Reviews of professor Daryl Funk

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Daryl is a funny, kind, and caring professor. He has a sporadic lecture style, but I still learned lots. He has the best blackboard organization I have seen from any prof at Douglas. His mid terms and assessments were all very fair. I'd take him again if I could, he is one of my favourites! He made a hard topic like discrete 1 easy. Thanks Daryl :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is truly passionate about math. His exams and quizzes were very fair and he gave thoughtful part marks. This course is very hard! But if you do all the homework he assigns, you will succeed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Just Run away!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Funk's lectures are dry and often is simple regurgitation of textbook material, but they do genuinely provide the most key ideas in the most succinct fashion. His tests are very proof heavy, and you must explain everything you did. They are weighted heavily in the syllabus. If that's your style, you will excel with Dr Funk.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Skill issue review below me

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a great professor who does a great lecture. Two downside on him is that he's a fast writter and his handwrittings are sometimes unidentifiable. So if you can fully understand his handwrittings and follow his speed while note down stuffs, I'm sure that A will easy for you

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Funk's class was extremely difficult for me. If you are good at and really enjoy math I am sure you will do fine, but if math is not your passion I would stay away from this class. He was very knowledgeable but it did not translate to him being able to teach it well in my opinion, his lectures did not provide much and I had to teach myself.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is one of the best math instructors at Douglas very caring and enthusiastic. His lectures are sometimes heavy but with the time you will get to his fast pace. Calculus itself is not an easy subject but he made it simple and you also need to practice a lot and do all the suggested exercises from the book. Exams are fair and he is a good grader.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took him for discrete 2 last year. Was a great professor and kind person. Passionate about the material and showed it. He also uploaded his lecture notes on blackboard which was very helpful. Tests were straightforward if you did the textbook homework. He's underrated in my opinion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Facts incoming. Does not give practice tests and insists that homework is enough. His posted notes—barely legible. Minimally “covers” content by presenting examples in a confusing manner. It is not impossible to pass his course, but he is risky. Text limit here prevents more detail but main takeaway—just know what you are walking into with him.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had Daryl for Linear Algebra and overall it was a great class. The lectures are very theorem/proof heavy and although attendance isn't mandatory I would advise not missing too many lectures, you will fall behind very quickly.