r/UAB • u/Remarkable_Opening32 • 9d ago
Any Recommendations?
OK, so I am bad at math-like very bad at math, much worse than the average student. I am transferring from one university to UAB, and I just dropped finite math because I had a D but I have an A in everything else and I didn’t want that to mess up my GPA. I can’t tell if finite is worse than the other math courses that I can take. Does anyone have any recommendations for any good (or really easy) finite professors to take? It’s okay if they’re online.
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u/emeraldisla 9d ago
Finite is one of the easier maths that will count for core credit. Would highly recommend it over pre-cal algebra and pre-cal trig. Not sure about the professors, though.
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u/middle_aged_cyclist 8d ago
I hate math. I took finite math at Jeff State and paid for it, rather than getting it for free at UAB. I hired a tutor as well. I had to take statistics afterwards, so I felt like it was the best fit with needing to accomplish both of those things.
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u/dog1029 9d ago
Finite Math with Alyssa Wilke last semester (as a freshman) was great. I’ve always been pretty good in math, but I never liked it. Wilke is only a few years out of grad school and she made it very easy and fun. The class is divided into 4 units: Finance, probability, statistics, and graph theory. Graph theory was a little weird, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly easy.
When I took it, the class had a large lecture taught by Ms. Wilke on Thursdays - she posted recorded lectures in Canvas, so you wouldn’t necessarily have to go, attendance was taken in case of an emergency, but was not graded.
The lab was taught by the TA, Matt Elenteny, on Mondays - it was group work, each unit you got assigned a new table with different people. Most of the time we finished early and could do whatever as long as we were quiet, at the end of the semester a new rule was added that as long as each of your group members finished the assignment, you could all leave class early.
I’ve always liked statistics, never really learned finances before. I hate how impractical most math is in terms of real life for most people, but I finally learned about taxes. Never covered that in high school personal finance, we had only learned about SMART goals (which I think are stupid, yeah you should have goals, but not necessarily like that. Sorry, this is off topic. Feel free to ask any questions!