MATH 31B
Integration and Infinite Series
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31A with grade of C- or better. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3B. Transcendental functions; methods and applications of integration; sequences and series. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2016 - Andrews is a really great professor. His lectures are generally engaging and he does very useful examples in class. His tests are like the more difficult homework problems and are generally manageable. If you can do all the problems in the homework you'll be fine. His final was slightly more difficult but if you do enough practice, you'll be fine If you need the textbook for cheaper price, contact **********
Fall 2016 - Andrews is a really great professor. His lectures are generally engaging and he does very useful examples in class. His tests are like the more difficult homework problems and are generally manageable. If you can do all the problems in the homework you'll be fine. His final was slightly more difficult but if you do enough practice, you'll be fine If you need the textbook for cheaper price, contact **********
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Fall 2025 - This was a very clear, organized class that was probably the best that I took this quarter (as a freshman). I did take AP Calc BC as a high school junior, so I took this as more of a refresher/easier class as my first math class here. Prof. Arant is a very clear lecturer and explains concepts really well. I thought my high school calculus teacher was really good too, but Prof. Arant explains things more. If he is showing a proof for something during lecture, he tells you that you don't need to write it down so you're not wasting your time taking notes on something that is not on the quiz. Actually I don't think my class realized how good he was until we had a sub one day. You do not turn in homework for this class, but you should do it after the lecture so you make sure that you understand the material. The homework is not very long - most can be done definitely under 40-60 mins especially if you just do it the night after or morning after the lecture. Quizzes are very straightforward (only 3 questions) and very similar to the homework. You have 24 hours to do it (from Friday at 8am to Saturday at 8am) and it's on your own time outside of class. You have 30 minutes to complete the quiz and 15 minutes to scan and upload the quiz. This is more than enough time for most of the quizzes. The midterms are during lecture time and pretty similar to homework. Most of the midterm questions are just 4-6 integration/series problems and 3 quick conceptual problems. The 2nd midterm is more difficult than the 1st one. Before the first and second midterms, he posted a worksheet of problems to practice on (the first midterm worksheet had a bunch of integration problems, the second midterm worksheet had series problems). He does not post answer keys to these worksheet problems, so just do as many as you can before the midterm and go to office hours if you want to see a solution to any of the problems. He also hosts extra office hours before midterms and the final as well. His handwriting is very neat and pretty organized during lectures. He also posts notes if you can't make the lecture. Canvas page is very organized by week too. Discussions have worksheets that review content of the course too. My TA was Calvin who did a quick review at the beginning of the discussion, then let us work on the worksheet, then reviewed the problems. He walked around a lot and checked in with pretty much everyone. Overall, a really great professor especially for calculus. Never really had a bunch of homework or work outside of class, except when studying for midterms.
Fall 2025 - This was a very clear, organized class that was probably the best that I took this quarter (as a freshman). I did take AP Calc BC as a high school junior, so I took this as more of a refresher/easier class as my first math class here. Prof. Arant is a very clear lecturer and explains concepts really well. I thought my high school calculus teacher was really good too, but Prof. Arant explains things more. If he is showing a proof for something during lecture, he tells you that you don't need to write it down so you're not wasting your time taking notes on something that is not on the quiz. Actually I don't think my class realized how good he was until we had a sub one day. You do not turn in homework for this class, but you should do it after the lecture so you make sure that you understand the material. The homework is not very long - most can be done definitely under 40-60 mins especially if you just do it the night after or morning after the lecture. Quizzes are very straightforward (only 3 questions) and very similar to the homework. You have 24 hours to do it (from Friday at 8am to Saturday at 8am) and it's on your own time outside of class. You have 30 minutes to complete the quiz and 15 minutes to scan and upload the quiz. This is more than enough time for most of the quizzes. The midterms are during lecture time and pretty similar to homework. Most of the midterm questions are just 4-6 integration/series problems and 3 quick conceptual problems. The 2nd midterm is more difficult than the 1st one. Before the first and second midterms, he posted a worksheet of problems to practice on (the first midterm worksheet had a bunch of integration problems, the second midterm worksheet had series problems). He does not post answer keys to these worksheet problems, so just do as many as you can before the midterm and go to office hours if you want to see a solution to any of the problems. He also hosts extra office hours before midterms and the final as well. His handwriting is very neat and pretty organized during lectures. He also posts notes if you can't make the lecture. Canvas page is very organized by week too. Discussions have worksheets that review content of the course too. My TA was Calvin who did a quick review at the beginning of the discussion, then let us work on the worksheet, then reviewed the problems. He walked around a lot and checked in with pretty much everyone. Overall, a really great professor especially for calculus. Never really had a bunch of homework or work outside of class, except when studying for midterms.
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Spring 2016 - The lectures are dry (as almost all math lectures are to me), and the professor is very heavy on the theories. He spends most of the time explaining how formulas are derived, which is interesting but doesn't help much with the homework. Just going to the lectures definitely isn't going to get you a good grade. Some things that helped me: 1) Going to discussion sections: the weekly quizzes were ridiculously easy, but they kept me studying. My TA, Kwon, was really helpful--during the review sessions, he would go over especially difficult problems that are similar to the ones on the exams. 2) Test bank: Aschenbrenner gives out the solutions right after you turn in each exam, and you can easily find previous exams (which gave you an idea of what to expect) at the test bank. 3) Practice problems from the textbook: solutions to the textbook are available online, use them to check your homework. If you don't know what you did wrong and why, you will just repeat your mistakes on the exams. Overall, this class wasn't as difficult as I expected (while I definitely did put in extra work). It does help to have a solid foundation, like being familiar with all the basic calculus properties. For reference, I took Calc AB in high school and got a 5 on the AP exam. The quarter system schedule is still rushed, but some topics from Calc BC (vectors) aren't even covered in this class, so don't stress out too much--the class is definitely doable.
Spring 2016 - The lectures are dry (as almost all math lectures are to me), and the professor is very heavy on the theories. He spends most of the time explaining how formulas are derived, which is interesting but doesn't help much with the homework. Just going to the lectures definitely isn't going to get you a good grade. Some things that helped me: 1) Going to discussion sections: the weekly quizzes were ridiculously easy, but they kept me studying. My TA, Kwon, was really helpful--during the review sessions, he would go over especially difficult problems that are similar to the ones on the exams. 2) Test bank: Aschenbrenner gives out the solutions right after you turn in each exam, and you can easily find previous exams (which gave you an idea of what to expect) at the test bank. 3) Practice problems from the textbook: solutions to the textbook are available online, use them to check your homework. If you don't know what you did wrong and why, you will just repeat your mistakes on the exams. Overall, this class wasn't as difficult as I expected (while I definitely did put in extra work). It does help to have a solid foundation, like being familiar with all the basic calculus properties. For reference, I took Calc AB in high school and got a 5 on the AP exam. The quarter system schedule is still rushed, but some topics from Calc BC (vectors) aren't even covered in this class, so don't stress out too much--the class is definitely doable.
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Spring 2018 - Overall, this professor was decent a did a good job teaching the material. Although my background in math was mediocre at best, she really did try and teach calculus in a way that was easy to understand. In addition, she also made her tests as clear and concise as possible and graded the class on a curve. I would take another class with her again.
Spring 2018 - Overall, this professor was decent a did a good job teaching the material. Although my background in math was mediocre at best, she really did try and teach calculus in a way that was easy to understand. In addition, she also made her tests as clear and concise as possible and graded the class on a curve. I would take another class with her again.
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