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Marcus Roper
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Summer 2025 - I don't know why all these reviews are so harsh. Maybe it was because I took it over the summer (though I don't know how one's teaching style would be able to change in just a few weeks), but I could say Roper was one of my favorite math professors. TLDR: Engaging lectures, excited to teach, explains thoroughly, answers questions well, exams are fair. Just pay attention in class, ask questions, do all of the problems and you'll be fine. He had a reverse lecture style where you would watch lecture videos before class and review with worksheet problems during lecture. The lecture videos were sometimes very long, ranging from ~1 hour to ~2 hours. I think you could get away with not watching the videos, but I found coming prepared and using the lecture period as a review was really helpful for me. He also just covers the material more in depth in the videos. During lecture, he goes at a very understandable pace and explains everything really well. He answers all student questions time to time and is always happy to clarify anything. There are also a few worksheet problems solved during lecture, and I they were helpful though they were just easy, more conceptual based questions. Don't expect the exam to have questions like those on the worksheet. I think homework was more on the heavy side, as there were a lot of questions to them but you're given a week to complete them so I never had any problem with time. Just work your way through them over the course of the week. The homework problems resemble more closely what you'll see on the exam. The exam was fair, and as long as you understand the material you'll be fine. He said the last two questions (on both midterm and final) were intended to be "trick" questions and he doesn't expect most students to get them right. I thought they were doable though, but they just weren't questions you've seen before. They aren't impossible to solve, just connect all that you've learned to solve it. He also posts practice midterm + final exams that are similar to the actual exam. He reviews a few questions in lecture the day before the exam as well. Unfortunately, it seems like there were issues with cheating on the exam (summer quarter, so all online) so we never got our midterm and final grades back on Gradescope. I think it was frustrating at first trying to take the final without even knowing our grade, since we didn't have our midterm grade, but in hindsight I understand the struggles. (He didn't tell us why grades hadn't been posted until the course ended and we took the final exam). He did post the midterm solutions after though so you had that to practice. Overall, I really liked Roper he was a good lecturer and was always willing to answer any student questions. I don't know why the reviews are so bad. I was really scared going into this class from these reviews but truly it was not bad at all. Just take him he's actually very sweet.
Summer 2025 - I don't know why all these reviews are so harsh. Maybe it was because I took it over the summer (though I don't know how one's teaching style would be able to change in just a few weeks), but I could say Roper was one of my favorite math professors. TLDR: Engaging lectures, excited to teach, explains thoroughly, answers questions well, exams are fair. Just pay attention in class, ask questions, do all of the problems and you'll be fine. He had a reverse lecture style where you would watch lecture videos before class and review with worksheet problems during lecture. The lecture videos were sometimes very long, ranging from ~1 hour to ~2 hours. I think you could get away with not watching the videos, but I found coming prepared and using the lecture period as a review was really helpful for me. He also just covers the material more in depth in the videos. During lecture, he goes at a very understandable pace and explains everything really well. He answers all student questions time to time and is always happy to clarify anything. There are also a few worksheet problems solved during lecture, and I they were helpful though they were just easy, more conceptual based questions. Don't expect the exam to have questions like those on the worksheet. I think homework was more on the heavy side, as there were a lot of questions to them but you're given a week to complete them so I never had any problem with time. Just work your way through them over the course of the week. The homework problems resemble more closely what you'll see on the exam. The exam was fair, and as long as you understand the material you'll be fine. He said the last two questions (on both midterm and final) were intended to be "trick" questions and he doesn't expect most students to get them right. I thought they were doable though, but they just weren't questions you've seen before. They aren't impossible to solve, just connect all that you've learned to solve it. He also posts practice midterm + final exams that are similar to the actual exam. He reviews a few questions in lecture the day before the exam as well. Unfortunately, it seems like there were issues with cheating on the exam (summer quarter, so all online) so we never got our midterm and final grades back on Gradescope. I think it was frustrating at first trying to take the final without even knowing our grade, since we didn't have our midterm grade, but in hindsight I understand the struggles. (He didn't tell us why grades hadn't been posted until the course ended and we took the final exam). He did post the midterm solutions after though so you had that to practice. Overall, I really liked Roper he was a good lecturer and was always willing to answer any student questions. I don't know why the reviews are so bad. I was really scared going into this class from these reviews but truly it was not bad at all. Just take him he's actually very sweet.
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