Blake Thornton

Not helpful in lecture. Speeds through things and expects you to know it. The final was nearly impossible this semester (the average doesn't show it but it was) and was

5/9/2026

2-4 hrs/week

Energetic professor. Very conceputal class. Basically calc 1 but in 3 dimensions.

5/21/2024

6-8 hrs/week

Best structured class I’ve taken at WashU. Interesting content and fairly easy!

5/19/2024

4-6 hrs/week

Thornton has a workbook that directly follows his lectures and makes everything straightforward. Some of the webworks can get annoying and the final for my year was extremely hard compared to the first three tests. Topics can get confusing, its what you'd expect for Calc.

5/18/2024

2 or less hrs/week

Horrible professor, scary, webwork sucked and exams were hard

5/18/2024

4-6 hrs/week

Easier than Calculus II and is just an overview of a lot of calc 3 topics. Thornton is a great professor and had a great grasp of what the students in the class understood/didn't understand. He also wrote a workbook for the class to follow for Calc 3 specifically, which made following along to do problems easily, so i would definitely recommend getting that book. The tests were kind of difficult, but he changed them constantly depending on what the average was, so it was kind of a coin toss as to whether the specific test would be easy or hard.

5/17/2024

honestly not bad. lecture is pretty useful bc you fill in solutions in the workbook which is helpful. tests aren't very hard besides the final

3/6/2024

It's a hard class and it's centered around the curriculum he made, so do the workbook problems to study. Not great 1-on-1 and okay in class. My guide for this class is to do the workbook problems they are super helpful.

1/23/2024

Take this class with another professor if possible, but you won't be utterly screwed if you take this class with Thornton. He's a pretty laid back guy, but all of the studying came from hours and hours of self studying. His lectures didn't help a lot that I just stopped going after a month. The final exam was also a mess with tons of mistakes.

1/18/2024

Poor lecturer not very approachable. He was condescending and rude on several occasions. The final exam had several mistakes and was designed very poorly. Claimed that the professors went over each problem to see if it was reasonable (don't see how that's possible given the numerous mistakes that were on the final). Disappointing class.

12/23/2023