Reviews of professor Doeke Buursma

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doeke is super nice. His teaching is easy to understand and he is always willing to help! However, be ready for his homework. It took me hours! But it was good practice. Overall, pretty good professor!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The past few comments are indicative of his teaching style. We go over simple problems together, and then he makes us figure out hard problems ourselves. The homework is of no practical use and his grader is very strict on only the answer not the steps. Not to mention that there are impossible daily quizzes. He is nice tho, that's all I gotta say.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doeke is AMAZING! He is hands down the best math professor I have ever had. He provides worksheets for each lecture that has all of the notes, definitions, and theorems all written down with examples done during the lecture. If you go to class, you will definitely get a good grade in the class. Doeke is so kind & makes a great learning environment!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of my favorites. He explains things really well and gives a ton of examples. If you didnt get it in class, his office hours are amazing too. I wish I could take every math class with him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great teacher, makes himself very available to students. The class was hard and there were some things I wish he had explained better, but still better than average. You may notice all the bad reviews came from one particular class in 2019...I was in that class and it's worth noting that like 15 people got busted cheating on homework. Weird!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doeke is such a nice guy, but this course was so difficult with him. The homeworks are absolutely pointless because they do not correlate with his lecture notes and example problems. The difficultly of the problems is beyond what he does in class and it does not relate to anything else. He does not provide solutions to the homeworks or reviews.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Organized and methodical lectures accompied by outlines that summarize key concepts nicely. Doeke is a supportive teacher who goes out of his way to make sure as many people are understanding as possible. If you go to him with a question, he's always very respectful and helpful. Note that his testing style is on deep understanding of concepts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Such an amazing instructor, 10/10 would take a class with him again. He explains things very well and makes a ton of time to help students.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He teaches you one thing and the homework is on the opposite. He may give you the basics but rushes trough things and then the homework is SUPER long and on much harder examples. On the midterm other classes got a full sheet of notes and he lets only a note card. He needs to help more on things and maybe go over some questions from the homework.