Reviews of professor Edray Goins

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Great professor, but definitely not for everyone. His boardsmanship is amazing, and he's very available for office hours, but his pure approach to every class will not please all. All of his lectures are in dense mathematical language, and each HW assignment consists of 4-5 multi-part proofs. If you like pure math, TAKE HIM. If not, probably avoid.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Definitely prepares lectures so each class is well-structured. However sometimes spends too much time reviewing previous lectures so we didn't get through enough material. Homework was sometimes unnecessarily abstract and wasn't constructive to consolidating concepts.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Goins is a good lecturer and I liked that he would post all lectures to youtube as well to go over them. He's really nice and clearly knows his stuff about math. The class itself isn't too hard, but I did find him a bit hard to find outside of class. Can be a bit boring if math isn't your thing, but overall still a positive experience.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
NOTE: I took this course online. Professor Goins teaches linear algebra in a very abstract way. Expect to do very few computations, and even the "examples" are quite abstract. Taking this course with Goins is definitely useful for math majors but less helpful for others. Weekly problem sets are long and difficult, but you learn a lot from them.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A wonderful and supportive professor who really wants you to succeed. Very accessible outside of class --- he's in his office with the door open at some wacky hours, including weekend mornings and 11 p.m. (??) depending on the day. If you're interested in moving forward with math, take his class.