Laleh Howard - San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA

Professor: Laleh Howard

Department: Mathematics

College: San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH252
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is the best professor I've had my entire math career. She is tough grader but wants to see effort and takes in to account when you see her during office hours and ask her questions. Shes taken the time to go over homework problems and is very detailed in her explanations. I wish I would have had her in earlier math classes.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CALC151
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Doing and understanding the homework is great preparation for the exams, but the difficulty may vary according to one's familiarity with prior math courses. While the lectures are quite compact, Prof. Howard would often let students pick questions to do as examples, and shows rather detailed steps for each question.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CAL150
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I do not recommend this professor, So far she's the worst professor i ever had class with. She literally told me to drop her class because i won't pass after failing my first exam even though we had three more exams left. She doesn't courage her students and unclear lecture. However, i proved her wrong by passing the class with a B.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CALC252
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Her lectures are entertaining, and not difficult to follow. The concept is a little hard to understand, and there's only homework and quizzes. The homework is only a minor portion of the grade (<10%), so the exams and quizzes are everything. Try to understand the material and do well on the exams and you'll definitely get a B or higher.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CALC151
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I honestly don't recommend this professor, if you wanna get a good great look for another professor. Shes doesn't teach all the materials.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH255
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Prof. Howard was very nice, but her grading can be extremely tough. If you are very detail-oriented, you will most likely do well. Her office hours are always busy, but she is there to help.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH252
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I got a good grade but she did not prepare me for the next math courses. She is not a good teacher and rather "cover" content than help us understand. I feel bad for the students that did not pass because she was not helpful at all to them and made us feel dumb. Shes nice when she doesnt talk about math but she should not teach the higher classes

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CALC252
• Grade Received: F
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I dont recommend you to take her. She doesn't know how to teach college students. Her lecture is not clear cause she always wanted to finish 3 chapters at the same time and she cannot dumb it down enough for our young minds to comprehend quite yet. And her grading is to harsh , If you want to learn something please dont take her.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CAL150
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I do not recommend this professor.. she makes the course even more difficult.. unclear lectures.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH255
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Howard is a great professor! I have taken Dif EQ and Calc 3 with her. Although her time may be limited during office hours, she is always willing to help. She gives take home tests and quizzes if she sees it necessary. These can be challenging, but the in class tests tend to be very straight forward. She's not big on extra credit.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CALC150
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Do not take Howard if your goal is an easy A, that is IMPOSSIBLE. Howard will push you to your limit and make you work for your grade. That sounds bad, but it will help you in the long run. Classes start out large and end up with 10 people, keep in mind the class itself is very difficult. Calculus is not for the light hearted, neither is Howard.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CAL150
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Howard is so great. When she teaches, she starts from the beginning and DOES NOT skip steps when doing problems. She is quite responsive to questions and wants you to understand the concepts. Her tests are difficult, you either know the material or you don't. She expects you to apply yourself completely. I would recommend her, hands down.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CALC151
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Howard is enthusiastic about math and provides good help during office hours. However, Howard expects everyone to be a master at calculus. You'll need to memorize all derivatives, integrals, entire unit circle, and arcs. No calculators. Pop quizzes almost every day. For us it was everyday until after withdrawal day. Expect to work hard. Good luck.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CALC252
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She seems enthusiastic but she chews everyone that goes into her office. Her class had no structure and very hw and test heavy. We went over more concepts which is nice but her lack of teaching skills made it really hard to stay on top of everything. Also she has no rubric on grading so good luck understanding what you got wrong because she doesn't

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH252
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Pros: Good personality, decent lectures, answers questions, good availability. Cons: A LOT of homework and it's not worth much, Tests is 84% of grade, least structured math class I've ever been in, lectures test material day before test. Getting an A or B is very possible. But I think she assigns too much homework. Not as bad as people say she is.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH150
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

When your friends in other calculus classes look at your tests and say what is this? I also love how a class of 50 is down to 10 while other classes are still completely full.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH252
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

she is by far the worst math teacher, She has no structure to her class literally jumps section to section and can't understand that she has to teach the students since we are not math professors so we require some explaining, and when she does explain she does it in the worst abstract way possible while the actual concepts are not that difficult.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH254
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She has a mandatory attendance policy to her lectures, which means she will drop you after a certain number of absences, no questions asked. So even though her lectures are not useful, you have attend them anyway. Now in her defense, she does makes herself easily available during office hours. Nevertheless, I would not take her again.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH254
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

She's a great instructor if you put effort and dedication to learn. She doesn't spoon feed you, which is how a class should be. Those that didn't pay attention are now rage-rating her for their lack of effort in the course lol oh well. If you wanna learn she's the one to take.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH254
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Homeworks: alot and tedious, considering it's only 6% of your grade... Tests: Tough grader. Will take the whole period. Nothing will be dropped No calculator, which isn't really a big deal. Pay attention in class because she would want you to do things the way she taught it. Grade Tests:60% HW:6% Quiz 8% Final:26% 89.9 is a B