This class is a disaster! I hope that you have a lot of experience with your graphing calculator and are a recent AP Calculus student. Otherwise, you are behind the minute you walk into this class. It's at an ungodly hour for a math class (apparently to weed out the idiots like me) and the lectures are all over the place. I missed the first midterm because of an emergency and then bombed the second one. And I studied! As I said, unless you're like the whiz kid reviewer who got A's without studying, you have to study for this class. If you do the problems in the book you should do fine on the tests. There are a lot of them, though, so be prepared. The teacher isn't actually teaching much in the class and isn't very approachable outside of class. He lays out the rules on the first day and doesn't deviate from them in the slightest. (Stating on the first day that 50 of us wouldn't pass the class wasn't very inspiring.) I hope you're ready to get your ass kicked by this guy. I certainly did.

This class made me think twice about choosing UCLA. Clearly inept. Good thing this lasted one quarter.

Prof. Brown is pretty mediocre. He's a funny enough guy and likable but I always left lecture thinking "what did I learn here that I couldn't have taught myself?" It didn't help that it was across campus at 8 AM so I never attended lecture after 3rd week. Got an A- on the first midterm with no studying, studied my ass off for the second midterm when I realized not going to lecture meant I had no idea what to do and actually got an A, and then slacked on the final because I needed to study a lot more for another math class and so got a C on the final so a B in the class - this is after not going to 70% of the lectures and studying for the tests solely off practice questions and solutions, not even going to TA section. I recommend Brown if you can self-teach from practice question sheets.

All I can say is "bad." For people that have taken the class already, does the phrase: "um, um, um, um, oh that's another typo!" sound familiar? His lectures are useless save the random facts he mentions every once in a while that are tested on. (These little "facts" aren't covered in the textbook) Every lecture there are mistakes in the sample problems. Every sample problem set has typos. His two midterms and final each had at least 10 typos. Even before the final, he sent an email saying that there would be a few typos, and if more were caught during the test, we would be notified. WOW. I've liked pretty much every teacher and professor I've had in my whole life, but his hyperactive lecturing--which is also filled with redundancies and mistakes that create confusion--and many mistakes make him an epic fail.

I would give him a him a rating of _ZERO_ in effectiveness, concern, availability, and overall if the system let me. Everything below is true. He's truly the Most Dreadful Professor in the History of Forever, no joke.

One of the comments below says "He puts the sample problems/answers out only a few days before the tests/final, I'm sure he does it on purpose". I hate to say it because that would mean UCLA DOESN'T KNOW A THING about hiring (and for goodness sake, it's UCLA....), but I agree 100%. I've never had a professor who was this uncaring, this disorganized, and this idiotic....

Conclusion: stay away from him at all costs!!! If I had known what a horrible professor he is, I would have GLADLY postponed graduation if it meant I could have taken Stats with a professor who actually knew what he/she was talking about...

HORRIBLE! Avoid him, what most people say here about him is true.

1) He gets confused by his own problems and stares at them trying to figure out how to do them; he usually just ends up skipping them because he doesn't know how to actually do them.

2) He does a few problems in class and doesn't explain what he's doing or why, and then on the test he puts a similar problem except you have to do it a bit differently, but you don't know that.

3) He doesn't actually teach, the stuff he teaches in class doesn't help on the sample problems.

4) He puts the sample problems/answers out only a few days before the tests/final, I'm sure he does it on purpose

In conclusion: GO BACK TO CSU POMONA!

Worst instructor I have had in my life. Unorganized and is incompetent in his subject. During lecture he always confuses himself and half of time suddenly stops lecturing and stares blankly at his powerpoints taken from the book. What makes it so irritating is that students have to usually show up to these lectures because he always asks some sort of question on some random topic he briefly talked about in lecture.

Has no concern for students. Gives us the practice final answer key just a few days before the final, despite our constant requests for it to be put on earlier.

Stay away from this instructor.

Brown said that if you do better on your final than on your midterms then it will count for your final score, but then he makes up a crazy grading scale based on 400 points where there is a 70 point range for a C but a 5 point range for a C+ and 5 point range for B-. This makes no sense to me at all, since someone who averages about a 57 on their tests will end up with the same grade as someone who averages a 74. Obviously I got the bad end of this deal which makes me bitter, but this grading system does not seem very fair. Also, his true and false questions are really confusing, you might as well guess.

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE "professor"...If you can even call him that. He cannot teach at all. I learned absolutely nothing useful in his class. His lectures consist of lecture slides that he races through by skipping 10 slides at a time. Sometimes he works out problems on a tiny board but even then, he doesn't stop to explain what he is doing. He is also extremely disorganized and doesn't even know what he put on his own slides. He stops to try to remember what he was trying to say in his lectures. His tests consist of true and false questions that are just there to trick you and make you lose points. The rest of the test isn't hard but he does not give partial credit. I got my first "C" EVER in his class because he doesn't use a curve when grading and because he is a useless and horrible lecturer.

by far the worst professor i've had at ucla, and for that matter, since middle school. like everyone else says, he's very unorganized, makes himself unapprochable and seems very much like he doesn't care (with office hours at 6:45 am...) and is simply not a good teacher. your grade is based solely on tests which have absolutely no curve, and he curves the class to a b- average. i went to every class yet i learned very little; i basically only attended to make fun of him. avoid this man if you can.