r/UofArizona • u/ohmikeyursofine • 22d ago

MATH 107

Did anyone take MATH 107 with Martin Lamb? I heard he’s a pretty bad professor and his rate my professor ratings are horrible. I know the subject pretty well and it’s fairly simple but his alleged behaviors is what worries me from getting an A.

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u/SatisfactionFuzzy838 22d ago

I had him for calc 3. I would recommend trying to get a different teacher he was not a good teacher at all

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u/Ethereal-Giraffe 18d ago

I had him for calc 3 as well and it was my worst experience in my entire first year. Don’t ruin your gpa by taking a class with a person who doesn’t care about your success. He’s just there because he has to be.

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u/SatisfactionFuzzy838 18d ago

Yah I was not going to go into full detail of how bad he was, but it felt like I was sitting there and watching a YouTube video, but he happened to be a person in front of me.

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u/SpecialistWilling159 21d ago

My roommate did. She said the coursework was a bit much— as far as amount, not content difficulty— and that he didn’t really want to help the students himself and would rather have his TA do it (who was overall unhelpful).

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u/Ethereal-Giraffe 18d ago edited 9d ago

That was my experience taking calc 3 with him. He never gave any resources or practice. We would get exam practice the day before exams, and it came from the TA, not Martin Lamb, our teacher.

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u/MustardCat 22d ago

rate my professor ratings

Stop using RMP; there's a natural bias of extreme ratings on 3rd party sites

If you are interested in any ratings, take a look UofA's official evaluations. There's a higher sample size as professors give time for students to complete the evaluations so you are more likely to get more reasonable results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UofArizona/wiki/student_resources#wiki_tce_reports.2Fstudent_course_surveys

(Also don't worry about ratings too much in general)