MATH 151A
Applied Numerical Methods
Grades
3.53
Average grade awarded in MATH 151A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 1,555 letter grades
D, F or W
2.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,555 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.32 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 78 · 5.0%
- A 751 · 48.3%
- A- 222 · 14.3%
- B+ 153 · 9.8%
- B 140 · 9.0%
- B- 70 · 4.5%
- C+ 52 · 3.3%
- C 35 · 2.3%
- C- 15 · 1.0%
- D+ 6 · 0.4%
- D 10 · 0.6%
- D- 5 · 0.3%
- F 18 · 1.2%
- I 6 of 1,562
- DR 1 of 1,562
Percentages are of the 1,555 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I) and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEGRINI, ELISA reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 271 | 4 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
| ENAKOUTSA, KOFFI reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.63 | 205 | 3 | 74% | very light | not teaching it |
| BLASIUS, DON M reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.72 | 163 | 3 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KASHEFI, ALI reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.30 | 145 | 3 | 54% | very light | not teaching it |
| JIANG, CHENFANFU reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.88 | 107 | 2 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| MAIMAITIYIMING, WUMAIER reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.82 | 84 | 1 | 89% | light | not teaching it |
| ZHOU, MO reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.41 | 80 | 1 | 59% | - | not teaching it |
| HAN, FUQUN reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.62 | 78 | 2 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| TAN, HONG YE reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.07 | 70 | 1 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| SCHAEFFER, HAYDEN KYLER reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.43 | 68 | 1 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| ACEVES SANCHEZ, PEDRO reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.40 | 67 | 1 | 61% | light | not teaching it |
| BAKER, JUSTIN reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.55 | 42 | 1 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| CARNEY, SEAN PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.33 | 3.25 | 41 | 1 | 54% | average | not teaching it |
| LI, MINCHEN reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.73 | 36 | 1 | 81% | light | not teaching it |
| WONG, KA WAH reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.35 | 34 | 1 | 62% | very light | not teaching it |
| ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER R reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.18 | 34 | 1 | 44% | very light | not teaching it |
| DING, LINGYUN reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.35 | 30 | 1 | 57% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 86 reviews 26 days ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before MATH 151A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH 151A in Summer Session C 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 3B, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B, 115A, Program in Computing 10A or Computer Science 31. Introduction to numerical methods with emphasis on algorithms, analysis of algorithms, and computer implementation issues. Solution of nonlinear equations. Numerical differentiation, integration, and interpolation. Direct methods for solving linear systems. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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