Reis is legitimately such an engaging lecturer. She's so funny and really tries to make difficult concepts relatable to students. As a disclaimer, I did not take this class for credit, which is probably why I have such a positive view of real analysis.
She takes a whole lecture to explain one or two easy problems and test us in the harder versions of it and
Dos Reis is an atrocious lecturer. She talks at light speed with a heavy french accent. She doesn't explain concepts well and her examples usually aren't of a comparable difficulty to what's on the homework or exams. I eventually just stopped going to her lectures and instead went to the section before mine.
take another professor
Genuinely Evil
Dos Reis spends the entire lecture doing two practice problems and explaining zero concepts which was incredibly unhelpful to my learning. I had to learn all the material on my own (textbook is great). Do not take her if you have never taken a calc class, you will be completely lost.
I honestly do not like dos reis so much so that I stopped going to her lectures and started to go to the lecture before mine (Prof Sanmarco). Even though I took Calc in high school, the way she taught made me forget everything I knew... I got better grades skipping and studying by myself than attending her lectures
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MATH224
3.9
(7)MATH307
3.2
(20)Math207
3.2
(12)MATH309
3.0
(7)MATH327
2.3
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MATH424
5.0
327
4.5
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3.7
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3.7
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3.3