A good professor!

class suffered from an early time.

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if you're intelligent his teaching style and occassional errors are manageable

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Good prof, makes mistakes, raises marks any way he can.

Good proff!! A very kind and responsible proff...

An excellent educator / Tests are generally long and hard but marked fairly.

Nice guy, but he is just a machine in class. He churns out 50+ blackboard per class! He rarely does examples, and when he does, he doesn't give any solutions. Posts study material on the web and extra problems, but yet again, doesn't give any solutions.

Frequently rushes through complex derivations. Doesn't spend enough time explaining why things are done, only how they are done. If you are diligent, it is not a problem. If you are not, you're in trouble. He will definitely make you earn your grade.

Writes too fast on the board, he might want to supply course notes, especially due to the numerous minor typo's he makes. Quite helpful as he's there at the tutorials along with the TA's to answer questions. Tough final exam though. Good prof overall.

easy course. Freeland is the man!!! take freeland if u have a choise and like fast pace. take cai if u want to learn slow!!!

very helpful

Class notes are good, and got 100% in the course but was lost in actsc 331 beginning (actsc 232 review). Dunno if that says anything.

wicked prof

Good prof. Doesnt follow the text so its good for students who would rather go to class than read the text. Wasn't as good for Actsc371.

Explains ideas clearly but a little unorganized. He doesn't refer to his notes when he teaches (does it from memory instead) and sometimes he tends to forget things or make mistakes. Helpful outside of class, and good prof overall.

Lectures are a bit confusing sometimes, but on the whole his notes are fairlyb well organized. He's nice when you ask questions in his office hours, though a bit weird sometimes.

He was great when I asked for help. He's got a sense of humor -- lost on most of the class though.

A bit disorganized, but knows his stuff. very nice if being asked REAL questions. (He responded to stupit questions with "I guess u went to the lectures, right?") Final is way beyond the assignments and midterms, but if u take all extra problems seriously, u marks won't be too ugly.

The people that have posted are a bunch of imbeciles that think an Actuarial Science degree is a designation allowing them to sit on their ass and get paid top dollar for it. He is a great prof, the students are too dumb (hence the reason why he makes midterms so easy). He is articulate and intelligent and the imbeciles are too dumb to realize that

Contrary to popular belief, his Spring2005 final exam was fair. All the tricks and techniques that you need to write the final have all been covered in class. Of course, lazy people who don't bother to go to class always blame the prof when they screw up.

Organized... ermm.. it's true he's never there when he's an advisor (he's advisor this term... haha) but that has nothing to do with his teaching. The final was hard... (ive never stayed that long for a final ever)... but you learn alot although some extra work outside of class is needed for good marks. It's a difficult course.. not the prof.

Great class! Loads of fun!

Excellent prof, very good lecturer.

Good prof, very easy course. When I say easy I mean 100% easy.

Easy course. ~Weekly online weekly assignments, 4 online quizs per term, all of which were easy. Final was also easy.

Great professor with very clear explanations/lectures.

he is a good prof..the course is quite easy and he is willing to help if u really face problem and replied all ur problems in the email. i suggest to take his class!

Highly underrated! Great prof, his examples are very similar to what you see in quizzes. I love the structure of the course as well, 5 quizzes 8% each make you to keep up all the time, and one final exam at the end same as in other courses - 60%. He posts a lot of practice exams which are really helpful. Very easy course in general.

It's not a very engaging course, the only thing you get out of it is a good grade. He teaches the material well, however.

It's not a very engaging course, the only thing you get out of it is a good grade. He teaches the material well, however.

Should really attend this class. Never skip! His quizzes are straight forward from his notes and practice exams that he posts. He is better than other professors who do not speak English at all.

Very tough class, but this prof was very good at explaining concept. His quizzes and tests were all reasonably, but time constrained.

Excellent prof. If you go to class and take notes you will get a good mark. He is probably the best prof for ACTSC 231 from what I've heard.

I see many negative comments toward this professor, but to be fair, he is a very good professor. Based on my experience I nearly failed, and my friends who actually got 90s, I need to say going to lectures and doing the questions on the textbook are very important to succeed in this course. Not studying enough is not the professor's problem.

This guy is probably the best prof in the Acturial Science department. Apart from the fact that he is friends with Matheson, his stunning voice, and his crystal clear description of T-Bills and "a angle double dot n" makes him the best prof I have ever had. I recorded all of his lectures on tape, and listened to them every night as I fell asleep.

Explains quite clear but tough midterms...

really hard midterms, no tutorials, avg is curved down because of the accreditation

thanks for a great term.

Strong, reasonable prof. Lectures are a wee bit dry, but understandable and he covers the material thoroughly. I would take another course with him. Tests were reasonable. Not easy, not stupid difficult, just a lot of crunch and grind.

I took this online, so can't speak too much to teaching style. His organizations and material for the online course were solid. With regards to his reputation of giving brutal exams, I think that is very subjective. My experience (looking at multiple terms of exams) is that he tested very fairly, students just need to put in the work with practice.

I used to avoid Freeland bcoz of boring lecture from second year ACTSC class, however taking MATBUS 470 with him made me change my mind. The course is pretty easy, nothing too theoretical, 2 midterms and 2 assignments are really easy, he gives a lot of examples and walk you through all the theory. it seems that he genuinely care about student

Don't know why his reviews are so low. He's literally one of the best lecturers I've come across. He actually wants to be here and teach, which is a first. He is also engaging. He's super nice and friendly and gives very very easy midterms almost identical to practice ones. His notes are a bit disorganized, but the material sin't that hard anyways.

midterms are super fair, assignments a bit complicated, but he gives good lectures. he says you may need the textbook but his notes and practice papers are enough

He uses slides for this course but there are still quite a lot of written notes. His notes are a bit disorganized and his writing is a bit messy, but that's about it. 2 assignments and 2 midterms, both very easy. He's nice and caring and very engaging. He explains the material very well. Would take again

The lectures can be a bit dry, but the midterms are fair and the material isn't too difficult. Unstuck AI was a helpful study tool alongside the provided practice materials. Worth taking if you're up for an engaging challenge.