She is very un-clear about what she wants from you and never helps you with your questions. Do not take her if at all possible!

She is very unclear about everything. 5 students in my class of about 23 were retaking it because they failed it... with her. She said that not even she could get a ten on her homework. Everyone sat around dumbfounded. Takes long time to do homework which never seems to be right. Not helpful.

This teacher is really boring, she tends to tell you the stuff you dont need to know, and doesnt tell you the things you really need to know to complete the assignment.

If you need to take a calculus class and she is the only option for you, I recommend that you wait a semester before taking it. She goes over unecessary information, if you ask a question she will only go over part of it and let you figure the rest of it out and her test are EXTREMELY hard. Good luck getting a good grade with her.

This class is uber hard. Take the class with someone else. What is taught in class doesn't relate to homework and homework doesn't relate to tests. Most people who haven't taken Calculus in high school have a hard time passing. Plus the class is dull and boring. I'd recommend a different professor!

Horrible. Doesn't clearly explain anything. Tests are very difficult. Most of your grade is based on tests. Expects you to do a lot of outside class work. If you didn't have calc in high school, do not take with her.

terrible teacher. expects you to teach yourself. i would avoid this teacher

She is not a good teacher at all. She is very very smart, but teaches it horribly. If you get lost you will stay lost. Very hard class.

This is the worst professor I've EVER had. She is not very helpful, her tests are near impossible, and teaches the class as if you already have taken calc 2. As a science major, I am used to memorizing formulas and abstract thinking, but her tests were near impossible. She is way to smart to teach this class! Might be good for higher level class.

WORST professor ever! She teaches the class as if you know it well enough to teach it yourself. Very tough grader. She uses an online homework system that is filled with bugs and doesn't compensate for it. If she did, I would have a MUCH higher F. I went to class everyday and couldn't understand a thing. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HER!!!!

She is very knowledgeable on calculus but DOES NOT know how to teach others calculus. The software she uses is awful! WileyPlus does not help learn calculus. I learned more from my friend's AP Calculus notes from high school and online videos I googled.

Hated her class. She knows alot, but she doesn't know how to teach. She kinda threw you in the deep end. If there is an SI session, I highly recommend attending especially before test. She tells the SI instructor some things on the exam.

Horrible teacher. Super smart but does not know how to teach at all. She says you need to read the text and she is absolutely right because she will not cover the majority of what you need to know in class. You will go into class thinking you understand the material and homework, but she will just make it completely confusing. Avoid if possible.

Avoid at all costs. One of our tests had a class average of 56% and she does not grade on a curve. If you don't do a problem exactly her way you will lose points. SI sessions were very helpful. There were reading quizzes for each chapter and they often had trick questions. She is not good at answering questions even in office hours.

Worst professor ever. For arguably the hardest subject ever. She doesn't seem to understand that teaching means the students are supposed to learn things. She also doesn't give very much if any partial credit which makes things worse.

I've never met anyone more inept at their given occupation, than Suzanne Riehl. I would've preferred if I just showed up everyday and had the textbook read aloud to me. Imagine a chimp trying to teach you how to eat a banana. Now imagine the banana teaching you how to escape the chimp. That would be a more educational experience than Riehl's class.

All you suckers out there who gotta take linear better prepare your butts. If you can, avoid suzanne. If you can't, prepare to be shredded. You will dread every second of this class and every second out of class because you will constantly be thinking about how linear algebra is porking you. With a name like linear algebra you'd think it'd be easy.

Remember when you thought vectors were cool? Well think again. Never in my life did I think lines would be so difficult. Not only that, but this professor sucks. If the math department would give me 3 credits to peel the skin off my face instead of taking linear algebra, I would gladly accept.

So here's the situation. She sucks. Here's a story of basically how this class worked. I went in to her office hours to get help on homework. I felt like I knew more than her. Not only that, but she said it was all good. Apparently it wasn't. I ended up getting a 10/24 on this assignment. If that doesn't sum up this prof, I don't know what will.

Her class was the most difficult math class I ever took. Math had been fairly easy for me my entire life. She expects you to learn the material before class but the textbook we used wasnt helpful at all.

Worst professor I've ever had!

One of the worst experiences I've ever had. I took Calc 1 with her and she never once taught me anything. She expects students to know material before class then never goes over anything during class. Never once did she teach anything, she just assumed you learned everything outside of class. Do not take classes with her.

I feel as if I have always been great at math. I loved math up until this class. Never in my lifie have I recieved anything less than an A in a math class. That is, until this class. She threw trick questions on exams and poorly explained topics. She also gives you hours upon hours of homework every week online. I reccomend another professor.

I was told by a fellow student to never take a class from Suzanne Riehl, so I jotted it down in my notes and tucked it away. Two years later, I enrolled in her class completely forgetting about the warning. I kid you not, this is the hardest math class I have taken. It shouldn't have been, but she tended to breeze through explanations and move on.

Not a good professor at all. Gives partial credit for showing work. Focuses way too much on definitions of mathematics instead of the math itself. Doesn't do a good job with textbook. Requires textbook, doesn't incorporate textbook into lessons or studying at all. Required work off of Wileyplus, except most of questions on weren't on quizzes/tests.

Have a GRAND knowledge on your class prior to taking it. Riehl assumes that you already know the content and will quickly breeze over it. Textbook readings, class lectures, and homework are all THREE separate topics and have no correlation what so ever. She does not pick up where class was last left, everything is out of order & confusing to follow

my lord i thought the reviews on here were being dramatic. she is the worst professor ive ever had. only goes through half a problem and assumes you get the rest, textbook and lectures have nothing to do with one another, and she goes WAY too fast and doesnt explain much. i took this course as a freshman and i dreaded it everyday.

She is absolutely horrible. I didnt think she would be as bad at the reviews of her but trust me and everyone else on this page when we say DO NOT TAKE HER!!! She flat out says in the first week of class, Im not going to teach what can be read in the book like were in history class or somethingshe assumes you should already be a pro

Riehl was the worst math professor I've had. Pre calc was awful with her. What she taught in class didn't match the homework/tests. I had to have my high school math teacher tutor me through the whole course because I had no idea what I was doing. I would avoid her if you can.

Honestly thought these reviews were exaggerating when I first signed up for her class, but they weren't. Her lectures don't match what is on the homework or on the exams/quizzes. Not to mention there were only 3 exams including the final all semester, so if you did bad on one you weren't recovering. Avoid her class if you can.

I would just like to say she didn’t teach she expected us to know what to do. I would recommend If taking this class to go to another math teacher or possibly the learning center.

Her lectures during class don't make any sense and she just makes you feel stupid without helping.

If you take a class with Suzanne Riehl expect to teach yourself. She just doesn't well at all and her tests are very difficult. Please avoid Calculus with Riehl and take it with someone else. Wood is better than her. Your class grade will be entirely based on how you do on tests and exams.

Never had a teacher/professor this bad before in my life. I was thinking the reviews were bad because the students were just lazy, NOPE. You will get 6 assignments a week, along with a quiz or exam in that same week. The "professor" doesnt even teach. You get put into groups everyday and she hands you a paper to solve as a group. No lectures, bad!

Was absolutely horrible, did not teach in class and was too technical in her grading criteria. Whole class with her made me want to drop out

One of the worst teachers I've had. Stopped paying attention to initial lectures and only asked questions when I knew she couldn't confuse me more. Knows the course work very well, is unable to translate that to something that can be understood by students. Learned a majority of the coursework off the textbook and homework.

Terrible professor. I have taken Calc 1 before he class, and got an A, but my credit didn't transfer. SO I retook it with her and it was the worst class ever. I was constantly failing and nothing ever made sense. Our entire class dropped her, and the rest barely passed. But she is a great person overall, if you talk to her in person.

Can't understand how she is the head of the math department. Day 1, class size:43 +/-. Week 5, class size:10. you leave much more confused, doesn't answer questions. Doesn't notify on blackboard, horrible communicator, will not provide useful feedback, her way or the highway mainly for test answer format. Class avg is 76%+/-, you need a 70 to pass.

Riehl is the worst professor I have ever had in my entire academic career. She will just speed-run through every concept with no detail then get frustrated when none of us ask questions as if she didn't just leave us in the dust. When the entire class failed multiple exams she refused to acknowledge that her lack of instruction was the cause.

By far the worst professor I have ever had. Always made you more confused when you asked questions to the point where you just stop asking them. makes the learning environment hard and dry and expects at least 3 hours of work time at home, where you will inevitably teach yourself what you need to know because she does a very poor job of it. sad

Riehl barely taught, never explained herself, and expected everything to be review. She was demeaning and rude every time someone asked a question, to the point that I stopped asking and going to office hours. She literally asked, "Did you even try?" Class size went from 30 to under 10. If you don't read the textbook, good luck. I do NOT recommend.