Reviews of professor Taylor Rhoads

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Taylor is an amazing instructor! She explains the material thoroughly and clearly. There were weekly HW assignments (graded for accuracy but you can get help in office hours), three midterms, and the final. The exams were difficult (but fair) and doable if you did the HW. If you can take a math class with Taylor, I highly recommend!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super clear lectures, even though the math is complicated she makes it much more straightforward. Tests are fair, the MyLab assignments are time consuming but you get a week to do them. Office hours are really helpful and Taylor works hard to make sure you can understand the material. Would recommend (coming from someone who hates math)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took MATH 381 with Prof. Rhoads this semester online, and she handled online learning due to COVID 19 extremely well. In class, Prof. Rhoads explained the topics very well, and always made sure that we were following her logic. Although some of the topics are hard at first, Prof. Rhoads explained everything in a way that we could understand.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Rhoads goes way beyond what some other professors teach, but stops before getting into some of the more interesting theoretical aspects of diff EQ. Lots of good computational mathematics, but more proofs would be nice. I didn't enjoy her tendency to look over student's shoulders while we did our in-class work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I hate math. I've never done well in a college-level math course. That said, I made an A in this course. Taylor is patient and cares a great deal about her students' success. She went over the entire first exam with me after I made a poor grade. She met with us on her own time on a Sunday before an exam to review. Take Taylor if you can!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Taylor is amazing. Jump at the chance to take her! I am not a math person, but she took the time to help me out and fill me in on things I never learned. Thanks to her, math doesn't intimidate me anymore. She cares about making you understand, and she obviously has a real passion for teaching.