Reviews of professor Paloma Castillo

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Paloma Guitierrez Castillo is very wonderful! She has quite an accent but she's super sweet and I enjoyed her lectures a lot. You can opt out of the textbook and find the pdf online but you won't need it. Online (optional) homework is on webwork and they're the same problems on the midterm. Her grammar is a little off but she's a great lecturer.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great lecturer and cares about her students. She makes sure we know the content and is very accessible after class to any student that has a question. Discussion is barely related to the content, however, and consisted of coding which was hard to get a grasp on without any prior knowledge.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Paloma's lectures helped me regain my understanding of concepts that I had forgotten from AP Calc. She is a great lecturer, and breaks down each problem and re-explains steps if questions arise. Paloma does have an accent but it is not at all difficult to understand. I highly recommend her class and you can tell she cares for her students!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class breakdown: MT 1: 30%, MT 2: 30%, final 40%; although test-heavy, u have the chance of gaining a considerable amount of extra credit. Tests were VERY fair; if you do her lecture problems and webwork you'll be fine! For her tests, make sure to know WHY you do something as she likes to have you explain steps on the exam. Overall she's great!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She is a really great teacher and she offers extra credit for her discussions. All her tests were easy because she teaches you exactly what is going to be on them.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is very confusing. I had trouble understanding most topics and I had to teach myself a lot of the subjects. She has a strong accent that is quite hard to understand, but besides that I still struggled. I would not take this class again. I used to like math a lot but now, not so much. Sorry.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is an amazing professor. I love her. Her lectures are very clear and organized, although sometimes she does make the material more complicated than it needs to be. If you haven't taken Calculus before, you'll be fine in her class; she explains the concepts really well. Her exams are heavy, but they are COMPLETELY fair.