Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Awful teacher. Lecture was absolutely useless and discussion was similarly useless. You had to teach yourself everything. Thankfully, the text book had quite a few examples and was pretty helpful.Rate My Professors ↗
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DAVID DIAMONDSTONE
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Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
WORST. PROFESSOR. EVER. His exams were impossible, the second midterm average was 11/50. I asked a question and he made me cry. Do not take this class.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 1/5
Loved the course content, really disliked the professor. Made this class way harder than it needed to be.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Final was worth 35% and was impossible to do well on. 30/100 points were random word problems discussed once in class. Got a grade I didn't deserve.studied for 15+ hours got a D on the finalRate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
He is boring and explains things very poorly. Makes tests way more difficult than they need to be, they almost have nothing to do with the homework or mandatory quizzes. It's way too intimidating to ask him a question or to even go to his office hours.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
Well he knows his stuff. He's just not all that great of a teacher ATM. I've definately had worse, and he's much better than the current alternative. His exams are not consistent. First midterm was hard, second was easy, and the final was the hardest exam I've ever laid eyes on. And I went through Kelly's econ 101 final.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with DAVID DIAMONDSTONE
MATH 211
Survey of Calculus 1
4 creditsSurvey of Calculus 1 covers essential differential and integral calculus, exponential/logarithmic functions, and functions of several variables for prebusiness and social sciences students.
No offering record · Spring 2013
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Fall 2008–Spring 2013MATH 213
Survey of Calculus 2
3 creditsSurvey of Calculus 2 covers first order differential equations, multivariable calculus, constrained optimization, sequences, series, approximation, and probability with business and social science applications.
No offering record · Spring 2013
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