Just a chance for me to give some feedback on some of your most common… feedback. Of course your opinions are correct – they are your opinions. Here are my opinions on some of your opinions. The worst thing (and the failure of teaching evaluation), is that ye will never see the fruits of your criticisms 😦  – i.e. when I have made changes and improvements ye will no longer be my students.

“You’re on the Money There”

1. Not enough examples I will include more examples in future. Some examples (e.g. an example of a nowhere continuous function) are quite difficult and may confuse us further however.
2. Rushed I will spread out the coverage to allow a more equal emphasis on each topic.
3. Writing whilst talking Big problem (as it was for me when I was an undergraduate). One option is to produce a set of notes with gaps for, e.g. examples and proofs, that we fill in during class – everything else is pre-presented.
4. Webpage Layout Improved already somewhat with subcategories and archives
5. Ensuring students understood Here the blame is split 50-50. I will ask the question “does everyone understand this?” more often; however students need to ask questions if they do not understand (leave it up to the lecturer to worry about slowing the class down, etc).
6. $\varepsilon$$\delta$ is hard Yes it is! To present a rigorous development of differential calculus it is, however, unavoidable. I need you to see that the definition of a limit is used to prove the limit laws which is used to prove which functions are continuous and which functions are differentiable.
7. Explanations not good, incomplete or superfluous I need to constantly improve any explanations if possible (as every lecturer should).
8. Too much material There is not much scope for trimming the course.
9. Too lax I was aware that there was often disruptive chat and whenever I felt it crossed the threshold I asked for silence.
10. $\log_e x$ Will be properly introduced in MS 2002.
11. Notation, $\forall$, $\exists$ Notation is meant to simplify things – but of course only if you know what it means. Will take more care in future.
12. Notes not clear on board An area in which I aim to improve.
13. Difficult Certainly! “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” [JFK]
14. Didn’t explain what we would do …at the start of  class. I realise now that saying “following on from what we did last Monday” is probably insufficient.

“Hmmm”

1. CA harder than exercises given Q. 1s taken directly from exercise sheets and Q. 2 taken directly from exam papers (both given as exercises). Q. 3 is meant to be harder (Q.1 and Q.2 correct gives a bare 70% – need to be even better than that to get a first)
2. More MCQ This is a maths studies module – we need to know the theory rather than just getting answers.
3. Didn’t revise differentiation rules Quite apart from the fact we derived them from first principles (the ultimate revision I would have thought?), the differentiation rules are assumed pre-requisites for MS 2001: http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/MS.html#MS2001
4. Attempt Marks You don’t get attempt marks for incorrect attempts!
5. Made too many assumptions Again MS 1001 is a pre-requisite: http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/MS.html#MS1001
6. Needed more tutorials Ye didn’t ask questions in tutorials so weren’t utilising the one ye had fully.
7. Tutorials weren’t structured – should have told us what to do; or maybe go through questions The weekly summaries put on the webpage every week stated which problems you should do. I had explained numerous times that the way you have to learn maths is by doing exercises. Me going through exercises on the board, when you haven’t seen them before, thought about them or tried them, is sub-optimal.
8. Runs late I am under the impression that class runs from five-past until five-to.