Math 3160
is anyone taking this class with kyu-hwan lee? i’m getting my ass kicked by these quizzes and the lectures aren’t very helpful.
Posted Feb 3, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC
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I took this class a couple of semesters before, and it kicked my butt too. Is it online or in person?
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i’m taking it online and the quizzes are significantly more in depth than what is covered in the lectures/textbook. like today’s quiz has some general matrix problem when none of the practice examples are even similar to it or have done anything to prepare me for a question like this. do you have any tips on surviving this course like outside resources or something?
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Yup! The quiz questions were always much harder than the examples he showed in class. If possible, find some friends in the class who would be willing to go over the quiz answers before handing them in. That's how I survived because most questions involved thinking outside of the box. I remember using UConn's MATH 3160 textbook that's free and online for extra examples that I could practice with on top of what he shows in class. And always go to his office hours after a bad quiz too.
In all, finding friends in that class would be your savior!! Idk any other helpful resources tbh.
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the problem with the class being asynchronous is i literally don’t know a single other person taking this class right now. i’ve also tried emailing him about ways to better prepare me for the quizzes and he just told me to study harder and look at the textbook problems that sometimes don’t even cover the types of problems he’s giving. guess i’ll just have to bite the bullet on this one
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oh shoot. That does make it a lot harder to find classmates. If anything, make a post on social media to find others in this class. 2 heads are better than 1. I def struggled a lot in this class when it was in person.
Or even suggest to the prof and ask if he can allow discussion board posts on huskyct to make study groups with other students in the class. Then get other ppl's numbers and start working together from there.
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I took this with him as well and the quizzes were very tough. The best advice I have is to look for the problems in textbook and study those. I also think that’s the class is difficult because of the nature of probability. Some people get it and some people don’t. I did not
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yeah i probably spent around 3 hours total throughout the day trying to figure out how to do the second quiz question today before saying fuck it and submitting some random garbage.
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Hi,
I took this course last year with the same professor; however, it was during the summer. I don't think it was terrible, but it was not easy. The beginning of the class is a bit dull in my opinion, because you learn basic combinatorics and set theory. However, it will get more interesting as you learn about random variables, distributions, transformations, CLT, etc. If you like calculus like me, you will enjoy this part of the course. The resources I used include MIT OpenCourseWare, youtube(statistics 110: probability lectures by joseph Blitzstein) , and UCONN's math departments website, where they have video lectures and a textbook on probability theory.
best of luck,
thank you for the list of resources you used. i don’t think the class is necessarily boring, but i just feel very underprepared because the course materials aren’t enough for me to fully grasp the quiz questions. i hope you’re right about the class getting more interesting since i was pretty fine throughout the calc track.
I second this. Check out Blitzstein's stat 110 series, basically identical to the curriculum for both Math 3160 and Stat 3375 but explained very well. I took 3160 with Lee, and the questions are tough even on exams, but you have a full day to work on it, so it evens out. To make later material easier, I recommend refreshing your double integration skills and memorizing the gamma function.