Grading Distribution: 20% weekly written homework, 20% online MyLab Pearson homework, 20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2, 20% final (second grading scheme: lowest midterm grade gets dropped and the final is 40% instead)
What I liked: The class is not extremely difficult, and if you’ve taken AP Calc in high school, a lot of the concepts are review. Having some background also helped with the pace of the class since we could spend anywhere from one to three lectures learning a concept. Lectures are not that engaging, but copying down the notes will help you with the homework. The problems on the midterms and final are extremely similar to assigned problems from the written homework so make sure you do the written homework and understand how to solve the problems (MyLab Pearson does not help at all with studying so don’t waste more time than it takes to complete all the problems). The midterms and final were open notes/open book and 48 hours long, but no more than a few hours total are needed to finish the tests. Attending discussion is optional, but Jerry would sometimes use homework problems as examples so it was a good way to make sure you understood the steps needed to complete a problem.
What I disliked: Based on the other reviews, this is an unpopular opinion but Professor Greene was not that helpful. She has office hours after each lecture, but if people do not stay, she’ll leave the zoom call instead of allowing us to just work on problems and unmute whenever we need help. Also, if your wifi cuts out after the lecture, you can’t re-enter the zoom and attend office hours. Sometimes, when asking about a concept, she’d respond with something along the lines of “we learned this in math 3A” even though there are a few people who skipped out of or didn’t take 3A. While she’ll still answer the question if you ask her to, I’d end up just searching the concept up online or asking the TA. Professor Greene also scheduled lectures during the two holidays, saying that since we’re all at home, we don’t have anything else to do, and if we were in person, she wouldn’t “dream of stealing our holiday.” While attending these lectures (and all) was optional, she often left problems half-solved at the end of one lecture and said she’d finish it in the next lecture, making watching the previous lecture before attending the next one necessary. Near the end of the quarter, she also started putting the Gradescope assignment up a day or two before it was due rather than how she used to put it up almost a week before the due date.

(For some context: I never took calculus in high school) Professor Greene is extremely accommodating and kind. She provides plenty of opportunities for students to receive help and always notifies her students beforehand of any updates or changes she makes to assignments. She is also very understanding and really tries to connect with her students. With that being said, this is definitely a class you need to study for daily. The course moves quickly and you cover a lot of content in 10 weeks, but she provides ample amount of resources for you to learn. There are a few long assignments due weekly, but they really help solidify the content you learn that week. Overall, Professor Greene is amazing and I am so happy I took her for my first math class at UCLA.

Paige Greene is a well-versed and compassionate instructor who clearly cares about all of her students. She's a very clear and reasonably-paced instructor who lays out every concept in great detail before moving on. Very helpful and encourage everyone to go to offices hours if they needed help. Set extra offices hours for the sessions that she couldn't attend, and overall such a sweet person.

For Spring 2021, our final grade was weighted as follows: 20% written homework; 20% digital homework; 20% midterm 1; 20% midterm 2; 20% final. There was also an option to make the final worth 40% of our grade, while dropping our lowest midterm score. The lowest homework was also dropped.

Overall, this class was quite manageable. Due to the pandemic, all exams were open-note/open-book. She gave us a 48+ hour window to complete each test. I found the exams quite difficult but manageable with proper studying and help from notes/the book. Weekly homeworks were quite concise but undoubtedly necessary to understanding tested concepts.

Professor Greene is such a sweetheart! Very approachable, she's kind of like a grandma to her students. Uses textbook problems and MyLab, which is slightly excessive, but her tests are not bad. If you do the problems and go to office hours, you can do well in her class.

On the whole, this class wasn't bad. Paige is a very sweet person, and makes herself very available with many office hours for people to ask questions. She also extended deadlines for many assignments including the final, although that was due to the fact that she posted it several hours late. I found that the first part of the course (integration) was taught much more clearly than infinite series, and I often had to consult YouTube videos to actually understand the material in the second half. This is largely due to her lecture style/notes, which are kind of disorganized and lack any sort of concrete structure. Due to online format, the exams were obviously quite challenging, and were made worse by the inconsistent and often unclear grading done by the grad student graders. In spite of these complaints, the forgiving grading scheme made it pretty difficult to get anything lower than an A, so overall would recommend.

Very disorganized, but relatively easy grader. Take if you want an easier grade but not if you want to understand the material well

She was a nice professor, but I wish she would allow more questions during class. She refused to go back and explain a problem, instead she recommended we watch the recording of class again. One thing I liked was how she gave us a week to complete the homework and offered help at times.

I have mixed feelings about this class. Paige was super sweet, but also was not the best at clarifying anything or honestly being helpful at all. She "forgot" to release one of our exams at the correct time and it really screwed a bunch of students over because they had moved around work and life plans to take the exam that was then last minute pushed to a different time. I honestly felt like I had to teach myself this course with the help of symbolab.

I loved Professor Greene, she had great energy and was super clear and helpful. The workload was very manageable, we had homework online and the exams were also online.

Professor Greene is amazing and is very accommodating with assignments. She drops two of your lowest written exam grades and even your lowest midterm (one of the grading schemes). The written homework was very time-consuming weekly but the mypearson lab was straightforward and gives you multiple tties and you can submit it late but with point deductions. Great professor.