# LU WANG — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### name

LU WANG

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    "comment": "She is really nice to students and helpful. Lectures are well organized, and proofs flow fluently. She gives motivations and time for students to actually think about the theorems. Will definitely take classes with her again!",
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    "comment": "Her English is really bad, we had lecture attendance of 40% because somehow she made the concepts more complicated by explaining them as poorly and incompletely as she did. No curve. She just kind of spills the notes onto the blackboard for the whole lecture and doesn't answer/understand questions well. She just doesn't really speak english guys.",
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    "comment": "Math major, have taken a lot of math courses. WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!! Shows no respect in office hours. Hardly ever reply emails. Worst professor in Math department for unable/unwilling to explain the materials or any question. Rude and arrogant.",
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