Izabella Laba - University of British Columbia

Professor: Izabella Laba
Department: Mathematics
College: University of British Columbia
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
what else can I say, the lectures are so good
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: MATH227
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Rather opinionated and political but fortunately this does not manifest in the grading. She was generous enough to make decent notes during the coronavirus situation, but otherwise her response to the crisis was slow and she spent more time on Twitter than dealing with the course.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Solid prof. Teaches you what you need to know. Super easy exams. The midterm average was close to 90%.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: MATH227
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Ok lecturer. Can be somewhat uninteresting, but explains things well and uses the chalkboard like a pro. Textbook is helpful but lectures are crucial to doing well. Exams are tough, but that's expected for Honours.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: MATH541
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof. Laba is an excellent instructor who is very knowledgable and respected. Her proofs were crystal clear and she related the course material (Harmonic analysis) to other areas of mathematics such as Partial Differential Equations.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Lectures, which are decent, are important as you can't rely on the textbook itself (it is unreadable without knowing the lectures). You do need to put in effort into the homework to get a good grade. Tests are quite fair, which something I appreciated. If you put in a few more hours of work than in MATH 200, you can do reasonably well.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Has very nice handwriting, but her lectures are pretty boring. Course was pretty easy for an honours math course though, much easier than 223. She's pretty dry in office hours as well, but the course organization is good, as she's taught it many times before.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
boring lectures
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Readability of the textbook is extremely low, so show up to every class! Beware of epsilon-delta differentiability proofs - easily the hardest topic. (MATH 200 doesn't have it.) Midterm 1 was hard. Midterm 2 was BRUTAL. Barely finished although my pencil never stopped moving. Final was a piece of cake to make up for it. Course was NOT scaled much.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I found the lectures a little dull. Prof Laba didn't always seem like she was interested in the material. Not a fantastic professor but it was never a negative experience going to class. Only 6 homeworks and they were pretty easy. Midterms were similar to practice ones and in the textbook
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I took Math 226 with Dr. Laba, and it was not good. It is supposed to be an honours class, but she pretty much recites the textbook. She is not engaging at all, super boring. I ended up teaching myself most of the class because reading the textbook was better than attending class. One plus side was her grading criteria was clear.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very kind. Her marking is not tough at all. She gave me full marks for some answers that I didn't even do 100% correctly.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: MATH220
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Provided very clear lectures and the coursework was similar to previous years, yet our section had a much higher mark for our average, showing the high level of professonalism that Professor Laba brought to Math 220.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: MATH317
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Laba continually teaches as if the class is retarded. The entire course was a joke until it came time for the final - which had a pretty harsh marking scheme... Overall, I would say that she did not prepare the class for the final. (Class average on midterms: approx 80; assignments : probably >80; final class average: 70)
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: MATH226
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She worked through examples in class, which helped, and lectures were quite easy to follow generally. There were only a handful of assignments, but they required a lot of thought. The midterms were straightforward.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: MATH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I liked to secretly call her the snake. Cus she looked, moved and talked like one. Seemed to have learned to say the sound 's' by blowing through the gap in her teeth. I especially loved her bad jokes, example: after asking the class a question that no one answered she said we should all be lawyers
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: MATH101
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She would suddenly stop teaching and ask us how to do the questions because she doesn't know how....-_-"
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: MATH120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I took her class in 2002/2003. She is good at explaining things and solving problems clearly. She won't try to give students super hard questions to show off..She is good and nice!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: MATH120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
she is a nice prof. if u r really persistent she will help you after class...otherwise she will tell u to try and think some more..she sort of gets impatient if u keep on goin unlike feldman n.. accent is ok...midterms easy...final tough
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: MATH120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Accent a bit hard adjusting to, but easy exams...all the tricks are covered in class provided you listen...
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