By far the worst math teacher i've had. Simply horrible. its seems like she doesnt know what she is teaching. doesnt explain thing very well, her voice makes me want to go sleep. very boring class!

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Extremely boring lecturer! Her tests are kind of hard!! If you have a choice on her or another professor take the other professor!

She sucks bigtime, avoid her. Can you say Booooooooooooooringggggg!!!!

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Prety much the worst professor Ive had since I got here. Her lecutres arent clear at all. I got the impression she really didnt know how to do the stuff she was lecturing on and just copied her notes. She also gives lame quizes in section and uses that stupid online mymathlab thing for hw. If you have a lame TA your going to have your work cut out.

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hella boring, confusing, and vague lectures that really dont help at all- hardly anyone shows up. hopefully your ta is good. tests arent that hard. mymathlab is a terrible program. highly unrecommended. stupid weekly quizzes in discussion so u have to go.

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Horrible teacher. Goes way into depth and while you'll think that's a good thing, it's a horrible thing. She easily loses students during her lecture and OFTEN makes mistakes. Even though she seems like a nice person, I hated the fact that my math grade depended on her teaching ability. Avoid her.

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She is an awful teacher! Several times she would even change the original problems during lecture so that she could solve them. Oh and don’t try to do that on the mid term, trust me. I already took Calc, and got a 4, but the lectures made me more confused about the topic! If you get her drop the class. if not just study your notes from high school.

First of all i took AP Calc and got a 5 and averaged around 98% for the whole year. HOWEVER Monica Vazirani just confused the XXXX out of me i never got what she's talking about her examples were bad i ended up not going to lectures cause it is just making things worst however I still got an A for this class though. One word to describe her USELESS

Doesnt teaches well. Always make mistake and gets corrected by students. She tried to teach something without proper knowledge of it. Also makes thing more complicated than it really is and only to confuse herself and then gets corrected by student. Happens every lecture.

Complicated method of teaching. Webwork is awful, covering things not in lecture and most of the book. Lots of self learning involved. Made midterm too long, did nothing about it. Midterms also cover material not in lecture OR webwork. Try taking another prof, my friend gets a page of notes on midterms and easier questions for the SAME class!

this was a very hard class compared to other 21b teachers. she is quite condescending toward students and makes it seem like you're dumb if you don't instantly understand her teaching. try another prof

How is Monica anything above a 1? She was the vein of my existence during winter quarter. I dreaded going to her lectures every MWF. She made the math more confusing then it had to be, and she also enjoyed showing us proofs (not part of the curriculum) My advice is to avoid her and not take her class. She has been by far my worst teacher at UCD

One of the worst classes I have ever taken. She is a poor lecturer who goes of on tangents not related to the class (economics specifically). These applications she spoke of were never on the exams. The class average was a D+C-. There were people above the average who still got a C-. Her curve is not enough for how hard her exams were.

DO NOT take her classes if you have another choice!!! Her webwork HW is really hard, and she barely talk about how to do that in the lecture. Her practice exams are way to ease comparing to her actual midterms. In addition, she didn't give review sessions for her midterms. She still keep talking even there is only 3 mins left. Midterms are tough!!!

Her lecture is so long and so disorganised. Her practice exam is totally different from her actual exam. Her midterms and homework are too difficult. Even if you attend all lectures, you will still get low grades.

If you want to take MAT21B and she is the only professor has seats, PLEASE DO NOT TAKE!!! even WAITING FOR ANOTHER QUATER is a better choice!!! If you have already taken her class, DROP IT NOW or good luck to your GPA. :)

Failed this class, went to every lecture and was still lost. She was very unorganized and made many mistakes when doing practice problems.

Hands-down the worst math professor I've ever had. She's smart and means well but is very scatter-brained - lectures long, fast and confusing. Assigns a LOT of webwork, and it's only worth 5% of your grade so expect to do a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. Practice tests don't reflect what's actually on her midterms. Unbelievably abysmal class.

She is very scattered in her teaching, gives homework so difficult on specific topics she hasn't covered in class, and her practice midterms are nothing like the tests at all. She is an awful teacher, and I regret taking her, especially since i now have to retake the class because of how difficult she made a class that I usually love.

The type of professor to assign a lot of homework and only grade the hard problems.

This is the worst class I have ever taken. The exam is really difficult, and there are toooo many trick, if you are not super super good at math, I believe that you cannot even finish the exam!!!!!!!! The grade system is really terrible!!!!

Poor lecturer. Almost feels like a tutor instead of a teacher... but worse. Hard to read notes for lectures because she writes on a calk board and writes super small and very unorganized. It's very hard to grasps concepts because she doesnt explain thing thoroughly. Just a frustrating experience if it's your first time taking the course.

Extremely disorganized, and assumes you know things that aren't explicitly obvious. Knows the basics of the subject that she's teaching, but asking her for any explanation that's more difficult than 2+2 will usually result in some mumbling, or an unrelated tangent. Would not recommend if you don't already have prior experience w/ at least calc a/b

Prof V managed to make every topic in this class harder than it needed to be. Put a strange and almost unfair emphasis on real world applications of the material when many of the students could hardly understand the basic concepts themselves. I studied so hard for the exams, did every hw, and still did not do well in the class. 10/10 wouldn't rec.

I took calc in high school, and I thought I would've been prepared for this class at first, but then it got intense. The lectures are very hard to pay attention to, because she makes it complicated than what it seems to be. I find it quite disturbing how she would take off her shoes in the middle of class, while we are all trying to learn.

I regret taking this class with Professor Vazirani. She made the material difficult, but I believed if I put in the work and increase hours of studying that I would obtain a good grade. Turns out she has proven me wrong. Exams were arduous and had a poor scoring guide, this is coming from a student who has taken calculus prior attending Davis.

I consider myself as someone who looks at the positives in every teacher, but it is hard to do that with this one. Lectures, homework, practice exams, and most other materials will not prepare you for her exams. The exams are unnecessarily brutal. I asked students in higher level maths to do problems from her exams and they couldnt.

tests Are WAY harder than the book and the homework. Questions seemed like trick questions because she added things that were a surprise on tests. No matter how hard I studied I did bad on all exams. I am generally a very good math student and have done well. I regret taking this teacher because I saw the bad reviews and still took her class.

if you don't want to go to SJA or get an "F" , don't take her classes.

haven't taken my final yet but she is absolutely terrible, so stay tuned

Wow! Dont take her classes unless you want to fail.

I honestly regret taking this class with Professor Vazirani. I don't know how Davis employs people like her. I received my only B- in this course when I had a good understanding of Calculus. I took AP calculus as well and passed the AP exam. I did better in MAT16C. This class is really useless, I learned nothing and would've much rather taken 21B.

This professor is very enthusiastic about her subject. But she is probably one of the least empathetic professors during the pandemic. She makes everything about the class more difficult than it needs to be. Seems to operate on punishment rather than reward. Pray that you at least get a good TA/grader. She's probably okay during non-pandemic times.

She is too enthusiastic about her students. She is a good lecturer but the most problematic professor in the Maths Department. Give at least three quizzes per week with two different kinds of homework. Few curves for A and B. She said she will let you pass easily but she will not give many A's and B's

She is a good lecturer, and explains things very well. Additionally the class SEEMS easy. However, be warned. She is the toughest grader I've ever had. On a test, I wrote the correct answer, and I had most of the required work to arrive at that answer correct (I did one small part in my head). I received a 0 on that problem, and went from a A to D

She gives you huge exam problems on topics that she barely went over in class/HW. There's a short quiz every other day that only hurts grades. Her lectures are very disorganized with messy handwriting. I stopped going to lectures because they left me more confused than before. So many people in the class relied on the TA to teach us during OH.

Horrible teacher. Extremely rude and does not know how to teach properly. Avoid if you can.

Vazirani is by far the worst math professor I have ever had. Her lectures are all over the place and illegible. She was behind all quarter but still tested us on material she barely taught. She doesn't give any partial credit when grading and makes problems worth 100 points each so if you miss 1 then your already at a B- on exams. Avoid at all cost

The worst professor I've ever had. Terrible teacher with unreadable notes and disorganized lectures. The exams are super tricky with harsh grading. On top of that, she's unsympathetic and does not seem to care about students. Didn't curve, need to self-teach. I like math but she made me hate this class. Seriously avoid at all costs!!!

Lectures are hard to follow, notes are disorganized.

probably the worst math professor ive had in my time at davis. lecture notes are all over the place (just theorems after theorems thrown at you; some with proofs, some not [i.e when prof. feels like proving it]). In a class w/ such heavy arithmetic--> no partial credit for mistakes. LOL. DO NOT TAKE if possible-- your GPA will thank you.

offers no partial credit, heavy weighted tests. Is definitely more concerned with getting through enormous amounts of material ("Oh! we've got 3 minutes left, let me start talking about something completely different").

this professor is the most infuriating ive come across in the math department. she is nice, but she goes through lectures (covering complex topics) incredibly quickly, almost as if shes more concerned with just getting through material than actual teaching. tends to jump around lectures, forgets topics, a professor that needs to be asked questions

There are quizzes due before every lecture that have a heavy weightage. Couldn't understand a single concept after the first midterm. The professor uploaded the solutions to the practice final less than 24 hours before the final exam. And the class isn't curved.

We have quizzes due before EVERY lecture on this website that boils down concepts to a point where you cant really use it to study for exams. 2 exams. The average of our final was a 59% and she still did not curve. She's so bad at lecturing around week 9 only like 10% of ppl showed up to class. Terrible grading, no partial. literally DONT TAKE HER.

Honestly the worst lecturer I’ve had, I took notes on her lecture notes instead of listening to her and learned much much better. Also, very few exams with very heavy weighting, little to no partial credit, and tons of true/false questions. The only good thing about her was that homework wasn’t difficult, but there were tons of hw quizzes.

You will have to teach yourself. You will be in for a quarters worth of unreadable lectures and quizzes on topic yet to be taught. She had one last f*** you to the whole class. She didn't curve the 59% avg final and didn't curve the class. She put trick questions on the test and refused regrade requests. Awful professor, would never take again.

just leave

Class was very disorganized. She constantly introduced and went over entire new concepts very quickly during the last 5 minutes of class.

Sucks

she doesn't care about students who haven't taken mat 21c before at all. the whole class is disorganized and nobody knows what she's writing on the blackboard. too much homework and none of them really help me learn something.

the whole class is disorganized. the grading policy is constantly changing. RUN

avoid this professor at all costs. hostile classroom environment- she ridicules students for asking questions and will not answer them if you ask about anything. illegible notes scribbled on chalkboard, most disorganized lectures i've ever been to. does not curve or give partial credit. only 1 midterm and then the final. do the textbook problems!

unorganized lecture that's very unhelpful, learned majority of the things from mathmatize (HW website)

the practice exam is written BY HANDS and I CANNOT read any letter she wrote. RUN

disorganized lecturer. nothing in gradebook besides midterm (worth 550 points) and final (worth 1080 points). NO PARTIAL CREDIT!!! run as fast as you can DO NOT take her class. her lecture notes are unreadable and I didn't learn anything valuable in class. had to teach myself everything. puts trick questions on final. doesn't answer questions.

learn everything from Mathmatize

Terrible teaching and unorganized lecture notes. Make trick questions on final to trick students. And change grading policy at the end of course to screw everyone up. Definitely NO.

This professor didn't curve even when the average was a 40. This is blasphemous and I can't believe she isn't fired.

Run and don't look back

Chicken scratch writing m. Ego as high as klay Thompson.

Oh my god. She left the whole class in shambles by giving a final that had so many conceptual questions. Half of it wasn't even taught or in the book. I don't understand how she expects us to know all this information off the top of our heads. Truly the worst professor I've ever had, and I've had a lot. RUN as far away as you can.

She has a passion for Math, but it is an extremely hard class. She doesn't post lecture notes, so you have to take notes to class. Difficult midterm and final. Class Average score is less than 50%. The median is less than the mean.

RUN. You would rather take this class another quarter with another professor than to be stuck here, I promise you. She is not respectful to students when they ask questions and it is so hard to follow along during lecture. She writes small and all over the place that if you aren't following along for 5 seconds, you'll be lost. DO NOT take her.

Really bad lecture. No ppt and she just wrote on blackboard. We cannot see her notes clearly and she had no curve!!!! Even though the average grade of mid 1 is 40. Two midterms and 1 finals occupied 88% of your grade!

Bad lecturer, no ppt and she wrote on blackboard. We cannot see her notes clearly. No curve even our mid 1's average grade is 40! 3 exams occupied 90% of your grade! Don't choose her if you are SUB

Test does not match complexity level of textbook and in class material.

Never had a professor like her. She writes all over the place and also hard to read. Homework will not help your grade as it is only worth 4% meaning midterms and the finals will make up your grade. There are NO CURVES. The online midterm practice doesn't reflect the test since it's not written by her and are generated questions from the website.

run and don't look back.

This professor is the worst, she can't teach at all and all her midterms are extremely difficult, the average student is currently failing right now. She doesn't curve either when half the class is doing bad and is the absolute worst. DO NOT TAKE HER, she has a bad rating for a reason. Trust me you wont regret not taking her.

Is she a human?

not only is she just as bad a lecturer as any other math professor at uc davis, but on top of it she is a mean person. tests are graded harshly, threatens to take off more points if you submit a regarde request, no curve and nothing in canvas until the end of quarter so you won't know your grade until the very end which is unnecessary stress.

hard hard hard！run run run！ bi lei！bi lei！bi lei！

yikes......

The TA provides much better lectures on discussions. Not really curving. "Yes, I'll shift most bins about 2% compared to the official UCD gradescale (and the bins in the D/F range even a bit more). Students-- please do not email me asking for even more shifting. I won't read nor respond to such requests."

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR, IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE RUN FOR THE HILLS. Her lectures are all over the place and it's difficult to follow along, tests were worth basically 90% of the class, and homework was 4% so nothing to help ur grade. She doesn't curve despite an average grade on exams to near 50% and the exams are more complex than her teachings.

Vazirani is by far the worst professor I have taken. Her exams make up ~90% of the grade and missing one question can tank your grade. She doesn't offer practice exams or any information on what the exams will focus on. She has a Piazza board for students to ask questions in which she is rude and snarky to her students. You do not want to take her.

This prof is by far the worst I've ever had. She's extremely rude and your entire grade is based off a few exams, so if you do bad on one exam you're basically screwed. She grades harshly and doesn't curve when the whole class gets 50s. She failed me by 1 point bc she changed the grading scale last minute on canvas. Trust me stay away dont take her

Vazirani's the worst professor I've had at Davis.

The professor is a terrible lecturer and very disorganized when teaching. The tests are not accurate representations of what we learn in class or do for homework. We had two quizzes in discussion that are announced before hand. I barely passed this class. Never taking this professor again.

Hardest class I've ever taken, she goes so fast in lecture and doesn't answer questions super clearly. If you focus on reading the textbook her tests are very based on that so that would be most helpful.