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Kirk, Colleen

Cumulative GPA: 3.81/4.00 with 53 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.74
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.83

Mathematics Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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MATH 344 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 3:31 pm, Dec 10, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is the professor that any engineering student dreams of. She barely deals with any theoretical aspects of the class and sticks to straight computation. Her teaching methods are excellent and her tests are a cake walk. As long as you keep up with the light homework load this class is a breeze.

MATH 141 Sophomore Grade Earned: C General Ed 11:07 am, Aug 29, 2011 Report Evaluation		Kirk is such a great math teacher! She gives you the most detailed worksheets for every single lesson of the course, you will probably never have a professor be that clear again in college. Shes pretty helpful and appreciates students who participate in class. This was the second time I was taking Calc 2 at poly because i failed the first time, and she clarified everything!

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 4:42 pm, Jul 23, 2011 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is by far the best professor I've ever had at poly. The only problem with professor Kirk is once you take her for math, you are incredibly spoiled and all other teachers look impossible and unhelpful. She gives out lecture packets, and instead of frantically coping down notes throughout the entire lecture, you get to fill in the blanks and actually listen to the subject matter. This is a huge help, especially in math, where it often takes a lot of concentration to grasp the concepts. There is a quiz each week, 2 midterms and 1 final, and they are relatively easy, as long as you do the homework. The best piece of advice I can offer is MAKE SURE TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND THE PRACTICE TESTS! There were usually questions directly off the homework on the quizzes, and every single exam had one question directly off the practice test. Professor Kirk is also really helpful during office hours, and is more then happy to go out of her way to help you. TAKE PROFESSOR KIRK AT ALL COSTS!

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 11:57 pm, Jun 24, 2011 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is amazing. She is very clear in lecture. Her tests are very similar to the homework and she's willing to help her students. I would recommend taking her for any math class.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 6:43 pm, Apr 22, 2011 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is by far the BEST math teachers that I have had so far. I am still taking her class right now but I have to agree with other reviewers. She presents the material very clearly, extremely helpful during office hours. Weekly quizzes, 2 midterms and 1 final. She is very approachable for questions. Take Kirk for all your math classes!!!

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 6:10 pm, Dec 14, 2010 Report Evaluation		Kirk is an amazing professor! I had her for 4 days a week and 7am every single day. Her teaching made it worth coming to. She gives us notes which is amazing! Her notes really helped with homework and her homework relaly helped with the midterms! She even give us study guides and solutions to the study guide!

MATH 501 Graduate Student Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 12:16 pm, Dec 1, 2010 Report Evaluation		Kirk is a great professor. She explains thing very clearly and is always willing to help her students. She grades very fairly as well.



MATH 241 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 7:24 am, Nov 18, 2010 Report Evaluation		Take her if Possible

MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 8:17 am, Mar 13, 2010 Report Evaluation		Prof Kirk is really cool and nice. She seems a little nervous in lectures but she really does present the material clearly. She prints out notes so you aren\'t sitting down coping pointless theorems. She is really nice you should def take her!

MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 10:36 am, Mar 10, 2010 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is definitely the best professor I have had at Cal Poly. She is so smart and knows her stuff really well. She is so helpful and is a teacher who is genuinely concerned with her students\' success. She spends a lot of time making sure that everyone understands the material. At first I really disliked the fact that she assigned a lot of homework and collected it, but in the end it really helped. She grades the homework VERY easily and gives almost everyone a 5 out of 5. Warning, do not fall behind on the homework. She assigns about 10-20 problems per section, but only collects it twice a quarter, making it very easy to put off until a couple days before. DO NOT fall into this.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 11:34 pm, Feb 23, 2010 Report Evaluation		I\'m still in the class. Professor Kirk is super organized. During lecture she hands out notes that she wrote on each section, and you just have to fill in some blanks and do example problems in your own notebook. She\'ll name each step of the problem (like step one: sketch, step two: convert to polar coordinates, etc). I have it tuesdays and thursdays for 2 hours. Thursdays we take a quiz, and she\'ll return it to us on Tuesdays and immediately post the solutions on Blackboard. She saves the last 20 minutes of Tuesday\'s lecture for any homework questions, but most people just leave. She doesn\'t get offended by that. Homework is collected twice throughout the quarter. It\'s only worth 5 percent of your overall grade and she tells you a week in advance when it\'s due. The only criticism I have about Kirk is that she gave us one hour to do 8 problems on the midterm. Other than that, she\'s a great teacher.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 5:33 pm, Feb 21, 2010 Report Evaluation		I have to agree that Professor Kirk is my favorite professor I\'ve ever had. I have an enormous crush on her. She\'s so awesome! I have her for two hours twice a week which was intimidating when I enrolled, but she makes me actually prefer it that way. Tuesdays she essentially has free office hours for the last 15 minutes of class. She lets people ask questions on homework, and everyone else can leave if they want. She is extremely smart and does anything in her power help her students understand what she\'s teaching. Other professors lecture, she actually wants every single student to learn the material completely, and it works. She also has the most endearing nerdiness ever. I love it and I look forward to her class every week. If you can\'t fit her class in your schedule, change your schedule.

MATH 244 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:32 am, Jan 26, 2010 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is the BEST TEACHER I\'ve EVER had! A lot of my engineering professors don\'t even come CLOSE to how awesome she is. She\'s extremely organized and is willing to help out with any questions you have. 244 wasn\'t an easy class nor was it terribly difficult but having a great teacher is definititely a huge factor in how well you can do in this class. She had handouts for practically every topic that we talked about and they had parts where you can fill in with the examples that she uses. I have to admit, there were almost TOO many handouts... they took up a whole binder! But in the end, the midterms and quizzes were all quite easy and the final was reasonable considering how much she helps you along the way throughout the quarter. TAKE KIRK!!



MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:40 am, Dec 30, 2009 Report Evaluation		Kirk tried to make Calc IV as simple as possible, and it really helped. She\'d give out handouts for each section and you just had to fill in the info she wrote on the overhead projector. You have a quiz each week and 2 tests plus the final, but as long as you study, you\'ll do fine.

MATH 244 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 8:50 pm, Aug 31, 2009 Report Evaluation		Excellent! One of my FAVORITE teachers ever. I had her for two math classes, MATH 142 and MATH 244, and both classes were outstanding! She is so clear, knowledgable, and willing to help. I always enjoyed going to her class and taking notes on her amazing lectures. She is an AWESOME Professor. Take Kirk! You'll be so happy you did.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 2:33 pm, Jun 17, 2009 Report Evaluation		She's a really nice lady, but I sometimes found it difficult to stay along with her during the tough material. Like for the related rates chapter I remember we only spent one class period going over problems, where my friends' teachers were spending at least 2-3. She's pretty good at recognizing student difficulties and she's really approachable. My big problem with her class was that the tests were so damn hard. I would do fairly well on the quizzes every week, and then study those for the test. But then she'd pull out some ridiculous problems from the same chapter, and it kinda seemed like she was trying to make it especially hard on us. But she is a really fair grader and gives partial credit on answers where it's deserved. Overall, I don't think she's the best out there... but DEFINATELY better than some of those other professors I've been hearing about.

MATH 142 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 7:42 pm, Apr 23, 2009 Report Evaluation		Collen Kirk is a decent teacher, and you can pass with her. She has trouble conveying the information in lectures but is not bad. The one thing that I noticed is that she is scared of giving points out. She gives a half point bonus to the people who show up when less than two thirds of the class is their. Well that never happened.

MATH 244 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 8:29 pm, Mar 30, 2009 Report Evaluation		There are a lot of topics in Math 244 and they are very widespread, so it was no surprise that Dr. Kirk couldn't really go too in depth into each of them. Her policies are very straightforward, she still gives quizzes nearly every Friday and the lowest grade is dropped. Lots of partial credit. She bombards the class with very useful handouts on a very regular basis; there is at least one for every section of the book you go over. Overall I recommend her, and my advice is to keep up with all of the homework. A lot of her quiz problems came straight from the homework and there is no way you can do well without doing them.

MATH 244 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 12:49 pm, Mar 2, 2009 Report Evaluation		This class is so easy if you hard half-way decent at math. She gives tons of handouts, and easy notes. Do homework for practice, and it is easy to do well. I got 10/10 on every quiz and A's on Midterms no problem. She is very clear with everything. A stress-free teacher.



MATH 143 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 9:46 pm, Feb 23, 2009 Report Evaluation		When I saw her the first day, I was trying to figure out who she looked like. Then I went home one day, filpped to comedy central and saw her evil dog-loving clone! You'll figure it out. Her homework is optional, but it's not optional. What you will notice is if you don't do the homework, it will have an impact on your quiz grade. Make sure you take time to memorize the properties of converging and diverging series.....that will kill you in the end if you don't. She is a great teacher and finds the easiest way of explaining material in class. Her tests can be tough, but she gives a lot of partial credit. I really enjoyed her class and I recommend her to anyone!

MATH 143 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 3:12 pm, Dec 19, 2008 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk does a good job of presenting the material in class and making sure it makes sense to everyone. Even though the material in Calculus III had already all been covered before by my AP Calculus BC teacher back in high school, I still felt like I was learning something when I showed up, and not necessarily like I was having it beat into the ground. She is incredibly helpful and willing to make adjustments for "Special Circumstances." I can't say much more than that because I didn't show up to class 50% of the time... though I tried, really I did! Taking a 7:00 AM class is a bad idea. Don't do it. Ever. You'll sleep through your alarm every time...

MATH 143 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 5:50 pm, Dec 17, 2008 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is very knowledgeable and very good at explaining calculus concepts. While half of the quarter was review for me, Kirk made the new material easy to understand. There were 7 quizzes, 2 tests, and a final during the quarter. For each test and the final, she printed out a study guide of topics that would be covered and important equations to know as well as 10-12 practice problems. That was extremely helpful! Also, she posts the solutions to the quizzes and the tests online the same day you take it. It is easy to contact her should you have any questions. She assigns homework but doesn't collect it, but I highly recommend you do it. Some problems on the quizzes come from the homework. Take professor Kirk if you get the chance.

MATH 143 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:52 pm, Dec 7, 2008 Report Evaluation		OK first I would like to say that it is very hard to go to class at eight. Colleen has this system of giving out a half of one point which does nothing. But she sometimes messes up her examples and gives them to you. She is a bit confusing in class but if you go to her office hours she is great. Homework is not like the test questions at all. And this one time on the midterm she did this stupid thing where she made us get the derivative of a log base 2 of something, which i thought was retarded since we did not have to differentiate logs ever before in class. The quizzes are ok but make sure you do the homework before each one. Basically, she does not look like sarah silverman and go to her office hours everyday and you will be fine. and if you take this as an early morning class dont worry, you can even sleep in the front row.

MATH 142 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 12:17 am, Jun 15, 2007 Report Evaluation		Dr. Kirk is a great great professor. She is super organized and gives great lectures. I didnt even have to read the book because she covers eveything in class. Her midterms are fair and so are the quizes. Make sure you dont miss a quiz because you wont be able to make it up. The final wasnt too bad either. HW isnt collected, but make sure you do it so you can understand the material. She is probaly the best math professor I've had so far. I would definetly take her again. She also looks a LOT like Sarah Silverman.

MATH 999 Graduate Student Grade Earned: Credit Elective 4:36 pm, Mar 1, 2007 Report Evaluation		She looks a lot like Sarah Silverman.



MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 11:46 am, Jan 29, 2007 Report Evaluation		She doesnt collect or grade homework, which can be good or bad since it can pad your grade. There are quizzes every week, but your lowest quiz score gets dropped. She posts review problems for the test which are very helpful. She also offers to do homework problems in class.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 11:12 am, Jan 8, 2007 Report Evaluation		At first, she seemed to take the class a little fast. But since i had not taken calc in high school, i realized its just the college, not neccesarily her. But overall, she's a good teacher, and if you go to her office, or just stay after class for a little, she'll help you with anything.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 1:10 pm, Jan 3, 2007 Report Evaluation		The best Math teacher I have ever had. She is really good at making Calculus seem simple. She doesn't make is seem really complicated and elite. Her test and quizzes are really fair. If you do the homework you will do well on the tests and quizzes. I learned alot and it is easy to pay attention in class because she is pretty good lokking for a teacher.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 8:43 pm, Dec 25, 2006 Report Evaluation		i personally think professor kirk is a really good teacher. she explains everything really well. her quizzes were fair and tests were generally easier than others. i would definitely recommend her for any of your math classes.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 12:01 pm, Dec 20, 2006 Report Evaluation		Kirk was the best math teacher I've had at Cal Poly, along with Choboter. She presents the material clearly, and i mean clearly, so that anyone can understand this subject. The hw is not collected, but it would be wise if u did it because the test questions from the tests and quizzes usually come from or are closely related to the hw. Her tests are also not that hard; they test you to see if you understand the material, unlike some midterms and finals in other classes where they seem to be like your testing for your fucking Phd. She's really nice, understandable, cares for her students, and just straight up fucking awesome. HIGHLY recommended.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:50 pm, Dec 18, 2006 Report Evaluation		Prof. Kirk is easily one of the most awesome math teachers that I've had (along with Patton and Alongi). She manages to present the material in a seemingly-hard subject into a way that anyone is able to understand. And as a plus, she quizzes and tests you on whatever she tells you in class. Her quizzes and tests are straightforward, and won't really test you on any conceptual stuff. Occasionally, a quiz or test problem will be a problem from straight out of the homework, so it's a very good idea to do the hw (even though it's not collected). She's also a very nice person and very easy to talk to, and genuinely cares about her students........ I seriously want her to teach every single of my EE classes now! (she probably now knows who wrote this haha)



MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 8:10 am, Nov 6, 2006 Report Evaluation		She is a very articulate teacher and very helpful when it comes to students difficulties. I would highly recommend her to anyone!

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 6:47 pm, Jul 17, 2006 Report Evaluation		In our class, she was kinda like a bat without sonar. She would crash into things and not even seem to notice she was doing it. It was kinda funny. She's easily the most attractive teacher I've ever had. Oh right, and she rocks at explaining calculus. I'm not entirely sure why her poly rating isn't even higher, the best part is she doesn't try to trick people on the midterms, she just sees if you know the material which you should if you study even a little bit. Homework is not collected.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 1:29 am, Feb 6, 2006 Report Evaluation		She is the best teacher i have ever had for any class here at cal poly. The way she writes notes and presents lectures leaves absolutely no room for doubt or confusion. I never read the calculus book, which was refreshing after having to read it for calc 2 and 3. I want to have her for every one of my engineering classes. I wonder if the boots she wears every day to class are comfortable, but i know one thing, they're really hot. The only problem i had in that class was deciding to either do the integrals or stare at her.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 7:17 pm, Dec 14, 2005 Report Evaluation		Welllll, what can I say about Professor Kirk? After having taken five math classes at Cal Poly, she is by far the best math professor I've had, and I had Matt White for 142 (almost as awesome). Kirk's class has a pretty straight-forward format: Assigned homework that's not collected, weekly quizzes, two midterms, and a final that's worth about 150% of a midterm. She explains the material in an easy, straight-forward manner, and is more then helpful in office hours if you need something explained. The most important thing, I suppose, is that she wants everyone to do well in her class, and curves the class accordingly...and what can I say, she's pretty easy on the eyes.

MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 10:35 am, Mar 24, 2005 Report Evaluation		Dr. Kirk is 100% helpful during class and office hours. There is a quiz the last day of every week, but homework is never turned in. The quizzes add up to one test, and the tests are much like the quizzes. She tends to pull some of the more tricky problems for tests, but the quizzes have 1 of the 2 problems directly from the homework. I went into her office hours a few times and she is willing to slow down as much as you need and repeat herself, whatever it takes to get you to understand. She gives review problems for her tests too. She uses Blackboard to show answers to quizzes, tests, and even homework problems. Wonderful!

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:10 am, Dec 15, 2004 Report Evaluation		Colleen Kirk is a pretty good professor at this, the final course in the Calc series. She seemed to emphasize heavily the scientific and especially the engineering applications of what we were learning. This is great if you're an EE or a ME, but I'm a Computer Scientist, so I really didn't care. I memorized the equations and tuned up during lectures. The class is very easy, at least it was for me: homework is assigned but not graded, quizzes are given weekly and are worth 22% of the grade in this class and are not at all difficult (I never studied for a single one and the lowest grade I got was 70%--and only once), the tests make up the rest. The exams cover, respectively, partial derivatives and multiple integrals, and the first is ridiculously easy, the second, not as much, but still doable. The final covered the entire quarter, but there was a definite focus on the extra engineering math we looked at. Kirk is a very nice lady and an easy grader, and the class will probably be fun to all you real engineers out there, but I'm a CSC, dammit, and I don't care about vector calculus. The class was a bore to me, but that's not Kirk's fault, she almost made it bearable. Let's face it, though: if you're taking this class, you probably don't have a choice, so go with Kirk. For all you other CSCs out there, do 206 instead. It's a smarter option for us.



MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 12:01 am, Nov 22, 2004 Report Evaluation		So far, I enjoy having Professor Kirk as a teacher. She explains fairly well, she is super nice, and her tests and quizzes are pretty straightforward. However, the only downside is that she doesnt collect homework, so I have had a tendancy to fall behind on the material.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 12:35 pm, Oct 19, 2004 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk's class is pretty much a typical math lecture. She spends extra time on areas that students may not understand and will go over any homework questions. I would definately recommend this professor if you need to take Math 141.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 1:32 pm, Mar 30, 2004 Report Evaluation		Best math teacher i have ever had. She's very approachable and is one of the few professors on campus who actually makes an effort to learn all her students names. Her tests are pretty hard but what do you expect from a calculus class. There's enough homework and easy quizzes to keep your grade up. Take this class.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 10:59 pm, Jan 10, 2004 Report Evaluation		Simply The Best. Professor Kirk is a rare and unique teacher. For those who hate reading a math book, I recommend you take Professor Kirk. She is extrememly organized and can explain things very well. She knows math like the back of her hand. Seriously, I'm not exaggerating one bit. Ask her a question and she can come up with an example that can support your question and a scenario to show that what you propose might not work. She teacher very very very well!!! She gives no homework, but I recommend that you do it so you get comfortable with the material. She has a test basically every tuesday and they are extrememly fair. They basically keep you on track--a very good thing =). Her tests are not long and are not impossible to do. I would say the overall difficulty of the test were between medium and hard, not plain hard. She does curve a little and I think the curve only occurs if a lot of people do bad on a certain test. She also drops your lowest quiz score, so don't fret if you mess up on a quiz or completely miss one (like how I missed the first one =/). Overall, awesome professor! A+ rating from me!!! I wish I could take her again, but she's not teaching 142 this quarter =(

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 2:10 pm, Dec 24, 2003 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk was an excellent teacher!! Don't let my grade deceive you because that was a B+. The only reason I got that was because Professor Kirk was always willing to help me if I was confused. She taught the material by using examples so you knew exactly how to do the homework. Her office hours are extremely helpful because she has the ability to quickly find what you did wrong with your work. One time she thought I was leaving because there were too many students before me and she chased after me to assure me that I would be helped soon. She is really determined to help those in need. She also had a couple review sessions here and there. What really took me by surprise was that on that monday before veterans day or whatever, she knew everyone was going to skip class so she went over the easiest material that day so nobody would miss out. There's either a quiz or test every wekk to keep you on your tose but that's what your graded on so it doesn't all depend on one thing. Take Kirk if possible

MATH 141 Sophomore Grade Earned: D Required (Support) 10:18 pm, Dec 18, 2003 Report Evaluation		Her lectures were very straightforward and she makes it very easy to take notes. Don't let my grade fool you, I learned a lot and very much enjoyed this class. I just wasn't prepared for calculus and got behind at the start of the quarter and never caught up.



MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 4:25 pm, Jun 27, 2003 Report Evaluation		She is terrific. The best math teacher I've had at Poly. Homework is not collected, but you should do it because there are weekly quizzes and that is pretty much where she gets the problems. There are normally 6 or 7 quizzes with the lowest score dropped. There are two midterms which she hands out review sheets for before. The final is comprehensive, so study, that is why I came out with a B and not an A like I went into the final with. She explains everything very well and is very approachable and open to questions. If you get the chance, take her!

MATH 241 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Support) 1:25 am, May 16, 2003 Report Evaluation		Not only is Kirk a good teacher, she's got to be the absolute hottest teacher at Cal Poly. Most definitely, the hottest.

MATH 317 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 1:57 pm, Apr 23, 2003 Report Evaluation		Prof. Kirk is a good teacher. She really cares for the students and is helpful in her office hours. She will always take time to clarify something in lecture if there are questions. We had weekly quizzes that were based on homework, but homework isn't collected. I would recommend doing the homework earlier than the day before the quiz so you can get help in her office. Tests were slighlty more involved than a lot of the homework but not overly difficult. She is good, go for it.

MATH 142 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:03 am, Aug 6, 2002 Report Evaluation		She is the best math teacher I have ever had. She explains the material clearly with lots of notes in class I didn't even have to read the book. Her tests and quizes are extremely fair, she covers everything in lecture. She takes time to answer questions on homework and tests. If you expect to get out of class on time, you won't. She uses ever minute of lecture and gives plenty of examples.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 11:45 pm, Jul 7, 2002 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is the best teacher that I have had here at Cal Poly. She is very well organized and she puts everything across in a straightforward manner. I had her for Math 141 my first quarter and I was so impressed with her teaching style that I took her again for Math 142 and highly recommended her to my roommate, who took her and now tells everyone to take her. She was so good in class that I never even opened my book either quarter and still got a B both quarters. Don't do that though, do the homework; she doesn't collect it, but it is very valuble to you if you want an A. I am planning on trying very hard to get her for Math 241. If you get the chance to take her for any class take it, as long as it doesn't leave me without a seat.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 6:01 pm, May 28, 2002 Report Evaluation		Kirk is great. Take her if you can. She is organized, friendly, and clearly explains what is happening and what to expect. Homework is optional, but you'll regret not doing it if you don't. The reason I got a C was because I slacked off at the end of the quarter, and because her tests always seemed to be harder then I expected- Not hard, but you still need to know the material well. She does use curves if needed. Bottom line... A



MATH 142 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 5:21 am, May 14, 2002 Report Evaluation		Great, great, great. Never had to read the book, never had to go to her office hours. Simple explanantions, and simple methods of working problems out. TAKE HER IF YOU CAN.

MATH 142 Freshman Grade Earned: D Required (Support) 8:46 pm, Apr 4, 2002 Report Evaluation		Only take this teacher if you learn well by reading the book. Her lectures in class are right out of the book and when you go to her office hours she repeats what she siad in class. She doesn't adapt here teaching style to let all the students understand the material.

MATH 141 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 6:42 pm, Apr 3, 2002 Report Evaluation		Professor Kirk is a great teacher. She goes over the material slowly enough for you to understand and ask questions during the lecture, but fast enough that all the material required for the course is covered within the time frame given. I liked her so much my first quarter that I took her again for 142. The experience was the same although the material was harder. Homework is optional so you don't have to do it, but I would recommend doing it. Some of the quizzes have questions from the homework. She just has the quizzes to check up on you to see if you did do the homework. I would highly recommend Professor Kirk! Take her class if you can.

MATH 241 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 3:26 pm, Apr 2, 2002 Report Evaluation		I would HIGHLY recommend this professor. Kirk explains material clearly and spends most of class time showing examples instead of proofs. The homerwork, which is not collected, is very similar to the examples, the quizes are just like the homework, and the exams are like the quizes. She also provides study guides and practice exams; I always had a good idea of what her expectations were. Kirk is friendly and engaging in class and helpful during office hours. She also seemed to be a fairly generous grader.

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