MATH M32T
Essential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
Also listed as C&S BIO M32, LIFESCI M32: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.31
Average grade awarded in MATH M32T. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
51%
of the 53 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 53 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.13 to 3.67.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 5 · 9.4%
- A 12 · 22.6%
- A- 10 · 18.9%
- B+ 6 · 11.3%
- B 8 · 15.1%
- B- 4 · 7.5%
- C+ 1 · 1.9%
- C 6 · 11.3%
- C- 1 · 1.9%
- I 1 of 54
Percentages are of the 53 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.23 | 43 | 3 | 47% | light | not teaching it |
| BADREDDINE, RANA reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.67 | 10 · | 1 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before MATH M32T. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH M32T in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Computational and Systems Biology M32 and Life Sciences M32.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B. Not open to students with credit for course 31A, 31B, 32A, or 32B. Designed for life sciences students. Methods and results of single and multivariable calculus essential for quantitative training in biology. Limits, differentiation (single and several variables), optimization, integration and methods of integration, Taylor polynomials and applications to approximation, Taylor and other power series, vector valued functions, gradients, and Lagrange multipliers. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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