Reviews of professor Matt Friedman

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really fun down to earth guy. Kind of heavy on homework and tests can be kind of hard, but the homework is really helpful in terms of preparing for the tests. I don't want you to think that he will wreck your GPA or eliminate all of your free time; that simply isn't the case. He can also take *constructive* criticism, unlike a lot of profs at UW.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
exams are stupid hard. no way to cheat, nobody knows the answers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this class because the other one to hard and I need high grade for PhD.  Extra happy with Friedman. Helps very much and patient on questioning. Grades homework easy and no midterm. TA Kai is good to, smart.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There is a problem set every week and they are nearly impossible. But he will give you the answers if you ask. Exams are also very long. Really fun lectures but not many practice problems, be sure to check out the online tutorials that he posts because they were similar to the exam equations.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very passionate and entertaining professor. The course and lectures move fairly quickly without much time for in-class examples, so make sure you learn how to do the work and calculations at home. Tests are very similar to homework so make sure you really know how to do the homework well. The class is quite difficult but doable with some effort.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a nice guy and he makes himself accessible. His teaching style relies on you going to office hours which is an unrealistic expectation. He adds a ton of math to the course that other econ professors do not. I only took Calc 1 and I felt that I was at a disadvantage to students who had taken Calc 3. Yes, there is multivariable calculus.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lectures were great, but there is too much reading in this course. It would take 5 hours per week at least just to get through it all. Hardly any of the reading assignments show up on exams/quizzes. The topic is very interesting and Dr. Friedman is pretty funny and an easy grader.