Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=106 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Success in Your Math Course
Teaches research-based best practices for success in college-level math, including study skills and problem-solving.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Melissa Lindsey
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Historical reviews of Tracii Gustafson : Reviewers describe the workload as consisting of mandatory attendance with point deductions for illness and assignments deemed useless or impossible to perfect.
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Prerequisites
Course mapConcurrent enrollment inMATH 96or112
INTER-LS 144
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Tracii Gustafson describe a negative experience where she treats students like children and fosters an unpleasant classroom environment. Reviewers criticize her passive-aggressive demeanor and mandatory attendance policies that penalize illness. They argue the course fails to teach math strategies, focusing instead on generic study skills.
MELISSA LINDSEY is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TRACII GUSTAFSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 29 / 54 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 22 / 48 | 0 |
| LEC 003 | Classroom Instruction | 38 / 48 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Tracii Gustafson are uniformly negative, with students advising others to avoid the course due to poor teaching quality and irrelevant content.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.53 GPA, 81.6% A/AB (n=114 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=106 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Tracii Gustafson : Reviewers describe the workload as consisting of mandatory attendance with point deductions for illness and assignments deemed useless or impossible to perfect.
Historical reviews of Tracii Gustafson : Students report that Gustafson treats them like children, creating a passive-aggressive environment that fails to deliver the promised math success strategies.
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Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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About this comparison
1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
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Success in Your Math Course
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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