MATH 1007
Ideas in Mathematics · 5 instructors on record · 22 sections
That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.
Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.
Not open to students who have completed their Mathematics Core Curriculum Requirement without permission of the Department Chairperson.This course is designed to introduce the student to the spirit, beauty and vitality of mathematics. The emphasis is on development of ideas as well as problem solving skills. Topics vary, but are typically chosen from diverse areas such as geometry, number theory, probability and graph theory.Some terms, the sections are also centered around a theme such as "math and democracy" or "math and games."See the Math Department Website (links tohttps://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/math/undergraduate/course-offerings.html)for information about this coming term.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erika WardAssociate Professor of the Practice · Mathematics | 9010 records | 25th | 3rd | 9215 ratings · all classes |
| 2 | Robyn BrooksMathematics Provisional | 842 records | 39th | 22nd | 749 ratings · all classes |
| 3 | Andrei IonovMathematics | 783 records | 25th | 39th | —no page |
| 4 | Avner AshProfessor · Mathematics | 713 records | 30th | 40th | —no page |
| 5 | Nicolas PetitMathematics | 564 records | 85th | 55th | 5619 ratings · all classes |
How this board is orderedPositions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. 1 of 5 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach; that site has no course dimension, so it is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.
The line
All 13 items · means across 22 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
22 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erika Ward | Spring 2026 | 01 | 92 | 88 | — |
| Erika Ward | Spring 2026 | 02 | 97 | 94 | 40 |
| Avner Ash | Fall 2025 | 01 | 71 | 61 | 40 |
| Avner Ash | Fall 2025 | 02 | 72 | 69 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Spring 2025 | 01 | 89 | 87 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Spring 2025 | 02 | 88 | 86 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Fall 2024 | 01 | 87 | 85 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Fall 2024 | 02 | 86 | 86 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Spring 2024 | 01 | 87 | 80 | 40 |
| Erika Ward | Spring 2024 | 02 | 90 | 84 | 40 |
| Andrei Ionov | Spring 2024 | 03 | 73 | 66 | 40 |
| Andrei Ionov | Spring 2024 | 04 | 93 | 87 | — |
| Erika Ward | Fall 2023 | 01 | 91 | 88 | — |
| Erika Ward | Fall 2023 | 02 | 94 | 91 | — |
| Avner Ash | Spring 2023 | 01 | 70 | 59 | 60 |
| Andrei Ionov | Spring 2023 | 02 | 66 | 58 | — |
| Robyn Brooks | Fall 2022 | 01 | 84 | 76 | 40 |
| Robyn Brooks | Fall 2022 | 02 | 84 | 74 | 60 |
| Nicolas Petit | Spring 2022 | 01 | 40 | 35 | 80 |
| Nicolas Petit | Spring 2022 | 02 | 61 | 59 | 80 |
| Nicolas Petit | Fall 2021 | 01 | 61 | 54 | 60 |
| Nicolas Petit | Fall 2021 | 02 | 61 | 58 | 60 |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.