When 40% of the people in your class drop out, something has to be wrong. He's the head of MAT134 and makes the tests incredibly hard. Puts questions to trip you up. At the beginning of the year we had 4 rooms to write in, by the end we all fit in 1. MAT135 still has 4 rooms to write in.

This class contains so much staff that should not be involved in this class, such as triple integral and iterated integral which are content from upper level classes like MAT137 223 and 236. This course has little to do with commerce which should be covered a lot in this class since it is called the Linear Algebra for Commerce.

pretty sure he doesn't know what should be teach in math for commerce. Lots of answer has mistakes in problem and notes. Teach lots of stuff that belong to higher level math course. He made test hard and he think its our fault not doing well in his test because he think it is easy. Lolllll

I went into the course thinking he was a nice guy because he was funny and seemed to explain well but his tests are from another universe. I had to drop the course so it wouldn't tank my cgpa. I would say his tests mostly resemble his weekly assignments if anything, so doing the textbook questions are a waste of time.

When I started the course I thought he was a nice guy who actually explained things relatively well. Once the first test happened I realized I was very wrong. His tests are something else. Had to drop the course and retake it in summer so it wouldn't affect my gpa. The textbook questions are pointless, the assignment q's most resemble the tests

Tyler is a great speaker and lecturer, he is very likable as a person. Despite this, his tests are something else. None of the concepts we were taught, we were tested on. He makes tests extremely difficult for no reason. Mat133 was a bust because of the tests.

Walking talking nightmare, he seems like a good prof till you realize his textbook has barely any questions to study off of, but it doesn't matter because the tests don't reflect the studying material

While at the beginning he may seem nice, the teaching methods he uses are not helpful at all. He does not teach any content, but rather makes the students learn everything by themselves. Tests are nothing compared to the practice questions. Be ready to study a lot, make sure you understand completely every concept, and just try to take another prof

As someone who took this course before, I really don't recommend this prof at all to incoming 1st Year students. His tests are just brutal and unfair with 30% average with no bell curves at all. If i didn't drop it, I would have failed. Take this course with another prof if hes teaching MAT133 again

While hes probably the nicest professor I came across, the class structure is poorly done. I dont know why he thinks is a good idea to let the students learn all of the content by themselves, and spend the entire lecture time asking student three questions. Also, the practice questions given are nothing compared to the test questions.

Unorganized, poor communicator. Lectures are completly useless and messy... His exams are crazy hard, and not related to what anything he provided. Heard students saw him in the exams smiking and laughing on his face when students couldnt attempt any of his questions. You better off sleeping than take his course

His goal is to confuse you to assert his superiority, not to help you understand math.

A chill individual. Very good looking as well if I may say so myself and he was the reason I attended all my 9am 102 lectures. (no diddy) Very kind in office hours but he does not explain well. Hard tests which do not represent what he teaches in lectures. Ex, We had barely any field practice and he brought out a insane field q for the midterm

He was a good prof, not good in explaining but good looking. He's approachable but the midterms are kinda hard.

Never listen for regrading request since they replied they graded with reasonably. Why they wrote how to write for requesting regrade. Emphasized he's not crazy in the class after the term 3 test and the test was easy. And then, he told in class that we had to relax before the test, while he was excited or angry that moment. He has less hair.

worst prof in history, 50s averages, doesn't even answer questions properly, is a good person but not a good teacher, should quit UTM.

Horrible Exams

Good human being, and friendly person. That's all I can say about him. Teaching skills, god awful. Examinations are horrifically made. Can't believe he thinks teaching is for him

I was taking classes with another prof so can't say much about his classes but his exam was unreasonably tough. And he was laughing during the exam. Guess he loves to see us struggle. I'll have to take this course again. I'll avoid him at all costs and would recommend the same. Don't take him if you want to save your GPA or make it to POSt.

Don't waste your money taking courses coordinated by him if you care about GPA/POSt. Dropped an exam with an average of 29%. Argues that the exam was reasonable not realizing that some of these topics are covered for only 3hrs (lecture time) during the semester and having intuition for problems is much harder compared to his years of experience...

If you see a course with his name on it, click away, take it next year, his tests are insanely hard and unjustifiable, don't bother with him.

Don't ask questions you will get your grade lower.

Tyler Holden runs the course like a well-oiled machine—too bad students aren't machines.

honestly the worst course ever. don't try to go to utm cs, you WILL NOT make POST...

Teaching was great, lectures were great, and the exam was the most horrible, monstrous, torturing, abusing, and humiliating test I have ever written.

Just don't take any courses if he is the coordinator.

The difficulty of MAT102 while he was the course coordinator was absolutely ridiculous. 50% of the class was retaking the course and still found the final exam extremely challenging. The average for the final exam was less than 30%.

Avoid taking mat102 when he is the coordinator.. He makes extremely hard tests.

Worst professor of all time. Barely teaches during class—just sits there and assigns extremely difficult worksheets, expecting students to learn everything from readings that provide minimal explanation. Exam average is 29% despite more than half of the class are retakers who did the course 2-3 times. Horrendous!

Content is not hard, questions on term tests are not hard, final exam is way harder than other tests ( I think it is made for "curve down"). Hope someone else can take his place for Fall/Winter Session.

Don't understand why they teach an 100level course this hard...

No one would like to take it again, avoid him if you can.

Avoid taking 102 when he is coordinator, exam average was 29%.

Worst professor ever, don't waste your time with him.

Turn this course into an unnecessarily tough course and also a tough grader. His goal is not to properly teach the course; he aims to fail students.

Expects students to learn everything just from the readings. Avoid him if u can

Notoruously hard tests. Idk how he expects first years to understand these concepts at such depth.

Someone tell me how a professor can make a quiz that results in 120/177 students getting a 20%. In another version, most people got a 0%. This is the mark of a combination of incompetent teaching and awful test making. Future 102 students, beware. You're about to enter hell.

NOBODY is teaching in this course, neither professors nor TAs. Tutorials are used for some single-question quizzes. In lectures, they assume students to have mastered every concept already, and just let students to do worksheets, without showing the right proof or approach afterwards. They make this course just to generate revenue for UofT.

DOES NOT Teach at all during his lectures, he expects students to be mastered at his "Readings" which doesn't explain certain concepts in depth and doesn't provide solutions to examples at all. However simply skipping one singular lecture would deduct 0.5% to our overall grade. Very Difficult Quiz / Tests where questions r very different from lecs.

Decent Professor but extremely awful course coordinator. Syllabus is set up for students to not able to succeed and suffer.

The waning light of the west and the newborn radiance of the east.

Claim: Mr.Tyler is really bad PROOF: If we want to prove that Mr.Tyler is bad, for sake of contradiction, we assume that Mr.Tyler is a good professor. Then he would give students high marks, and he would be patient. But he gives us "shabilous" readings, which is contradicting with our assumption. Therefore, he is not a good professor. Q.E.D

Awful, as a coordinator of MAT102 he should be held responsible for this mess. Statistically speaking, the mean is terrible at a fail mark and variant distribution is just absurd. My assumption is some instructors and TAs actually teach the concepts and some do not! It's completely unfair for other students who are enrolled in the same course! 0/10

Awful. Doesn't teach at all. Expects students to understand everything from a v.complicated reading. Don't know why he doesn't take into account that students have never studied anything remotely similar to math proofs. If he'd actually "teach", things would be so much better. Since he's the coordinator, other sections are the same as well.

I did all the textbook questions and all the provided practice problems, studied the all topics and the professor ends up putting a question that's not in the readings! The quizzes avgs are 30%! The tests avg is 47%! Unreasonably designed course! Poorly coordinated! I don't even know what Im paying tuition for… they DON'T teach anything in class!

Statement: If T∨¬T --> this course will give you PTSD. Proof. T∨¬T is always true (tautology). So the "if" part is always satisfied. Therefore the course always gives you PTSD, by pure logic and suffering. □

To the incoming CS students: BE GRATEFUL YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THIS COURSE ANYMORE. The readings were heavy, tests were OK but marked poorly, and the assignments were tedious... AND can't forget about the tutorial quizzes where most of the averages were in the 20's-30's...man. It's a shame some of the content is actually interesting D:

Do not go to UTM. This class is hell.

Pure ptsd, I am traumatized! I think i lost half my hair, might as well go bald at this point...

I am being so honest right now (3rd taking this),but from our last MAT102 term test 63% of the class failed (411 out 651 students) and ONLY 81 students got a 70%. He is the hardest marker ever, where at least the first time i took the course it was easier marking but now tests got harder AND marking got harder. IF HE IS COORDINATING, DO NOT TAKE IT

This guy rates himself, look at the comment below, he know the TA's are grading crazy lol. Do not come to this guys lecture he doesn't teach.

After Test 2, Prof called the entire class "dumb." He blames students new to Discrete Math instead of acknowledging his failed flipped classroom methods. His discouraging response punishes struggling students. The problem is his teaching; he needs to use his experience to change his methods, not insult those who lack it.(You have a PhD, they don't)

I am begging you do not take MAT102H5 if you have the option. Most TAs and profs are tired at best actively spiteful at worst (Tyler). Flipped learning fails spectacularly at teaching the course majority of the class gets massacred in tests and quizzes.

As a coordinator Tyler is awful. His arrogance shows (he openly insults students on announcements). Instead of trying to make the course more accessible, he would rather sit on Reddit and argue with students. He believes he has nothing to work on and would rather blame anything but himself (he's had numerous complaints over the years). Avoid him!

Most courses set you up for success. This course sets you up for failure.

TBH. He should not be a teaching stream prof. I don't doubt his ability in math but I doubt his ability to teach. Throughout the sem, mutiple times he blames the Ont. HS system for producing lower quality students. Again he knows the students are lacking but yet he does nothing to ensure they succeed. Active learning? More like too lazy to lecture.

don't even dream about getting into cs post with this prof

He makes very hard tests for students just learning the stuff :(

Course had a 50% drop rate (highest it's ever had), 49% tt1 average, 44% tt2 average, 51% exam average 😭, clearly something in the teaching methods isn't working. This active learning method for a type of math most students have never seen before seems to be doing more of a disservice than any service to anyone.

What did this guy eat a mic or something because every time he talks, he sounds like he's screaming LMFAO.

Very hard tests and final exams

All this firecracker does is go on tangents, he doesn't teach in his lectures. He is also very stubborn with no intention on changing his syllabus. Tests and final exam are very hard. He also shames students for doing poorly on tests when he's the one who makes them. Avoid at all costs.