Becky Tang

The class was very fun. I'm not sure if we did everything in the description of the course. Taking this class gave me the insight to know not to do any more statistics classes, so I thank it for that.

The flipped classroom makes it very difficult to learn the material. Often we would just learn a topic and then be asked to work together on a very difficult homework problem to apply it. Tang is a great professor when she is lecturing but she only lectures 25 minutes before letting us work together. The readings are mandatory and the exams are very difficult. She allows for some corrections. There are 12 problems due a week which in total will take 10+ hours for the average student who doesn't go to office hours which is why everyone is in office hours.

The flipped classroom makes it very difficult to learn the material. Often we would just learn a topic and then be asked to work together on a very difficult homework problem to apply it. Tang is a great professor when she is lecturing but she only lectures 25 minutes before letting us work together. The readings are mandatory and th …Read more

Decent math elective. Contrary to the other reviews, I found that the class got quite a bit easier toward the second half. I have the impression that most of the class bombed the first midterm, and after that Becky seemed to make homework assignments shorter and exams easier. The teaching style is somewhat puzzling in that it is (supposed to be) a flipped classroom but also is not really a flipped classroom because 80% of the in-class time is a lecture. You come into class having read the textbook and/or watched a pre-recorded lecture (from a Harvard professor), and then Becky sort of lectures about the same content again and gives you about 10 minutes to work on problems with a small group. The format is not necessarily bad, and I feel like I learned a good deal from the course. That said, there are some obvious improvements to be made.

Decent math elective. Contrary to the other reviews, I found that the class got quite a bit easier toward the second half. I have the impression that most of the class bombed the first midterm, and after that Becky seemed to make homework assignments shorter and exams easier. The teaching style is somewhat puzzling in that it is (sup …Read more