Cathy Baker - Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB

Professor: Cathy Baker

Department: Mathematics

College: Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH2211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Really friendly(which some people don't like) and fun. Enjoys her subject, and does well with keeping students engaged during class. Always let us out early (in the 1.5 hr classes)

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH2211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Baker was so much fun in Discrete Structures - one of the hardest math courses I have taken at MTA. Having a TA in class was very helpful as well. She was a fair grader too.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1011
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

It is evident that Dr. Baker loves to teach, and she is a good prof. I enjoyed learning under her. And when you go for help during office hours, she is very helpful. I do not agree with the bad ratings below.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH1011
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible math prof. She spends the entire class doing proofs and examples without teaching the basics. She hands out candy as 'rewards' to the class when they answer a question. We are university students, not 1st graders. She also bothers the class with needless anecdotes of her life (who cares if your cat woke you at 5am?)

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

terrible. she would spend the whole class doing pointless proofs that we would not need to know and then when she actually did examples she would get them wrong and spend half of the class trying to figure out where she went wrong. not worth taking her class

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She does not show helpful examples. Only shows variables in examples and never subs in actual numbers. Very annoying and frustrating way of teaching.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH2311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not a good teacher. I realized too late that the textbook explained things clearer and faster than she did. You would be best served staying at home and reading your book for 50 minutes rather than attending class.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH2121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I don't understand why everyone seems to dislike her. She is a great prof and teaches very enthusiastically. And, if you need help with anything she goes well beyond what is required of her to help you. She is an even better department head than a prof! Cal1 is horrible no matter who teaches it. don't blame her for u being too lazy to read the book

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I was unfortunately a student in the first intro level course she ever taught. Terrible. We had a 50% failure rate because the final exam was absolutely brutal and was worth 70% of our overall mark. Don't take courses from her unless you're majoring/minoring in math and really understand it!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CALC1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She needs to realize that not verybody understands what she is saying. I mean we all don't know these random terms you use. And by the way, there's no point in using abbreviations in your class if u have to spend 5 minutes explaining them. And the labs...o the labs...! Why must u make them hell? I think that's part of the reason i hate the class...

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CAL1001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This woman said some hurtful things to a lot of students that she should not have! Saying that if they got out of bed and came to class they would pass. My friend went to every class and every help session and got 7% on exams I went to no classes and no help sessions and got an A- She was a nasty woman!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CAL
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

well what can i say. i didnt enjoy her class at all! she would drag things on for to long and made the labs hard. first years try to get dr.beattie, he is the BEST.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH2311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I'm confused; why is it that the exact same topics that I did well in grade 12, I do poorly in her class. And I mean, the exact same. She's intimidating and I've started doing well in that class by not going and reading the textbook.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH2212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Good prof. She is helpful and presents her material somewhat clearly.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH2221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Excellent Prof. Very clear in what she expects, highly recommended

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH3231
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Needs to stop using overheads. Overheads make the class too fast, with no time to learn the early concepts.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: STATS2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

somewhat of a good teacher, not very good with the one on one, actually terrible.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH2221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very good Linear Algebra professor!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CAL
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Excellent Prof- switched out of shebeattie into bakers class and saw the light. she made calculus so much easier!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

have have been lucky to be able to have Dr. baker for two classes so far at mta and i have to say that she is one of the best professors we have here i have even been known to pick my classes around her.