These are copy/paste of feedback/comments my students send through official SUNY evaluation form and a few through emails.

Spring 2009 (there is a SUNY copy of a mix of course and professor evaluation here)

• Professor Vu was very effective and built in good parts of the class time to make sure everyone could understand whatwas going on and gave us an incentive to participate with bonus points which kept people much more alert than a normal math class.
• Very fair teacher. Offered extra credit for hardworking students to improve their grade. Made math an enjoyable class as compared to previously taken math courses
• Put simply, he is Phu Vu. Hard to beat.
• Impossible not to get an A in this class.
• i thought that Phu Vu was an excellent teacher. he really made learning more fun.
• Understanding and always there to give gudiance.
• He is the best Math teacher out there, he is willing to help and go through topics over and over again if you are having a difficult time. He has a strong accent but if you pay close attention in class it shouldn't be so much of a problem. I would recommend him to anyone of my fellow student. It is a class you can get an A in if you focus and do all the homeworks. Great teacher
• He can make anyone understand anything. He is really helpful in explaining. Also though he may have an accent, his examples and drawings help make up for that. He is really nice and approachable. Highly recommended.
• He was very helpful and was always willing to clarify any questions. Also, he was very approachable and always ready to help students.
• The instructor made it very easy to understand the course. He went over everything thoroughly and answered everyone's question. He also made learning the subject matter fun with worksheets and fun homeworks.
• Mr. Vu was awesome. He taught the class so anyone could understand it and gave many examples for applying certain concepts. Due dates and tests were clearly announced and he reviewed them both.
• Phu was a great teacher. He presented the information in the most basic way possible, provided multiple examples and made it easy to learn. Great teacher all around.
• Professor Vu was very knowledgeable and knew what he was talking about but he's very hard to understand, and mumbles a lot.
• The teacher was quite effective. It is a hard course
• Great Teacher. He is also always there if you need any help and his website is very useful.
• Easy and nice professor, explain the materia clear in the class.
• good professor, understands not everyone is not a math major, sometimes hard to understand
• More examples related to test questions/homework.
• Professor Vu helped me to understand calculus a bit better. He gave lots of examples that helped with the homework. His lectures were very thorough and concise.
• Not only did we get a further understanding of Calculus, but we also had an understanding of it's applications
• Having different notes posted online than what was given in class helped to give a different perspective on how to learn
• the teacher was excellent he explained everything very well. the best math teacher i have ever had.
• Gave enough time to maneuver, to gain a better comprehension of material
• The textbook should not be listed as a requirement for the class since it is not used.
• More review on homework problems, a lot of the time the homework was way more difficult then the examples given in class.
• Make it so all group members have to contribute.
• The lecture notes posted online as an outline of what we would be learning in the upcoming weeks helped studying, the fast paced classes, and easy way the material was taught.
• Prof. Vu is an extremely intelligent man whose main focus in this course was to help his students succeed. If you need any help he will, without a doubt, help you.
• Good Instructor
• the best teacher that i have had here at UB
• The lectures were helpful.
• The course information was well spread out and was reviewed thoroughly which made it easier to understand what was being taught.
• enjoyed this course a lot more than I did Calc. I. I felt the material was more easily spread out and much more understandable.
• The website was a very useful resourse.
• Suggestion: Not much, nothing in particular. Course was effective in helping me understand the materials
• When I took MTH 121, I really liked the "My Math Lab" that went along with it. I think it helped me learn the class material much more effectively than the quizzes or homework did in this class. With written homework, much of the time there isn't an opportunity to see if it's correct or not until the grade comes back. With the Math Lab you were able to rework the problem until it was correct. I think that this method is more in keeping with the spirit of homework. Homework is for the purpose of learning the material, you shouldn't have to be worried about your homework grade if you actually did the homework, that's what tests are for.
• More examples in the online notes
• It was a pleasure being in your class and I have realized that you have thoroughly prepared us for each and every homework exam and quiz. Thank you for working so hard to share your knowledge with others. I am unprepared for this test and I will take a grade of zero. Again, thank you for the willingness to teach.
• Thank you Very much I really appreciate.
• Just wanted to say thank you for today. That should not have happened and sorry about wasting your time. Thank you for a great semester
• I hope we have a great semester, this seems like a fun interesting class
• Thank you and i am looking forward to a great semester with you!
• I enjoyed the first lecture with you. Thank you. See you again tomorrow.

Fall 2008

• He was an amazing professor because he was very understanding and would do a lot of examples to better our understanding of the material. Also, he offered problems for us to do on our own. You could tell that he really wanted everyone to understand the material and be successful.
• the course was taught for students familiar with calculus and were prepared to study and do the required homework
• phu was an excellent teacher. he really wanted to see his students excell in not only math but future endeavors. he used excellent analagies that related math to real life. for being such a young teacher you wouldn't have noticed it (he taught at a level of someone twice his age). most importantly, phu genuinly loved math (when a teacher loves the subject that they teach, they do a much better job at it, as seen in phu vu). his grading policies were easy to uinderstand and very generous. i would take one of his classes again if i could. Phu was extremely motivated which made his class all the better. i have all confidence that he will do a magnificent job at whatever the future has in store for him.
• He was good at teaching calculus on a level that students can understand.
• Very effective, all of the material was taught well. You could tell he really knew his material and enjoyed his job. This was probably my favorite teacher I've ever had. GO PHU
• very good professor would reccommend to anyone
• Good outline and examples, actively encourages participations from the students and makes himself available for quetsions and concerns. Very willing to assist students and help us learn.
• The professor was a bit confusing when explaining concepts. If it was not for the textbook, I think I would have a hard time in this class.
• best math teacher i have ever had
• a very good teacher overall
• The instructor was really easy and helped many of the students understand the concepts of the course.
• The teacher was friendly and gave a lot of opportunities to get credit. He explained problems pretty well
• He was very effective! A lot of the students are doing very well!
• plz teach us more easy way..
• Very good knows what he is teaching. Sometimes just hard to understand
• everything is fine
• He did a good job.
• I look forward to attending your class with high goals set in place
• I hope that this math class will prepare me for my more advanced business courses later in my college career. Thank you.
• Thanks so much!!

Summer 2008

• he always tends to make things look easier than it does from the textbook
• thanks for a great semester
• thanks for understanding and being generous

Spring 2008

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• piece of cake if follow his instruction, dont even have to take all of the exams. He sometimes teaches differently from the text, but who cares, his ways seem to be simpler most of the time.
• good course, great and kinda cute professor
• gave a lot of extra credits and board bonus scores, easy class, nice professor, great time.
• very nice and effective. I didnt get A as easily as some ppl in class did, but still fair.
• great professor. makes this course look easy
• Very effective instructor he understand's the material and how to present the material. One thing that he could change is to slow his lecture down when showing examples so the student can better understand the concepts.
• excellent, lineient
• In the beginning of the semester never answered class questions but changed as class progressed.
• He gives examples aiming to help students to understand the problems better. He is a very nice and patient instructor who answers questions thoroughly.
• The instructor's style of teaching is hard to understand. He does not break things down to a level the students can understand. A small percentage of the class actually understood what he was trying to teach.
• He answered all questions and provided concepts to problems which are much more useful than regular examples.
• The instructor was effective and knew the material well when teaching, although much of classtime was wasted. Class could have been cut shorter or introduced new topics to fill up the time.
• Mr. Vu was extremly effective at teaching and I felt that I learned a lot. I was well prepared for the exams and the homework really helped me to understand the subjects. Mr. Vu was also quick to reply to questions the class had outside of class, and made plently of time available for office hours
• He was very effective in teaching the material and always went over examples to help the students understand better. I think he succeeded in teaching the material and the homeworks helped a lot.
• Half the time I couldn't understand him. He taught too fast and chose random things to teach us. We weren't doing the same things as other class. Test questions used hard numbers that didn't compute well. He taught a lot of alternative methods, and only those, and if you you did things the way the book showed, you wouldn't earn partial credit. I think they need better MTH 115 teachers; I always hear bad things about this class level.
  This student must have had wrong answers for some questions, because almost all of my questions are designed in a way that the results are always simple and easily computed even without calculator. The book sometimes uses a confusing or long or too complicated method, that's why sometimes I introduced different techniques. A few students didnt go to class and got trouble because they didnt know how to use the new method while using the old method might take too long or easily make mistakes.
• great instructor.... uses effective teaching and is friendly and makes class enjoyable
• I think the teacher and his ability to communicate far better and clear to students.
• Phu seems like a nice guy. He is not a very good teacher. I could barely follow half of what he was doing. Much of what he wrote on the board was illegible. Overall the course was a nightmare. A very easy class to pass (no complaint there) but I feel like I didn't learn much. I took this class to prepare me for Calc 1. I do not feel the least bit prepared. Very dissatisfied.
• Explain how problems are done instead of just doing them. Sometimes would go too far in-depth with problems which was unnecessary and confusing
• Very fair, gives good examples on the board. A little hard to understand at times, because of his accent
• Thanks for a great semester
• haha phu vu...you are THE smartest teacher and THE funniest...and all the ladies love you
• phuuuuu!!!!!!!!!! VUUUUUU!!!!!!!
• Hi Mr. Vu, I thoroughly enjoyed your math class and I thought you were an excellent teacher. If there is a teacher evaluation to fill out on myUB I will do so and give you high marks. Thank you Mr. Vu for a great math class!
• Thank you for a wonderful semester!
• Ok. Thanks a lot for a good semester.
• You're so nice, do you teach 131 too, because I want to take that it with you. The schedule doesnt show instructor name yet, only noted "staff".
• Story: this one student never hand in homework on time and always missed tests, for some reason, then came to my office for make-up test and late due homework. I accepted anyhow, but she didnt do well anyway. At the end of semester, she didnt have enough points to get an A and complaint. As a reference for those who werent in this class, I gave students 5 homework, 6 tests (4 in-class, 1 take home, 1 optional test), and a lot of bonus questions, in homework and in test, normally bonus question is 20% extra credit. The optional test is subjected to replace the lowest test among the first 5, or in case student missed one. There is also board bonus credit, which award students who go to the board to solve my example question once or twice. Thus, students can get 5% bonus for once or 10% for twice, and 10% is like student can get 1 free test with 100/100 points. Practically, a good student could achieve an A grade by doing well on only 3/5 tests, 4/5 homework. At the end of semester, 23/40 students got an A, 12 got B, 3 got C and 2 failed.
   
  Student: I had a question about the grades. Many of my classmates and I were wondering what happened to the divide six tests by five, everyone was looking forward to the extra credit. And I was also wondering how my grade went down 10points and if there is anything else to do to get my grade back up
  
  Me: First of all, your grade never went down. The only thing that might be lower is the percentage, if you dont do as well as you have been doing. The last column is the quantity that will determine your course grade. About how I compute the final grade, it is like this: if you take test 6, then the lowest test score will be omited, then sum up the rest, divide by five. I stated the purpose of this optional test in very detail: to replace missing test or low scored test. Why I say sum of 6 tests, because different people have different situation, some may want to drop test 1, some may want test 4 dropped, so its not 2,3,4,5,6 or 1,2,3,5,6. I gave a lot of extra credit questions, bonus for participating in class, so adding up all 6 tests and divide by 5 just doesnt sound right.
  
  Student: Ok well everyone was confused and thought that there was an extra credit test, and my grade did go down
  
  Me: Talk to me about this. I will look into the issue. Unless there is a mistake recording your scores, your course grade shouldnt go down. People going to lectures and getting good grades, they dont get confused.
  
  Student: First of all, I dont have a bad grade i actually have b . and second of all, im confused because i dont understand stuff in general
  
  Me: I checked your progress in the course: Your score BEFORE you took test 5 & homework5: Average: 89% Grade 71
                                                                 Your score AFTER the test (19) & homework (50):  Average: 78% Grade 78
        This is what you can do: take optional test#6 to cover/replace test5 (19/100).
        Here is what you can expect: If you score at least 40/100, that will boost your grade to 80 ~ a B+
                                                   If you score 90/100, you will get 85 grade points, which is an A-
  
  Student: just know that youre going to get a very terrile evaluation from me and many other angry students. thanks
  
  Me: Go ahead! There are always bad and good students in one class. You better check to see how many students got so high grades at so early in the course.
        I just happen to notice that this is not the first time you sent me email through this IP, but I hold no grude on you whatsoever. After all, UB has evaluations for students to express any opinions, freely. You are one of my students, regardless your grades, regardless you going to my lectures or not.
  I hope you could do better on other courses.
  
  Students: Im sorry, one of my friends from your class decided to email you from my computer, but that wasnt me. i already discussed the issue with my grade and i am satisfied with my b+. as for my friend who isnt, im sorry and ill tell them to just let it go.
  
  Me: Its not a big problem, but was my first time ever receiving that kind of unpleasant behavior. Students go to college to learn, so I guess they will be better, sooner or later. Have a good summer.
   
• Student: You were so nice so I thought that I could slack a bit. Then I turned out to be too lazy and screwed up in the end. Thanks for giving me chances so I could walked out with a B.
• You are the man!!

Fall 2007

• Phu Vu is the smartest TA. He just jumped the help center and answered any kind of question from any kind of topics.
• Phu, I stay in the help Center only looking for you.
• he is nice, but hard to understand
• have patience to listen to students, spend extra time in recitation and office hour to answer question
• very helpful, great TA
• very typical example of international TA, strong accent. He is smart but doesnt know how to teach.
• very knowledgeable
• Phu Vu knows what hes teaching. A bit difficult to follow at first, but helpful when you can adapt him.
• Always let the class get out late.
• smart and funny