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Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/05/2024	She is a great professor, I really liked the way she teaches and tells the problems. Although there is a common problem between most of the professors of not teaching problems as hard as they come, but I think she teaches the concepts enough that you shouldn't have a problem with it as long as you are paying attention in class...
Mirna Pinsky MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 10/30/2024	DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR, she is so buns and cannot teach for her life, she might be a nice lady but she justs yaps and writes on a chalkboard I had to teach myself everything throughout the entire year. 75% of my class dropped out the course before it even ended because of this prof. If she is the last option just dont even take the class at that point and wait till next semester if you want to save you mental health.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/09/2024	Conway makes concepts easy to understand and its clear that he enjoys teaching. He brings a positive attitude to class everyday and I highly recommend taking him.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/09/2024	this guy is the goat. if he ever teaches calc 2 again you NEED to take him. be honest, you don't care about calc 2, you just need to pass with the highest grade possible. that's amin.
Jaime Paradela MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/30/2024	Say all you want, this guy is absolutely crazy. I don't say much about grading because if you're good with a class, you're gonna get a good grade. He grades normally. But oh my god are his lectures fun. I've already taken calc 2 and need this course to fulfill a technicality but just sitting around in a lecture is incredibly fun and entertaining. He jumps around the material so you have to pay attention to whats going on. He's sassy about student's incredibly obvious questions and best of all, he's just completely nonchalant. This guy will have a student answer and state a whole ass question just to respond with "yes." Absolutely the goat. He also does no BS and gives everything to you straight up. The average conversation goes as following: "Question" -> "Yes./No./Huh?/eeeeeeh..." -> if you get the rare "eeeeh..." you are given the most BASIC explanation ever to your question. Also don't try to be a smart ass because he will outmatch you every time, some kids were asking some bs and this guy just told them to be patient and explained everything and left them speechless. Phenomenal. Take this class.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 08/28/2024	Exams don't prepare you for final, and the homework is significantly harder than in class examples. Our final was significantly lower than Anna's class. He is very boring and only does examples in class that aren't very helpful. Don't take him
Pablo Cedillos MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/09/2024	He taught this class over the summer session and I did way better with him as my professor than I did with an actual professor during the spring session. His exams were really fair, and gave us bonus points as well. His notes were extremely thorough as they highlighted the important formulas as well as harder examples. I ended with over a 100%.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/02/2024	Calc 2 is hard but Anna made it easy to learn. Her notes were easy to understand. The homeworks were hard and only worth 3% and the discussions worth 10% were really challenging. The quizzes were easy if you paid attention to the TA during the discussions and they were 7.5% of the grade. There were 4 midterms which had high medians (83,80,90, and 82) which are higher than other calc classes. The lowest midterm was worth half. The final exam was really tough but the median was 78, which was higher than my friends with other profs. However, she did NOT curve at all at the end.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 07/24/2024	Anna being the professor was the only reason I passed this course tbh. Amazing professor
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/28/2024	He uploads his notes and they are pretty neat, so that helps a lot. That being said, his lectures are pretty straightforward, by the book, and monotonous. The worksheets are hard and require a lot of work but the quizzes tend to be fairly easy. It would have been great if he gave more weightage to the webassigns, considering we need to pour so much of our effort into them. The exams are way past the questions done in lectures, but you will be fine if you are good at self-studying. He curves the lowest exam and the TAs were lenient graders, so that is pretty nice.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 06/23/2024	Note: This was his first or second time teaching Math141. Stefan is a nerdy but nice guy who is willing to help, but his examples are rather straightforward and much easier than the web assign and exams. His exams tend to be easier than other professors but the easiness of the problems doesn't prepare you all that well for the final.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 06/12/2024	Note that Calculus 2 is probably one of the harder math classes at UMD. Stefan is a good lecturer and explains concepts well but his examples tend to be fairly easy compared to what's on the web assign and discussion worksheets. As a result it seems his tests are easier than other professors, but so is what he does in class. He tends to skip around at times and get through the calculus of the examples. His explanations are rather short sometimes leaving some confused. He goes over the concept but not the hard parts of each concept, leaving it up to you to figure out. His exams are not the best prep for the cumulative final that is given which makes the exam harder. There is no curve on the class but you do get a 10/10 on the discussion worksheets for showing up and attempting them.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 06/05/2024	Discussion worksheets were not relevant at all. The TA had to reteach us concepts because she couldn't adequately do it. Grading for exams was messed up several times and sample exams did not match the real midterms
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 06/05/2024	She does not post any sample problems and there are few textbook answers to the suggested practice problems. Her notes are the same ones the textbook has steps for, so it is not new information. The office hours do not help at all and many students resorted to cheating to pass exams/quizzes. We had discussion worksheets on topics she hadn't even covered in class yet. This was her first time teaching Calc 2 at UMD and SHE DOES NOT CURVE AT ALL.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/28/2024	I would say that he is one of the better 141 professors out there. His tests are fair and he is extremely fast when it comes to grading exams. One downside to him was he was constantly a few minutes late to most lectures including exams, he does give you added time for the exams but it can be difficult when you have other classes after it can be tricky but that is my only real bad thing to say about him. I felt his pace was good, wasn't too fast or slow. He posts all of his lecture notes which are very helpful when studying for his exams. He doesn't curve a specific exam but at the end of the semester the final grade cutoff was shifted accordingly which was great. Overall I would recommend him as I do think he is a good professor especially for such a hard class like Math141.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/25/2024	Really great professor in my opinion, I would recommend him. I liked his lecture style and he explained everything thoroughly. I know many people find him disorganized, but I found him to be helpful. Exams were fair and are very similar to examples we do in lecture. Obviously, with any calc class, it's important to do your own practice problems in your own time if you really want to get a good grade. TAs were very helpful as well. We didn't have quizzes this semester but had worksheets instead which we always got full credit on as long as we completed it. He curves at the end too, about 5%.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/25/2024	I personally have so much respect for this professor man. Super organized, lecture notes always posted after lecture, and no mandatory attendance of lectures. She's also very nice and approachable. Honestly, I learned much more about calculus 2 with this professor, and I actually ended up understanding things and figuring stuff out (unlike my AP Calc BC teacher back in high school). We had a cutoff for our final grades, something like anything above a 90 is an A, which is awesome. Also, she's usually really lenient and flexible, for example I requested for a makeup exam due to multiple exam conflicts, and while she didn't let me take the exam on another day due to university policies, I was able to take it at another time. Trust me take this professor and your GPA will be blessed. One advice that I do have though is to genuinely go to her lectures because she explains stuff really well. I felt like I did a little bad in class once I stopped going to her lectures (maybe because calc 2 in general is fast-paced and difficult), but trust me go to her lectures it's really great!
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2024	Outstanding professor. Straightforward with lectures, gives tons of examples, and makes homeworks/discussions challenging so that students can understand the topics. Very understanding of her students and teaches so well. Obviously this class is a large workload but just be sure to attend lectures and do the homeworks because they are all very valuable for practice!
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a D Anonymous 05/20/2024	32 Webassign HWs that are not helpful in learning concepts make up 8% of the grade. everyone would be better off if we were quizzed on concepts instead of given really challenging homeowkrs. in one hw stefan said there was no need to understand a concept because it would not be on the final, but the concept was on the homework.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a D+ Anonymous 05/20/2024	Our final exam average was a D. Stefans a nice person but he can improve explaining concepts. For notes Stefans style is to offer theorems and definitions, with a few examples per theorem sometimes only one example per theorem; stefan cannot go through lots of examples cus theres many concepts in calc 2, he can do better by incorporating more examples. there were times Stefan did not explain a shortcut well or explain concepts that involved other maths (calc 1 or algebra tricks) overall stefan expects you know calc 1 extremely well and I would not recommend this course if you did not take calc 1 the semester before. for context i took calc 1 more than a year b4 taking calc 2 and would definitely take Anna over Stefan if possible
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/19/2024	Dr. S is an amazing professor with very clear lectures and great examples. All of the exams were very straightforward and honestly pretty easy if you put effort into studying for them. The reason why I am giving a 4 and not a 5 is that she does not really interact with the class at all during lectures. She seldom answers questions during actual class time and will look right at you with your hand raised and just continue teaching. However, if you approach her afterwards she is happy to help and answer questions. Overall though a great professor. I think she had the highest average across all calc 2 profs this past semester. Definitely take her if you have the chance.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/19/2024	The GOAT for Calc 2. The work is very manageable, 2 webassign homeworks per week with extensions given automatically if you need them, whenever you need them, so essentially none of them have deadlines (but if you request an extension you will lose 10%). Discussion sections have a graded worksheet every class, so you can't really skip them, but the worksheets are graded on completion rather than accuracy and I finished and left early 90% of the time. Really manageable. Exams are not curved but they're super easy compared to other calc professors I've had, like directly copying a couple problems from lecture note examples and re-using them with different values easy sometimes. He does not record his lectures but he posts lecture notes, so if you miss a day or two it's not a huge deal. While individual exams are not curved your final grade is and the curve at the end of the class was great, I ended up with an 86% and got an A-. Shalin himself is not too entertaining as a lecturer (I think this is the fault of the subject more than him tbh) but he has his moments, and is a very chill and easy to approach guy. Only cons I can think of is that because his exams are relatively easy in comparison, you have to study harder for the final which is co-written by Chadwick and the other department heads to be prepared, and he also shows up to lecture 5 minutes late every single day.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/17/2024	For a course as hard as Calc 2, you will not find a better professor than Anna, and I can say it confidently because I've taken this course twice. Her lectures are very useful, as she goes over many examples alongside teaching the concepts. Discussion can be very helpful, just collaborate with peers, if you don't understand your TA. Only thing is that the webassign hw is not always the best, because they sometimes require calculators and it would take way too long by hand.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2024	His lectures were well-paced and he was always ready to answer questions. He posted lecture notes and gave homework extensions whenever needed. His exams were wayyy easier than the other calc 2 exams (almost all the questions were from homework or lectures and were usually very straighforward), which made a good grade cushion for the final. The class was curved very generously at the end as well. He rushed the last unit but it was not too difficult to learn independently. Overall, he made the class extremely fair and a great experience, especially considering it was calc 2.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/16/2024	For starters, I would like to mention that I started off with Tim P. Absolute NIGHTMARE. The difference between him and Chaddy is night and day. Chaddy truly is the goat. I would not have been able to pass calc 2 if it weren't for him. He's a really good lecturer and exams are pretty fair. However, he's not the greatest at answering questions in class because he seems to be a little shy. But if you put in the work, you'll really pass. I took very little calculus in high school so taking this class was really rough for me. But I did it! You can do it too! Take Chaddy!
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2024	Very good lecturer who pauses to let people ask questions to ensure everyone understands. If you study and know what you're doing, you'll do great in his class. He does not curve midterms but is lenient with the grading. There weren't any quizzes and the worksheets are based on effort so depending on your TA, it's free points. Finally, I would not expect a curve on the final, however, depending on the class he'll round up if you're borderline. Overall, a great professor who knows what he's doing, and as long as you study for the exams, you'll be fine.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2024	took her for both 140 and 141 and was a great experience, was a good lecturer and was very clear with everything that needed known for the class, her midterms were more than fair and the lecture before any test would be a review, usually at least one of the questions on the test was straight off the review, would highly recommend her if you want to see lots of examples in class and not get bogged down wit the derivation and theory behind concepts
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/15/2024	brosnan clearly knows the topics and goes in depth into each topic. but that's just it, he really goes into it, at the point where you have no idea what he is talking about. sometimes i feel like this guy is yapping to himself for pleasure. if you are into the nitty gritty parts of calculus where you like the proofs, have fun with this guy, otherwise, take 141 with another professor.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2024	Going into calculus 2 in general, I was expecting a low grade. I heard horror stories about calculus 2. I honestly think people should take her course because she explains them clearly and provide good notes. If you can do her practice problems and attend lectures, you will be able to pass! :)
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/13/2024	Had Prof. S for MATH140/141. She is a very nice person and explains math in a manner where people who are not strong in math can learn it. In class we went over simple problems first then moved on to more advanced problems as we built our skills. THe homework and disucssion are so annoying but you need to try to understand the concepts so please do them. Exams are a mix of easy and somewhat challenging. You need to get your points on these semester exams b/c the final for calculus is incredibly diffucilt and worth 27% of your grade. Alot of people including me do badly on them so get your points early. With prof S expect very fair semester exams. Gives you a chance you buffer your grade for the final. Work hard, math140/141 is tough regardless of who is teaching. Take professor S and you will give your self the greatest chance to pass while still learning math.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2024	Teaches the course content very well. She explains things very clearly and always posts the notes after lecture. The way she does examples is class is very easy to follow. She's super nice, but also fair when it comes to exams. If there's a problem on the homework that looks difficult, she makes sure to cover it in class. And though the discussion worksheets are sometimes challenging, she doesn't decide what the worksheet looks like, the head of the math department does. But she does teach the stuff that is needed to figure out the worksheets, and the TA is there to help too. I had her for Calc I too and Anna is by far the best math instructor I've had. 10/10, would take her again if I could.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/12/2024	goat. Dr. Chadwick is easily one of the nicest and most caring professors I've ever had. He stays after class to answer questions and is great at explaining topics during office hours, he even stays EXTRA long after class to ensure every student has their question answered. Calc II is not an easy subject so I could see why people could give him low ratings. His exams can be a bit more difficult but his teaching makes up for it. Quizzes aren't bad at all. Homework is homework. TAs are a bit iffy at first but chill. If you're looking for the best professor for Calc II, it's most likely Chadwick, if you're looking for slightly easier exams then a different professor might be better for you. You'll learn a lot with Chadwick. Overall goated guy, w chad
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/09/2024	The absolute GOAT. If Stefan has 1000 fans, I am one of them. If Stefan has one fan, it's me. If Stefan has no fans I am dead. If the world is against Stefan I am against the world.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Anonymous 05/09/2024	I had her for Calc 1 and 2 and wish I could have her for Calc 3. I recommend her to all my friends because she does such an amazing job explaining everything in class and keeping it simple. It’s still a hard class but she makes it a lot more bearable than other teachers. Homework is only 2-3% of the grade so I just never did them, there’s quizzes some weeks but the TA always went over what would be on them and even if confused before the discussion I always got an A on them and the lowest is dropped. The exam reviews covered majority of what would be on the exam but sometimes different versions of the same question. I have a B- right now but also it’s calc 2 and i skip class and don’t do the hw so a good grade is definitely achievable. Overall she’s the best and i love her.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/07/2024	Did not have fun with this class… but Anna definitely helped make things a lot better. She’s a super great lecturer and a very nice person. Her exams are also fairly easy (when compared to the other 141 exams that is…). She’s also very quick to respond to messages. I would recommend her.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/07/2024	More like Goatwick tbh. He is very understanding and I found his style of teaching to be extremely helpful.
Zhenghe Zhong MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/07/2024	Love this guy! Super helpful when it comes to explaining course content, and honestly one of the nicest TAs I’ve ever interacted with.
Anna Szczekutowicz MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/07/2024	Anna is an excellent professor and genuinely cares about how her students do in the class. She's a great teacher, knows how to explain the content and her averages reached up into the 90s for tests that other professors struggled to get C averages for. That isn't to say her class is easy, it's tough and you'll need to put in the work. If you can, absolutely take her for MATH141.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Anonymous 05/06/2024	Great professor. Exams are very fair and he teaches very well. Uploads notes and labels them by topic section. The discussion worksheets were graded on participation. Only problem is that he does not have many previous exams to study from for his tests, but using other professors tests are just as good. Takes questions straight from lecture then changes values into the exam.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/02/2024	Amin is okay at teaching, you can't really understand but he goes straight from the textbook with examples from the textbook so you could look back at them later. His grading policy is extremely good, correcting his mistakes in class gives you some points and all the curves are great. This is a hard class so it is an expected workload. All the TA are pretty good too, his quizzes come straight from the textbooks problems.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/29/2024	Gives the easiest exams out of literally any possible professor. 5 questions no bs. Take him if you want the easiest calc 2 experience of your life. He also teaches the content really well in lectures.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/23/2024	I'm not sure how I feel about all the positive reviews? It's not like he's bad, but he's not the greatest of all time. Parekh is constantly late for class (that was good for me because I was late too lol), but he still gave us the full 50min to do the midterms. He has learned; no more cheat sheets and no more calculators on exams. NOTE: - He likes engagement (i.e. asks question, waits for people to respond) PROS: - Posts notes (in batches albeit) - Listens to students (ex. he pushed back hw because he didn't finish teaching the unit) - Grades FAST fast (TA's and him are the goat) - Lectures are pretty clear/straightforward - Midterms super easy CONS: - Doesn't record - Might have to speedrun the last few parts (chp 9 and/or 10 I think) because he kinda teaches a bit slow (i.e. might get behind on content) - Midterms super easy. The last con is my biggest worry with him. While I enjoy easy assignments and stuff (yummy A+ mmm gpa go up), Parekh's are a problem. His midterms are like high school hw like... 1 page + 5 problems WITHOUT multiple parts + easiest problems to ever exist = easy A. BUT REMEMBER!! At least for the lower-level math courses, finals are written NOT by the professor, but by the head (? dean? what's he called) of the math department. Meaning, Parekh's handholding does NOT PREPARE YOU FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!! I'm writing this before I take it, but I KNOW I'm cooked...
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 04/06/2024	Professor Conway is a really nice guy and his lectures are pretty easy to follow. His last lecture before the exams were always reviews and these really helped clarify questions. The worksheets given in discussion were absolutely useless, but I think these are given by the math department. Worksheet grades were honestly the only thing bringing me down, but these are graded entirely by the TA which you don't have control over. The first three exams went really well, but the last one has a really low average and most people don't do well on it. Conway also makes your lowest exam score out of 50 instead of 100. The final was BRUTAL. I refuse to believe that all the math professors make the finals because if they did Conway should have mentioned that his students had not seen a single thing from the final. We were asked to do things we had never been asked before, and as someone who did pretty well up until the final I simply did not know what some of the questions were asking. Prior to the final being put in, I had an A-, after the final was put in I had a C-. It was absolutely ridiculous given that my midterm average was a 85. The average for the final was around a 50 and all Conway did was curve the class maybe 7 percent. He also refused to boost grades after that. This was my second time taking Calc 2, so Conway was better than the last person I took it with, but I honestly think he needs to make the midterms harder to prepare us for the final, or advocate for reasonable questions being put on the final.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 03/19/2024	The curve +5-10% for your grade. W course. 45% of your grade is the final. Easy quizzes, midterms, final is common so it is harder than midterms. Lectures skippable. Learn all of Math141 from textbook, discussions, and webassign.
Ben Goldschlager MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 02/28/2024	He's a nice guy who is quite literally the best mathematician I have met, but since he's a grad student with zero teaching experience it hurts his teaching skills sometimes. Because of this it took me and some friends spending countless hours studying the homeworks, with some problems being so impossible that Ben would attempt to do the problem during office hours and after about 15 minutes be like "Yeah this is not on the quiz" which was pretty demoralizing since we would have 20-30 problems to memorize how to do since he will pick 2 of these questions at random to put on quizzes. We had 3 midterms, with the first two not being horrible, then the 3rd midterm tanking everyone's grade so bad that he handed us back our midterm packets, gave us a week to study, and had us retake the EXACT same midterm and averaged the old and new scores together. The final was harder than previous finals but Ben at least stayed afterwards to go over the final problems which helped us figure out how well we did (not well at all). He doesn't record lectures, so attendance is important, but he counts your worst midterm for half and worst two quizzes for half so that's cool I guess. Overall, you're better off taking this class with someone else unless you want to be grossly prepared for Calc 2, attend every office hours for Calc 2, make a bunch friends to study for Calc 2, name your future kid Calc 2, go to sleep at night thinking about Calc 2, and suffer the scars and PTSD from when you hear something related to various topics from Calc 2.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 02/13/2024	Professor Conway was a very good teacher and explained everything well. While certain information did not feel necessary, he made sure to get us all the information we would need. (He did show how to get the formulas we needed to memorize, and that process was not important to know.) His exams are very fair and he let us know what we would need to study beforehand. (Ex. one question on volume, one question on integration by parts etc.) However, because his exams were very fair, this made the common final seem much more challenging and many people were unprepared for this. Despite the numerous hours of studying for the final, the rigor made many people's grades drop by significant amounts. Overall though, Professor Conway is a very good professor who welcomes questions and is responsive to emails and when you attend office hours. The discussion worksheets were extremely challenging, however multiple end up being dropped and you can work with the people around you to figure them out!
Sudheer Shukla MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 02/09/2024	Sudheer was my TA for MATH141 and he SAVED ME in this class. The absolute goat. He held exam reviews before every exam, sometimes holding multiple review sessions for an exam, and was super understanding if anyone needed to miss discussion and didn't penalize you if you didn't have a doctors note or something like that (we only got one free pass to miss discussion). He always answered every single question you had exhaustively, and would help if you ever asked for it. If I could give him a six star review I would. I had Eoin Mackall as my professor, and Sudheer taught me the content way better than Eoin did. GOAT.
Arpith Shanbhag MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 02/08/2024	The worst TA I ever had. Did not teach, could not speak English, and just handed out the quizzes and stood in the corner for 50 minutes.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 02/08/2024	Dr. Conway: His teaching strategy is to derive every equation, and unless you are a math major, I don't see the point in it. It would be a better use of time if he spent more time on examples then derivations. However, he stayed on schedule, and was able to cover all of the material. His exams also text to be relatively straight forward if you know what you are doing. MATH141: This class has a lot of material and is very difficult. If you have the opportunity to take it at a community college, I would recommend that. The quizzes during each discussion are the worst since they tend to cover material to a degree we did not reach in class. The final exam was also impossible.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/23/2024	A decent professor but a terrible teacher. His lectures of him reading off the textbook are nigh on impossible to follow, and he never answers questions: instead opting to just say “I’ll get to it” while never getting to it. Heavy accent and terrible handwriting as well does not help the understandability. I would recommend not going to lecture at all, and instead just read the textbook while going to discussion to ask questions. All the TA’s (especially Hong my goat) are pretty good and willing to help. Discussion quizzes are also just free points, and expect a decent curve on every test and a huge FINAL GRADE (not exam) curve.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A- djacobs 01/18/2024	Going into this class, I was pretty nervous because I don't consider myself particularly math inclined. But Professor Conway made calculus 2 bearable. He always answered my questions and his office hours were really helpful. If you do the practice exams and follow the class notes, you'll be fine on the exams. The web assigns tend to be a lot more difficult than the real exam, which is better than having it the other way around. Overall, as a non-math person, this class was manageable!
Ben Goldschlager MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 01/04/2024	I'll be the first to write a review. I was a part of his first-class teaching MATH141. He was simply not a great teacher. He is a math genius and can do our calc problems extremely easily to a fault. He will skip unintuitive steps and explain extremely intuitive steps. He writes very fast and by the time you decipher what steps skipped to get to an answer, he is already on the next problem. His exams were also quite inconsistent. The quizzes were fine as they were just made up of homework problems however the 'midterms' were very unpredictable and extraordinarily difficult to study for. It became a running joke in our class that everyone was failing even though that wasn't really the case. Our grades came out fine overall with the class likely scoring around the average for the course however to get this grade I had to put in a significant amount of hours studying. Office hours were also often packed and on multiple occasions it seemed the entire class was in office hours which should have been a clear signal that everyone was confused. But, Ben is a pretty nice person and his office hours were reasonably helpful as he would pretty much do whatever problem you wanted and would explain steps if specifically asked so 2 stars.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/31/2023	- he explains the proofs of every single problem, which I found to be very confusing. in his proofs there were a lot of variables and symbols I didn't understand so I would just zone out during lectures. me personally, I did not like his style of teaching because he taught in proofs. so the lectures essentially were pointless to me. - BUT what made the class bearable were the TAs. My TA was great because they explained the problems and concepts really well. And on like 2 or 3 days during the semester, some of the TAs came and taught lecture because Brosnan was sick and these were the most helpful and informative lectures I have attended. so my piece of advice is if you have brosnan, use your TAs to learn the content. Pay attention in discussion, make use of office hours, and ask questions. Also, there are GSS (guided study sessions) for Math141 that you can attend for extra help (I found these to be very helpful) also I would watch youtube videos online for extra help (some helpful channels to me were Professor Leonard and the Organic Chemistry Tutor). - back to the topic of Brosnan: he is funny, but he goes on tangents. everyone learns in a different way, so you may find Brosnan to be helpful, but I didn't. - However, I liked the way his grading for the class was structured (in other words, I am not entirely mad about it). So throughout the semester there is a total of 10 quizzes, 4 midterms, 1 final, and a bunch of webassigns. Out of these assignments, the lowest 2 quiz grades are dropped and the lowest midterm is dropped. This was very helpful for me because I basically bombed one of the midterms. 4 midterms may seem like a lot, and I guess they kind of are because we would have one every 2ish weeks, but having these midterms kept me on track with learning the content. - some final remarks: do the webassigns on time, do the practice problems in the textbook because the quizzes were very similar to these (you learn more about what I am talking about once you get your syllabus), don't be afraid to ask for extra help, and find a good group of people to study with!
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/29/2023	The professor clearly has a passion for calculus as seen through his lectures. However, he spends too much time proving theorems and techniques and not enough time explaining and doing practice problems. Frankly the proofs aren't something you need to know unless you can't remember a trig identity or substitution method or something. If you have a friend who took AP Calculus BC in high school (or if you took it), I'd use those notes since the textbook can also be confusing with its math language. Warning that I took AP Calculus BC my senior year and got a 5, but there is some content covered in MATH141 that I did not learn last year. Paul's Online Math Notes or the Organic Chemistry Tutor on Youtube are also good options if you need help. There's a quiz every Thursday, so be prepared for that. Your TA should be nice enough to tell you what sections the quiz covers, and it's just two questions. The WebAssign homework assignments are finicky with how you enter your answer, and some of them require a calculator even though there are no calculators allowed for any exam or quiz in this course. The questions there are also much harder than on any test you're going to take for this course. Don't slack on studying for the final, since it's 45% of your grade. Best I can say is to show all your work and write down any formulas so you can get pity points for knowing those.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/26/2023	This class is much more difficult than it needs to be, and that's the mentality you need to enter it with. But Dr. Conway makes it much more manageable. Yes it will take you hours each day between lecture, homework, discussions, and studying, but if you go to lecture his quizzes are extremely straightforward, and fair. He is one of the few professors that cares more about your understanding of the specific concept than trying to make you regurgitate algebra which makes it so much better. He is a great lecturer, and extremely nice and helpful at office hours. WARNING!: you WON'T be prepared for the final, the quizzes are much easier so make sure to really do well on all 4 midterms before going into the final.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2023	You will do well in this class IF YOU PUT THE WORK IN. To be honest, don't expect to learn during lecture. Amin's style is hard to follow. Use the notes he posts before lecture, read the textbook and take notes, watch Organic Chemistry Tutor videos if you still don't understand a concept, and do the WebAssign right after to practice. Don't fall behind on WebAssigns because you'll hate yourself when all 30 of them are due before the final. Go to TA office hours if you need help with a problem or concept, they will help you get it right. TA HONG IS A REAL ONE. You'll be rewarded with good grades on the weekly quizzes if you do the textbook practice problems, because the questions are taken directly from the textbook. The best way to do well on an exam is to spend time every day learning and practicing and do not fall behind, as the course moves at an extremely fast pace. Even with a curve, exam averages are low, from 60s to 70s. I slacked the first two exams (mid 70s), but came out with a good grade because I got my act together for the remaining exams. Also, Amin's grading policies make it so that you can still finish with a good grade even if you fumble two exams. An A is possible with Amin, as long as you work hard and take advantage of his grading policies.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B homework420 12/19/2023	Very fun professor, and very reasonable with midterms and quizzes. The quizzes in particular are just taken directly word for word from the book (at least my TA did that), so I essentially just mastered those questions. The midterms are very reasonable as well. However, I feel like he spends WAY too much time doing proofs instead of actually explaining the formulas we need to know. He knows this too but it does not seem like he will change this. I think this is stupid cause we are NEVER tested on the proofs ever. In addition I feel we are underprepared for the final, so start studying early for that. Overall, you can tell he is a nice guy but I really wished he would spend less time with proofs.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/19/2023	Me personally did not have a great experience with Amin as a teacher. His lectures are extremely hard to follow and he skips steps constantly. After I pooched the 2nd exam I started teaching myself from his lecture notes and I got a B and A on the 3rd and 4th exam. He did something weird with the 4th exam by giving us a problem bank before thanksgiving break then the exam was just questions out of that problem bank. Quizzes were easy bc they also come from a problem set from the textbook. Make sure u do good on these bc they replace ur second lowest test score. HWs were hard and tedious but good practice. I left them until the end of the semester. DO NOT DO THAT. To succeed in this class you really just have to live in the textbook, do a crap ton of problems from the one he gives in lecture and in the textbook. If u do that ull be okay. Easier said the done but the class is a battle of wills. Also from curves and grade replacements after the final my grade went from a 64 to a B-. The one other nice thing for stem majors, is that this class teaches u good study habits. U absolutely cannot cram for these exams unless u are that smart. So I would take him again just for the college reality check. So I guess inadvertently he did teach me something.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/19/2023	Very nice guy and has a good sense of humor. His teaching style is a bit confusing, because he spends the lectures writing proofs for rather simple concepts and does one or two examples near the end of class. The webassign homeworks are challenging but good practice, and he makes them due the morning of each exam which is pretty nice. His exams are 4 questions, 25 points each, similar in difficulty to the homework/textbook problems, so if you know what you're doing in the homework, you'll be fine. The course was fairly light until the sequences and series unit, which I needed to do lots of extra practice outside of lecture to keep up with. The final exam is like the midterms, but on steroids.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/18/2023	Prof. Brosnan should not be teaching a 100 level course. Having a final exam worth 45% of a grade is insanity. His exams are extremely easy, on the plus side, but the final exam is so much more difficult and a massive shock. Nice guy, but could the WebAssigns he begs us to complete be worth more than 5% of our grades?
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/18/2023	Great professor and good guy in general. His midterms were more than fair (around an 80% average on all of them except the last one) and he does a good job explaining topics in lecture. He does like to go into complicated theory in lecture sometimes but it technically doesn’t hurt to have a deeper understanding of the concepts. He drops your worst 3 homeworks and discussion worksheets as well as cuts your worst midterm in half. I also think he curves final grades a bit as my grade jumped a full letter grade. MATH141 is pretty brutal at UMD but Conway does a good job at preparing you to succeed.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/16/2023	Great and friendly professor! The class is quite hard and requires you to remember many topics from previous classes. Pros: Recorded lectures and notes (on ipad!), legible handwriting, easygoing, punctual, and easy-to-understand prof, lowest 3 hws/worksheets dropped + lowest exam halved which did wonders for my grade, very fair exams with high class averages (except for the final), fast responses to emails (and accomadating when sick), fast grading for exams (within 1 week), CURVE! (but highly depends on your class + exams) Cons: Webassign formatting kinda sucks, class is fast paced + you have to put in the hours, surprising amount of memorization :/, certain topics are much harder than others, i was not at all prepared for what was on the final (the final was nothing like the exams we had in class, likely because the department wrote it), some worksheets were super difficult Advice: Practice problems + practice exams!!! Do the problems in the textbook and check your answers with the textbook answers. And try on the homeworks and worksheets, they will help you actually learn the content since there are only so many problems that can be covered during lecture. Talk to Prof Conway if you're struggling, he seems like a very approachable professor and he is also quite funny which makes the class bearable. My grade was saved by the curve since the final average was really low (like 60%). I literally got a 50% on the final and got a B-. Prof Conway says he does not curve individual assignments and only looks at the final grades to see if he should curve so definitely don't rely on it. This class was a rollercoaster of emotions for me and I almost got weeded out but I would recommend.
Bilal Aytekin MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/16/2023	Great TA. Super approachable and kind. Did tons of relevant example problems in discussions, took care to make sure he explained concepts well, and answered questions thoroughly. He made the often complicated material of Calculus II much more digestible. Very helpful during office hours as well. It was clear he really wanted us to succeed.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/16/2023	Amin is not a good lecturer. Period. He will put the textbook on the projector and read off it, doing some of the problems on the board. He does post his lecture notes but like....its just textbook problems again. His class is set up like this: there's 30 web assigns do all on one day at the end of the semester and 2 get dropped (stay on top of it you will hate yourself later). There's 10 quizzes that consist of 2 problems from the textbook and he does drop 2 quizzes. He does give you 7-10 problems in the textbook those questions could be, however he does do it where he will teach a chapter the day before the quiz and you have to learn how to do all the problems that night with no help from the prof or TA. That was extremely frustrating for me to be taught material the day before getting quizzed on it on top of him being a bad lecturer. I can only speak for my TA and...he was not helpful. Super nice guy, but not great at teaching. The tests are hard and averages typically be in the 60s, but he does drop a test and replace another test with the average of either your total hw or quiz grade (depending on which is lower). My advice if you take Amin? Watch professor leonard on youtube or at least some other resource to learn the material. His tests can be hard so practice as much as you can from problems in the textbook. Also, his curve is very nice. People went from a 55 to C-. He also gives bonus points in class if you answer a question.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/15/2023	He explains concepts super well. Lectures can be a lot cause he needs to go semi-fast to cover all the concepts but he records everything and posts his notes if you need to look back on them. He's also very approachable during office hours and will help you with any concept you're struggling with. The exams were overall pretty fair and he would outline what the general topics of the questions would be before the exam and emphasize what we really needed know. Sometimes homework questions and worksheet question would be overly difficult but I feel like that was more on the department rather than him. The final was pretty tough and the average was really low because he wasn't the one to write it which I think is a bit unfair as the students in the sections with the professor writing the exams have an advantage, but again thats on the department. Overall, calc 2 is a weed out and is bound to be difficult and time consuming, but if you put the work in you should be ok!
Jason Schultz MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/15/2023	Professor Schultz is genuinely one of the best teachers to take for a Freshman Connection calc 2 course. He's engaging with students, very helpful, and actually wants students to succeed in what's supposed to be one of UMD's weed-out courses. In classes, you have lots of time to take notes plus constant reminders of quizzes and tests so you know when they will pop up. He also explains everything in detail (and provides proofs and examples if you don't get the theory part) and tries to avoid relying on the textbook for key information, unlike some calc 2 professors (looking at you, Pinsky). For tests, Schultz gives out study guides that are relevant to the test and the exams are very fair if you do use them (which I didn't for the first exam, earning me this B), plus is willing to do questions from the WebAssign and practice exams if you go during office hours or shoot him an email. Not only that, the curves are very generous (especially for that godawful standard final which everyone bombed), which goes to show that he cares about students succeeding instead of weeding them out. Overall, Schultz is an amazing professor and will help you fully understand the material and get good grades.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2023	Not a very good lecturer. Confusing and has bad handwriting sometimes. WebAssigns are dumb sometimes but they can be helpful for review for quizzes and midterms. He drops 2 lowest quizzes and lowest midterm grade, but THE FINAL IS 45 PERCENT OF YOUR GRADE so it doesn't even matter. Quizzes and midterms are relatively easy if you study and know the material from watching organic chem tutor and reading textbook bc everyone knows you cant learn anything from brosnan. Overall, calc 2 is a weedout so j study and hopefully ur chillin.
Jiaxing Liang MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/15/2023	TA Liang is genuinely one of the worst if not the worst TA I have ever had. First of all, when she teaches she moves all around the board never just writing top to bottom or left to right, so you are constantly getting lost. She also is so quiet and is unable to control the class, like she is scared of us or something. Sometimes we would ask for help on a certain homework problem or something she would ask us how to start it because she genuinely did not know how to do it. She wouldn't follow the pace of lectures, so our discussion quizzes would be stuff we hadn't even learned yet. Overall, this class is great as long as she is not your TA.
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/15/2023	I have mixed feelings about Dr. Parekh. While he is one of the better math141 professors (from what I've heard), he also is VERY unorganized which makes this class more difficult. First off, he is always late to class by at LEAST 5 minutes. This isn't that big of a deal except for exam days (there are 3 midterms) when you lose time on your test. This also had us rushing through material so fast right before the final so I truly understood none of the last chapter and a half for the final exam. He also gave us a note sheet on the first 2 exams then told us 4 days before our third exam that we didn't get a note sheet on it because the final didn't allow us to have one. That is understandable but he told us so last minute so it was stressful. We also were allowed graphing calculators on all 3 exams then he told us one week before our final that we didn't get one, which meant we had to re-learn the class without a calculator in one week. He also told us never to email him because he doesn't like responding. In terms of why Dr. Parekh is one of the better math141 professors, he is very lenient. He gives extensions on any homework you want and he also curves the exams if the class did bad, which is uncommon in this course. He is good at teaching the topics despite the lateness and he posts all lecture notes so if you miss something you won't fall too behind.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2023	As many other students have said, Amin is a nice guy who cares a lot about his students; but, his teaching style is a little difficult to follow because he is expected to fit so much content into a 50 minute lecture. However, he always posts copies of his lecture notes and a recording of the lecture on elms. Furthermore, he makes the class fairly easy to pass with many implemented policies designed to boost your grade like dropping the lowest 2 quizzes and webabsignes, as well as your lowest exam score. The weekly quizzes are not hard to do well on because their questions are chosen from a set list of problems for the textbook. Overall, if you're willing put in the time and effort you should be able to pass just fine.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/14/2023	Phenomenal professor. Lectures are engaging, and Conway is very approachable and willing to help. Would highly recommend.
Ben Goldschlager MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/13/2023	HavingBen as a professor was helpful in how he emphasized understandings of the topics over mindlessly doing practice problems, without actually understanding the applications.
Jason Schultz MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2023	Very understanding teacher. Loved his teaching. If you pay attention in class, do the homework, and go in for help you should be fine to get an A. I trolled on the last few quizzes so it bought my grade down, but amazing teacher.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B johnparis 12/13/2023	If you have the option to take Amin as a math professor, definitely do it. Out of all the people I've talked to with other teachers Amin is by far the most lenient. I got < 70 on 3 exams, and have to get < 40 on the final to get a C. He is super lenient on how much he drops (like double other teachers), and the quizzes are super free. Also the final grade replaces your grade if its better, so you also have the option of doing ok and then trying hard for the final and getting an A. This is on top of the supposed curve he apparently will give. For a weed out class he really wants you to succeed and understands that the content can be challenging for no reason. Yes he is a bad lecture, I had to basically stop going to lectures because of how confusing it was, I would definitely recommend at least learning the content from videos online out of class, but when it comes to the grading and assignments Amin is top.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Anonymous 12/12/2023	Honestly, I was always good at Math my entire life and I took him for Calc 2 and I started not understanding what's going on. It is definitely a somewhat difficult course but I found his teaching to be difficult to understand. He spends alot of time explaining things that you won't use and when it comes down to the formulas or examples, he runs out of time so it is very rushed and he does not go over it again. Oftentimes, he gets confused at what he's writing or messes up on the board which is okay because everyone makes mistakes but that just adds to the difficulty in following along. I know people who excel in my class, but I am not one of them and I struggled alot and had to mainly rely on the TA who was actually easier to learn from
Shalin Parekh MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/11/2023	only take him if you can learn everything on your own
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/09/2023	Records all lectures and exams are very similar to the practice.
Weimin Jiang MATH141 Anonymous 12/07/2023	I struggled with my calc 2 professor's teaching style, but Weimin did a great job at explaining the concepts, doing step by step example problems, and making sure everyone in the discussion understood the material. He answered every question that was asked and is an amazing TA overall!!
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/06/2023	Not a good lecturer. Not enough examples, subpar explanations, and sloppy handwriting. Stopped going to lecture bc of how useless it was. Just read the textbook, watched youtube vids, and went to discussions. The exams and quizzes aren't that bad if you do the webassigns and prac problems.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/03/2023	Amin has a teaching style that may feel hard to follow/scattered sometimes which can cause confusion and misunderstanding. He is very passionate about teaching and math and gets super happy when students answer a difficult question/bring up something he hadn’t thought of. Amin makes it really easy to pass the class, all of the quizzes (10 of them) are out of the textbook problems he suggests, all of the test problems are out of either his class notes, suggested problems, or WebAssign so it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. He also drops the lowest test, lowest 2 quizzes, and lowest 2 webassigns while also curving at the end of the semester. He also has all of the WebAssigns due at the end of the semester which is convenient if you like flexible deadlines. If you put in the work to be prepared for assessments and complete the WebAssigns on time, you’ll pass this class.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/02/2023	Amin is such a nice guy like he genuinely cares about the course and his students, the only problem is, is that his lectures are a little bit scattered and it's hard to understand. However, with this I HIGHLYYY recommend watching short videos on what is taught in the lecture before hand, so that you go into lecture having somewhat of an idea as to what he is talking about, because I found that since the lectures were only 50 minutes he did not have enough time to actually get through the material, so if you watch like organic chemistry tutor before hand, the lecture will be a little bit easier to follow. Additionally, professor Leonard on YouTube is the biggest G, if you just watch him you'll do good in the class because he explains the same things. About his grading, his grading is immaculate. You can basically fail 2 tests and be fine. But still try on each test because you wanna get the highest score possible. Also quizzes are the same questions as the homework, but they are sill hard because it is a lot of questions you have to remember with not enough time to study, so make sure to take those seriously despite the fact you have the possible questions before hand. This is because there are like 20 questions and there's only 2 of those questions on the quiz, so while it is helpful to have those questions, you still need to know how to do the problems. All in all, I think he's a good professor to take only because of how he drops so many things, so at the end your grade doesn't suffer. However, if you want to understand the material then you have to do a lot of extra work.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/01/2023	Professor Brosnan seems like a fun, smart guy, but the teaching style is just not for me. He focuses too much on the proof aspect instead of explaining the formula and how to correctly use it. For most topics, he will just start a proof, then write the formula, and then do one or two example problems without diving too far into the concept. The midterms are four questions, worth 25 points each, so if you miss one question, you can watch your grade drop in real time. The final being worth 45% of the grade is honestly insane, even he says his exams are easier than the other professors', but he does drop one midterm and two quizzes. The WebAssign homeworks are super difficult compared to the exam problems so they are not comparable, and some of them require a calculator and won't be seen on any of the quiz/exam material because calculators are not allowed. Overall, Professor Brosnan is a nice guy, but the class and it's content can be a struggle because of the lackluster explanations and I will never get over how much weight is put into the final exam. To anyone who took AP Calc BC like I did and got a 3 or less, you will go over all of the same topics (and a few extra ones), but the difficulty will be increased ten-fold.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B apandya7 11/30/2023	Professor Brosnan simply does not know how to lecture and goes over proofs for formulas (not needed information) to then skip over the explanation of the formula (important information). Sometimes he get's very confused in his own proof and drops it all together. Some of my class had switched professors, however I naively decided to stay in the class -- very big mistake. His final for the class is a whopping 45% of the grade which is ridiculous considering the hours of homework of webs assigns only accrues 5% of the total class grade. Overall, although Patrick is knowledgable and an intellectual mind, he cannot teach and is not fit to be teaching MATH 141. I even suspect he is confusing to those in 300-400 level classes
Mirna Pinsky MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/26/2023	Please do not take this professor... she is a sweetheart and her exams are a little easier than a non-fc MATH141 class but for all things holy please do not take her class. Her lectures are pointless, as she makes mistakes and is incredibly uninformative. She doesn't know how to "teach", but she does know how to write on the chalkboard and ramble, which are two very different things. For your mental health's sake, and to not flare up your anxiety every class, do not take this class. And if you are FC just drop her section.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/17/2023	This class isn't supposed to be easy at all. At first, I hated Amin and his teaching style. His lectures seemed very winged and unprepared, but at the same time, it isn't his fault. He is given only 50 minutes to try and teach you subjects that are complex and difficult to understand. He does his best, but honestly, the lectures will be confusing regardless of your professor. If you take this class you must put time and effort outside of lectures and discussion to learn the material and master it. The webassigns are all due at the end of the semester which is like a double-edged sword. It gives you some wiggle room to slack but if you slack too much then you won't be able to finish in time. Most of the webassign is impossible to cheat on (you can't use photomath or mathway) if you do at least 2 per week you should be fine. His exams aren't insanely difficult but I would recommend you study every day of the week following the exam to ensure you pass. His curves are generous and his TA's are exceptional. My TA was Shin Song and she was honestly pretty good. Quizzes are every Thursday but should be a free 20/20 every time as long as you do the practice problems he assigns. Overall his class isn't impossible to manage but is very difficult and will require a large amount of your time. Amin has a passion for math and enjoys teaching it. He also enjoys questions asked during lecture which should be utilized if you need help. Don't take this class lightly and you should be able to pass easily.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/16/2023	This class is a lot of work. It is hard. You will most likely struggle. I understand the criticism of Mackall, but he is a fair professor. His exams are incredibly hard but he curves generously. His homeworks are due at the end of the week instead of the middle which is a plus. His lecture style can be chaotic but he genuinely does want you to succeed and his lectures are interesting and he has a lot of enthusiasm about teaching and is not phoning it in. If you need help or don't understand something, his office hours are helpful, he is very nice. You will need to put a lot of time into this course, you will need to grind out practice problems and read the textbook. The reason this is a weed out class is because its really about managing your workload and not procrastinating and being responsible, if you can do that you will be fine in this class and your future ones.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/10/2023	Amin is a good professor if you work with him. In class his lectures can be hard to follow and scattered, however if you meet with him, complete the recommended problems for each section, study and try to understand the concepts in your own time AND (i cannot stress this enough) keep up with the webassigns, you will not only pass the class but will also retain the material. Calc II is considered the most difficult of the Calc sequence, so the class will never be easy by any means regardless of the professor teaching it. Amin is obviously brilliant and has a genuine passion for math. In the beginning of the semester it was hard to adjust to his lecture/teaching style- however as the semester progresses you will become more familiar with his notes and the way he structures his lectures and class as a whole. The tests are very hard, redo all the problems in his written notes + the recommended book problems for your best chance at getting a good grade on his tests. Another thing is, KEEP UP WITH THE HOMEWORKS. Calc II is the epitome of a weed out class. It can feel overly complex, the exams are difficult if you aren’t 110% prepared, but most importantly- all of his webassign homeworks are due at the end of the semester. These homeworks are not something you can mathway/integral-calculator your way through. Each homework requires a considerable amount of effort and also time, and falling behind with the homeworks/not keeping up with them will screw you grade wise and also in your understanding of the material. They cannot be done all within the last week of the semester. The weekly quizzes are simple enough and if you do the recommended text book problems you should be able to secure a 20/20 on each one. To summarize, the class is hard. Focusing more on understanding the material and worrying less about your grade (as there is a big curve) will ensure that you come out of the class feeling like you actually learned a lot. Math genius or not, Calc II is rigorous and leave you feeling lost and confused at many points. Practicing is the only way to strengthen your understanding of the concepts as this is not a class that you can cruise through because you think you are good at math. Amin does his best and although he may not be the best Calc II professor, if you take advantage of the resources that are recommended to you then you will be okay. Amin does not make the class more difficult, Calc II does that all by itself. This is a class where you are expected to teach yourself along with what you are taught, and that is not specific to Amin.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/04/2023	Great professor! Explains everything really well and is happy to answer questions and provide help. Also records all lectures and posts to canvas which is really helpful. Would definitely recommend taking his class.
Nathan Janus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 09/06/2023	Nathan is the best TA. 10x peak any professor, especially Pilachowski. You won't be disappointed if you have him.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Anonymous 09/03/2023	Really nice guy, funny but extremely confusing. Took two days of his class and understood nothing. He mostly just talks and writes the equations on the board without actually explaining or giving examples.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/26/2023	The great thing about Tim is that is he does not give ( - )grades, and he rounds all percentages up by one. However his lectures move extremely fast, especially towards the last units. If you go to his lectures, you will find yourself looking back at his videos to understand what he is saying. So most people avoid lectures altogether and watch his videos instead. Tim is a very convenient professor in that respect, since most students avoid going to lectures and manage to do well. First two exams are easy, last two were on the harder side, with a curve on the fourth. If you are looking for a professor that does more than teach from a PowerPoint, I do not recommend Tim. If you prefer studying on your own, Tim is a great pick. As of spring 2023, there were no quizzes.
Randy Martinez MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 08/22/2023	After I got a D in my previous semester, I retook 141 with Martinez and got a B+. He's a nice instructor, and is very generous on curves (which is sort of expected, as his exams were on the harder side... averaging 40-60). He gave curves on each exam; in one instance, my 47 became a 73. He also gave letter grade adjustments at the end of the semester, making my B into a B+. However, just realize that he doesn't necessarily go over various types of problems that you'll see on the exam during his class time. I didn't utilize his office hours as I felt that I didn't need them at the time, but you should ASAP if you feel iffy about the material (which basically broadly applies to every class). He also doesn't have great handwriting, but that is kind of expected for a math instructor.
Jermain McDermott MATH141 Expecting a C einna 08/04/2023	The lecture notes were messy and confusing as his handwriting isn't the best. Sometimes, he would breeze through problems to the point where he confused himself and provided wrong answers. Homeworks are lengthy worksheets but are doable since they can be found online or you can ask other students, make sure not to do them last minute! Quizzes aren't too bad since they are open note but prepare for silence if you are doing them in Zoom breakout rooms. There are three midterms and a final. The lowest-scored midterm, quiz, and homework are dropped! If you don't show every little step on the exams, he may give you an entire 0 or take off a huge amount of points from each question, a common problem we experienced. Overall, he isn't rude but can be slow to answer emails and can have a bit of an attitude if you press him about a score. The drops and his grade cut-offs are pretty helpful but you most likely have to rely on outside resources like Khan Academy or Organic Chemistry Tutor to really understand the content. If you can, take someone else, if not, be prepared to dedicate a huge chunk of your life to this class.
Jermain McDermott MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 07/26/2023	Just not the best experience. Lectures were just him writing notes onto a slide - weren’t always terrible but got cluttered and on occassiok his solutions were wrong. Quizzes are fair, group work anyway. Major event was him failing half the class on second exam because he believed we were cheating. He also stated before class he would likely adjust grade cutoffs based on class performance, he did not curve the class despite final exam average being a 69%. Doesn’t respond to emails but I’ll say his office hours could be helpful for you. I wouldn’t recommend taking this class but if it’s your only option just make sure to go to office hours.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/25/2023	Jonathan is perfect I would say. He posts all the lecture videos and notes in elms. He had one worksheet for a week that we were to submit online. So no need to appear in the discussions. But I recommend going there because TAs (Garrett) are helpful. They will make you walk along with the professor. Exams are fair enough. Just do worksheets and previous exams, and you will be fine. Exams will be way easier than worksheets though. He curves a lot, so don't worry about grades at all.
Jermain McDermott MATH141 Anonymous 07/21/2023	This guy accuses people of cheating left and right. If he doesn't like your answer, then you cheated according to his logic. Everybody who got a 0 from his accusations were too scared to report it out of fear of the math department taking his side, even though he had 0 actual proof. This is incredibly ridiculous so I have nothing to say other than this is one of the worst classes I have ever taken at this university.
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/20/2023	He's honestly an amazing professor, I would definitely recommend taking this class with him! Personally, I didn't think his lectures were dry, he was just always to the point. He would go over anything you asked and was always very helpful. He also thoroughly goes through practice problems, practice exams, and provides a lot of resources. Everything he asks on exams is the content we've covered in class and usually similar to practice problems, so nothing is unexpected.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/10/2023	Jonathan is a great guy but a not-so-great professor. His lectures are disorganized and often confusing, and I recommend not going to them since they're recorded. My TA was amazing, which helped a lot. Worksheets were due at the end of the week and could be done anytime within that timeframe. Exams were slightly curved, and the lowest exam score was replaced with the final score if it was better. He even curved the worksheets and the webassigns. Its easy to get an A in his class so long as you have a good TA.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 07/06/2023	Great, reliable professor. As far as UMD math professors go, I think he's one of the best options. Homework was manageable, exams were pretty much exactly like the practice exams, and he gave a lot of resources. I had a horrible professor for MATH140, and I went into this class with the same expectations but was pleasantly surprised. I definitely fumbled on the 4th exam and the final, but had it not been for those exams, I would've easily gotten an A in the class.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/04/2023	Prof Chadwick is a very good lecturer. He was easily the best 141 teacher in terms of teaching the content. That being said, his exams were probably some of the hardest exams among 141 teachers. Chadwick's exams were much much harder than Fernandes' exams, but Chadwick was a much better teacher. Overall, I am glad I took 141 with him, but was frequently frustrated by the exam difficulties compared to other teachers. Chadwick is very safe bet and you will learn a lot if you take him. MATH141 sucks a lot and will require a ton of effort and work, but most of that is not Chadwick's fault and you will be just fine if you take him.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/01/2023	He is a super chill professor and really wants you to succeed. He added a three-point curve to all our exams and curved more if necessary. My lowest midterm grade was a 98, without taking math140 first semester. This was truly just due to doing the practice exams and the additional practice questions the TA's sent out. If you go to discussion and ask questions, you'll be fine. I was scared of taking this class, but Fernandes made it completely digestible. Definitely go to office TA hours though!
Dominic Flocco MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/29/2023	The GOAT. The Man. Super friendly and explained concepts so well. If you have Dominic as your TA then you're in safe hands. If not then you should switch to his section to have the highest chance of passing your class. Always started off the discussions by recapping what we learned in the previous lectures and always welcomed questions. He explains things very well and I definitely learned more from him than I did during the lecture. To get the most out of Dominic, go to his office hours. So helpful and made difficult concepts easier to understand. Always kind and patient with any questions during office hours. Take advantage of his office hours! Calc 2 has a reputation of being a weed-out class but Dominic made it 100x more bearable. Take Dominic.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/28/2023	If you have another choice of professor, take it. While she isn't the worst professor, it's hard to pass her class. Luckily she gave mine a huge curve, but I did not enjoy the experience.
Sudheer Shukla MATH141 Anonymous 05/26/2023	I think this is the right Sudheer. I had Sudheer as my TA for MATH141 and he was a lifesaver. Sudheer didn't send practice exam solutions quickly as my TA last semester did, but he's extremely accommodating and wants his students to succeed. If you ask him questions and attend his exam reviews, you'll be utilizing him well :)
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Anonymous 05/26/2023	Don't take him, go for Chadwick instead. Practice exams will be Chadwick's anyway, and I had a much better experience with Chadwick last semester with 140. Mackall is a nice guy per se, but he fools around class a bit and it's hard to understand or catch up with the material (but this pretty much is relevant to the entirety of the professors in the UMD Math department oops). If you want hard hard work and a decent curve at the end of the semester, maybe take Mackall? But the question again is why you would want to do that to yourself?
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/24/2023	Jonathan is pretty middle-of-the road as far as UMD math profs go; you could do better and you could do worse. I got an A and I’m not exactly a math genius, so that’s saying something. Pros: worksheets and WebAssign homeworks are a relatively large portion of your grade, and get curved. Also, you can take worksheets home with you and submit them online at the end of the week, so you don’t need to rush during discussion. All midterms have a 3-point curve, and he gave an additional curve on one exam because he accidentally included a problem that was way too hard. Cons: tends to arrive at lecture late and run over time, so leave yourself some wiggle room. Sometimes as he is doing problems he scrolls away from something immediately after writing it, so you have to write fast or have a friend you can copy from if you miss something. He also doesn’t always get through the entire content of the lecture. The worksheet problems are usually different/harder than the lecture problems so you have to hope your TA will explain everything.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/22/2023	Not the greatest instructor but makes it very easy to succeed in the class by making everything easy, midterms were the same as the practice exams he provided just with different numbers. Also has a lot of questions in those midterms straight out of either the textbook or the worksheets he provides. Never went to the lectures as they were very hard to follow along, but the discussions were very helpful. I mostly learned from youtube/ textbook, and those were more than enough to succeed. He made the worksheets and the web assigns out of a 92, so if you had more than a 92% of either of those categories you were given a 100%. This was really helpful as they make up for 40% of your total grade. He is literally your best bet if you want to get a good grade in this class.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/20/2023	Tricky exams but nothing incredibly difficult. Really generous curve. If you are willing to work and like math, take him.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/20/2023	Conway was an amazing professor. Recorded, and posted notes (if he doesn't simply email him and ask), and he answered questions well. To me, it was really easy to learn in his class and his practice exams prepared you well for every and any exam he gave, tho series was a pain. Would 10/10 recommend. He does his best to respond to emails even late at night and makes a weedout into a very manageable class. NO QUIZZES. Cons: He could go fast at times during his lectures. The course overall is TA dependent (not in his control), while it is doable, most of your actual learning will happen in discussions as worksheets often mimic exams. A good or bad TA is a big factor in whether you succeed or fail. My TA was amazing, a goat, and he, as well as Conway, are why I was able to do well.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/19/2023	Dr. Mackall is very personable, nice, and knowledgeable. His exams are very difficult compared to other professors, but he curves generously (his last three exams all had a 65% average, but he curved the 2nd and 3rd to an 80%). For the final, he did not give us a lower grade than we already had in the class. The fourth midterm on series and stuff was the most difficult, in my opinion. About halfway through the semester, I stopped going to class because the textbook was enough to study from (and I was very busy), although going to class was helpful, and he teaches well. I would recommend him if you are already confident in your math abilities, and want a professor that doesn't bore you to death. Worst thing about this class were the discussions, but those will be awful (and mandatory) no matter what professor you choose. I'm lucky I had a good TA - shout out to Turner (Hugh Mclaurin). Also one of the midterms was on my birthday so that was a bummer...
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2023	I had Dr. Chadwick for 140 and 141, am I'm really glad. His lecturing is fantastic! He writes everything on the board and explains example problems really well. His tests are also extremely fair. The structure of his class is 6 quizzes (lowest one gets dropped), 4 unit exams, 2 worksheets a week, and 2 online homework a week. Overall, every assignment was useful to my understanding of the content and my TA was amazing. I never found his exams to have any tricks or excessive theory. He also provides a practice exam and practice problems before each exam. He would work through these problems the class before the exam, so I always knew what to expect. While it was useful having an online copy of the textbook, it wasn't necessary because Dr. Chadwick is such a good lecturer. Overall, Dr. Chadwick made Calc I & Calc II very manageable classes. Expect to put at least 4 hours of work outside of class and discussion to do well. My only complaint is that he was frequently 5 minutes late to class, probably because he was helping students from his previous class, so sometimes content felt rushed. But, on the flip side, he was always willing to stay after and answer questions. If you can, take Dr. Chadwick. He is an engaging lecturer and will make your Calc I & Calc II experience very pleasant.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/18/2023	Seems like a great guy. Not a great teacher. I started skipping lectures a month into the semester because I realized I wasn't getting anything out of them. He was going too fast for me to understand, and my notes were getting so messy that they weren't even useful. My TA was very helpful though. Last time he taught 141, I heard he dropped their lowest exam. This semester, he replaced our lowest exam score with our final exam score if it was higher. Just so you're aware.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Guest 05/18/2023	Professor Fernandes is a great professor, and like those who share the sentiment, he's definitely one of the better MATH 141 professors. His instruction from the beginning of the semester started out strong, and so the first exam was relatively easy if you pay attention to class. However, as we shifted to more difficult content, the quality in instruction deteriorated. I became more reliant on my TA for help on topics, and because of their incredible response rates, it was easier for me to contact them than Professor Fernandes. It is known that he's unresponsive to emails and such, so to get the best opportunity to speak with him, stay in the lecture hall after class. Now, he doesn't use any chalkboard, rather his iPads. This makes for good and bad things. It's great because he's able tor record lectures, even broadcast them live on Zoom. Moreover, it's fairly easy to go back to content discussed in lecture. However, it makes for keeping up with him in lecture incredibly difficult as he scrolls away quickly. I spent hours upon hours on web assigns (homework), and he curves these at the end. Moreover, we're assigned weekly worksheets, which are also curved at the end. The exams were fair, and practice exams will help you.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2023	Recorded lectures, relative easy and fair exams, good at teaching content. Highly recommend
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/17/2023	Conway had great lecturers and showed example problems in his notes which greatly helped me understand the content. His tests were reasonable and I usually got a B on them. He is transparent about what his exams will cover and his problems aren't too confusing to understand. He seems like a nice guy who truly cares that his students understand the course. I will say what made this course even better was my TA. She was very responsive and the way she reviewed the topics in discussion was easy to understand. Make sure to use the umd test bank and read the textbook when studying and you should be okay in this course.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/16/2023	Wow, such a good teacher!!! not! I learn nothing from this class, difficult to understand her, and she doesn't show up to her own office hours???! Professor Leonard (from YouTube) carried me in this class.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A profayle 05/16/2023	Had him fall sem, lectures are decent but can get confusing for people especially if they don't have a strong calc/math background. USE THE TEXTBOOK!! I failed the first exam, but after that I would just do the practice problems to study and do really well on the exams after. Thought I was gonna get a bad grade but the curve was INSANE. Literally failed 2 tests and the final, but with a bunch of dropped grades and replacements, I somehow ended up with an A LMAO
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/13/2023	Conway is amazing. Great lecturer, fair exams, RECORDS HIS LECTURE <3 and truly a sweet and kind professor. I did pretty badly on the series exam, but besides that, I averaged between an 86-92 on the other three exams, and the averages for Conway's class were pretty high as well (usually high C/low B range, which is amazing compared to other calc II sections I talked to!). He is also SUPER accommodating, before our second exam I was extremely overwhelmed and had awful migraines - and very last minute (I believe 12/13 hours before the exam?) emailed him asking if there was any possible way I could take the exam sometime the following week and explained my situation. Conway responded within 10 minutes of that email and was EXTREMELY understanding, and seemed to genuinely care, and I haven't been able to say that for many of the professors I've had so far. The one thing about this class is that your grade depends ENTIRELY on your exam performance (350 for the four exams + 200 pt final + 50 HW pts + 50 discussion work pts), so one bad exam kind of makes or breaks your grade and for me, that was the series exam <3 :( Overall, GO WITH CONWAY!!! He gives you everything you need to succeed AND ACTUALLY WANTS YOU TO SUCCEED!!!
James Conway MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/13/2023	I'll keep this short and simple, and give the info that I would want from someone who uses planetTerp. Pros: • Reasonable Exams (provides practice exams which almost replicate the questions, just different numbers for the most part) • Very nice and open to questions, always readily available through email • Good lectures that are recorded too! • Verbally understandable unlike some professors • No weekly quiz's, instead their worksheets (still for a grade tho) Cons •Does not curve, at all. What you see on the syllabus is what you get, no exceptions. Overall I'd recommend very much so, as someone who's taken the class twice already:/ MATH141 is a weed out class, in other words it's going to drop kids from their major and path, if you ask for help when you need it and also use orgchemtutor you will be fine.
Nathan Janus MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/12/2023	Nathan is the best TA ever. He has like 5 or 7 years of TA'ing experience and it shows. He always goes above and beyond for the students in his discussions. Some examples of this is his lenient grading for discussion worksheets, and his answer keys he types up and prints himself to help us understand worksheets we don't understand. He explains concepts extremely well, sometimes even better than the professor. He deserves every best TA award and everyone needs him as a TA for math. He also is just a very nice guy in general and is very easy to talk to.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2023	I have taken this professor for both Math140 and Math141 and he has been one of my best professors I have had since coming to the university. Yes, his midterms are hard, but this is CALC2, it's not supposed to be an easy course. Self study is required as it is just too much material to be covered in lecture time. His curves were much more generous in Math141 than Math140, and all around he has a very humorous and sarcastic guy, which makes it enjoyable to go lectures. Also keep in mind that everyone in calculus 2 is doing the same hw and discussion worksheets, the midterms are the only thing that differs from professor to professor.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Anonymous 05/12/2023	The slander in these reviews is insane. Amazing professor, 10/10. Some of my favorite lectures out of any course were with Eoin: First he starts off with the theorems or general ideas we need to know for that day's topic. Then he does between 1 and 4 examples, each focusing on a certain nuance or a certain type of question relating to the general topic. He would sometimes be so efficient that we would end early. Two homeworks are both due on Saturday night every week, which was very fair since other professors would have them due in the middle of the week but Eoin knew from feedback in last Fall's calc 1 course that people would prefer them to be due later so that the topics were fully covered before homework was due. He incorporated this feedback into this calc 2 course, which was wonderful. He had generous curves for all his exams. The exams were harder than other professors, but the needless complaining within his reviews is frankly a sign that people don't actually want to learn the material. The way he taught facilitated actual learning and understanding of the material, and did not follow the formulaic exams other professors seemed to have. Eoin had fun writing the exams, and he put passion into the class and helping us succeed. He's very personable, EXTREMELY patient with questions, and a hilarious guy.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/12/2023	Everyone says they dislike him for his extremely difficult exams, but in my opinion, the content we are tested on is fair and accurate. He only wants us to push ourselves to really understand the topics. Yes, the exams are harder compared to other professors, but they are still manageable. Most people complain about having to self-study a lot with him, but calculus 2 requires that anyways, no matter the professor. He is a really personable professor who will accommodate to his students. You can really tell he enjoys teaching during his lectures. They can be a little confusing at times as he does derive unnecessary formulas at times, but in my opinion, they are only meant to be an introduction to a topic that can be further clarified by looking through the textbook and going to discussion. He also posted lectures notes at the end of each week in case you wanted to review something talked about in class. He applied very generous curves to most of our exams despite his syllabus stating he would only curve at the end of the semester because he truly just wants his students to succeed. My TA for this class also extremely helped (cleared up so many different topics). At the end of the day, Eoin is a very good professor to take for MATH141, but just because of this you cannot expect to go into this class without some self-studying and dedication to the class.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Anonymous 05/11/2023	Do not take this professor. Goes over theory 90% of lecture time. instead of practice problems. Insanely hard midterms, had some of the lowest averages this semester (Spring 23) for his midterms. Most things I learned were through self-study. Only gets 2 stars because of promised curve.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/11/2023	Conway is a great professor who teaches math the way it's actually supposed to be taught. At times he made me forget the reputation Calc 2 has at this school. He doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to teaching topics and not only clearly explains what it is we are learning but actually goes over examples problems and how to solve them. Homework was never too hard and the exams were also pretty similar to the practice exams so I would highly advise doing those. Contrary to most people's experience, my one gripe with the class was my TA, who was overall pretty unhelpful. Even for review discussion he would be super stingy about helping you solve questions despite my being pretty obvious about not having a clue how to solve the problem. Even with a bad TA discussions aren't too bad if people in your section work together or you press the TA hard enough. Not sure if he does curves or not as the semester isn't over yet, but you do get your lowest 3 discussions and homeworks dropped, and your lowest exam gets dropped by half. Definitely a fair class by normal standards and probably one of the easier ones by UMD Calc 2 standards.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/11/2023	Good guy but dam does he does not curve enough, compared to other sections I would have had a A- minimum, the class is designed to be impossible but he tried his best. His lectures were not great(just reading from textbook), but his office hours were good
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/11/2023	From hearing from other professors, Fernandes seems to be the best option available and I would generally agree with this. He records lectures and posts his lecture work for every single one which is very nice. I had Mackall for 140 and Fernandes was a major improvement for me and I'm glad I switched. He is just overall better and more accommodating professor. I actually didn't feel like Fernandes was actively out to make me fail his class which is different than the other professors. I'll discuss the content of the course now. Fernandes has weekly worksheets (that he made himself) that are due every Friday that generally take some time to do but aren't impossible like Mackall's worksheets that have to be done by the end of the discussion. This leaves the discussion either to be your TA actually teach the content of the course or just go over the worksheet answers for you so your mileage may vary. The grade distribution for this semester was: Webassign 15%, Worksheets 25%, Mid-term Exam 35%, Final Exam 25% Fernandes exams are very similar between years so all of his practice/previous exams will give you a GREAT idea of what will be on the exam. Honestly just overall, Fernandes gives you the resources to succeed if you try hard enough. No matter what professor you get, you will struggle in the class so in my opinion Fernades is your best way to succeed in the course
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/10/2023	After having Prof. Chadwick for Math 140 and 141, I can say he is a very solid professor. He comes off as a bit of a strange guy but can be funny at times and is willing to engage with students outside of class. I like the structure of his class the most because despite learning whole sections in a day(which every teacher does), he manages to make it feel slower-paced because of his steady rate when he speaks and writes. If you're in a room with multiple boards, he'll write from left to right allowing students ample time to write all the notes from the board. He uses plenty of examples and explains overarching concepts and theorems in sufficient detail(not much different from the textbook). Some people might say he is a worse teacher in 141, but truthfully it's the content of the course itself and sometimes there's no better way to explain a topic which means some topics are learned better eventually through practice and application.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/08/2023	TAKE HIM HES LITERALLY MY FATHER, he literally made the class so easy Grade distribution was fire: Worksheets: 25% WebAssign: 15% Exams: 35% Final Exam: 25% 4 Midterms and 1 Final Lowest midterm grade replaced with your final exam grade if you did better percentage wise.
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/08/2023	BEST TA. Literally nothing else. He is so clear with his explanations, wants you to understand the math rather than just memorize. Emails are superb when you ask HW questions, and office hours are basically extended discussion because he will stay with you for however long so you can understand the work. He is passionate about math and it shows, and he wants every student to succeed. Also, he clutches you for quizes by basically guiding you while taking it, but still allowing you to do it yourself. Loophole. 100% recommend him
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/08/2023	I took calc1 and calc2 with Tim and got an A both times without any prior experience with Calc/pre-Calc in High School. Tim has pre-recorded lectures from covid which are helpful when you don't want to go to lecture. The lecture themselves follow a format where he starts with theory and follows with example problems. The slides he provides are outdated and the actual lecture is like listening to a audiobook, however take good notes and you'll be able to somewhat understand the content. Tims exams are fair 80% of the time and he will always drop your lowest exam by 50% and does not do minus grades. This semester he curved the grade cutoffs by 2%. Overall, Tim is a decent professor and does not deserve all the hate he gets on his reviews. There are better first choices but don't be stressed if you get stuck with him. No one is stopping you from going to another lecture if you don't like how he teaches. Put in the extra work like actually doing the homework, going to GSS, exam review sessions, and group study sessions and you can get the grade you want. Your grade is reflected on how much time/effort you put in, not how good your professor is. Tim does not like electronic scooters.
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Anonymous 05/08/2023	Do not take this dude. He spends most of the class going over theory, with little practice problems. I literally had to teach myself the content most of the semester, didn't even bother going to class most of the time.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/05/2023	A lot has already been written about this professor so I will keep my review brief. - Terrible lecturer, could not explain anything and just made thing confusing so I basically stopped going to lectures - If you have a good TA they will carry you and your grade. I had Dominic and he was amazing, he explained the concepts incredibly well and he is the main reason I learned anything in the first place. - The midterms were pretty fair but the averages were incredibly low (think in the 50s and 60s) - Dropped the lowest midterm - Final exam average was also abysmal - There was a MASSIVE curve because without it like half the class would have failed In terms of the actual class, it is definitely manageable if you go to discussion and if you teach yourself a lot of the concepts straight from the textbook or watch YT videos/Khan Academy. Not a fun class at all but if you try hard then it will pay off. If I had put in more effort I definitely could have finished with a B or better, so just do your best and it will pay off.
Dominic Flocco MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/05/2023	Dominic was a super nice guy and definitely the best TA I have had in college by far. He always took the time to explain concepts to us from the beginning to the end and help everyone understand them in a simple way. Every discussion section he would do a recap of the previous lecture in a very concise manner so that we would be able to understand all the necessary information needed for the particular section. He always made himself available to help us understand concepts so that we would be as successful as possible. 10/10 TA and made this class easy to succeed in, make sure you take him if you get the chance!
James Conway MATH141 nalomar 05/04/2023	One of the best Math professors I have had at UMD. Responds instantly to emails. He goes at the perfect pace in classes. All lectures are recorded and posted. Exams are very fair.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/04/2023	Lectures are recorded and his style of teaching is very nice. He responds to emails fairly quickly which is another plus. As long as you know the content he's teaching the exams are pretty fair. Would recommend you take him if you ever have the chance to.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/03/2023	His lectures were pretty average and didn't always leave you feeling fully prepared, but he did give PDFs of his lecture notes and recordings of his lectures. The quizzes were out of a set list of textbook problems, which made them basically free points. The exams were somewhat challenging, but the class had a generous curve which helped significantly.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/03/2023	haticeGOAT absolutely W teacher with a W syllabus and W lecture I definitely learned so much in this class. 100% recommend, especially for you math240 people trying to waitlist in other teachers rn. You should take hatice. Get off the math240 waitlist bruh.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/02/2023	Dr. Fernandes is definitely one of the better calc 2 professors to take from what I've heard, but definitely would not take him again. I took Chadwick first semester and Fernandes second, so here is my comparison of the two: Overall, I learned a lot more from Chadwick than I did with Fernandes, and his teaching style worked a lot better for me. Chadwick writes on the chalkboard and goes over everything you need for every homework and classwork assignment. Fernandes, on the other hand, writes on his ipad and scrolls immediately when he is writing notes on the board, making it really hard to follow and write in time. Chadwick's exams are decently hard (I averaged an 87 for all 4) and Fernandes' exams were easier at first, but the last exam was very hard and was a curveball to all of us (the average for the class was a 68). The first 3 exams for Fernandes were extremely similar to the practice exam, so if you study the practice exam, you're good. Fernandes does teach too much theory in my opinion and misses the important stuff a lot. If you don't have a good TA, don't even bother taking Fernandes. My TA carried us this semester and I also found myself reading the textbook, watching videos, and attending office hours weekly. Fernandes consistently shows up late to class, and he never gets through everything we need for the homework that night, leaving us to fend for ourselves. At first, he was fine, but the second we got to more difficult material he would get confused or say our TAs are gonna teach us--but keep in mind we also had to do a worksheet during discussion so we don't have time for our TAs to lecture. The one thing I like more about Fernandes is that worksheets are due friday night, so there's less pressure to turn them in at the end of discussion. Finally, Fernandes does not offer a curve on exams at all, he does not even drop the lowest exam to half, so you really have to self study for this class. He considers an A+ anything over a 99, so you also have to score extremely high for that. All in all, do everything that you can to take Dr. Chadwick. He is a great professor and explains concepts really well. Definitely do not take Fernandes unless you have to.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/02/2023	The pre-recorded lectures were such a life savior this semester. I did not go to a single lecture in person unless it was an exam which I found very beneficial in this class. His in person lectures are way too fast but having the lecture videos and being able to pause and re-watch while studying for exams was very helpful. However, you cannot fully depend on his lecture videos. I found myself having to go to the textbook and look up videos on certain topics. I strongly recommend Pilachowski for the sole purpose of his non mandatory lectures.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B FozzyBear1 05/01/2023	For the disaster of a class that is Math 141, Fernandes is probably your best bet. A lot of my problems with him probably come from the fact that Calc 2 is an artificially hard weed-out class that is designed specifically to destroy the soul of the students taking it. Fernandes however, turned the rat poison that is Math 141 into Coors light. It still tastes like shit, but at least it won't kill you. The lectures started out well. Even though they focused heavily on theory (35 minutes of theory to maybe 10 minutes of examples), I felt like they were effective in helping me succeed on the problems we did in the discussion and the exam. However, Chapter 8 (Integration Techniques) and ESPECIALLY Chapter 9 (Series) were a nightmare. We fell behind quickly in lecture, leading us to focus almost entirely on complex theory with no time for examples. In fact, we didn't even cover in the lecture how to find the roots of a complex number, something that ended up being worth ~10% of our grade for Exam 4. This meant that our poor TAs had to teach us how to do all the practice problems. Luckily, despite the mess that was the lectures, the tests were incredibly easy because they were literally just copy-pasted from the already fairly easy practice exam he gave us to study. This caused the test averages for all of the tests to float around the 80% mark, which is great considering the averages for all the other professors floated around 60-65%. I looked at Pilachowski's Exam 4 and it looked WAY harder than what was on our test. He also is a really nice guy. Despite the class having 200 people in it, he would make an effort before every lecture to ask us all how we are doing. Overall, Fernandes is awesome if you just want to get a good grade in Math141. If you actually want to learn the content well from lectures, however, Chadwick would be better for you (although his tests are WAY harder so I'm not sure that trade-off is worth it). I'm giving him 4 stars because my grade is better than it would be with other professors, and I believe that most of my complaints come from the design of the course itself.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/29/2023	Conway is a great professor honestly, he responds very fast to emails and tries his best to answer questions during OH. Lectures are recorded so you don't have to show up to class, but make sure you listen to the lecture recording rather than just writing what you see. His exams are easy enough if you do the practice exams because everything on the practice exams that he posts, will be tested on the actual exam so just study the concepts.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/28/2023	Tim does not teach, he reads off of slides. If you're anything like a normal person, you learn math when it is actually performed during lecture, not when it is an audiobook of the text. Studying alone and with others made this class bearable, but I would not wish having to take math with him on anyone else. Please choose a different professor for CALC II as this is difficult math and new material for those who did not take B/C in high school. Ishvak is the best TA, if you have discussion with him be grateful and ask him to explain concepts.
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Anonymous 04/27/2023	Absolutely fantastic guy. Really tries to get to know you and wants you to succeed. Always willing to answer any questions and help you with anything. I would trust him with my firstborn and also all of my other children.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 04/26/2023	Perfectly nice person, but a terrible lecturer. Little to no organization to what she was saying and what she was writing on the board. She would get completely off topic without telling anyone what was and was not something we needed to know for the class. She also had a tendency to start writing proofs without telling us what she was doing or even explaining what the proof was for at the end. If you've taken calc 2 before it is definitely possible to keep up with and learn from her lectures, but if you haven't, you'll have to really rely on the textbook and your TA
Eoin Mackall MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/26/2023	He only gets 3 stars because of his curve. His exams are much harder than any other professor, so if you rather rely on yourself instead of some curve he decides based on how he is feeling in the moment, then take a different professor. A lotttttt of self study is needed. Personally, I'd only go to the lecture on the Wednesday before exams. Study homework problems, study textbook problems. Use professor leonard on youtube to learn all the topics instead. Much more in depth.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 04/18/2023	Absolutely terrible. Writes complete nonsense on the board and writes at the speed of light so its impossible to keep up. Also difficult to understand her
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/06/2023	Personality wise, he's a very nice professor and is open to answering questions which stay relevant to what was covered. Teaching wise, Fernandes' lectures more so focus on the theory of whatever lesson or chapter you are on, rather than explaining the process or concept then going into loads of examples. To compensate for this, the class is structured so that you MUST attend every discussion session to go over the worksheets; those are your key to passing this class, as they are filled with example problems. No quizzes, just graded worksheets, WebAssigns, and exams. Exams are extremely fair as the average for the last 3 exams have all been above 80s (about a 3 point curve for each one, except for the latest one we took we got a 6 point curve), so just do the sample exams which are given through ELMS and REVIEW THE WORKSHEETS. Fernandes also records all lectures, which is an added bonus. Luckily, I got an awesome TA (shoutout to Mengting Chao!), but depending on what TA you get it will either make or break this course. Just don't get caught up too much in the theory, and focus more on what's covered in discussion and you'll be good to go. Good luck.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 03/29/2023	She's not great but I think she gets an overly harsh rep. In the first three units she is decent, but in the last it kind of feels like she drops the ball and doesn't explain the taylor series stuff well at all (mostly relies on textbook ie proof based explanations, which in theory is helpful but in reality is exceptionally difficult to understand, and she doesn't really contextualize it for what a normal college student could grasp). This becomes really bad due to her tendency to mismanage class time and do all the complicated stuff in the last 10-15 minutes. HOWEVER, she is very very nice AND her mismanagement of class time is because she answers questions VERY thoroughly (this is nice but can be problematic because some kids in the class clearly havent taken calc in 3 years and are behind, and i wish her answer would have just been "go to my office hours" and then continue with her lecture, but instead she really tries to help them by re-explaining calc 1 concepts; again, kind of her, but problematic bc we run out of time for the actual class content) ALSO, her class is literally graded on a curve, which is pretty redeeming. Not a great teacher, but like, if everyone is confused then everyone is on an equal playing field, and its not like everyone will just get a B. ALSO, she gives way more time for homework than all other professors, like, instead of making it due the night of the lecture she gives you the entire next day as well, which is nice because of the flexibility. IN SUMMARY, you can coast through the first two units, third she teaches well enough but you need to practice, and for the fourth i would look to khan academy or something similar. She's a really nice professor, with pretty easy exams (not technically relevant bc graded on a curve) BUT it means students who are struggling a bit can still do well, and I think she gets a disproportionately bad rep because when she gets really bad is RIGHT AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, which means that people remember that when writing their reviews and nothing else.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 03/10/2023	Not a good prof. Has good intentions, but his exams were extremly unfair and irrelevant to his lectures. Decent curve, but won't really answer questions that well, leaving you more confused.
James Conway MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/08/2023	Amazing professor! Really good at explaining stuff and his exams are easy too.
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/04/2023	Really good TA for MATH 141. He held exam review sessions which are really helpful because students were able to ask questions and review common exam problems. He is really great at teaching and reviewing the lectures the professor had taught the day before.
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/04/2023	Really good TA for MATH141. He held review sessions before exams which is really helpful since he goes over problems that are commonly seen on exams. He also review over the lectures that the professor had lectured about the day before.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C brooke957 02/28/2023	Please do not take this professor if given ANY other option. I took his Calculus II class and it genuinely ruined me. I have always been a fantastic math student, consistently earning A's in every level I've taken. This professor took it upon himself to taint my record. He has awful handwriting on the screen, so much so I'd have to ask my friends what he wrote and even they wouldn't know what it was. His exams were unnecessarily hard; he even put one question on the exam that ended up being unsolvable (oh yeah, he doesn't check his exams and makes them the night before) and the students with that version of the exam had to spend extra time outside of class to retest. I will say he is a very kind guy, and makes the occasional joke, but he cannot teach.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a B akl2025 02/20/2023	I took him in Spring 2022, and he isn't as horrible as most students think. Pros (great resources): online lecture videos, notes, grading policy, reviews, etc. Cons: his in-person teaching style. As long as you study diligently, you will pass the class!
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/08/2023	Good professor, it can be hard to understand the course at times, but he is helpful during office hours and his TAs are knowledgeable as well. His notes are all posted on canvas and once you get used to his handwriting, they help understand the material. The only minuscule problem I have with him is that he does not clarify when he is deriving a formula, whereas for the class you only need to know the end result. His teaching style is different but enjoyable.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/08/2023	Amazing professor!! Got an A -- most definitely not an easy A, but still an A
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/03/2023	An amazing TA, he has helped me so much throughout calculus and I would not be nearly as confident or successful without his assistance. He is incredibly accessible and will always answer your questions, and he never makes you feel stupid for not knowing something. I wish I could take him for more classes! If you can, take his section, he is wonderful.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/02/2023	Professor Pincus was a great calc 2 teacher. He gave practice exams that closely resembled the actual exam. He taught the concepts clearly with tons of examples and was extremely helpful when you went to office hours. To do well on the weekly quizzes, you have to do suggested textbook problems because they are very similar to the quiz questions (some questions were copied directly from the textbook). None of the 4 exams were curved but he curved the final grade to make up for it. I would take one of Professor Pincus' classes again
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Vashin 01/23/2023	I was gonna write a really long grating review about Amin, but one of the people below me covered it pretty well. I'll rehash the main points and add a few things. Gholampour's a nice guy, but he's a terrible lecturer. After the first exam, I stopped going to lectures simply because they were making the class more difficult than it was by just learning the material in other ways. The TAs, as mentioned, are generally excellent. What I will say is often one TA will be better than others, so try and find the best one by trying out their various office hours. Gholampour's exams are completely brutal, averages were quite low (low 60s, a 75, and a 33), with the final exam average being a 48. When our fourth exam average was a 33, I went to a lecture with the purpose of mentioning my thoughts to him, so I talked to him after that lecture about my thoughts and he was completely unsympathetic to the idea that this somehow reflected on either his teaching ability or his ability to write exams. As for my advice for passing this class: watch Organic Chemistry Tutor videos on the topics, and follow along in your notes. Don't just watch it and assume you understand, genuinely walk through them with him. If you're taking it in a semester where GSS is offered for the course, go to GSS. And go to Keystone. It's not a well-known program, so it was generally 1 on 1 tutoring, although with the publication of this review it may get more traffic. Amin's curving policy was ridiculous, and in my opinion gave far too much leeway for people who slacked off, rather than reward those who worked hard (second lowest exam was replaced by your homework grade, which was basically a free A on an exam for everyone, regardless of how well students scored on their second lowest). Additionally, lowest was dropped, and specific exams were curved (albeit not the final). At the end of the day, what matters is your grade and not anyone else's, and because I got an A-, I am satisfied enough. But I wish Amin structured this course far better. I would recommend taking another professor if possible.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Ovrthegrdnwll 01/18/2023	I honestly think a lot of the problem with this course was that lectures weren't long enough. 50 minutes was not enough time to cover the topics we were learning, and class would often end before Gholampour was finished teaching what he had planned. He's a really nice guy and is clearly trying, but it's incredibly difficult to effectively teach 2-300 students in a giant lecture hall in 50-minute increments. For me, my TA carried the class. Dominic Flocco made every topic understandable and he was a really nice guy who also wanted us to succeed. This class was very difficult, and I'm speaking as someone who already knew the material from having taken AP Calc (Exam grade didn't transfer). However, Gholampour added multiple grade-saving curves/grade adjustments at the end of the semester, so most people passed even if they weren't doing well.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/02/2023	Hussain Ibdah is a decent professor. Not a great lecturer, but a nice and pleasant guy. Handwriting is rather terrible, but you can figure out what's written in the end. His thought process throughout the lecture can sometimes be hard to follow, but in that case you can just ask a question or request to clarify something, and he always takes time and thoroughly explains anything that's unclear. He posts his notes and the subject of the lectures online. Attendance isn't mandatory, and you can just grasp the material from reading his notes and/or the corresponding chapter in the book. Exams were moderately difficult, quizzes were okay. The curve in the end was pretty nice. If you're not used to such teaching style, you may find taking this class with Dr. Ibdah to be difficult. Otherwise, personally, it was a pretty chill class, not requiring too much time or effort.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/29/2022	Took Calc 2 with Tim in Spring 2022. The guy is extremely rude when you email him for administrative issues (of which are his fault) or questions regarding concepts. Mans goes off of a 20-year old power point that's EXTREMELY vague and has never picked up a pencil to show us some examples. You will not learn JACK in his class, and will definitely have to spend hours watching Youtube videos/going off of the textbook. I would like to thank myself for excelling on the final. TAs were absolute legends.. shoutout to Joe! One thing I gotta give him credit is his generous grading system with having no +/- grades -- strictly A, B, C, etc..
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/28/2022	Dr. Ibdah is an okay professor to take for MATH 141. As other reviews have stated his handwriting is bad and he lectures fast, but after 1 or 2 lectures you get used to it so its not that bad. He is very nice, accommodating, and willing to answer questions. Personally I enjoyed his teaching style where he derived a formula or idea and then went through examples. Through this I felt like I developed better critical thinking skills. However, I will warn you that you need to really pay attention in lecture because the material is hard in the first place. He does post his notes online which were a life saver. Exams were difficult and not similar to practice exams, however he did curve at the end of the class. If you take Dr. Ibdah I recommend studying a lot from the book as he said he pulled concepts similar to problems from the textbook. Regarding the other reviews- most of the people who took the course this semester were freshmen and are complaining about many things including his teaching style, assignments, and handwriting. Honestly, Dr. Ibdah is just your average college professor and freshmen are not used to being "spoon fed" answers- thus why many people harp on his teaching style. Intro courses have a lot of assignments that's just a fact of life. I have never seen Calc 2 material before and studied a lot for this course, so do not be wary of taking him if you have not seen the material before.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/28/2022	While I did end up doing well in the course, it was less because I was able to understand and master the content and more because of Amin's insane curve (My grade went from a c+ to a-). I feel like most of these reviews are a little misleading. He's a super nice guy, but let's not fool ourselves, his lectures were awful and exams were unfairly difficult. Luckily the TA's for this class were great- office hours is where I truly learned the course material. For anyone taking this course in the future, that would be my strongest recommendation for this course. DON'T SKIP DISCUSSIONS AND GO TO OFFICE HOURS. Also, as a lot of these reviews mention, Amin is a super compassionate and caring guy and makes himself available for office hours pretty much everyday, so if you have any questions you could also go to him. I never went to his office hours, but some kid in our class group me explained how he met with Amin everyday with questions and did very well in course. Any way, this is a hard course and one that easy to fall behind in, so stay on top of your work!
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/25/2022	Curved my D+ (68) to a B-! Exams are a little tricky, but quizzes are fair because they come straight from the given textbook problems. Lectures are a little hard to follow, but he posts hand-written notes and posts the lectures online. As long as you practice and do your best, you should be alright. Math141 is not an easy class but with Amin, you’re nearly guaranteed to pass!
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/25/2022	Calc II is an undeniably challenging course, but it was made easier by Amin. His lecture goes fairly fast, but Calc II is a hard and fast-paced class, so there’s really no way around it. That being said, he replies to emails extremely quickly and does office hours by request throughout the day and even at night till 9 pm. And he truly is an amazing teacher, so there’s no way you’ll leave OH confused. I emailed him about OH at 8:13 pm and ended up meeting with him at 8:30 pm. When I asked him how he was so dedicated, he told me that he truly loves math. His passion for the subject matter undeniably makes this challenging class manageable. For my Fall 2022 class, he curved 3 out of the 4 tests and the final (10%, 10%, 0%, 25%, 10%). He dropped the lowest test and the lowest quiz. He had 5 attempts per WebAssign and also curved your overall grade as well. He also had two other grading policies that are a little too complicated to explain here but should increase your grade by ~2%. He’s an amazing lecturer, an approachable instructor, a kind person, and undeniably one of the UMD math department’s best professors.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/24/2022	Good calc teacher with fair exams and preps students well with practice exercises and practice exams.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/22/2022	I was fooled by these reviews into taking Amin for Calc 2. I, and many of my classmates, found the lectures to be very hard to follow because he makes too many leaps and expects everyone to follow, even though we are very unfamiliar with the material. The weekly quizzes were essentially homework checks composed of two problems selected from the recommended homework. The quizzes were pretty helpful in forcing you to do the homework, which forced you to maintain some level of competency in the class. Other than that, the tests were pretty hard, beyond a level that you can express your true knowledge of the topics, and the WebAssigns were a little too niche and overly complicated. The curve on the class was massive but it was more to address the fact that many of us had not been properly taught Calc 2 and performed poorly as a result. He's a sweet guy who means well but I think this class sucked a lot more than it needed to.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/22/2022	Lectures are great, he records them and posts his notes too. Sometimes lectures were a little fast but it's fine, lots to get through. Textbook is good resource. If you want more on proofs go to office hours. Four midterms (3 curved for me) and a final (curved). Gives EC for finding lecture mistakes. Overall great professor, caring, definitely take Amin!
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/19/2022	I'll say this flat, she isn't a good professor but has fairly simple exams when compared to other professors. Her grading is based off of class rank (the top 30% get As, 30%-70% get Bs, and below 70% get C or lower). Also, the TA's will carry you throughout the semester and I would recommend skipping the lectures since she just rambles on about useless information and only covers things in the last couple of minutes of class. Personally, I think she is the best professor for calc 2 only because she drops some of the lowest hws and quizzes (they are given weakly) and the exams aren't too difficult (averages were around 75% for first 2 and 65% for last 2).
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/19/2022	Amin is the best choice for Math 141. Exams are insanely hard but quizzes are super easy. Curve is insane my 66 is a B- just don’t slack off and do the practice problems he assigns and you’ll be good. Hes an Ok lecturer but he’s a great tutor during office hours
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2022	He went through content fast and his writing was sloppy but he was a goofy dude who made class fun most of the time.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2022	Dr. Gholampour is a decent lecturer, but amazing grader. His way of lecturing may not work for everyone (which was to go through example problems of the topic at hand) but I felt it worked out for me, especially because I tried to do the WebAssign practice problems a day or two before he would go over the topic in lecture. MATH141 can be very difficult, but with Dr. Gholampour, the experience can be rewarding if you are willing to put in the work doing the homeworks on pace with his lectures and the practice problems in the book he gives (which are very similar, if not the same, as the questions you'll see in quizzes). If you do fall behind on the homeworks, you don't need to worry, as all of them are due at the end of the semester. If you fall behind on the actual material, you can always go to his office hours or meet with the TAs, who are very helpful in discussion and in exam preparation. His exams were definitely challenging, and when I talked to those with other professors, they had easier questions. However, he curves a lot (to the point where you can go into the final with more than a 100% in the class), and the final is also curved (even though it is pretty challenging. Your lowest exam is dropped, and your lowest quiz is dropped, which in the end allows you to actually focus on learning the material instead of stressing about your grade.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/17/2022	Hands down the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Lectures are 50 minutes of nonsensical rambling and incomprehensible scribbles on the chalkboard. Wish my TA taught the class ngl. Nice lady but man I did not learn a single thing from her.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/17/2022	I think Hussain is a nice guy, but I would not recommend taking this course with him. The best way to describe his teaching is by using his own words, from an email he sent to our class after the final: "I apologize if my unorthodox teaching methods didn’t resonate with you. When teaching freshmen level courses, I always try to transition you guys from the “spoon feeding” and “recipe learning” techniques used in high school to becoming independent learners who understand, and not memorize the concepts. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don’t, but I strongly believe this is the way it is supposed to be: part of your college education is not only to learn new material, but also to become independent thinkers." If you want to understand the material, please take any other professor. The only way I managed to pass was by learning everything on youtube.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Anonymous 12/17/2022	Hussain is a really nice person and he actively tried his best to help students in what ever way he could. However, as a professor, his lectures were down right horrendous. He would make simple concepts completely confusing and much harder than they had to be. His exams were absolutely unreasonable and unfair, being completely unrelated to what we did in class. His handwriting is poor, and the class downright sucked. I feel that some of this is the class itself and not directly his fault, but Hussain could and should have done a much better job teaching. Unless he's your only option, do not take a class with him.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/17/2022	This dude is an absolute clown. All of the negatives from below sum up his teaching style fairly well. The TA's this semester were great and carried most students. I will say the curve at the end of the year was more than generous. I do not recommend taking him if you want a deep understanding of the course material. A+: 95.5 and above A: 88.7-95.49 A-: 87.4-88.69 B+: 80.2-87.39 B: 75.41-80.19 B-: 72.70-75.40 C+: 69-72.69 C: 61.4-68.99 C-: 58-61.39 D: 51-57.99 F: Less than 50
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/16/2022	Taking MATH141 is absolutely never a fun experience. Being one of the hardest lower-level math weedouts with a significantly high fail rate made me extremely nervous to take this course. I was never good at calculus, so my stress levels were at its peak while taking this course. However, Amin made this experience worth it in the end- his lectures definitely were not my preferred style of learning but he is by no means a bad lecturer. He is always happy to answer questions before and after lecture, and during office hours. He also gives bonus points to those who catch his mistakes during class. He also records each lecture and posts notes every day (though the quality of the recordings are subpar, they can prove useful sometimes.) His class is formatted in a very straightforward way- there is a weekly quiz that will only feature examples directly taken from the textbook. As long as you study the textbook problems given, you will absolutely get 100%s on all your quizzes. These quiz problems also help you a lot for the midterms. I would say Amin’s midterms are significantly harder than other professors midterms- but FEAR NOT! While the exam averages were quite low, the curves given were insane (10%, 10%, 0%, 25% respectively). He also drops the lowest midterm score and the lowest quiz. This offered a massive cushion to those struggling in the course. As long as you do around or above the average, there is no fear of passing. Amin also offered a system where if you are still failing the course, if you do well on the final the final grade can replace your course grade- so hypothetically if you get a C- or above on your final you have a chance at success. All homework was due at the end of the semester, although I would highly recommend doing the homeworks as you do the units covered in class for maximum success in this course. Overall, I am extremely glad to have taken Amin for MATH141. If you are a student debating whether or not to take him: TAKE HIM! I cannot stress this enough. He might be an angel from heaven.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/16/2022	Awesome professor, he is kind and genuinely tries to help his students. Make sure to keep up with your homework so you don't have to do it all in one day lol. Textbook problems are highly recommended as they are basically what is on the exams and quizzes. It may be a bit difficult to follow lectures if your knowledge of calculus 1 is little (things you should know are unit circle, derivatives, limits, some basic trig identities like sin^2 + cos^2 = 1, etc.).
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2022	Please avoid her if you can. I'm only getting an A- because I have previous experience with some of the material. Hatice is often incomprehensible and awful at doing practice problems on the whiteboard. My TA does a much better job at teaching, and even my TA acknowledges that Hatice is an incredibly incompetent professor.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2022	There is a reason why he is highly rated compared to other professors. Where to begin? First off he drops one of his exams and exams are 50% of the grade so you only need to do good in three tests, there are other professors who don’t drop exams. He also makes his quizzes based on the book problems what that means is the same problems in the book are the same problems that will be asked on the quiz. So really it’s almost impossible not to get 100% on quizzes easy 12.5% right there. Homework is hard but you can google or use a calculator if you want or ask him for help more on that later so another easy 12.5%. His exams are harder than usual which prepares you for the final and because they are harder he usually curves and oh boy the curve is CRAZY he curved the class like 4 times. He isn't your enemy he is on your side I joined the class late and got a crappy low quiz score the TA wouldn't drop it so I talked to the professor and he dropped it without any question. He is an okay average lecturer if you are excepting him to magically teach you everything in 50 minutes he can't do that no other professor can but his lectures are way better than some of the other choices if you think he’s bad go watch the other professors lectures you’ll miss him. He follows and explains the book and answers any questions pretty typically stuff. What makes him probably one the best math teachers and a 5-star teacher, in general, are his office hours. The way he runs office hours is like a free tutoring session he is an amazing teacher one on one. All you gotta do is ask him when is he available for office hours then you’re set to ask him any questions he always helped me with my homework daily because there are some people who thought he was just “another bad professor” and never bothered asking him for office hours there mistake. Trigonometric substitution, partial integration, and series you name it all complicated topics that I didn't understand at all but in 30 minutes I learned it easily because of his office hours. 100% take him. Also, he makes all his homework due at the end of the semester and drops the lowest homework and quiz so that's neat.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/15/2022	He's a pretty good professor and the class grade is distributed fairly. He goes over the concepts and examples during class. The practice exams are basically the same as the exams with different numbers. Just make sure to do the practice exams and know it all before the exam. Webassign is basically free points. The worksheets are graded pretty harshly so I recommend checking all your work and doing it thoroughly before submitting them. There is a curve for this class so don't worry too much about your grade. I heard most of the other professors for MATH141 are bad so I recommend taking his class if you have the opportunity.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/14/2022	THIS TEACHER IS THE WORST FOR MATH141 DO NOT TAKE HER. Ok so let me start out by saying that the lectures did not help me understand any of the material AT ALL. My TA, who held discussions on two of the days did a superb job of explaining topics to me, however it was not enough. The lectures were just a waste of time and I would write notes that would not make sense to me at all. If you are trying to take this course, I highly advise not taking this teacher.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/14/2022	Amin has been a fantastic lecturer and provides more than enough information to succeed in this class. He is a very nice person and is very fair when grading. While his tests are difficult, he curves nicely and they help to prepare you for the final exam. He also has weekly quizzes on problems given in the textbooks, which makes it very easy to get 100's on them. They also help to reinforce the understanding of these topics by making you do some extra practice. This has been a great class and I would highly recommend him to anyone taking this difficult class!
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2022	Amin is quite possibly the greatest professor you could take for MATH141. He explains concepts extremely well, and answers a lot of questions during lectures. The TAs he chooses are really good at covering what he does in lectures in a little more depth, as well as general doubt clearance. He provides you with a list of practice problems which help you cover most, if not all of the major concepts that will be tested. These practice problems are also used for the quizzes, so if you are thorough with the problems there is no reason for you to lose any points on the quiz. His curves are also extremely generous, and he makes changes to his grading policy in order to bring up the class average if he sees that the class is not doing so well. All the homeworks being due at the end of the semester also mean that you can do things at your own pace, which I really liked about the class.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Anonymous 12/09/2022	He is an amazing professor. He handles the content extremely well and he picks the best TAs to help the students. The TAs that he picks are willing to go above and beyond for their students. He is also very understanding and compassionate with the students. He will recognize the effort that students are willing to put into his class and rewards them for how much effort they put in instead of just simply their scores. Thank you, Amin!
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ vlelchuk 12/09/2022	I took MATH141 last semester and I had Tod Rowland. Rowland is very clearly smart, but his lectures were impossible to follow and he was very absent minded. He is a really nice and accommodating person. Unfortunately, his lectures did it for me. I couldn't follow through the second half of the year. I ended the semester with a C- and I needed a B-. I retook 141 with Amin and I have a 93 right now. Yes I am retaking the class, but he is one of the best 141 lecturers. He does not give any discussion worksheets and instead gives weekly quizzes (lowest is dropped) and the questions come straight from the textbook, meaning you can get 100s every week with little effort. His homeworks are ALL due on the last day of the semester so no more staying up until 4 in the morning on mondays and wedensdays for WebAssign, and lastly his tests were very hard but he curves very very well. Currently he is curving the first 2 tests 10 points, the 3rd one 0 points and the 4th one 25 points, in addition to that the final is being curved and it seems he is going to lower the letter grade cutoff as well. Will likely end the semester with an A+, please please take Amin actual goat.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2022	I recently had the pleasure of taking Calculus 2 with Professor Pincus and it was an exceptional experience. Professor Pincus is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about the subject, and it shows in the way that he teaches the material. He is able to explain complex concepts in a way that is clear and easy to understand, and he is always willing to help if you have any questions. One of the things that I particularly appreciated about Professor Pincus is his dedication to his students. He is always available for office hours and is more than happy to help you if you need it. He has a great sense of humor and his enthusiasm for the subject makes the class enjoyable and engaging. Overall, I would highly recommend Professor Pincus for anyone taking Calculus 2. He is an exceptional teacher and I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to learn from him.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2022	The other reviews on this professor raise some suspicion. While he certainly isn't a bad professor by any means, he is far from the best calc teacher I have ever taken, and all of the other review for MATH141 coming on 11/07/22, I would question if this rating is genuine. To do well in this class, you have to do very solid the first 2 / 3 exams, as there are 4 midterms and a cumulative final. Luckily, the lowest exam gets drop! :D yippee! However, despite how great this sounds, exam 4 is the killer. With the HIGHEST score on exam 4 being a 70 last year, the average coming out to around a 50, exam 4 is always the one dropped. So, if you are able to keep your cool and get relatively high scores the first few exams, you'll be sitting pretty. I enjoyed Pincus, but I cannot in good faith give him 5 stars, simply for the large spike in difficulty that comes with exam 4. Pincus, if you read this, please stop teaching the hardest topic in the class in the week over Thanksgiving as a video. Explaining it in person, even if it was rushed, would likely largely improve the exam 4 scores, singlehandedly removing the one flaw I see in your teaching.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/07/2022	I'm so sorry, we wrote the last 5 5-star reviews(the ones on 11/07/2022) as a joke, but after the last exam average was in the 30s it wasn't funny anymore. Take this class if you want to self-learn the entire thing and have a mental breakdown. Horrible at explaining, ask him a question and he will freeze, ramble a half answer, and move forward. This class is 100% an avoid, the workload wasn't bad but you just don't learn from him, HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TEACH! Going to class is pointless, he's such a bad teacher, he spends the entire time going over proofs without actually teaching. The entire class stopped showing up and is watching youtube videos(Online chem tutor for the win), as going to class is a waste of time, and you won't learn the topics. Even people with Calc AB/BC couldn't follow his classes, his strategy is to read out loud the textbook but skip any explanations. I can't emphasize how bad he is at teaching, there are units where the entire class just didn't learn a topic. No curve, again we gave those 5-star reviews as a joke. DO NOT TAKE PINCUS. He's not a bad person or mean, but he doesn't know how to teach, we all had to self-learn the entire year and that made it hell.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/03/2022	This professor is unbelievably horrible. He literally acknowledged how terrible his handwriting is and basically just told us to deal with it. His written lecture notes are SO BAD, it's impossible to pick out what the actual necessary information to know is. He makes even simple concepts more convoluted, and my TA is basically the only reason I could make sense of the material. I used to enjoy calculus but this class ruined it for me. If you can avoid taking this class with him, I definitely would. It's not the end of the world, but it definitely will not be a good experience.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/01/2022	DO NOT TAKE HER! Some ppl might be smart but do not know how to teacher. My TA is a better teacher than her and that's the only reason I am surviving in class
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/30/2022	This professor does not teach well at all. He is fast-paced and will skip steps he "expects" you to know. If you ask a question, you are more likely to get more confused. He makes mistakes while doing problems, so when he corrects them, you are more likely to get confused. He does examples from the textbook and has no original contributions to the content. His tests are insanely hard for no reason, and sometimes on small details. He doesn't curve individual exams but says he will curve final averages and replace the lowest exam grade with the final exam grade. He does give partial points for problems like every professor but it really depends on his mood on how much each part is worth. There are quizzes every week except the week of an exam. There will be many homework assignments all due on the same date, so you pace yourself accordingly. Any questions about homework are told to be directed to the TAs. His handwriting is terrible (except when he writes on the blackboard (which he barely to never uses)), but he does post all his notes in case you missed class. The class started out with all the seats filled and by the end of the year, it was down to 1/4 of the class attending. I taught myself most of the content. The TAs teach more than he does. Seems like a good guy but can't teach. TAs are the only saving grace for this course. As far as I know, the people that did well in this class taught themselves everything. I don't know about other professors, but avoid him if you can.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/18/2022	This professor does not care if you actually understand the material or not. He moves way too quickly during lecture and completely overcomplicates everything. I mainly learn through Youtube videos and on campus tutors. Everybody in the class is always confused as he does not explain what he writes and skips over important steps he took in the problem. I took Calc II last year and I found the topics were way more simplistic when taught by another teacher. I have no idea how people are taking this class without being exposed to calculus II concepts. The exams are extremely difficult and he uses problems that are not similar to anything we have been exposed to in discussion, lectures, or homeworks. I do NOT recommend this professor. Save yourself.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/07/2022	This man is a saint, he is helpful and kind, and will give you extensions on the hw if you need them. He is thoughtful and doesn't care if you are on your phone in class, and will explain in depth the solutions and proofs. Would reccomend.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/07/2022	Really appreciate the hard work from Mr. Pincus! When attending office hours, he does not stop until he makes sure you understand the material and are prepared for the next units. He also is a really nice professor and understanding.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/07/2022	Actually the best teacher of all time. He is what is known as the GOAT. If you struggle in math, take his class, he does not move forward unless everyone understands the material and he is extremely clear when explaining problems. 10/10, would take his class again.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/07/2022	Super Helpful Professor. Probably the easiest A I've gotten in any math class. Like WOW. His notes are clear and concise and takes the step above for each of his students to succeed.
David Pincus MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/07/2022	Greatest professor of all time! Amazing teaching, makes sure you understand every concept before moving on. Lots of extra practice in-class. If you plan on taking 141 and you aren't taking Pincus, you are making a mistake.
Hussain Ibdah MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 10/18/2022	He is breaking new records -- from the bottom. I am beginning to seriously think that it might have been better to have just not taken the entire class in the first place, and waited for the next semester, instead of taking Calculus II (Math 141) with him. Not only can't he teach for nuts, he is completely unprofessional. He'll cancel office hours 20 minutes before they are slated to happen. Bombard you with emails, and then with more emails to correct the first round of emails, then even more emails stating that he got "confused" and that the first round of emails was originally correct. I just gave up going to lectures because it was completely impossible to understand anything he was saying. His handwriting, when on a blackboard, is actually readable. Fortunately for you, he will NEVER use the blackboard except in rare circumstances, instead always choosing to write on an iPad in the front of the class. Good luck trying to ready his digital handwriting. Truly should be fired. Completely incompetent. Suffer what you can before taking his class as a last resort. If you don't believe me, then you should check out the reviews he had at his last college on Rate my Professor: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor?tid=2429447
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a W Anonymous 10/14/2022	This teacher is a pile of shit. Doesn't answer your questions in class. hardest exams in your life that you cannot complete in 50 minutes and his lectures are very, very fast. TAs are also complete and utter dogshit. Literally take any other professor for this dogshit class.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 10/13/2022	Her teaching is very fast and unorganized
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a W Anonymous 09/15/2022	Stop believing the 5 star reviews he has been known for giving himself fake reviews to boost his average. Unless you dedicate 15+ hours a week or have years of previous calc experience he is not a good professor, he teaches off a 15 year old power point and has never picked up a marker and done an equation all semester. He has the highest D,F, and W rate among all popular calc teachers
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/13/2022	If you have ADHD/ADD like myself please for the love of god do anything you can to not take this class. the notes she writes on the board during lectures are so disorganized, they just look like the kind of work youd do for a homework problem where work isnt required to be turned in. because of this if you daze out or get distracted for even a moment you cant figure out whats happening at all by looking at the board. i tried so hard to pay attention in her class, and im even medicated, but its so frustrating when i daze out for 30 seconds and look back and i cant even tell what order she did her math work in. be prepared to completely self-teach any concepts if youre not good at following things. shes very nice and cares about her students but her lectures are not friendly to anyone, let alone people who have trouble keeping consistent unwavering attention on the board.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 08/18/2022	MATH141 was an easy A+ with Pilachowski. Strongly recommend taking this course with him.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/18/2022	Had an amazing time in MATH141 with him. The course felt rather easy with his grading scheme. Recommend taking him if the schedules match.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 07/03/2022	8 am was brutal, canvas never accurately reported the grade, and he gaffes wat too much on the problems. Skips all tje algebraic steps amd leaves you wondering wtf is happening. Webassign problems took up all day and the discussion assignments were irrelevant and not graded fairly.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/21/2022	Like everyone else says, Dr. Rowland is very nice and cares a lot for his students. He held review sessions on zoom the night before every exam which were nice, but like his lectures, were sometimes a bit all over the place. It felt like the way he lectured just simply did not work for the majority, if not all, of the class. He goes far too quickly through new material and brushes over largely important topics that leave you scratching your head at the WebAssigns wondering how some of the most important stuff was never covered. If you end up with Todd you will be okay for sure if you put in enough work, but it probably does require more outside studying than other professors. Similar to another review below, it feels like teaching calc 2 might not be his strong suit.
Josue Avila Artavia MATH141 Anonymous 05/19/2022	Josue was a fantastic TA. He almost always knew how to solve any problem and break it into comprehensive steps, and his office hours taught me more than the actual lectures did.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Anonymous 05/19/2022	Dr. Chadwick's class definitely improved from 140. His biggest flaw is that he still spends far too much time on the derivations of the formulas that you will need to memorize for his exams (which are unnecessary to know for a 100-level course). As a result, he often ran out of time when doing important examples but made an effort to answer questions. His exams also improved and closely mimicked the practice questions and exams that he sent out beforehand. As for the class itself, Chad was very transparent with all test, quiz, and hw due dates and never had any surprises. While his lectures could be improved, he's definitely the best of the 100-level calc profs.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/19/2022	Todd is a nice guy, and he is also pretty funny. However, the way he teaches did not help. It felt like he was reading off the slides. His lectures are confusing and boring. He teaches using Wolfram Alpha/Coding and doesn't really demonstrate the problems well. Overall, if you are good at teaching yourself the material, Todd is a must. (Also ESJ is a nice place to study)
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/19/2022	Todd Rowland is a nice guy and is accommodating and knows his math and stuff. Only problem is he is not really good at communicating his knowledge and actually teaching. Most of the time his lectures are all over the place, and it is really hard to understand what is going on most of the time. If you rely on a lecture teaching style, don’t take Rowland because you’ll end up needing to teach yourself the entire course. That being said, because he’s nice and accommodating it’s a little easier. Another thing, his tests are really hard at least as of spring 2022 I don’t know if it’s because the end of COVID or something but yea his tests were really really hard.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/18/2022	Dr. Chadwick is a fantastic person and lecturer. Exams are reflective of the lectures/readings. There are many horror stories of this class, but if you just focus and practice every day you will be fine. The sample exams help significantly.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2022	If you want to do well in 141 and are willing the put in the work, then Pilachowski is your best bet. He provides lecture outlines for each class which are very detailed and helpful. I wrote on these notes for every class and it was very helpful to look back on when studying for tests and especially the final. Secondly, he also provides lecture videos which are just about the same as going to class. Taking advantage of the lecture outlines are the easiest and best way to do well in this class. If you are still struggling, he also provides additional textbook problems to help you understand concepts better. One of the things I liked most about Pilachowski teaching is that he points you in the exact place to go for help. When it came to 141 concepts that relied on information taught in 140 he points to the exact place in the textbook to go to if you need to review. He offers all the resources and material you would need to do well and it is clear that he cares about how well students do. This class is hard but if you put in the work for the class it is possible to do well and taking Pilachowski can give you a pretty fair shot at it.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Anonymous 05/17/2022	Todd is a funny and friendly professor. As many of the reviews below me state, it's pretty hard to learn from him. He tries to connect with students by learning names and stuff, but kindness does not give out knowledge. I went to every lecture and could not grasp the concepts in his lectures alone. Rather I had to find other outside resources to know what I was doing in class. For the good things, he has very nice curves and offers extra credit for your final grade (an extra 2% which seems not like a lot but is great for borderline grades). He halves an exam, drops 3 homework, 3 worksheets, and 3 "classwork" like weekly quizzes. He also does not do pluses or minuses and does only normal letter grades. Great for low percentages, bad for high. I would not recommend Todd to be your #1 choice, but if you happen to land in his class, be prepared to learn on your own and have to rely on curves for your grade. Good luck!
Jianlong Liu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2022	I can understand why a lot of people disliked having Jianlong as a TA. If you don't go to him and ask him for help, he didn't really help you with the seemingly impossible worksheets that we were given in Calc 2. In addition to that, my lecturer, Todd Rowland, although a very nice guy, was horrible at lecturing, which made the worksheets even harder. Over time though, I realized that if I kept going up to him and asking for help, he did explain to me how to solve it, but he wanted us to try and think about it first, which for me personally, I found it very effective. I ended up learning a lot more in discussion than I did in lecture, which is why I appreciated Jianlong as a TA a lot more than others.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2022	Not gonna lie, I genuinely thing that the majority of bad reviews this guy gets in 141 are from people who never bothered to print out the lecture notes that he has on his website. Those lecture notes are REALLY detailed and help you keep track of the countless formulas and techniques that you will have to memorize through the course. The notes were a godsend for me since I am a terrible note taker. I cannot emphasize enough how helpful these lecture notes were in helping me do very well in the course. Seriously, this guy literally has a resource that will make the course significantly easier for you and yet so many people are too lazy to bother printing them out for use. To be honest he should emphasize the importance of his lecture notes more, since his lectures become much more easy to be followed when you have them with you. He is a good teacher, but if you want to make the most out of his course, for the love of god, USE THE LECTURE NOTES. Almost no one I knew in the class used them and I consistently performed far better than them.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2022	His teaching style did not personally meet my learning style, and it seems that it did not meet others' styles as well. In his lectures, he basically just reads through examples and narrates what is happening. It becomes really unclear at times and I would've preferred if he worked out questions in front of us. For the entirety of the course, I pretty much had to learn everything via YouTube. His tests are not too bad, and there is a ton of partial credit to be earned.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/09/2022	Todd is a nice guy, and he does care about his students, but he should not teach calculus 2. His lectures are confusing and boring. He skips and adds material to the course randomly. He is unprepared for classes and spends about 15% of lecture time trying to remember what to teach us. Tests are quite difficult (not too difficult) and are very long. I cant in good faith give him one star, because he is kind and he does care. Based on other reviews of him, my guess is that calc 2 is just not his strong suit, which is fine, I would just stick to another professor for math141 if you can. If you do end up taking calc 2 with him, find resources outside of class to help you learn the material.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/05/2022	Make sure you have taken Calc 2 in high school prior to taking this class, unless you have a ton of time on your hands. I took this class in Fall 2021, and her teaching was not helpful. She is pretty disorganized and her lectures have little to no structure. The textbook for this class is pretty confusing, so having to rely on it was a pain since I did not gain much from lecture. I had taken this class in high school but college Calc 2 is drastically different- there was a lot more application to physics, especially in the first portion of the class, and the integrals were a lot harder. I got two Bs, a D, and an A on her midterms- they were not that hard, although it was difficult to know what to expect and her wording for questions is extremely poor. Her practice exams were also not that helpful, which we did not even receive until the last two exams. The worst part about Dr. Sahinoglu's teaching style is she did not prepare us at all for the final. The average was somewhere in the 40s, and I scraped by with a 50, which gave me a B- uncurved. I ended with a B+, so the curve was generous but did not make up for the fact that the class was taught so poorly. I am not a math genius by any means, but I do feel I could have done better if I had a better professor and I would avoid her if you can. The only thing that saved me in this class was having a good GSS leader, which you'll have to attend if you have Hatice.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B+ anon154 05/05/2022	Gulick is very straight forward with fair exams that have decently high averages. Calc 2 is a hard course in itself, but he does a good job to teach the material and make sure you understand whats going on. Overall he is the best professor to teach this course and I learned more than I did in this course than any other math course here at UMD.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/03/2022	I would like to personally thank myself for carrying myself in that class. The powerpoints go over the most simple examples of each unit which is irrelevant because he picks things that have not been covered in class or are the hardest to do for his exams. He should switch careers and be a rapper too because he goes through the PowerPoint at an astronomical speed. He posts lecture videos online which is more helpful than in-person lectures. He does drop a good amount of discussion ws and hw but the TAs are my favorite part of this class. #lovePhil #loveJoe #loveJosh
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/02/2022	He was a decent professor, nothing absolutely amazing nor do I recommend the 8 am schedule. If you have to take it with Gulick, he is a fine option. He stopped doing lecture quizzes so my grade was a but more inflated than it should have been. He is genuinely smart and passionate about the subject, so not the worst. Not great, not terrible.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Anonymous 04/28/2022	I had Pilachowsi for MATH140 and 141, and I can say wholeheartedly I won't miss it. I thought he was fine when I took 140, but that was probably because I had already taken the class in high school so not much was new. Math141 is a different story. While I did pretty well in the classes, that is through no help of his. His lectures are him reading the textbook off of his PowerPoint slides to you. The only redeeming part is that he puts all the lecture videos online, so I haven't been to class since the first day. His exams are hard but not ridiculous if you study, and his TA's grade nicely (at least in my experience). There is no curve and his grade distribution will kick your butt in the end. If you can take someone else, I would recommend it.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Anonymous 04/24/2022	Her exams were pretty easy, however I found the lectures quite useless. She would do stuff without explaining what she is doing. I personally self studied the entire class and ended up with an A-. I stopped going to her lectures, instead, watched YouTube videos to teach me the concepts.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Anonymous 04/21/2022	Take Hatice if you are good at teaching yourself math. Lectures are practically a waste due to the fact that she often spends more time explaining arithmetic than the content that you are actually learning. Her tests are definitely on the easier side, being that we often get cheat sheets for important trig values and most of the questions are straightforward. My TA this semester has been my saving grace, teaching me exponentially more than Hatice.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/13/2022	This guy is the best. A few things to note that might have changed from previous reviews of him: -Lots of people saying that his exams are super easy. Well he definitely has changed that recently, his exams are on par with the difficulty of other professors if not harder -He's not the best at answering questions in class. Super nice guy but he just gets anxious and doesn't always answer them correctly -The best thing about him is the fact that his notes are clearly understandable and he writes on the board (unlike others cough cough pilachowsky). Also he's not afraid to host class on zoom for religious holidays and stuff so reach out to him if that's an issue for you Overall, out of all the MATH140 and MATH141 professors at UMD, this is the one you want. He's not intimidating at all (quite the opposite) and everything is explained clearly and meticulously.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Anonymous 03/02/2022	Her tests are fairly easy, and that is her only redeeming quality.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/18/2022	Pretty decent lecturer. The curves were nice and allowed me to succeed in the class despite getting Bs on most of the tests. Weekly quizzes, but he told us the possible problems ahead of time so if you did them ahead of time you were fine. All the homework was due at the end of the semester which was great. I personally did not like him as he seemed more responsive to the questions/answers of the guys in class compared to the girls, but he was a good instructor and I'm glad I took his class compared to what I've heard from other professors.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/23/2022	Prof. Fernandes consistently showed up late to class. His lectures focus too much on theory and history of mathematical concepts rather than concrete examples. The TA you sign up for is CRUCIAL; my TA is the only reason I succeeded. Be prepared to teach yourself concepts outside of class. Invest in a full solutions manual to the textbook.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/17/2022	I am not going to lie, I thought Hatice was a terrible professor. I will agree with the other reviews that state she is nice, but kindness does not cut it when the professor simply cannot teach. I did not feel like she did a good job with how she answered questions in class. She also frequently just started doing work without explaining what she was doing. Another thing is she would just do proofs that do not help the class at all and if anything make what she is doing more confusing and overall would just waste time in class. I often walked out of lectures confused as to what was going on. Her midterms are not too hard so studying would result in a fine grade on them, but the final was brutal. Thankfully I took this class in high school and doing that mixed with having a tutor and going to GSS sessions before tests made me be able to get an A in her class but I would not say that she is a professor that I would ever want to have again.
Brandon Alexander MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/07/2022	Dr. Alexander was a really good math professor, and I believe he taught the material of calc 2 really well! He was lenient in grading when needed, and was very accommodating when it came to homework attempts. He was on Piazza, not even lying, 24/7 to answer our questions. I like how he showed the proofs of the topics and I liked how he'd give a summary of topics before each quiz and exam. Highly recommend him if you're taking any course he teaches.
Brandon Alexander MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/31/2021	Dr. Alexander is a solid math professor. He explains concepts well, gives you plenty of examples for everything, and gives you plenty of tries on the graded homeworks to get a 100. He responded to everything very quickly on Piazza. He also went over all of the quizzes in class and wrote up solution guides for the exams, giving you plenty of resources to study with and find where you need help. Regularly scheduled office hours can help those that are struggling.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/28/2021	Really nice guy, In order to pass this class you need to work together. Find resources that help you. His lectures aren't useless but they aren't the best content to learn Calc 2. HE IS THE BEST MATH141 PROFESSOR FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND HEARD. Good luck, you're gunna need it.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/27/2021	Good teacher. Midterms are very fair and Matlabs are easy to complete but bring decent comprehension of the software.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/23/2021	Definitely some salty engineer/cs majors in these reviews. Just for reference, im a bio major (not very math oriented) and his class was fine tbh. Lectures are all recorded, so in case you want to sleep in one day u can always refer back to the recordings. Weekly HW’s were definitely hard for sure, but i don’t understand some of these reviews saying “bad ta= wont do well on hw”. One of the TA’s posted all discussion recordings on canvas (shoutout to jianlong liu) where he worked out essentially every hw problem. I just looked at his recordings and did the homeworks that way. Dr. F gives sample exams to every midterm, which essentially lays out the entire format of the test, so as long as you studied the sample exams, (Dr. F also gives solutions to sample exams) you were fine for the test. He also provided a monstrous curve for this class, and no +/- grades either which is clutch. Also, I may have just gotten lucky, but the one time i emailed Dr. F, he responded within minutes. This was at 2 in the morning also. Overall he’s a good guy, and i definitely recommend him to everyone. Note to rising freshman: Just putting this out there cause I wished someone had said this when i was a rising freshman. But just make sure you understand that calc BC in high school is not the same as calc 2 in college, and you’ll have to put some amount of work in. I came into this class thinking it was gonna be a breeze cause of prior knowledge, but this class is only like 15% BC review, 85% new material.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/21/2021	Jonathan was a great teacher and really amazing person. He helped me develop the joy for mathematics some people who don’t love math might not like Jonathan’s teaching style since it is not about telling you how to use formulas, but more about deriving them and showing some basic proofs (he can over explain sometimes). Although this might be annoying to the people stopping at calc 2, it was quite refreshing for myself since it gave me a taste of what advanced math was like. If you want an A+ definitely watch professor leonard on youtube in addition to showing up to his lectures. Doing this you’ll master the applications of the formulas (leonard) and expose yourself to more complex proofs that will be useful later in your math career(Fermendas). 4-5 times throughout the year he’d spend the first 5-10 minutes of class giving us life advice about how to succeed is college and life in general. He talked about being useful to your peers and such (giving not only receiving). He has really good dad jokes about math. funny guy. The complaints about emails were quite valid. However, you can also see this as a learning opportunity. In work environments you will likely have many bosses who suck at replying to emails and need 2-3 follow ups.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2021	Before you read any further, just keep in mind that the entire math department at UMD is doodoo, so I am writing this review with this standard in mind. About MATH141: - This was the hardest class I ever had to take. I never had problems with math, and I actually enjoyed AB Calc in high school. But MATH141 in college made me hate math and question why I chose engineering. - I spent 12+ hours on just math each week, which was draining because you will have to self teach yourself a lottt of the material. You will not understand much of the material taught in class and the textbook is just as confusing, so Khan Academy and the Organic Chemistry Tutor will be your saviors. - The amount of work you have for this class is astronomical. You have homework assignments due after every class, which are a pain to complete. But one of the worst parts are the weekly worksheets. They are quite literally not possible to complete. If you do not have a good TA, you will fail these worksheets (and I say this because some of the graduate student TA's have zero clue how to complete some of the questions). - We had 4 midterms and a final. I think these were fair and the practice exams he provides, as well as the web-assigns, were good indicators as to what you should expect. Keep in mind that the average on these midterms ranged from a 62% to a 69% (and the final was sitting at a crisp 50% average). But at least we didn't have any weekly quizzes. - At the end of the semester, he applied a generous curve: dropped our lowest midterm, dropped two of our lowest scoring worksheets, curved the webassigns, and curved the final. This boosted people up quite a bit. About Jonathan Fernandes: - I will start with the positives. Fernandes records all of his lectures and has zoom as option if you can't make it to in person class. He also posts all of his notes from class to Canvas. As a person, Fernandes is a kind and understanding individual who cares for his students and tries to make the class entertaining by cracking a few jokes (not to mention he has been listening to our advise and trying to improve his teaching). - Now onto the things which need improvement. I don't think he is good at explaining. I left every lecture confused, frustrated, and dreading my life decisions. I did not understand a single thing he taught in class, and he almost never finished his lessons (he usually accelerated to lightening speed in order to try to finish, and even then never did). Another thing which bothered me was the fact that he barely gave any examples in class in the beginning of the semester (he improved on this towards the end of the semester). He just went over proofs and the conceptual part of math rather than demonstrate how to solve the problems through examples. Good luck with MATH141 and say goodbye to your sanity in advance. My best words of advise will be to always expect the worst and hope for the best so that you can avoid disappointment as much as possible (be prepared to fail and know that it's ok). Hope this helped :) and most of my grade is a compilation of my efforts to self-teach myself, the Organic Chemistry Tutor, and tears.
Brandon Alexander MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/20/2021	He is a great professor and teaches the concepts well, however, he moves really fast and covers a lot of material in every lecture. This course relies more on applying the concept, not just memorizing formulas, which can be very difficult given the pace and difficultly of the course. However, he does hold office hours before every lecture and tries his best to explain the concepts in detail or work with you on the web-assign homework problems. I would recommend him as a professor, I would just encourage you to come in with some experience if you can, like reviewing the material before taking this course.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2021	For some reference: I took AB and BC in high school I got a 5 on the BC exam but there were complications where I didn't get my score until the middle of the semester so I had to sit through the awful class of 141 even though I could have exempted it all along if the College Board was somewhat competent. I will say that I forgot a lot of the content, so I basically had to relearn it all with Hatice. Hatice is a very interesting professor. For starters, she really is not the best teacher. On one hand, her accent makes it a bit tougher to actually pay attention in class, but on the other hand she really just doesn't teach a lot of important concepts that are integral to the class. She generally goes overtime in lecture which makes it super annoying when you already have a walking conflict and on top of that says to read the rest of the chapter in the book. She is a pretty nice professor when it comes to making up exams and answering questions in class- I was very sick the night before/day of the exam and just had to email her and she let me take a makeup exam which didn't go the best for reasons I'll explain in the next section about exams. Hatice's exams are really medium-difficult but super easy compared to other professors' exams. Basically do the WebAssign homework (which take hours, to be honest), a couple of the suggested practice problems, and the practice exam (BEFORE the lecture preceding the exam because she generally does it as a "review" in class), and you should be good to go for her exams. I realized that her exams were significantly easier than the other professors' when I took that makeup exam and she gave us another professor's exam which literally looked like Chinese to me. I had no idea what was going on, and it was by far my worst grade. Although you might assume that easier exams are great.. they are NOT when it comes to the final, which other posts have mentioned. The mean was a 47 and the high was a 90 which is terrible for 20% of your grade. Overall, don't take Hatice if you can help it, but if you like to self-study most of the content or have taken BC before, and are ready to work extra hard for the final then she's not a terrible professor.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/19/2021	one of the most caring professors at UMD. unfortunately i think it is rare to come across a professor that cares so much about students grades AND well being. I have to admit his calc two class was extremely extremely difficult especially since I'm not a math or engineering major. I probably put 8x the effort in that course than any other course. he dropped one of our midterms, two homeworks, added bonus quizzes to help our grade, and curved the final. Even with all that, I barely got an A. Very appreciative of his care for students. I do recommend him, his class is very hard so read the textbook before and go to office hours, but if you put the effort in from the start you should be fine.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2021	Dr. Fernandez is a good person more than he is a good teacher. He has office hours often and is willing to listen and help students out. If you're confused (which you will be), you're going to want to attend these. This class requires an astronomical amount of work. I once spent 7+ hours on one homework assignment (there are three homeworks per week). This class is an absolutely massive time sink. If you have a good TA, everything becomes a LOT easier. They explain the worksheets in depth and guide you to the answers. If you have a bad TA, I'm sorry, and good luck...
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2021	Ishfaaq is a pretty good professor. Granted, I had already taken BC calc in high school going in but, his lectures were pretty good at going over concepts that we needed to know and he would choose good practice questions to apply the concepts to. However, like the previous review, I agree that his lectures are generally pretty dry and to the point. He will also brush over certain things however when prompted, he will go over them. Not to play devil's advocate or anything but MATH 141 is calc 2, therefore the professors usually will have some expectation of what you already know. He curves the final grade based on the average, I had an A- in elms but in testudo, my final grade was an A, just for your reference.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/18/2021	literally could not have asked for better. Sometimes lectures were a bit fast but that's just the pace of the course. He went out of his way for his students to do well. He offered bonuses, got rid of our lowest exam, curved the final, and our final grade.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a D+ Anonymous 12/18/2021	This teacher is terrible at emailing, TAs we’re not helpful this semester and the exams were not too difficult however this class was not conducted well and lectures were not helpful to learn from, spent then entire semester trying to teach myself the curriculum.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an F Anonymous 12/18/2021	Terrible teacher Great personality Good luck
John Quah MATH141 Anonymous 12/18/2021	He seems like a genuine professor, but his teaching style is very hard to follow. He talks in very technical terms and I found myself having to self-study this course because I could not understand what was being said in class.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/17/2021	She really is a very nice person but she is not a very good teacher. Her lectures were useless (thank god I had a good TA, good luck if you don't) and keep in mind that the HW may take you a very long time (I did find it useful though). The major issue I have with how she taught the class is that while her tests were incredibly easy, this is a double edged sword because easy tests combined with little to no resources with which to study for the final made the final exam a massacre. The class is half the difficulty found on the final and for reference, the mean grade was a 47 and the high was a 90. Combined with the fact that it is 20% of your grade and she doesn't curve at all (no mercy here) this means that the final will probably drop your grade 5 points easily. She clearly is not teaching to the standards set by the department.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/17/2021	Professor Fernandes is a good professor and an excellent person. He cares a lot about his students, constantly asking for our feedback and providing us with comprehensive web assigns and study material for tests. He also uploads his notes and lectures, which is very helpful. However, he can be a bit disorganized at times. Aside from these issues, I learned a lot from his class and it was great having him as my math 141 professor.
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Anonymous 12/17/2021	Very nice lady, but cannot teach to save her life. Everything I learned in this class came from my TA. Best advice I can give is don't go to lectures, never skip a discussion, and take the notes directly from the textbook/khan academy/some other source. Also her grading policies are terrible. Most other 141 professors drop the lowest exam grade, Hatice doesn't. Most other 141 professors also curve all 4 exams, Hatice doesn't curve any of them. Her lack of teaching abilities also left all her students extremely unprepared for the final, especially in the last 2 units.
John Quah MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/16/2021	I think Quah definitely wants his class to like him and he seems generally nice. but is pretty awkward in teaching. He often goes on tangents about more complex math(which would be welcomed if there was more time in the year) which just confuses everyone. The exam averages are very low. The exam average started around 80 for the first exam, but slowly dropped. The next three exams had averages in the low to mid 60s after the curve. Most of the exams seems to pair up with the UMD test bank questions in style, however there are some questions that are more complicated than what was taught. For two of the exams, Quah mentioned how he made the exam the day before which was concerning. For one exam, he changed parts of three of the problems halfway through the allotted exam time. The quizzes are not too bad and are doable if you study. It seems like he assumes most students already covered a lot of this material in their Calculus I courses, which isn't true and thus he tends to move pretty fast. One thing that I did not like was how after the low (62%) exam score after the curve, instead of offering advice or giving more points, he instead gave us 'extra credit'. This was in the form of a quiz that he told us not to tell the absent students thus helping us more for the curve. This seemed a bit rude to me. The lectures are not very engaging and the general consensus from the rest of my class is that he is a poor teacher. I don't think anyone in the class has a 90 after asking around, most have averages in the 70s or low 80s even though a lot have already taken Calculus II at their high schools. I would not recommend this professor if you want a good Calculus II grade. Even if you are confident about your calculus II skills, I think other professors would be more engaging.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2021	He is a good teacher and kind to his students. He is super generous !! Like súper!! You will do absolutely fine in this class if you actually do what you're supposed to: go to lecture, do your homework, and seek for help from him/TAs when you need it. You have to put your own effort in HOWEVER I know he doesn't write the finals himself but my God that was the most brutal final exam I've ever had in my entire life. Don't rely on the final to boost your grade bc damn.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2021	Average Lecturer. Godlike human. Good curves (10,5,3,20) on the four tests. I think he even curved the final. The test questions were similar to the final. A quiz a week on two homework problems. WebAssign all due at the end of the semester. He is very nice and understanding of student's concerns. Calculus 2 was not a fun course, but it was a lot easier taking it with this professor.
Amin Gholampour MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/14/2021	Amin is a sweetheart with a PhD in math. His lectures are good, and his tests are fair. Quizzes are easy if you do the practice problems. My only issue with this course was the WebAssign homework. Most the topics covered in them are not relevant to the course, or are too far fetched.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/12/2021	Jonathan is an extremely nice guy who genuinely wants everyone to succeed in his class. His lectures were pretty hard to understand for me but he uploads zoom recordings of them so eventually I stopped going to the lectures and just watching those which then evolved to me not watching them at all lol. I found it more helpful to thoroughly read the textbook since that has more complex examples to go over. Jonathan tends to just do proofs during the lectures and if he does do an example it's the most incredibly surface level example that doesn't really help you on the HW. I gave him three stars because I do think he loves his job and wants the best for everyone. Pretty generous curve at the end of the semester as well. Overall, this being my first class with him I think it comes down more to the work you do outside of class if you want to succeed.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2021	He is a really good professor with a great personality. He will try to help his students as much as he can. He listens to complaints and tries to solve them. However, you will need a support system for this class. Going to discussion and having some classmates to study with will make your grade. The lectures can be confusing since he is required to go over theoretical definitions but with the supplement of discussions, you will be okay. The exams are not difficult if you practice the sample exams. Overall, he was a great teacher with a great sense of humor and personality. He is humble and down-to-earth.
Brandon Alexander MATH141 Anonymous 12/08/2021	He's extremely responsive! He will check piazza at least a few times a day and always provide thorough answers to your question no matter how big or small it is. He never shames you for the questions you ask. His tests were mostly fair, and he is the most fair grader I have come across. When most students messed up the same questions, he would give more points back. His averages are very high (B range) and his lowest grade was around the 50s. Teaching was okay, I think there were too many proofs and textbook like ways of explaining, but I think thats the case for most teachers. I would take him again.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2021	The professor focused a lot on the theoretical side and provided little examples, but if you put in a little bit of work outside the class and used textbook problems for practice the class is pretty easy. The sample exam is practically the same as the actual exam so learn how to do the sample exam and you'll be fine. Not a large curve on exams but dropped the lowest exam, 2 lowest homework worksheets and curved web assigns out of 90. If you are good at math you should do fine in this class.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2021	He's great, but the class is hard. Curve is pretty generous (drop 1 exam and 2wks). Overall, his teaching style is fine, but you need to have a great TA to actually understand the wks and some concepts.
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/06/2021	One of the best MATH Profs. His exams and quizzes are very easy and you just need to pay attention in the class. Would 10/10 recommend to take him!
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/06/2021	TOUGH CLASS(in general) this professor is very understanding and tries his best to teach in a way that helps students in the long run. I will say at first i was not a fan of this class but soon realized, its the material and not the professor. Jon has a great sense of personality and WANTS THE BEST FOR YOU. All you have to do to pass this class is go to class and try to be as active as possible, exams are fair, require studying and understanding, not just memory. homework is a little tough, try to find a friend to work through it, if you're lucky you will get a TA that basically does all of the work with you in discussion. I CANNOT PRESS THIS ENOUGH if you ever are struggling go to office hours, it helps a lot and is definitely pushed by prof. all of my friends who had other professors said they were swamped with work, this class is less work and more self study, so if you don't do good with self study do not take this class.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/05/2021	I give him two stars because he's a nice guy. He truly does care a lot about the students and the way he changes his grading policy throughout the semester shows it. However, please do not listen to these spur of 4-5 star comments coming out of nowhere. He is not good at teaching. It literally is a TA lottery and if you have a bad ta you are fucked. The lectures are useless because he teaches proofs and ignores doing examples that will help with the homework or worksheets. The worksheets are only completable if you to go discussion... they are pretty much impossible to fully complete on your own. He comes into class late every day and always gets sidetracked by random stuff. It can get frustrating and for a bit, I just stopped attending lectures. Overall, He's a really nice guy. I would give him 3 stars just because of that but I don't know if I can because I have never taken a class worse than his in my entire academic career (I'm a junior). He just has no idea how to teach the course.
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/05/2021	Ignore the bad review below. Ishfaaq is generally a good professor. I would say the course load isn't too bad. For MATH141 you'll have a 10 question WebAssign worksheet due every Tuesday/Thursday, a one-question quiz every week (that is very very easy especially if your TA is good and goes over the concept right before the quiz like mine did), and then exams after every chapter/group of concepts. You will need to self-study for the exams though, just because the course material itself is just hard. Ishfaaq is a pretty good lecturer. He will set up a concept, write down the theorem for that concept from the textbook, show you a proof for that concept when need be, and then do example problems involving that concept. His lectures and homework also relate very well to what is on the exams. Overall, I'd say he's a good professor. That said, he's also not great. Some lecturers just have that special talent to make lecture engaging, but his lectures are very to the point and cut-and-dry. Not that that's a bad thing, though. That may be why you're looking for. I just feel like he could do more during lectures to explain concepts and sometimes he will skip steps or brush over something that "you should already know how to do". The review below is a little misleading though, it's never THAT bad. When he skips a step or brushes over something, if you just raise your hand and ask for clarification he will 100% do his best to clarify and make sure you understand. He also never makes you feel stupid for asking questions and never answers them condescendingly which I really appreciate. One thing, though, is that he does not curve. Your 4 lowest homework and lowest quiz grade is dropped, but exams are never curved. I've heard that he may possibly curve everyone's final grade by some margin at the end of the semester, but I can't say for sure since I'm writing this review right before my finals.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/04/2021	This is a college calc 2 class so expect to have a lot of work and spend time everyday to do well in this class in general. Fernandes' lectures are kind of hard to understand so you will NEED to read the textbook and practice problems from there to understand the topics. He is a very kind professor and cares about his students, but the reason why I would say he is good is because his tests are very similar to the worksheets and hw. If you can do all the problems from the worksheets and hw you can literally ace every exam. TA's are also very helpful and answer questions really well. He is dropping our lowest exam.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/03/2021	I think a lot of the bad grades are from people who didn't expect the workload that comes with college and are unprepared to independently do well. It's a college calc two class - it's going to involve a lot of work and a lot of confusion. However, the TAs I've talked to are capable and even if yours isn't, you can go to any TA's office hours for help. You WILL NEED to go to office hours, read the textbook, and do extra work to do well in this class but that's the same for any math class you will take in college. If you spend this time learning the material, the tests will be easy as he makes them exactly like the homeworks. Fernandes does have some teaching flaws but he is a good professor and genuinely wants everyone in his class to succeed. If you aren't doing well in his class, you won't do well in any calc 2 class.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/03/2021	He's a very caring professor, and it shows. His class is difficult, and for good reason. I would be surprised if it wasn't, it's calculus after all. The homework and exams are challenging, but never completely unfair. I will say that he sometimes does not explain complicated concepts well. Other than that, he's a good professor, and a good resource if you're willing to put in the work for yourself.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 12/01/2021	My professor who taught me Calculus 1 at a community college easily trumps Fernandes ten-fold in terms of explaining the concepts and doing the examples. If you don't have a good TA, you are screwed. Going to UMD Math Success has been an integral part of me being able to pass this class, other than that, the tests are really difficult unless you are good at doing math problems quickly. He often has technical difficulties in class and always starts the lecture 3-5 minutes late. He rarely ever does examples, like what you see on the WebAssisgns and the worksheets, instead just talking about proofs and concepts rather than how to actually do the problem. The weekly worksheets are impossible unless you are gold-like or have a good TA. Overall, I've stressed more about this class than all my classes combined, and I do computer science for crying out loud. Overall, this is the only class I have ever taken where I am uncertain about it I'll even have a C at the end. Only good part about this class is that there are no quizzes and he is a nice guy.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 11/29/2021	Look, he's a great guy. But he really struggles to teach. If you win the TA lottery, then you will get an A with ease since the professor likes to curve things with the average being based on his lackluster explanations. Otherwise, good luck. Good grade or not, you're looking at 10 hours / week of homework, 4 midterm exams (for some reason), and a whole lot of stress. I give my prayers out to whoever has to take this class (which, unfortunately, is every engineering and computer science major).
Hatice Sahinoglu MATH141 Anonymous 11/19/2021	She's Really hard to understand and doesn't explain the material well. It's really hard when the book doesn't explain anything well either. I've mostly learned from the TA's. lean on them heavily.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Anonymous 11/17/2021	literally tragic the way this man teaches. often has technological difficulties and goes through long round about ways of explaining concepts that is not needed as well as doesn't explain everything that we need to know for homework. 10/10 do not recommend
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/17/2021	An absolutely horrible professor. He shows up late to every single class and never finishes a lecture. He does not do relevant examples and always makes mistakes so nothing makes sense. He also gets easily distracted and wastes a lot of in class time. You need a great TA or you will fail, some TAs will explain the worksheets and some have no idea how to do them. The worksheets of which are basically over complicated challenge problems that he will not teach you how to do. Even if you've taken calc 2 before it is extremely difficult with him as a professor. If you read every page of the textbook and do every possible practice problems you might pass. Luckily there were no quizzes so your grade is mostly the exams...
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 11/03/2021	He clearly knows the content very well but is terrible at explaining it succinctly. He goes a long round-about way of explaining the material in a conceptual way that could be shortened by just giving us the equations since no one really cares about proving the equations. Then he doesn't test us on the conceptual stuff; he tests us on applications that he glosses over/skips entirely in class. The weekly worksheets (25% of the final grade) are pretty much impossible unless you have a good TA who explains the entire thing. The twice-a-week WebAssign homeworks (15% of final grade) are also very difficult, and you really need a lot of friends to figure it out together and to use all three attempts of each person to get to the right answer. He often doesn't finish his lectures during class and has to hold zoom make-up sessions or just posts notes he expects us to go through on our own time. He doesn't go through any/nearly enough examples for us to understand the topic. If you don't read the textbook sections before class and land a great TA, good luck. On the bright side, we had no quizzes, just the 4 midterms and final.
Foivos Chnaras MATH141 Anonymous 09/23/2021	Such a nice TA! So helpful and wants everyone to succeed!
Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 09/02/2021	Absolutely sucks at teaching, those dated reviews of when he was a TA are pretty much useless at this point since he is now a lecturer. Half his examples and explanations are begin with a problem, then he says "aNd YoU sHoulD kNowW hOw To tHis pARt yOuRseLf" and viola he somehow has an answer. If lectures aren't your speed then I highly recommend him because its going to be a good amount of self studying.
John Quah MATH141 Anonymous 09/02/2021	If possible, do not take him. Today was my second day with him, and I'm already kind of lost. He never really explains anything well, and if he does try to explain it won't make sense. It also doesn't seem like he takes the effort to teach anything, just talks and shows examples. The textbook he tells us to use barely makes sense, which doesn't help the fact that he can't teach. We also need to pay for WebAssign for homework, which forces you to write answers in a specific way for points. I took Calc BC and honestly didn't hate it (except for things like polar and taylor polynomials and whatnot), but unfortunately, I didn't get the credit for the class. I expected this class to be a review, but nothing he says makes sense, and his way of teaching feels so cold. His voice is so mundane and he hasn't smiled once. I hate being in that class, it's so unwelcoming and silent. I was like 3 min late for my first class (bc im a freshman) and he didn't even try to fill me in. I'll be happy if I can even pull a B from this class. I'll post again at the end of the semester.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/10/2021	In my opinion, she is a pretty decent professor. A lot of people mention her accent and how hard it is to understand her, but I didn't think that she was hard to understand at all. Her accent was never a big distraction to me. I thought that she explained the MATH141 concepts decently, and I would almost always come out of her lecture understanding those concepts pretty well. Her tests were reasonable, and she never tested us on anything that she didn't teach in class or that wasn't on the homework or the practice test. Overall, she is pretty nice and cares about her students. She also curves individual exams if the average is below 70, and she drops your lowest midterm, which is pretty great. I was dreading MATH141 because everyone kept talking about what a hard course it was, but I thought that she made the course relatively easy and reasonable.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 06/22/2021	I definitely recommend taking calc 2 with Rowland, he is a great person and teacher.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/13/2021	Wu is a really nice professor that actually cares about her students. She makes notes before hand that are availiable in the files section so you can see what you are doing in lecture before it evern starts, during class she always reads chat and answers all the questions she can, she shows proof for how formulas work (this sometimes confuses people though) instead of just handing it to you that why you actually understand the concepts, her drawning skills were pretty helpful at times, her office hours were right after lecture so you could stay and ask questions if you were still confused, and best of all she records all of her lectures (and office hours) so if you didn't follow something, wanted to study for a test, or even just sleep in because you're overworked, that is something you can do with Wu. As far as I am aware she is one of the only math professors who record their lectures and thank goodness she does. A lot of people have mentioned her accent, but it's honestly not that bad. I, and im pretty sure most poeple, didn't have trouble understanding her at all. Going after class ends happens often but it's usually about 1-3 minutes more; keep in mind she has been answer questions during lecture which takes up some time. There were a couple times when she went about ~10 minutes after class ended with some of the heavier topics, but if you can't afford to stay you can always leave and watch the recording later. Her exams weren't crazy and if for whatever reason the class didn't do so well she would curve the grades up for so the average would be 70%; she curved people up at least 10 points one time. Proffesor Wu is an extremely nice professor who does her best to accomidate every student and give everyone the best chance to succeed (which for Calc 2 being as hard as it is, you'll need). Do yourself a favor and just sign up already.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2021	If you have the chance to take him for calc 2 do it. He really cares about his students and is one of the nicest profs at UMD. 141 is typically looked at as one of the hardest classes at UMD but he made it very doable
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/12/2021	Todd Rowland is a super nice guy. Honestly, if you go to lecture and discussion you will succeed in this class. Just like anything, if you put the effort in, you will learn. Plus, Rowland is literally the nicest teacher you will ever have in your entire life.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/08/2021	It's a tough class. Gulick is a tough but fair teacher. I don't think you will find many better options at UMD. Make some friends and work together on the homework and worksheets, that will make the class more manageable.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/07/2021	Todd was a nice guy who in my opinion had decent lectures even though at times I seemed to have no idea what was going on. The course in my opinion got significantly harder towards the end be he does really want to see his students succeed. With some work outside of class and staying on top of the homework the exams will be pretty easy. I would recommend him if you are able to do a bit of self learning.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/04/2021	Compared to other calc professors, Gulick is a good option. His lectures are synchronous but recorded so they can be watched back at any time. His exams are challenging but he gives you multiple practice exams from previous semesters that mirror the actual exam very closely. As someone who isn't great at math, if you work hard you can definitely succeed in Gulick's class. Very knowledgeable and definitely recommend.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/04/2021	She's incredibly nice, but she doesn't teach incredibly well and her English isn't fantastic and therefore causes additional issues. Her work is jumbled and cluttered on the screen and incredibly confusing to understand. When you ask questions the answers aren't fully clarifying, which is hard because it leaves you feeling like you don't want to keep asking. Class typically ends on time, however she did hold office hours immediately after class. The tests are also super short and the TA's treat them like they have a stick up their butt and out their mouth.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/04/2021	Her teaching is very confusing and all over the place, she is nice with accommodations, but the lectures are so hard to follow and you leave class having so many questions still for preparing for worksheets and tests. If you are not a math major and need this class, I would suggest a different professor if classes are full for a later time
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/29/2021	I took Chadwick's MATH140 and wanted him for 141 and I was lucky to make it into his class from the waitlist (he's really popular). -He gives detailed lectures and reasonable amount of work. Just like CALC 1, its 2 HWs/ week, 2 WKSTs/ week, and quizzes every other week and an exam maybe after 3 quizzes. -The only thing is that he's very meticulous about lecturing such that he doesn't love it when people ask a ton of questions. It gets him antsy that we're taking up time when he could be finishing notes. He also isn't flexible with quizzes and exams. I emailed him that I was getting my vaccine and wanted to take the quiz ahead of time but he ignored my email. -Other than that, his exams are pretty reasonable similar to questions he goes over in lecture) - I hear Guilick is good (he makes the exams I'm pretty sure). But the only thing about him is that he gives pop quizzes and Chadwick lets us know thru syllabus when quizzes are Yeah would reccomend
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/26/2021	Had him for online, lectures are eh. He codes in wolfram the whole time, hard to understand. However, if you read the book and actually do the HW you will be more than fine. Todd is a very funny and great guy. He also drops midterms and homeworks from your final grade. Exams are easy and almost the same as the practice ones he releases. Makes 141 a breeze. Wonderful experience.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/26/2021	Dr. Rowland is one of the nicest professors I've had at UMD. Very genuine guy and he wants you to do well. I had him during a covid semester and his online lectures were not very good because he always used wolfram alpha. Exams were always very easy and were very similar to the study guide. Definitely one of the better professors for 141.
Yijing Wu MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/23/2021	She's really nice but she's a terrible teacher, by far my least favorite I've had. She has her notes prewritten and then fills parts of them in during lecture but she never leaves enough room so they always end up going all over the place which makes them very hard to follow, especially when you look back at the pdfs. She also can go very fast which is hard to follow and she never understands what students are asking so she typically just wastes time and causes people to be more confused. She NEVER ends class on time, always goes over and it's usually the important things she does after class so if you have to leave you're kinda screwed. If it is between taking her or postponing the class a semester, I'd recommend postponing.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/08/2021	I haven't gone to any lectures but I have gotten a 98 or 100 on every exam because he makes them so easy. If you do the practice exam and review a tiny bit on Khan Academy you're good
Kendall Williams MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/02/2021	I took Dr. Williams spring 2021 and it was... an experience. He has zero pity for tech issues. I had my whole exam not upload in time, I watched it spin and spin, and I even took video of it spinning 5 minutes until the time went out. I had to email him the videos and he still had no sympathy. Luckily, ELMS seemed to crash for everyone, so I was good, thank goodness. His VOICE for the recorded lectures will PUT YOU TO SLEEP. I wish he had SOME kind of energy in his soul to pour into this class, but he has nothing. It makes the 50 minutes go by so slow, and I feel so disconnected to the work. I would not recommend him because of his teaching style and teaching "attitude" I could say.
Bo Tian MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/01/2021	Bo was my TA for MATH 141 for Spring 2020. When in-person, Bo would review the content and then go over the discussion problems. He was clear with his explanations and would help as much as he could. When we switched to online, Bo continued being helpful and clear with his discussions. The course is challenging, but Bo made it more understandable, you just need to go to his discussions to learn it.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/19/2021	He does not teach but at least he follows the textbook. His lectures are basically him copying down a chapter and kind of talking through it. He doesn't really give much explanation and reading the textbook would be more helpful than watching the lecture. Online tests for Fall 2020 were completely unsupervised. There would be a pdf posted then you had to upload and submit your work within an hour. In the end, the curve was pretty nice. I went up a full letter grade.
Brandon Johnson MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/17/2021	Brandon was really great to have as my Calc 2 professor. He teaches in ways that I was not used to, however some of these methods were beneficial. He is slow on grading, but I did not really care about that. I highly recommend him!
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/12/2021	I had Stefan for MATH141 (online - fall 2020). He is an excellent professor, explains things very clearly, answers emails, and is very personable. I highly recommend taking him.
Brandon Johnson MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/05/2021	Brandon is really charismatic, fair about everything, and accomadating. It was his first semester in charge of a class when I was taking his class, and although he was learning as he was going he made notes and made sure to explain everything in detail with easy to understand class slides and small group time. The one thing about him (if it's a concern for you) is his grading. I didn't care too much but it sometimes takes him weeks to grade things and sometimes you won't know your grade for an assignment for a while and in our case we didn't have a grade by the drop deadline. Other than that I would completely recommend him.
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/26/2020	I felt so lucky to have Stefan for 141. He is straightforward in his lectures and explains concepts pretty well. Best of all, he doesn't throw any curveballs on his exams! If you attend his lectures, go to your discussion section, and do the WebAssign homeworks, everything on his tests will look familiar. I actually found the exams significantly easier than the homework. Best of all, he's a really nice guy and brings a bit of humor to his lectures at times. Don't settle for a lesser professor, take Stefan!
Stefan Doboszczak MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/23/2020	I had him for online this semester His lectures were strong and his exams were quite fair. His lectures are not mandatory and the exams were open notes due to covid. He does curve exams if the class does poorly on it
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/21/2020	Lectures aren't really helpful, better off reading the textbook. Very generous curve and reasonable tests.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/15/2020	You have to really know the textbook to understand the lecture. He basically goes over the textbook and whenever he does an example he does a bunch of calculations at once so sometimes it's hard to follow. The TA taught really well though.
Jonathan Fernandes MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2020	He's a decent professor who applied a very generous curve at the end of the semester, dropping the lowest exam, lowest two quizzes, and lowest two worksheets. The class itself is just very difficult and his exams are somewhat difficult. The weekly quizzes also stack up in damaging the grade and are pretty tricky. However, he's always very open for questions and records all his lecture. He also provides his notes. The class is definitely not an easy A or easy, but he's a decent professor for a hard subject.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2020	He is a very boring professor and his lectures do not make too much sense. as another person wrote youd be better going and learning it yourself. Or cheating honeslty.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/03/2020	Like the other reviews said, he is a nice guy but I stopped going to his lectures very early on. He teaches using Wolfram Alpha/Coding and doesn't really demonstrate the problems well. He is disorganized and confuses himself during teaching. The TA's did way better at helping us understand concepts. He drops a lot of things at the end of the semester though, there is no curve on anything due to this. He even ends up dropping one of the four midterms you have to do.
Todd Rowland MATH141 Anonymous 09/16/2020	One of the nicest people I've ever met, but I think some of the students in the class could explain calculus better then him... He does not understand some of the things he teaches, and is often corrected by students. I've been teaching myself thus far as the instruction/lecture is less than helpful.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 09/05/2020	His exams throughout the semester are not difficult at all. But that’s the only thing he has going for him. His lectures are really confusing and he does not prepare you for the final exam which determines way too much of your grade. I had an A before the exam and ended up with a B-.
Brian Smithling MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/10/2020	great professor, would take again if I could
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/26/2020	Dr. Chadwick is a very thorough teacher. His lectures are all handwritten, and his example problems are very helpful for the homework. Exams and quizzes for his class are very fair, and cover whatever he reviews (no trick questions). Dr. Chadwick is still not able to answer questions during his lecture, but go to his office hours since hardly anyone does unless it is before an exam. Discussions are helpful, but really depends on who your TA is.
Nathan Manning MATH141 Anonymous 05/15/2020	I was retaking this course in the spring because I didn't do well in the fall, so I expected the course to be much easier. Dr. Manning makes the course so much harder than necessary. The worksheets are graded for accuracy every Tues & Thurs and the TAs grade somewhat hard. His exams are some of the hardest I've ever seen and don't relate to class at all. I got a 100% on Midterm 2 first semester and with Manning I got a 69.5%. That should not be possible. He also isn't great at explaining things and kind of goes all over the place. DO NOT take him if you don't have to
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a D- Anonymous 03/07/2020	My failing grade is mostly due to me being a bad student and going through a rough patch but I also have stuff to say about his class. He's a pretty okay person and his tests were decently easy but he just goes on and on about proofs when we could be doing examples and actually learning how to solve the problems. So I guess take his class if proofs help you. Also I felt severely under prepared for the final and bombed it. I went from a C+ to a D-.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/19/2019	Makes Calc 2 doable. He drops a midterm, like half of the quizzes, and 5 or 6 homeworks. Lectures are a bit proof-heavy, but the midterms are easier than some other professors'. Final is rough, but he does curve.
Jakob Hultgren MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/12/2019	Good. Not great. Gotta figure out a lot yourself, overall a good guy. Super easy tests.
Victoria Whitley MATH141 Anonymous 12/09/2019	Great TA. Way more helpful than the TA which is important in calc2
Brian Smithling MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/06/2019	Fantastic professor, goes a little fast through material. Quizzes in discussion are what really drop your grade, but the exams are not that bad.
Martin Molina Fructuoso MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/05/2019	the easiest professor for math141, by a long shot. people say math141 is a weed-out class, but no one dropped our class. he grades so leniently its great. however, lectures are boring and pulled straight from textbook, but even if you have a slight interest for math, you will be fine. also, very leninent on webassign homework grading and deadlines.
Jakob Hultgren MATH141 Expecting an A Kamicosi 11/26/2019	He's a sweetheart, but an awful lecturer. His lectures usually consist of him writing formulas on the board with very bad explanations. He reads his notes from an IPad, which he spends half the class time staring at in disbelief as if he cannot understand his own notes, which wouldn't be a surpirse considering there have been multiple times this semester that he has given us the wrong formulas and would send out an email the next day correcting his mistakes. In fact, mistake should be Jakob's middle name because he makes at least three in every lecture he gives. You cannot trust this man on anything he says because he messes formulas and explanations up so often that everything he does you can assume will have at least one mistake somewhere. I would be giving Jakob one star if it weren't for the fact that he gives easy midterms, so if are okay with learning the course on your own in exchange for easy tests, go ahead and take this class with him. Otherwise, take literally anybody else.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/17/2019	I enjoyed his class. His exams were far easier than the other professors. He is not the best teacher but definitely worth taking him for those easy exams. He also drops 1 midterm, 2 quizzes, and like 4 homeworks... (Fall '19)
Adam Telatovich MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 09/22/2019	I feel bad for this guy honestly. He seems to know his stuff but he speaks soooo quiety even with a microphone that always has low battery. His markers always seem to be drying out so if you sit in the back not only can you not hear him but you can't even copy down notes for the day. He is a nice dude but a nice dude got me a C despite me being good at math.
Adam Telatovich MATH141 Expecting a D+ Anonymous 08/30/2019	He trys really hard to be a good professor but he falls kinda short. He isn't very confident and speaks very softly (even with microphone). He tries to help you when he can but grading between his TAs was very inconsistent. Each test problem would be graded by a different TA which is normal but it felt like each took their liberties with grading difficulty. Now I'm not generally a D student, and I had a B in this class until the last test and final which were on content he rushed to get through.
Stavros Papathansiou MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 08/21/2019	Best math TA in existence, period.
Martin Molina Fructuoso MATH141 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 07/23/2019	Amazing lecturer - he truly cared about what he was teaching. He focused on making the course enjoyable, as well as making the exams relatively easy. Easy grader as well. At the end, he made our lowest exam grade worth 50% less, so that boosted me and a ton of my classmates.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a D Anonymous 06/09/2019	Tim tends to read off of the lecture slides instead of working through problems. I managed to do well on the quizzes but terrible on the final (hence the D). Tim does not curve so be sure to do well on every exam. The lowest exam score is counted as half which doesn't boost your grade up much. Quizzes, WebAssigns, and Discussion Worksheets can boost your grade up a few percentage points and he drops at least 3 of the lowest scores - this is the only grade booster you'll get. The TAs are helpful during discussion and very accessible. Definitely retaking this course again for my major - keep in mind that I scored a 4 on the BC Calc exam and got a D on the course and 98% overall on the pop quizzes...
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A TopHat 05/23/2019	Gulick is certainly an interesting professor. At times he runs through material a little fast, and makes a few mistakes while writing out work on the chalkboard (the class always catches them). However, he is one of my favorite professors here at UMD. He knows exactly what he's talking about, and does have his funny quirks that make class enjoyable. He gives you practice tests a few days before exams which are extremely helpful. WebAssign can be a pain sometimes, but it does prepare you for the exams. The final is fair, as he gives you practice ones for that as well. I would recommend taking Gulick for Math141 (and MATH140). Take his class with some friends in case you need to work on homework or test prep. Good luck!
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/19/2019	Pilachowski is an OK teacher. He teaches the concepts pretty well, but the biggest problem is that he just stands there and goes through his online lecture slides. He never does any practice problem in lecture which is not helpful. Also, ALWAYS go to lecture. This dude will at some random day pull up a graded quiz. Expect him to pull up a quiz on every single day in the week. He doesn't curve at all in this class, but it's reasonable. His exams are FAIR in which if you really put in the work in this class (USE THE TEXTBOOK EVERY TIME), they are extremely easy.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a C- Anonymous 04/22/2019	Overrated professor. Sure he is quirky, but he teaches a little too fast. It is hard to follow work in class not to mention he's hard to decipher what is being written. Note I sat 3 rows away from the board. His exams are pretty fair. WebAssign will take over your life. Do NOT take this class if you are not a morning person.
Terence Long MATH141 Expecting an A- braniac9 04/11/2019	Great Lecturer. I was in FC though so he had no TAs so took a long while to grade exams. Didn't respond to emails, and when I ask . him if he recieved something of mine he sounded like someone pretending to know what an email was. You will probably have a 5 star experience if he has a TA for your section so your exam can be graded while TLong plays Quake.
Adam Telatovich MATH141 Anonymous 04/11/2019	Not the best but not the worst. Very quiet and monotone but wants kids to learn. Went to office hours a few times and not the most helpful but is really nice and means well.
Maxx Cho MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/28/2019	Maxx was an amazing professor. With him only being a grad student, he explains things very well and very thoroughly. I took Calc BC in high school (but obviously didn't get a good enough score on the AP exam) and took this class the semester after. The difference was noticeable. I think he's on to bigger and better things now since I'm pretty sure he's done with his graduate degree. Mad respect for my mans Maxx though.
Patrick Brosnan MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/22/2018	Easy exams, but doesn't teach
Bradford Sanders MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/17/2018	Great professor who really knows what he's talking about. Study for the exams with the practice ones he gives you and GET 5'S ON THE QUIZZES(he gives you the problems they will be on form the textbook). Needed a B- and got a C but regardless he's truly an amazing teacher with a quirky sarcastic side.
Bradford Sanders MATH141 Anonymous 12/14/2018	Brad is a great professor who talks fast but is more than open to questions during the lecture. I really like the way he taught. I did wish he had more office hours but he's truly overworked with no time in between classes :( I mean what's up with that UMD?? Tips: GO TO LECTURE -He gives "pop" quizzes (with warnings) -Seriously you're here to learn calc 2 GO TO CLASS STUDY FOR QUIZZES -12.5% of your final grade DO IT! -Good practice for exams EXAMS Do every single practice exam (he gives 3-4 examples from previous semesters) and you'll understand that he has hard exams but if you pay attention and make sure to study ahead you'll be ok WEBASSIGN Just do the damn webassign everyday and you'll basically get practice + 6.25% DO NOT JUST SYMBOLAB OR WOLFRAM all of them. Do the ones that you are struggling with. Overall I am happy having taken him. Unfortunately I needed a B- (woo internal transfer:( engineering) but I'll probably end up with a C. P.S Finals hard so don't count on it.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2018	I had Pilachowski for Calc 1 and Calc 2. Pilachowski provides lecture outlines that you should print out and bring to class. These are so helpful and keeps the material organized!!! During class he makes sure to emphasize the things that are important for you to focus on during class. There's a lot of material he needs to cover in a 50 minute class so sometimes topics are rushed, but that's where the lecture outlines help a lot. Webassigns can be difficult sometimes but he drops the lowest couple of homeworks. He also doesn't give minus grades. No curves :( but he says that he will round up to the next letter grade if you're very close ex/ 89.1 to an A or 79.1 to a B. Regardless of what teacher you have you'll have to put a lot of time into this course and in my opinion taking Pilachowski is a safe choice.
Daniel Kaufman MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/16/2018	Super great teacher! Taught everything very clearly and had fair exams. Clearly was there to help students
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 09/06/2018	Chadwick is easily the best Calc 2 teacher. He gives the easiest tests that are simply plug and chug (no theory or proofs). He gave our class a 3% curve as well on top of a semester with an abnormally high gpa average for Math141
Bradford Sanders MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/20/2018	While he talks fast, I think he does a great job at explaining the material. His lecture videos also help a bunch when it comes to understanding the material. His quizzes and tests are hard for sure, but all quiz questions come straight out of the textbook where you can try them out beforehand. Either way, be prepared to put in work if you take him. (I'd recommend at least 90 mins a day for practice and hw)
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/18/2018	The best choice for MATH140-141. His lectures consist of him working out some proofs and doing examples that relate to the WebAssign and his tests. His tests are pretty straight forward and not very hard since he posts his old test. Averages for the exams are around low to mid 80s. He also prepares you well for the final. I ended up getting a solid A on the final exam even though I got a few B's on his test. Overall just a nice guy to.
Bradford Sanders MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/17/2018	Best math professor by far. If you have the opportunity to take Brad for 141, take it!! This class requires a lot of time and effort but Brad is very detailed in his explanations, his prefectures helped prepare me for class, and I just overall liked coming to his classes because they really helped me understand the material and concepts a lot better than I ever have and will. A big note to take under consideration: he has the hardest exams out of any of the math professors in 141, but don't let this intimidate you. They help prepare you so much, especially for the final, which isn't even written by him. I'm not big on test taking at all but Brad really tries to help prepare everyone for the exams and he's helpful at office hours and just in general. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!
Steven Chadwick MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/05/2018	A true blessing. This man is the best teacher to take for MATH141. He makes the exams incredibly easy. The averages for his classes are on a whole other level than the other classes. And, he seems like a very nice guy.
David Hamilton MATH141 Anonymous 12/17/2017	Possibly the worst professor I have ever had. Hamilton scrawls the lecture material on the blackboard without explaining what the hell he's doing. Not that it matters really, you can hardly hear him anyway and his handwriting is unreadable. He went through the material backwards, so we did difficult chapters like sequences and series first. Several of the chapters were designed to build on each other so it was a mess. I have no fucking clue why the class is structured this way. So many people dropped out that my discussion session shrank from 25 people to maybe 5 on a good day.
Zeyad Emam MATH141 Anonymous 12/13/2017	Excellent teacher. I had this class with Hamilton (Fall 2016 btw, this is a late review) and it was hell, his lectures were impossible to follow even with prior knowledge or reading the material ahead of time. Zeyad is the only reason I passed - he was a million times better at explaining things, and really wanted us to succeed.
Archana Khurana MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/13/2017	Her test are fair and she holds more office hours/review sessions than you could ever dream of going to. She will do anything to make sure you succeed.
Emily DeBoy MATH141 lactaid 12/11/2017	Great TA! Really wants her students to succeed.
David Hamilton MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/13/2016	For David Hamilton Taking this class with Hamilton is the worst mistake I have made in a long time. I ignored the bad reviews and thought I could handle it. Don't be like me.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 08/09/2016	I honestly don't understand why Gulick is so highly rated. Yeah he's funny and adorable sure, but his class is simply far too difficult. His webassigns will consume your life after class, there were many times I had to give 3 hours to complete one webassign. His discussion classes are absolutely useless as the assignments given there are just theory and you're not actually tested on them. Furthermore, the class is only four credits, but you spend close to six hours per week in either class or discussion (50 min MWF class, 1hr 20 min TR discussion) But don't take my word for it, the median on the first and second tests were a 74%, and Gulick even said "that's around what we go for when we make the tests."
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a C- oopboop 06/20/2016	Czaja's grading was extreme and the opposite of lenient. No partial credit was given. The final exam was easy, but the other exams were the hardest exams I've ever taken. Class average was a D+. Czaja was a great lecturer but his exams were too hard compared to lecture. I wouldn't suggest taking him at all.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 05/13/2016	If you haven't taken calc 2 before or in high school, I do not recommend her. She has very high standards and expects you to know the material before you come to lecture. I had to read the textbook and watch youtube videos (Professor Leonard) before every lecture. I also went to her office hours, my TA's office hours, attended other MATH 141 lectures, and did almost all the book problems but I know I'm not gonna end up with an A. This class requires A LOT OF EFFORT and the way she grades is RIDICULOUS.
Frances Gulick MATH141 didlyjones 02/18/2016	The worst professor I have ever had. She only goes surface deep on each chapter section, and then gives you homework which she gives no information on how to complete. She is also extremely mean, as I was leaving the class one day to use the restroom she yelled goodbye to me as I walked out. She seems to really look down upon the students. It saddens me to see a professor like this still have a job, especially teaching a class that a lot of people find very difficult. I highly recommend avoiding her as a professor.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/02/2015	Ok this guy's lecture is quite real. He explains stuffs at such a complicated and minor level that I have no clue as to what is happening. Furthermore, his examples in class are so basic. I learned more for discussions than I did from lectures. His accent is quite distracting also. The quizes are hella easy, but I feel he types "hardest calc problems ever made" in google to get the four problems he needs for the exams. In the final exam he will probably make us prove fermat's last theorem, so can't wait for that. My grades went like 72 100 52 (fourth one will probably 43 or something). This guys is chill doh, and he is wayyyy more lenient than the other lecturers. So pick this guys. oh and he is funny af.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 09/01/2015	Awful professor with control issues. She is condescending and her lectures are uninformative. Her tests and pop quizzes are overly difficult (especially with her teaching skills). Asking questions results in rude replies and condescending answers. Avoid her classes by any means necessary.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A nassu30 02/18/2015	A wonderful teacher. Accent can a bit difficult to follow though. But makes the subject matter easy. His way of grading was far by one of the best. 4 exams-lowest dropped 7 quizes- lowest 2 dropped A flat score of 50 for scoring atleast 30% on Web Assign and no weekly deadline for homework. I got an A in his class. Definitely take him
Terence Long MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/09/2014	Terence was an awesome teacher. He is very passionate about math and it shows while he is teaching because he always goes out of his way to show you why something works or why a formula is the way it is. His class can get a little boring at times but overall he is a pretty good math teacher who wants you to get a good grade. He is awesome about giving you opportunities to bump up low exam grades with his grading system.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 04/09/2014	This is my second attempt at 141. My first was with Hamilton, which was a disaster as he went through the material out of order and had unreasonably difficult tests. This semester, everyone but Frances was full, and I braced myself for a serious struggle. I noticed that the majority of the negative reviews were for 115, but she is not that bad for 141. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with the material, maybe she respects her 141 students more than her 115 students. Whatever it is, I'm definitely clicking with her better than most. It's definitely some serious work, yes, and I hate online homework, but if you have the diligence to put up with it, you'll find that her tests are mostly fair. She'll answer questions in lecture and office hours and is not nearly as condescending as everyone makes her out to be. She's actually one of the more personable professors out there. She also gives white papers and quizzes. Quizzes are closed-book, but they're rather infrequent. White papers occur approximately every 2 classes, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less. These are open-note, open book quizzes, and she leaves examples on the board. They're free points that make sure you're on board with what's going on. You can compare answers, but don't copy. You NEED the practice to ensure that you're getting it. That's not to say that this won't be a difficult class. She's preparing future teachers, scientists, engineers, doctors, and whatnot for the rigors of what's to come. She sometimes has her TAs take off points from tests and white papers for the silliest, most stupid reasons but that should only serve to motivate you to do better. It's all about figuring out what she wants from you and to deliver. This class is going to be a serious challenge and anyone who comes out with an A has my undying respect. Come to class, go to office hours, dedicate a strong part of your studying to this class, and if you put in the effort, you can pass. Let this class be your reality check. It'll be tough. You're tougher.
David Hamilton MATH141 Anonymous 03/16/2014	A word of warning - I made an account on OurUMD JUST so I can say this to future students. If you are signing up for David Hamilton, the math professor, do not be fooled by the OurUMD rating which has numerous reviews for a physics teacher. Go to ratemyprofessors and look at his reviews. Those are spot on, I don't even need to say anything else.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 03/06/2014	She is a bit condescending, and at the same time teaches you very little. You will not be able read what she writes on the board. It wont really matter because it is not helpful anyway. I have looked at the notes other classes get in their lectures and realized just how terrible she is. Other teachers seem to want to help make sure you understand the topic. It seems like she is afraid to teach you too much. It is almost as if she believes that if she teaches you any topic too well, then it will be too easy. This results in our class averaging way lower on tests than any other. She does not give you any breaks. White paper quizzes almost every day, even on topics you do not know yet. Worksheet every discussion. Your grade bases heavily on your attendance which sucks because you learn very little in lectures. I was warned this past fall to avoid at all costs and I didn't listen. I really wish I had though. Calc II should not be this hard. At least she's really hot.
David Hamilton MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/26/2014	This review is for David Hamilton, the math professor. I had math 140 and math 141 with Hamilton, and I got an A in both courses. My success had absolutely nothing to do with Hamilton's teaching abilities because he has none. He has a point system where you receive 1 or 2 points for correcting a mistake of his or answering a question, but if you answer incorrectly he'll laugh condescendingly at you (I never answered any questions because of this, screw the points). Hamilton never makes it clear exactly what he is teaching at any moment, and often quickly goes through proofs, skipping steps, making it difficult to follow. He also likes to erase the previous board before you can finish copying instead of using the other two blackboards. I gave him 2 stars instead of 1 because of his grading method. He gives 3 exams, each with a makeup exam the following week which can replace the previous grade. Because of how low the average was on the first two exams (both in math 140 and 141) he allowed the exam 3 grade to replace the grade for exam 1, and the exam 3 makeup grade to replace the exam 2 grade, which certainly helped a lot of students. In both math 140 and 141 I decided to focus on his notes rather than the textbook before exam 1 (don't ask me why I made the same mistake in 141), and I only scored a bit above the average. After that I strictly took notes from the textbook while skipping most lectures and got A's on the rest of the exams. Conclusion: Hamilton is a poor professor, though he can be funny at times. If you are willing to study from the textbook and like the grading method I described, I'd recommend taking him. If you like to actually learn from your professor (imagine that), stay away. I'd recommend someone like Justin Wyss-Gallifent.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A testudo_ourumd 12/19/2013	Dr. Czaja (pronounced cha-ya for others who may not be fluent in polish) was quite a character. He first came off as a little mundane but as the semester progressed, he would tell more and more jokes in his matter of fact tone which made them even funnier. For my semester (FA13) he gave 4 exams and 7 quizzes. Each exam was 100 points, and 1 was dropped. Each quiz, administered by your TA, was 20 points, and 2 were dropped. Homework was through WebAssign, which Czaja states very clearly is terrible. He is sort of forced by departmental people to use it, apparently, so of our homework grade, if we complete 30% of homework in general for the semester, you get the 50 points for homework. My only complaints would be that he is sometimes a little slow with putting out the practice problems for the exams/quizzes. For example, he didn't send the answers to the practice final exam until 4 hours before the exam was held...sort of annoying. Speaking of the final, it is a test made by the Calc II department head and is considerably tougher than Czaja's exams, at least this year. I got a 99, 100, 99, and 87 respectively on Czaja's four midterms, while hardly getting an 84.5 on the final. Be prepared to study your butt off for the final and DO PREVIOUS EXAMS. Czaja said that "practicing the previous exams will only tell you what will NOT be on this one" and while that is partially true, the topics are more or less exactly the same and the questions are asked in the same way since the same guy writes it every year (thus far). Work hard, and you can get a great grade. I worked hard and got the highest grade in my 200 person lecture (617/650 total possible points).
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 03/11/2013	Denny Gulick is one of the best math teacher I have ever had. He is very straightforward with the material and the tests always mirror the practice exams. I took him for MATH140 as well. Calculus is not easy, but he makes it understandable with tons of examples in class. I highly recommend him because although the classes are at 8 am, you know what you're getting in the professor.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Anonymous 12/16/2012	Rosenburg is a really nice old man who is super smart. Too smart to be teaching 141. He spends all of lecture doing proofs and going into the mechanics of a formula without explicitly stating the formula and what you can use it to do. Accordingly, lectures quickly got smaller and smaller. You need to go to discussion to survive. TAs will prepare you for quizzes and will teach you how to use formulas and do practice problems. However, my TA was not the greatest. If you get a russian guy named Alexey, it's gonna be pretty rough in the beginning, but he gets more comfortable as the semester goes on. He still managed to teach me a lot and prepared us for the quizzes. And the last chapter is the hardest. The series test is a *****. Class average was a 45%. Overall, Rosenberg was alright. I heard about other 141 teachers that were a lot more intense, so I guess he's not a bad choice. Hopefully, he'll give a nice curve.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting a C nicoleumd 08/19/2012	Frances Gulick is one of the hardest professors I have had yet in my UMD career. I really learned nothing from going to lecture, but was forced to because of the graded pop quizzes and white papers. Lecture was really a waste of time and I could barely understand what my notes said. My TA was helpful, but she makes the TA's take off a lot of points for minor errors grading exams. I wish I had listened more to these reviews before.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 05/25/2012	I had a very hard time in her class. She teaches some of the material really well, but a lot of times you will try to do the webassigns and realize that you really haven't learned any of the material on the assignment. She also makes a ton of mistakes when she's solving problems on the board, which can be really confusing later when you're trying to use your notes to study or do the homework. I always thought I was prepared for the exams but as soon as I would see the exam I would realize that it really had nothing to do with what we had learned. For the first exam, she put a question involving the use of the shell method, which she hadn't covered and had specifically said would NOT be on the test. Another test primarily focused on the domains of inverse trig functions, which is something we did go over in class, but makes you feel like you wasted your time studying the material you were actually supposed to be tested on. What makes the tests even worse is that they count as over half of your grade (and she doesn't tell you this in the beginning of the semester) Attendance is absolutely mandatory (for both lecture and discussion). She gives out white-paper quizzes, which are like a pop-quiz based on material she has just covered. (i.e. she does an example and then gives you a similar problem you have to do right then). She gives no warnings about when she will give white-papers so you really had better show up to lectures. In addition, you have to complete ridiculously difficult worksheets in discussion, often involving a proof of how a formula is derived. The whitepapers and worksheets count as a significant portion of your grade. Don't bother trying to talk to her about points, since she just gets really rude and refuses to be at all lenient. She doesn't curve at all, so the grade you see on your tests is probably the grade you will end up with. I really wouldn't suggest taking her class since it is a very painful experience.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 05/17/2012	Denny knows his math. He is a ok teacher too. He doesn't have a curve(well he gives out .5% curves so that your 79.5% will be a B) and it is hard to get an A in his class. He is actually really overrated. He is friendly but don't except any mercy from him he won't even bump your grade up by .5%. He seems to like honesty a lot.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/16/2012	I was initially worried about taking her class because of all of these bad reviews but her section was the only one open. The first few weeks and the first exam was pretty rough, but I attended every class and did all the webassigns and ended up with an A- after struggling to get a B in Calc I. Very reasonable teacher but a tough grader. Having a good TA will help you tremendously. If you want to learn calculus, take her class. If you want good grades and easy work, take someone else.
Kasso Okoudjou MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2012	Professor Okodjou is a wonderful teacher. I definitely struggle with math, and this class is far from easy,but I would definitely recommend taking Professor Okoudjou. His practice tests are a lot like the actual tests he gives, so study those a lot! Other than that, put it the effort and he will definitely try to help you out. He is a nice guy and cares about all of his students. I took him for MATH140 and MATH141.
Kenneth Berg MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/08/2012	Berg is a nice man, and he certainly makes classes entertaining. However his teaching styles leaves something to be desired. There are times where he explains concepts really well, and other times where he couldn't explain why a paper bag is brown. The TAs really help. Berg also grades super lightly.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting a D Anonymous 01/13/2012	Wentworth was not a good professor. He can be monotone while teaching and his lectures are poorly planned. Examples in class were complicated and not helpful. Like others have said, he tends to stop mid-thought during problems, trying to figure out the next step. His tests were hard and had very challenging problems. I felt like I understood the material, but struggled with the difficult of test problems. He made this class much harder than it needed to be. No curve at the end either. Seems like he's a nice guy, but definitely should not be teaching.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/26/2011	Dr. Czaja's grading scale was: 90-100 = A 75-89 = B 60-74 = C 50-59 = D The total class was out of 650 points made up of 4 100 point midterms(1 dropped), 19 10 point quizzes(4 dropped) and the final 200 point exam. Dr. Czaja does webassign but does not include it in the grade. Dr. Czaja, unlike many of his colleagues(Or maybe they just don't care, which is very possible) recognizes how poorly the webassign system is designed and the high frequency of lost points where a student puts in 'c' for the constant rather than 'C', among other issues. In studying for the midterms, focus on the review problems Dr. Czaja posts on his website rather than webassign, because those are more likely to be on the exam. Only after doing all the practice problems should you bother with webassign. This is the MATH department, so your success all depends on who the TAs for your lecture are and the TA you have for your discussion. And for the departmental final, the TAs for the course that semester. I lucked out with a very good TA for my discussion, Adam, who explained topics well despite the early hour of the morning, wrote helpful explanations on our quizzes as to where we went wrong, was easily approachable after discussion and in office hours. Furthermore, he took the time to write us up review packets for a few of the midterms. On the other hand, there was also a TA that was very strict on their grading, and according to some of my classmates(unconfirmed second hand), a much less valuable TA in discussion. Dr. Czaja's lecturing style is essentially basic proofs. He'll go over basic examples for each of the required concepts, and leave more difficult examples for TAs to go over in discussions. While Dr. Czaja has a fairly strong accent, it's very easy to understand, and his chalkboard handwriting is clear enough to understand as well. The textbook, the same book from Calculus 1, is useless. It is used in Calculus 2 to 'save Calculus I students money' as they continue in their Calculus track. There are better free textbooks and resourcecs online, such as <http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/> The person with the authority to assign the textbook for Calculus 1 is none other than Dr. Denny Gulick, who is the author of the textbook, and profits from every copy sold. The Mathematics department as a whole cares very little for undergraduate students, and contradictory to the goal of education, spends your tuition dollars doing its very best to minimize the # of people who succeed in their classes, which are required for every student in CMNS and ENGR. Despite all this, Dr. Czaja cares about his students' success, even in undergraduate. If you can, take his lecture of 141.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a C Hosea 12/21/2011	Calculus 2 is HARD. However, Czaja has a very forgiving grading system which makes it easier for one to get a high grade. 50% is a D, 60% is a C, 75% is a B, 90% is an A. There are 4 exams during the semester (drops 1) and 19 quizzes (drops 4). I will admit I have a very weak math background, taking precalc and calc 1 from a community college and coming here to take Calc 2. Most people I know that came to UMD after community college and took calc 2 had to retake calc 1 again. But I managed to squeak by after thinking I was going to get a D in this class. Dr. Czaja's a really nice guy, and seems to be clear when he lectures in class. I noticed that a lot of people don't seem to show up though. I think it is because he usually does examples from straight from the book. This Fall 2011 semester, Czaja did not require webassigns for hw, so that was a big plus. However, it can be a double-edged sword because you end up not getting necessary practice for the concepts if you aren't diligent enough. So I suggest you just do the problems in the book instead. Once again, I stress that this class is hard. You have to do hw daily and make sure you actually understand the concepts as they come or you'll end up with a C like me, which could have been very avoidable, especially with Czaja's grading system. The good thing though, is that its almost impossible to get lower than a C in this class. I got a 65, 50, 64, 66 respectively on the exams and a low quiz average and somehow managed to get a C. If you get anything lower it's because you blew off this class.
David Hamilton MATH141 Anonymous 12/04/2011	Hamilton's teaching style was awful. He is a terrible teacher on most accounts, but between the amount I remembered from high school and my wonderful TA, Andrew Brandon, I was able to do well. His tests are more frequent than the other teachers' tests are, so there is less information to remember, but the tests are harder. Apparently, this will help us on the uniform final, but I have not taken it yet. He is also terribly condescending.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/11/2011	I did well in this class but ONLY because I had a good TA and because Wentworth's exams were much easier than the other 141 professors at the time. His lectures are disjointed, very abstract, and poorly planned. He doesn't bring in notes or examples to do so it gets frustrating watching him try to come up with one on the spot. Brilliant man, not the most approachable guy, bad bad teacher. Avoid him if you rely heavily on lectures but if you're good at teaching yourself the material, you may be fine because again his exams are very easy. Utilize the Kirwan TA's before exams though, because Wentworth doesn't write the final. The Gulicks do, and the Kirwan TA's essentially belong to the Gulick so they know a lot better.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a D Anonymous 08/20/2011	This class was horrible. Let me tell you something about Denny Gulick. Very nice and very intelligent. He is sometimes funny...I did not find him very funny like other people did. He holds really great reviews sessions for upcoming exams. He is a great person,but I would have to say, as a professor, he sucks. He is only a good professor if you take the extra step and talk to him and often as you can. The class for me was very difficult, and his office hours were during the times I had class, so I could not see him for help. We had WebAssigns, which were very difficult. I found myself having to stay up late/putting a lot of my time into these webassigns (~5 hrs). We also had worksheets during discussion (i had a horrible TA by the way). The worksheets were hard as hell and didnt give us good practice at all. Some people say these do not make a whole lot difference in your grade, but they do. The worskheets brought me down a lot. He also teaches way to fast, very hard to keep up. This class needed about 50% of my time, not to mention I had other difficult courses and I was pledging, so time was limited for me. I took this course over the summer and got an A+. If you have prior experience to the material, have a lot of time, have a great TA, have a strong study group, can make it to his office hours, can manage to do the webassigns, and can wake up at 8am, I'd say there is a chance you can ace this course. Otherwise, drop it before it is too late and take the summer course. He is difficult and his course is way more demanding than this course for other professors (except his wife, who is way worse).
Denny Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 08/20/2011	I feel this professor is the most overrated professor at UMD. Basically, when I was registering for Math141, I was scared that I was going to get a horrible teacher,so I made sure I waitlisted for all of this guy's sections. I was beyond happy when I got into his section. First off, the 8am sucked, but it is manageable for a lot of people. I am definitely not a morning person so I missed quite a few lectures. As for the lectures, here is one reason my grade went down. He teaches way too fast. He will go over a topic super fast, and make the topics seem confusing, and would not go over it again. He also writes crap on the board that he just thinks of at the top of his head and then tries to explain it. He makes quite a few mistakes too and doesnt realize it until someone points it out. He wastes time this way. He would talk fast, and write fast (and sloppy; everyday someone would ask me what a certain word/num was). No doubt he knows his stuff and he is very intelligent. But, me and the people around me could barely keep up with what he was teaching and often found ourselves reviewing the lecture from the book (poorly written by the way). I also had the worst TA, which really brought my grade down. He was a tough grader, and at the same time he was clueless. He didnt even know what we learned and try to apply his own concepts he learned in his grad courses. He never helped me and didnt care whether we were failing or not. He was not fit to be a TA. The exams were fine, some easy and some just hell. The average was pretty low for each test. The final was hell, totally not a good test that covered all the material there was. There were like three questions that were proofs, that we barely covered. I would suggest taking him if everyone else is horrible. But if there is another teacher with similar stats, I'd say go with him/her and not this guy. Hard teacher, goes through material fast, hard webassigns, etc.I spent more time trying to ace this class than trying to get a grade in all my other classes. I took this class again over the summer and aced it with flying colors. If you can take it over the summer, do that!!! Only the people who took this course in high school ended up surviving, others just dropped the class.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 thisismygrade 08/07/2011	Does professor Czaja give practice exams for 141 and how many exams are there? Thank you
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Anonymous 07/29/2011	Prof Czaja is an okay prof. His exams and quizzes are fairly easy, but I hated his teaching style. He spent half the class wiping the board. Assignments (when I took him in Fall2010): 3 exams (drops lowest), 27 hw's (drops 7), 7 quizzes (drops 2), and the final. His grading scale is on a curve (a 75 is a B and an a 60 is a C).
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 07/17/2011	(Both MATH140 and MATH141) Significantly better than the other professors that teach these courses (from what I have heard). Well worth the 8 am class. PROS: He is entertaining during class, writes neatly, writes detailed email responses if you even have a question about the homework (or a last-minute question before an exam), and really enjoys helping students. CONS: His answers to questions people ask in class can come off harshly... but honestly he just wants to make sure you understand the material so he gives very thorough answers. He goes over easy examples in class when he teaches new material, making the WebAssign homework and discussion section worksheets extremely difficult, but they play a very small role in your grade and his classes always feel significantly more prepared for the exams. Suggestions: if you can switch discussion sections before the cut off date, try to get a good TA (or at least a nice one) because it really matters. Show up to class because there are weekly quizzes. If you get stuck on a homework problem, go back over your notes... you probably just forgot you went over it because it was at 8 am.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Anonymous 06/19/2011	He's a nice guy but he is a terrible lecturer! His exams were all right but a bit unpredictable. We also had a lot of questions on our tests that the other MATH141 classes didn't have to learn. His quizzes are unannounced (I guess to get people to go to discussion but it was annoying that I didn't know when to prepare for them). He was incredibly unprepared for lecture and spent much of our time staring at the board trying to figure out where he made a mistake. His examples also didn't make much sense and he never offered clear explanations and instead provided us with vague, beat-around-the bush responses. He was also very boring, mostly because no one knew what he was even talking about. I would definitely not take him.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting an A zhangsta 05/26/2011	Dr. Rosenberg clearly knows his stuff, but he isn't that well-suited for teaching. In class, he likes to go over proofs of the equations that we use, but does very little on actual applications. However, the exam questions were entirely applications, but you'll probably learn how to apply the equations in discussion and on homeworks. In addition, Rosenberg loves to throw questions that involve special cases on the exams which is/are usually the question(s) that the class does the worst on. The best way to prepare is probably to do his old exams, which are on the testbank because you'll get some practice on how to approach his questions. Another great resource is Schaum's Outline of Calculus, which is pretty good at explaining a lot of the concepts clearly.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/25/2011	Lectures are pretty boring so I never went. Learning the material from the book wasn't too hard for me, just make sure that if you decide to skip the lectures then you should definitely go to discussions. One of the test averages was like 40% so he gave everyone a take home exam to replace the grade with. Overall, not a bad teacher. He knows what he's talking about and gives a nice curve at the end (something like 85-100 is A, 75 - 85 is B, etc).
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2011	Denny. Amazing. Its not a question. Notice that I did not put a question mark after amazing. For all those who say Denny is overrated, your wrong (and I've heard several). Notice once again, no question mark, because its a fact. Denny explains things very thoroughly. He only goes over material that he needs and he goes over proofs and 10 or so examples in class. It's amazing that he gets so much done in a 50 minute class. Because he wrote the textbook and writes the final, he prepares you the best because he teaches material that will be tested, while for instance, Dick Wentworth taught non-seperable differential equations to his class, but those weren't taught by Denny and didn't show up on the final. Not to mention that Debbt tries his best to be interesting and funny, and he succeeds on almost every occasion. I wasn't lucky enough to get Denny in MATH140, but I still went to his lectures because they were worth it. Denny. Amazing. Thank you.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/20/2011	He is really cute and nice. He also teaches really well untill the end. I felt like he was worn out toward the end of the semester and made some of the materials confusing. But I would choose him for math141.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting a D Anonymous 05/18/2011	wentworth is the worst math teacher i have had at maryland, and seems to be the worst teacher available for calc 2. i have never recieved any emails from him and he has never replied to one of mine. additionally he does not post grades anywhere. previoius teachers had posted them on webassign or on the math website. he spends class solving his own examples which he has not previously solved. while this is better than a teacher that is just a reverse power point, he is not a sucessful teacher.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a D GoTestudo! 05/18/2011	Denny maybe as good as it gets for Calculus II. He teaches from examples instead of proofs, and is very, very approachable. He's a bit quirky and fun. My only complaint is his discussions. Worksheets are meant to get you to think--but they were horrible! They're really difficult to drill through, and once you do finish them, questions don't show up again! Exams were most relevant to Webassign and suggested homework problems. EDIT: This guy does not believe in curves. I ended up with a D--the first D in my entire life!! Disappointing class and instructors (including TA's).
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/17/2011	I am pretty sure this was his first time teaching 141, and it showed. He expected students to understand tricky, new concepts right away. If you asked him questions about exams, he would say, "Is that all you care about is the exam? just learn it and the exam will not be hard". Mathlab due every Tuesday and Thursday, they were worthless and tedious. Lecture became useless, learned it all myself from the book. Worked incredibly hard and got a B. Take Gulick or someone else. Maybe he is better at upper levels? but he really sucked as a 141 teacher. Also little or no curve, we will never know because we dont see our final and no contact after class is over.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B ningchris 05/17/2011	Okay. Cal 2 is actually not that bad. Denny is definitely a good teacher. Funny and patient. If you don't understand the material, just go ask him and send him an e-mail. He will explain to you very thoroughly. But if you really want to get an A in this class, do attend every discussion and pray you will get a good TA. My TA is total asshole, grading all the worksheet harshly. Denny will curve a little bit. Just a little. So work your ass off for this class to get an A.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting a B jdietri1 05/16/2011	Wentworth was at best ok. He seemed to stumble through his examples and was corrected by students a lot. He didn't seem to have thought through his lecture and often times made things up. He would say this is the equation because it is or magically this is the equation. He does not teach the way the book does. He has invented his own way of doing problems and teaches those ways but often times cannot explain how he arrived at the equations he is using. I would only recommend him if you have no previous knowledge of the class because he will teach you in a way no one has before.
Richard Wentworth MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/03/2011	I do not think he is a bad teacher, its just that some of his teaching is confusing and when people ask questions, he does not really answer it. Since its hard for me to comprehend him when he teaches cause he pauses alot and says uhh alot i had to teach most of the material myself to get this grade. His exams were fairly easy compared to other lecturers. The other reason i am doing pretty well is because i had probably one of the best math TAs on campus.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A RLJ2009 01/18/2011	I heard horror stories that Cal 2 is the worst of all three of the Cals, but with Czaja is was very easy to get an A as long as you studied hard. For half the semester he was a good teacher, then when it got to chapter nine he just stopped being helpful and I had to rely heavily on Math Success Program. He drops a test, two quizzes, and five homeworks. Also his curves are so kind. I got a B in Cal and managed to get an A in Cal 2. Would definitely take if you don't mind teaching yourself and reaching out to outside help!
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/16/2011	Czaja was a very good teacher however, the final exam had problems more difficult than exams or quiz's. Czaja made us laugh just about every class. Homework was assigned on the website webassign. These problems were a real pain. The first problem on every exam was graded for either full credit or no credit. Czaja actually awarded everyone twenty points when almost everyone one of these wrong.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B F00zball 12/16/2010	Czaja is a great teacher. He absolutely knows his shit. I can't remember a single instance of him not knowing how to do a problem or stumbling when answering a question. He comes in and starts class right away. He's got an accent but it's nothing bad, you can still understand everything he is saying. Class is generally engaging and he is hilarious when he jokes around. Some of the material is hard imo, and you will probably need to go to class and look at the textbook after. He drops a ton of the grades, curves when necessary, and his tests are pretty fair. The final was ridiculous though. I thought I was going to get a C but ended up with a B. Recommended.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 recjra 12/16/2010	Prof. Czaja was easily the best math professor I have had. He was able to explain the concepts very concisely and I felt like I actually learned in his class instead of simply memorizing what we needed to know for the exams. His grading scheme is awesome and it's basically impossible to fail. Plus, he was a really nice guy and wanted his students to do well.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/07/2010	He has an accent, but its not that big a deal. The biggest problem is that the examples that he uses in class are either way to simple so that you can't really study or learn from them, because the tests are much more complicated, or they are so complicated that it is impossible to understand the material. Additionally his tests are hard, yes he posts old tests to review, but usually there were not solutions posted, and he usually put s them up really, really, late the night before the test so you can't even ask your TA any additional questions about the material on the test. I took AP Calc BC in high school and not only got a 5 and I also got an A in the class. I retook Calc II so that I could refresh and get a solid A as a freshman, and no thanks to Czaja that will not happen despite working my tail off in this class.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/27/2010	This guy was a great professor up until the first test. After that, everything goes downhill FAST. The examples he offers in class are completely useless and unhelpful for studying. Overall I really didn't enjoy taking this class and thought that czaja was very unclear in how he presents the tough material, ex: taylor series, lagrange remainder.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B Kevin Garcia 11/23/2010	Fantastic professor. Great sense of humor. Posts practice exams the night before the actual exam that are near exact copies of the actual exam. If you can ace the practice exam, you'll ace the actual exam. Has an accent, but rarely gets in the way.
Kasso Okoudjou MATH141 Expecting an A vnsach 11/02/2010	Very hard class to get an A but very easy to get a B. His teaching style is pretty bad. Rambles on in a heavily accented drone but his tests are very easy if you look at the practice tests. I would probably recommend him because this class is hard regardless of the teacher who teaches it and his tests seemed to be the easiest compared to the teachers's.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A- jcywong 07/09/2010	Prof. Czaja is a great Math Professor - if you see him in a course you are thinking about - choose his! He explains Calc quite clearly and definitely enhanced my understanding of the subject. The course IS challenging guys no doubt but if you go to every class and pay attention, do the work there should be no problem. He welcomes questions in office hours and always makes extensions prior to exams. His grading system is extremely fair - a mini-freshmen forgiveness program! Best of all is that his accent and humor, really makes Calc fun especially in that dim smelly armory. I am SO going to miss his famous "well"haha. Wish he taught Calc 3 I would so take his section.
Kasso Okoudjou MATH141 Expecting a B+ vaalbara 05/19/2010	Had him for both 140/141. Cool dude, good teacher. People rag on him for his accent & handwriting, but they're honestly not that bad. He'll gladly read and rewrite any word that you don't understand, and his accent just sounds like he's cheerful all the time - even if we aren't. A little bit of a secret: his exams are usually (all but one of the eight he gave) very, very similar to the practice exams he gives, and they are, for the most part, relatively easier than the other exams. Put in some effort - go to reviews, do the practice exams, go to office hours - and you'll do just fine.
Kasso Okoudjou MATH141 Expecting a B jamgord 05/04/2010	I personally liked Okoudjou way better than D. Gulick, who I had for MATH140. I don't know if it was because class was at 12pm instead of 8am or if there was that much of a difference between professors, but I absorbed so much more information in 141 than I did in 140. The tests were ok, and the webassign sometimes took forever, but if you have a good TA (or excellent one like Joe Altman, who actually won TA of the year during my semester) that can explain the material more thoroughly in discussion, then you should be fine. I recommend going to every single review session before tests, from both D. Gulick and the TA's (usually Brad Sanders, also a great TA). They really help because all you need to do is keep doing practice problems and tests so that you can get out all of our little mistakes on those problems and know exactly what to do or not do on the actual exam. Overall, I think Okoudjou is a really good professor who explains the material well and if you don't get it, he won't give up until you do. Also, his accent is the cutest ever, and the way he writes his letter "f" is so beautiful.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/20/2010	She certainly knows what she's talking about and expects the same from her students. She'll give in-class problems to do on random days, and there are graded worksheets in discussion so expect to go to class all 5 days of the week. If you've gotten AP credit for this class, do not bother retaking it - you will not learn one new thing in any MATH141 class.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B+ BIOE 04/08/2010	I don't understand why other people gave really good reviews for him! He does NOT explain things clearly and many people didn't bother to go to class....the only good thing is his grading system is fair! If there is a professor who actually teaches math well like margetis or justin and they are teaching this class TAKE IT WITH THEM! anyways I didn't like him take justin you will be better off!
McBlaine Boyle MATH141 Anonymous 01/29/2010	I'm sure he knew what he was talking about, but the way that he presented the material was not helpful at all. He'll put the equations on the board and the proofs, but doesn't take the time to explain them and make sure that you understand.
David Hamilton MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 01/10/2010	Professor Hamilton never seemed to care whether or not the class kept up with him during his lectures. He seemed to do what would have made him learn, as a mathematician, rather than what I felt I need to learn, as a science major.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Expecting an A terp315 12/18/2009	Denny was amazing. One of the best math professors UMD has to offer. If you're willing to get up early, you will learn.
McBlaine Boyle MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/17/2009	Ok, I'm going to say this very bluntly. Don't take this class with Mike Boyle. Very smart man, terrrrrrrrible professor. Anything I learned that semester was from my TA. He goes on and on in lecture on the stupidest, most nuance-oriented problems on one specific topic, then his tests are ridiculously difficult and are not even on what we learned in lecture. This class sucked hard-core. Take it with anyone else, not Boyle.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A mreese 12/17/2009	Czaja is a very fair and respectful teacher. I really enjoyed his sense of humor and did not find his accent annoying or difficult to understand whatsoever. The practice problems he posts on his website are very helpful and he loves helping students outside of class. Although the tests can be difficult, Czaja's grading system is extremely forgiving, although the no-partial-credit question on each exam can suck if you make a careless mistake. I forgot to write pi in my answer to this question on the first exam, but he generously awarded full credit with a little note reminding me not to do it again. Czaja takes time to explain the interrelatedness between all the concepts, so stuff actually makes sense if you pay attention. I highly recommend taking his class.
McBlaine Boyle MATH141 Expecting an A jthompson 12/15/2009	Agree with previous reviewers on Boyle as a teacher, final was pretty tough, but the dropped test and quizzes helped with grades. Didn't do any of the written homework but kept up on webassign, go to the lectures and discussions
McBlaine Boyle MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/09/2009	He knows the material, but prefers to focus on the history and proofs more than the actually formulas. For someone who likes to learn from their professor do not take his class. The only advantages are he drops several grades(in my class one test, two quizzes, and four homeworks)I think there are much better professors out there for MATH141
McBlaine Boyle MATH141 Expecting a B rhunter1 11/03/2009	I'll start with this: Mike Boyle knows Calculus very well, and knows what he's talking about. So much, in fact, that we never learn in lecture what ends up being on the tests. I can't tell you how many times I left lecture knowing the proof of why an equation worked, and not how the equation worked. However, he is very easy to get in touch with, and he does make a few dry jokes here and there to keep you interested.
David Hamilton MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/29/2009	Professor Hamilton is great. Very clear with enough humor to keep things flowing. Very fair grading system which allows you to work up to an A grade. System of tests every two weeks and TA quizzes is tough but it keeps us on the ball. This paid off with a class average of 87% on the last test.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A gmichali 08/17/2009	This professor is fair. His tests are extremely polar (5 questions on each test); there will be one really, really easy question that will recieve NO partial credit because it is just that easy. Meanwhile another question on the test might be quite difficult. The other questions will be somewhere in between. Has an odd sense of humor. My test scores were a 94, 59, and 67, my quiz avg. was likewise around 78 (after dropping 2 lowest), and I got 160/200 points on the final. Somehow came out with an A-. Take MATH141 with Czaja. His lectures are average. I stopped going after the 1st (of 3) tests. He drops your lowest of 3 tests, 2 lowest quizzes of 7 quizzes, and lowest 3 (of 13) homeworks. You only need a 60% overall for a C, 50% for a D, 75% for a B, and 90% for A. Overall, this professor is very fair, much more easy going than the other Calc II profs. I mean come on, you need only a 60% for a C. Take this class if you want to avoid Francis Gulick, Ray Johnson, or even the great Denny Gulick also.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/17/2009	Take Calc II with Denny Gulick. Pilachowski sometimes can't even do the problems he assigns you.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B+ AmazingReviewer 05/21/2009	This teacher obviously knew what she was talking about, but she did not care about her students. Her grading methods of her quizzes were a little harsh and her webassigns take a while to complete. The grading of the tests was a little more fair. The TA's graded the majority of the exams and she would grade 0% to 20% depending if there were 4 or 5 problems on each exam. There was no curve in the class and most people seemed to end up with horrible grades. You will struggle in this class. You will. You will. You will.
Timothy Pilachowski MATH141 Anonymous 05/12/2009	Average in all aspects...will arrive 5-10 minutes late to every class, often looking quite disheveled. Decent lecturer, but will use corny phrases often. Will help you when asked, but doesn't really go out of his way. Sometimes will go off topic, which can actually be good- he once spent nearly half the class explaining his experience in ballroom dancing, which was hilarious.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a B joepenn1 05/01/2009	Czaja has one of the fairest grading systems where 1 test, 2 quizzes, and 3 home works are dropped. Loves the theory behind Calc 2 but usually only uses examples from the book. I got a C because I only did the Webassign and no additional problems on my own. With that said if you understand the basics of Calc 2 material and do the practice problems/quizzes he puts up you will do fine. Lecture attendance is person to person basis depending on how well you know the material. I'd go though.
David Hamilton MATH141 Expecting a B ddaily 04/28/2009	Dr. Hamilton is a decent lecturer. Easy to understand and presents the material very well. As long as you do the homework in this class you should do fine on his exams and quizzes. He also has a nice policy regarding finals that can really help your grade at the end of the year.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 04/24/2009	He was a very smart man, and is probably a very good teacher for higher level maths, but he should not be allowed to teach Calc2 to first semester freshmen. It pretty much seemed like he wanted us to cry. The kid next to me in a test actually did once. After the course was over, I realized I actually liked the math, but I hated the class. I would strongly recommend getting a different professor for Calc2.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/22/2009	Czaja is probably one of the better professors for math141. Exams, though challenging, are actually quite fair. He has a grading system where you are allowed to drop an exam, 2 quizzes, and 3 homework assignments. He is very fair and understanding. Though his lectures may seem dull, he is more than happy to answer your questions if asked. He has a lot of safety nets for those who might fail the course. If you truly work hard and do problems from the book (not just webassign), then there should be no excuse for anything lower than a C.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Anonymous 12/20/2008	I would highly advise that you not take Calc II with Prof. Czaja. First, his accent is understandable, but can be quite annoying. Second, his lecture comes right out of the book, so you don't get the benefit of additional examples. Third, his exams and homeworks are downright rediculous. The homeworks are extremely tedious to complete, and often on topics you don't need to know. Furthermore, the tests are extremely difficult, and test the smallest details of the course. For example, one test was on the chapter involving infinite series, and there was not one problem involving Taylor polynomials/series, which is a major part of the chapter. Instead, he tested on the stupid little details that no one remembers. If you are forced to take this guy, going to class is really not necessary, just study and do a ton of examples, and you can probably scrape by with a B.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A tallboyt 12/18/2008	He is a good teacher and don't be alarmed if all you do in class are proofs b.c that's normal. He drops 2 quizzes, 3 hws (from online) and 1 test. He is helpful from the fact he gives a prac test b4 an exam which is almost alike. He gives lots of prac that will be on the final. from easiest to hardest: test -> quiz -> webassign. good class overall.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2008	Czaja (pronounced shy-ya) is an interesting professor. He cares that students actually understand the material, and unlike other professors that I've had, he will step back in lecture and remind you of the "bigger picture" behind Calc II. Czaja had a fair grading system: he lets us drop an entire test (1 out of 3), 3 out of 13 homeworks, and 2 out of 7 quizes. The final exam is worth a lot, and he puts a lot of emphasis throughout the class on its importance and weight (200 pts out of 600pts of the grade). I did not find him to be an amazing lecturer, but I wouldn't say he was bad either. Overall, I think Czaja is a good professor, and I would recommend him for anyone looking to take calc III and higher level math.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/17/2008	Rosenberg is one of the smartest guys around, and a good teacher overall. If you take notes and pay attention in discussion, then you have a chance of doing well in this class. His tests are very difficult, and if he feels like the grades on one test were too high he will make the next exam very nearly impossible. Most of the questions on the exam can be answered fairly easily if you know the material inside and out, however, most of the time there is at least one question that even hours of studying could not have prepared you for.
Wojciech Czaja MATH141 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/03/2008	Odd professor in some ways. He was a good teacher, but he made it difficult. Wanted us to learn the material on our own as much as possible, only because he truly wanted us to learn the material and this was the best way. Fairly hard exams, very hard HW, not an easy professor, but is a great professor to teach you the material and prep you for Calc III and on.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/24/2008	Rosenberg is a relatively bad teacher. The material is tough and his lectures are often indecipherable. He talks with his back to the class and mumbles into the board, and tries to explain everything with proofs instead of examples. The TAs are relatively helpful, and you learn most of the material either with them or outside of class with the book. He is not very approachable and is definately not a people-person. His tests are extremely convoluted and difficult, and the TAs grade extremely hard. Most people I know in the class are getting a C, and I am hopefully in the A to B range because I am doing so much work outside of class. Try to get someone else if you can, but Rosenberg isn't completely horrible if you are good at math.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 asianterp 11/16/2008	He goes over proofs and theories in class. So that means that you have to work really hard outside of class on the actual problems. His exams are impossible...I did all the homework, the webassign and i even went to my TA for extra help but it didn't prepare me at all for his exams.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/09/2008	I actually learned a lot in her class. As long as you goto lecture and do the homework then it is easy to do well on the exams. The exams are straightforward and are based on the homework problems she sets out at the beginning of the semester and webassigns. If you just want an A without doing a ton of work then avoid her, either wise she is a good professor.
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 07/29/2008	Dr. Gulick is a very good teacher, but challenging. It is not an easy A. She will challenge you any way whatsoever. From pop quizzes, to quizzes in discussion, and web assign(241) and homework/web-assign. I took her for two semesters even though I didn't get A's, I actually learned calculus as opposes to just cramming for the test. DO all your home work on time and you'll be fine. Again, It is not an easy A. SHE DOSENT CURVE. I got 89 the two times but still got B's. If you want a stress free semester, DONT TAKE HER
Frances Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 05/22/2008	you might learn a lot but end up with poor grade. she is the worst teacher ever.. if you are not good on math, stay away. you received 4 credits but it feels like you ware taking 6 credits class.
Frances Gulick MATH141 sccrmic09 05/15/2008	Transfer out of the university before taking her class. Yes its that bad. Exams are completly irrelevant to material in class and web assigns. Grading scale does not exist whatsoever, she just randomly adds points to different catagories at the end of the semester. Her grade distribution compared to the rest of the university is much lower. I'm not just blasting her becuase shes going to give me a bad grade, she dosnt belong teaching anywhere. Don't put yourself through the unnesessary. Heed the Warning...
Denny Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 05/06/2008	He explains everything very thoroughly. He sometimes talks to himself like he's a little kid... just take it all in stride, it makes the class interesting. The webassigns aren't too bad if you go to his lectures. He will usually cover the material/concepts in the assignment the day before it is due but sometimes random problems in an assignment will be from previous chapters. His quizzes are sweet too. Make sure you attend the class after an exam because most students won't, therefore he'll give a quiz, and when he's too lazy or there's not enough time for everyone to finish an actual quiz he'll put up two problems on the board and go through the answers with the class and then tell the class to hand in those problems. 10 points without doing actual work right there.
Manoussos Grillakis MATH141 Expecting an A gundamwing4132 05/01/2008	Exams and hw were fair. Slightly heavy accent but very helpful teaching sytle.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a B mhd101 02/11/2008	He is a pretty good professor. He does a good job explaining the material. Discussion is helpful to learn the material better. His tests are really hard though but there is a pretty generous curve.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Anonymous 12/24/2007	Overall Rosenberg is pretty good. WIthout the discussions I would have been a little lost. He teaches the concepts and empirical proofs, where in discussion you learn how to solve the problems. The weekly quiz is fair and his tests are a bit difficult. He uses a lot of "special case" problems which make it much more difficult. While his tests are hard, he curves the exams and is very approachable.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting an A sga001 12/22/2007	Rosenberg is a tough grader. Even though he will tell you he curves, out of a 300 class lecture only 7 of us got A this semester. Expect to learn mostly from the book, and be prepare because sometimes he decides to be creative with the exams... By creative i mean he will ask the oddest question in the worst possible way ever.
Jonathan Rosenberg MATH141 Expecting a C- trimalchio 11/28/2007	Rosenberg is a good calculus teacher, he explains the material and is understandable and I got a lot out of the lectures. His tests are incredibly hard though, and he expects a lot out of the class that the class can rarely give him. Rosenberg is generally nice and is approachable. For a Calculus professor Rosenburg is better than most.
Denny Gulick MATH141 Anonymous 11/15/2007	If you can get any calc teacher get him. He is an excellent professor and will hold review sessions before every exam. If you come to class and do the webassigns you will get an A or B.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/05/2024

She is a great professor, I really liked the way she teaches and tells the problems. Although there is a common problem between most of the professors of not teaching problems as hard as they come, but I think she teaches the concepts enough that you shouldn't have a problem with it as long as you are paying attention in class...

Mirna Pinsky
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
10/30/2024

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR, she is so buns and cannot teach for her life, she might be a nice lady but she justs yaps and writes on a chalkboard I had to teach myself everything throughout the entire year. 75% of my class dropped out the course before it even ended because of this prof. If she is the last option just dont even take the class at that point and wait till next semester if you want to save you mental health.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
10/09/2024

Conway makes concepts easy to understand and its clear that he enjoys teaching. He brings a positive attitude to class everyday and I highly recommend taking him.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/09/2024

this guy is the goat. if he ever teaches calc 2 again you NEED to take him. be honest, you don't care about calc 2, you just need to pass with the highest grade possible. that's amin.

Jaime Paradela
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/30/2024

Say all you want, this guy is absolutely crazy. I don't say much about grading because if you're good with a class, you're gonna get a good grade. He grades normally. But oh my god are his lectures fun. I've already taken calc 2 and need this course to fulfill a technicality but just sitting around in a lecture is incredibly fun and entertaining. He jumps around the material so you have to pay attention to whats going on. He's sassy about student's incredibly obvious questions and best of all, he's just completely nonchalant. This guy will have a student answer and state a whole ass question just to respond with "yes." Absolutely the goat. He also does no BS and gives everything to you straight up. The average conversation goes as following: "Question" -> "Yes./No./Huh?/eeeeeeh..." -> if you get the rare "eeeeh..." you are given the most BASIC explanation ever to your question. Also don't try to be a smart ass because he will outmatch you every time, some kids were asking some bs and this guy just told them to be patient and explained everything and left them speechless. Phenomenal. Take this class.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
08/28/2024

Exams don't prepare you for final, and the homework is significantly harder than in class examples. Our final was significantly lower than Anna's class. He is very boring and only does examples in class that aren't very helpful. Don't take him

Pablo Cedillos
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/09/2024

He taught this class over the summer session and I did way better with him as my professor than I did with an actual professor during the spring session. His exams were really fair, and gave us bonus points as well. His notes were extremely thorough as they highlighted the important formulas as well as harder examples. I ended with over a 100%.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
08/02/2024

Calc 2 is hard but Anna made it easy to learn. Her notes were easy to understand. The homeworks were hard and only worth 3% and the discussions worth 10% were really challenging. The quizzes were easy if you paid attention to the TA during the discussions and they were 7.5% of the grade. There were 4 midterms which had high medians (83,80,90, and 82) which are higher than other calc classes. The lowest midterm was worth half. The final exam was really tough but the median was 78, which was higher than my friends with other profs. However, she did NOT curve at all at the end.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
07/24/2024

Anna being the professor was the only reason I passed this course tbh. Amazing professor

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/28/2024

He uploads his notes and they are pretty neat, so that helps a lot. That being said, his lectures are pretty straightforward, by the book, and monotonous. The worksheets are hard and require a lot of work but the quizzes tend to be fairly easy. It would have been great if he gave more weightage to the webassigns, considering we need to pour so much of our effort into them. The exams are way past the questions done in lectures, but you will be fine if you are good at self-studying. He curves the lowest exam and the TAs were lenient graders, so that is pretty nice.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
06/23/2024

Note: This was his first or second time teaching Math141. Stefan is a nerdy but nice guy who is willing to help, but his examples are rather straightforward and much easier than the web assign and exams. His exams tend to be easier than other professors but the easiness of the problems doesn't prepare you all that well for the final.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
06/12/2024

Note that Calculus 2 is probably one of the harder math classes at UMD. Stefan is a good lecturer and explains concepts well but his examples tend to be fairly easy compared to what's on the web assign and discussion worksheets. As a result it seems his tests are easier than other professors, but so is what he does in class. He tends to skip around at times and get through the calculus of the examples. His explanations are rather short sometimes leaving some confused. He goes over the concept but not the hard parts of each concept, leaving it up to you to figure out. His exams are not the best prep for the cumulative final that is given which makes the exam harder. There is no curve on the class but you do get a 10/10 on the discussion worksheets for showing up and attempting them.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
06/05/2024

Discussion worksheets were not relevant at all. The TA had to reteach us concepts because she couldn't adequately do it. Grading for exams was messed up several times and sample exams did not match the real midterms

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
06/05/2024

She does not post any sample problems and there are few textbook answers to the suggested practice problems. Her notes are the same ones the textbook has steps for, so it is not new information. The office hours do not help at all and many students resorted to cheating to pass exams/quizzes. We had discussion worksheets on topics she hadn't even covered in class yet. This was her first time teaching Calc 2 at UMD and SHE DOES NOT CURVE AT ALL.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/28/2024

I would say that he is one of the better 141 professors out there. His tests are fair and he is extremely fast when it comes to grading exams. One downside to him was he was constantly a few minutes late to most lectures including exams, he does give you added time for the exams but it can be difficult when you have other classes after it can be tricky but that is my only real bad thing to say about him. I felt his pace was good, wasn't too fast or slow. He posts all of his lecture notes which are very helpful when studying for his exams. He doesn't curve a specific exam but at the end of the semester the final grade cutoff was shifted accordingly which was great. Overall I would recommend him as I do think he is a good professor especially for such a hard class like Math141.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/25/2024

Really great professor in my opinion, I would recommend him. I liked his lecture style and he explained everything thoroughly. I know many people find him disorganized, but I found him to be helpful. Exams were fair and are very similar to examples we do in lecture. Obviously, with any calc class, it's important to do your own practice problems in your own time if you really want to get a good grade. TAs were very helpful as well. We didn't have quizzes this semester but had worksheets instead which we always got full credit on as long as we completed it. He curves at the end too, about 5%.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/25/2024

I personally have so much respect for this professor man. Super organized, lecture notes always posted after lecture, and no mandatory attendance of lectures. She's also very nice and approachable. Honestly, I learned much more about calculus 2 with this professor, and I actually ended up understanding things and figuring stuff out (unlike my AP Calc BC teacher back in high school). We had a cutoff for our final grades, something like anything above a 90 is an A, which is awesome. Also, she's usually really lenient and flexible, for example I requested for a makeup exam due to multiple exam conflicts, and while she didn't let me take the exam on another day due to university policies, I was able to take it at another time. Trust me take this professor and your GPA will be blessed. One advice that I do have though is to genuinely go to her lectures because she explains stuff really well. I felt like I did a little bad in class once I stopped going to her lectures (maybe because calc 2 in general is fast-paced and difficult), but trust me go to her lectures it's really great!

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/22/2024

Outstanding professor. Straightforward with lectures, gives tons of examples, and makes homeworks/discussions challenging so that students can understand the topics. Very understanding of her students and teaches so well. Obviously this class is a large workload but just be sure to attend lectures and do the homeworks because they are all very valuable for practice!

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a D
Anonymous
05/20/2024

32 Webassign HWs that are not helpful in learning concepts make up 8% of the grade. everyone would be better off if we were quizzed on concepts instead of given really challenging homeowkrs. in one hw stefan said there was no need to understand a concept because it would not be on the final, but the concept was on the homework.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a D+
Anonymous
05/20/2024

Our final exam average was a D. Stefans a nice person but he can improve explaining concepts. For notes Stefans style is to offer theorems and definitions, with a few examples per theorem sometimes only one example per theorem; stefan cannot go through lots of examples cus theres many concepts in calc 2, he can do better by incorporating more examples. there were times Stefan did not explain a shortcut well or explain concepts that involved other maths (calc 1 or algebra tricks) overall stefan expects you know calc 1 extremely well and I would not recommend this course if you did not take calc 1 the semester before. for context i took calc 1 more than a year b4 taking calc 2 and would definitely take Anna over Stefan if possible

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/19/2024

Dr. S is an amazing professor with very clear lectures and great examples. All of the exams were very straightforward and honestly pretty easy if you put effort into studying for them. The reason why I am giving a 4 and not a 5 is that she does not really interact with the class at all during lectures. She seldom answers questions during actual class time and will look right at you with your hand raised and just continue teaching. However, if you approach her afterwards she is happy to help and answer questions. Overall though a great professor. I think she had the highest average across all calc 2 profs this past semester. Definitely take her if you have the chance.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/19/2024

The GOAT for Calc 2. The work is very manageable, 2 webassign homeworks per week with extensions given automatically if you need them, whenever you need them, so essentially none of them have deadlines (but if you request an extension you will lose 10%). Discussion sections have a graded worksheet every class, so you can't really skip them, but the worksheets are graded on completion rather than accuracy and I finished and left early 90% of the time. Really manageable. Exams are not curved but they're super easy compared to other calc professors I've had, like directly copying a couple problems from lecture note examples and re-using them with different values easy sometimes. He does not record his lectures but he posts lecture notes, so if you miss a day or two it's not a huge deal. While individual exams are not curved your final grade is and the curve at the end of the class was great, I ended up with an 86% and got an A-. Shalin himself is not too entertaining as a lecturer (I think this is the fault of the subject more than him tbh) but he has his moments, and is a very chill and easy to approach guy. Only cons I can think of is that because his exams are relatively easy in comparison, you have to study harder for the final which is co-written by Chadwick and the other department heads to be prepared, and he also shows up to lecture 5 minutes late every single day.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/17/2024

For a course as hard as Calc 2, you will not find a better professor than Anna, and I can say it confidently because I've taken this course twice. Her lectures are very useful, as she goes over many examples alongside teaching the concepts. Discussion can be very helpful, just collaborate with peers, if you don't understand your TA. Only thing is that the webassign hw is not always the best, because they sometimes require calculators and it would take way too long by hand.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/17/2024

His lectures were well-paced and he was always ready to answer questions. He posted lecture notes and gave homework extensions whenever needed. His exams were wayyy easier than the other calc 2 exams (almost all the questions were from homework or lectures and were usually very straighforward), which made a good grade cushion for the final. The class was curved very generously at the end as well. He rushed the last unit but it was not too difficult to learn independently. Overall, he made the class extremely fair and a great experience, especially considering it was calc 2.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
05/16/2024

For starters, I would like to mention that I started off with Tim P. Absolute NIGHTMARE. The difference between him and Chaddy is night and day. Chaddy truly is the goat. I would not have been able to pass calc 2 if it weren't for him. He's a really good lecturer and exams are pretty fair. However, he's not the greatest at answering questions in class because he seems to be a little shy. But if you put in the work, you'll really pass. I took very little calculus in high school so taking this class was really rough for me. But I did it! You can do it too! Take Chaddy!

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/16/2024

Very good lecturer who pauses to let people ask questions to ensure everyone understands. If you study and know what you're doing, you'll do great in his class. He does not curve midterms but is lenient with the grading. There weren't any quizzes and the worksheets are based on effort so depending on your TA, it's free points. Finally, I would not expect a curve on the final, however, depending on the class he'll round up if you're borderline. Overall, a great professor who knows what he's doing, and as long as you study for the exams, you'll be fine.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/16/2024

took her for both 140 and 141 and was a great experience, was a good lecturer and was very clear with everything that needed known for the class, her midterms were more than fair and the lecture before any test would be a review, usually at least one of the questions on the test was straight off the review, would highly recommend her if you want to see lots of examples in class and not get bogged down wit the derivation and theory behind concepts

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/15/2024

brosnan clearly knows the topics and goes in depth into each topic. but that's just it, he really goes into it, at the point where you have no idea what he is talking about. sometimes i feel like this guy is yapping to himself for pleasure. if you are into the nitty gritty parts of calculus where you like the proofs, have fun with this guy, otherwise, take 141 with another professor.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2024

Going into calculus 2 in general, I was expecting a low grade. I heard horror stories about calculus 2. I honestly think people should take her course because she explains them clearly and provide good notes. If you can do her practice problems and attend lectures, you will be able to pass! :)

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/13/2024

Had Prof. S for MATH140/141. She is a very nice person and explains math in a manner where people who are not strong in math can learn it. In class we went over simple problems first then moved on to more advanced problems as we built our skills. THe homework and disucssion are so annoying but you need to try to understand the concepts so please do them. Exams are a mix of easy and somewhat challenging. You need to get your points on these semester exams b/c the final for calculus is incredibly diffucilt and worth 27% of your grade. Alot of people including me do badly on them so get your points early. With prof S expect very fair semester exams. Gives you a chance you buffer your grade for the final. Work hard, math140/141 is tough regardless of who is teaching. Take professor S and you will give your self the greatest chance to pass while still learning math.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2024

Teaches the course content very well. She explains things very clearly and always posts the notes after lecture. The way she does examples is class is very easy to follow. She's super nice, but also fair when it comes to exams. If there's a problem on the homework that looks difficult, she makes sure to cover it in class. And though the discussion worksheets are sometimes challenging, she doesn't decide what the worksheet looks like, the head of the math department does. But she does teach the stuff that is needed to figure out the worksheets, and the TA is there to help too. I had her for Calc I too and Anna is by far the best math instructor I've had. 10/10, would take her again if I could.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/12/2024

goat. Dr. Chadwick is easily one of the nicest and most caring professors I've ever had. He stays after class to answer questions and is great at explaining topics during office hours, he even stays EXTRA long after class to ensure every student has their question answered. Calc II is not an easy subject so I could see why people could give him low ratings. His exams can be a bit more difficult but his teaching makes up for it. Quizzes aren't bad at all. Homework is homework. TAs are a bit iffy at first but chill. If you're looking for the best professor for Calc II, it's most likely Chadwick, if you're looking for slightly easier exams then a different professor might be better for you. You'll learn a lot with Chadwick. Overall goated guy, w chad

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/09/2024

The absolute GOAT. If Stefan has 1000 fans, I am one of them. If Stefan has one fan, it's me. If Stefan has no fans I am dead. If the world is against Stefan I am against the world.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Anonymous
05/09/2024

I had her for Calc 1 and 2 and wish I could have her for Calc 3. I recommend her to all my friends because she does such an amazing job explaining everything in class and keeping it simple. It’s still a hard class but she makes it a lot more bearable than other teachers. Homework is only 2-3% of the grade so I just never did them, there’s quizzes some weeks but the TA always went over what would be on them and even if confused before the discussion I always got an A on them and the lowest is dropped. The exam reviews covered majority of what would be on the exam but sometimes different versions of the same question. I have a B- right now but also it’s calc 2 and i skip class and don’t do the hw so a good grade is definitely achievable. Overall she’s the best and i love her.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/07/2024

Did not have fun with this class… but Anna definitely helped make things a lot better. She’s a super great lecturer and a very nice person. Her exams are also fairly easy (when compared to the other 141 exams that is…). She’s also very quick to respond to messages. I would recommend her.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/07/2024

More like Goatwick tbh. He is very understanding and I found his style of teaching to be extremely helpful.

Zhenghe Zhong
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/07/2024

Love this guy! Super helpful when it comes to explaining course content, and honestly one of the nicest TAs I’ve ever interacted with.

Anna Szczekutowicz
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/07/2024

Anna is an excellent professor and genuinely cares about how her students do in the class. She's a great teacher, knows how to explain the content and her averages reached up into the 90s for tests that other professors struggled to get C averages for. That isn't to say her class is easy, it's tough and you'll need to put in the work. If you can, absolutely take her for MATH141.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Anonymous
05/06/2024

Great professor. Exams are very fair and he teaches very well. Uploads notes and labels them by topic section. The discussion worksheets were graded on participation. Only problem is that he does not have many previous exams to study from for his tests, but using other professors tests are just as good. Takes questions straight from lecture then changes values into the exam.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/02/2024

Amin is okay at teaching, you can't really understand but he goes straight from the textbook with examples from the textbook so you could look back at them later. His grading policy is extremely good, correcting his mistakes in class gives you some points and all the curves are great. This is a hard class so it is an expected workload. All the TA are pretty good too, his quizzes come straight from the textbooks problems.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/29/2024

Gives the easiest exams out of literally any possible professor. 5 questions no bs. Take him if you want the easiest calc 2 experience of your life. He also teaches the content really well in lectures.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
04/23/2024

I'm not sure how I feel about all the positive reviews? It's not like he's bad, but he's not the greatest of all time. Parekh is constantly late for class (that was good for me because I was late too lol), but he still gave us the full 50min to do the midterms. He has learned; no more cheat sheets and no more calculators on exams. NOTE: - He likes engagement (i.e. asks question, waits for people to respond) PROS: - Posts notes (in batches albeit) - Listens to students (ex. he pushed back hw because he didn't finish teaching the unit) - Grades FAST fast (TA's and him are the goat) - Lectures are pretty clear/straightforward - Midterms super easy CONS: - Doesn't record - Might have to speedrun the last few parts (chp 9 and/or 10 I think) because he kinda teaches a bit slow (i.e. might get behind on content) - Midterms super easy. The last con is my biggest worry with him. While I enjoy easy assignments and stuff (yummy A+ mmm gpa go up), Parekh's are a problem. His midterms are like high school hw like... 1 page + 5 problems WITHOUT multiple parts + easiest problems to ever exist = easy A. BUT REMEMBER!! At least for the lower-level math courses, finals are written NOT by the professor, but by the head (? dean? what's he called) of the math department. Meaning, Parekh's handholding does NOT PREPARE YOU FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!! I'm writing this before I take it, but I KNOW I'm cooked...

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
04/06/2024

Professor Conway is a really nice guy and his lectures are pretty easy to follow. His last lecture before the exams were always reviews and these really helped clarify questions. The worksheets given in discussion were absolutely useless, but I think these are given by the math department. Worksheet grades were honestly the only thing bringing me down, but these are graded entirely by the TA which you don't have control over. The first three exams went really well, but the last one has a really low average and most people don't do well on it. Conway also makes your lowest exam score out of 50 instead of 100. The final was BRUTAL. I refuse to believe that all the math professors make the finals because if they did Conway should have mentioned that his students had not seen a single thing from the final. We were asked to do things we had never been asked before, and as someone who did pretty well up until the final I simply did not know what some of the questions were asking. Prior to the final being put in, I had an A-, after the final was put in I had a C-. It was absolutely ridiculous given that my midterm average was a 85. The average for the final was around a 50 and all Conway did was curve the class maybe 7 percent. He also refused to boost grades after that. This was my second time taking Calc 2, so Conway was better than the last person I took it with, but I honestly think he needs to make the midterms harder to prepare us for the final, or advocate for reasonable questions being put on the final.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
03/19/2024

The curve +5-10% for your grade. W course. 45% of your grade is the final. Easy quizzes, midterms, final is common so it is harder than midterms. Lectures skippable. Learn all of Math141 from textbook, discussions, and webassign.

Ben Goldschlager
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
02/28/2024

He's a nice guy who is quite literally the best mathematician I have met, but since he's a grad student with zero teaching experience it hurts his teaching skills sometimes. Because of this it took me and some friends spending countless hours studying the homeworks, with some problems being so impossible that Ben would attempt to do the problem during office hours and after about 15 minutes be like "Yeah this is not on the quiz" which was pretty demoralizing since we would have 20-30 problems to memorize how to do since he will pick 2 of these questions at random to put on quizzes. We had 3 midterms, with the first two not being horrible, then the 3rd midterm tanking everyone's grade so bad that he handed us back our midterm packets, gave us a week to study, and had us retake the EXACT same midterm and averaged the old and new scores together. The final was harder than previous finals but Ben at least stayed afterwards to go over the final problems which helped us figure out how well we did (not well at all). He doesn't record lectures, so attendance is important, but he counts your worst midterm for half and worst two quizzes for half so that's cool I guess. Overall, you're better off taking this class with someone else unless you want to be grossly prepared for Calc 2, attend every office hours for Calc 2, make a bunch friends to study for Calc 2, name your future kid Calc 2, go to sleep at night thinking about Calc 2, and suffer the scars and PTSD from when you hear something related to various topics from Calc 2.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
02/13/2024

Professor Conway was a very good teacher and explained everything well. While certain information did not feel necessary, he made sure to get us all the information we would need. (He did show how to get the formulas we needed to memorize, and that process was not important to know.) His exams are very fair and he let us know what we would need to study beforehand. (Ex. one question on volume, one question on integration by parts etc.) However, because his exams were very fair, this made the common final seem much more challenging and many people were unprepared for this. Despite the numerous hours of studying for the final, the rigor made many people's grades drop by significant amounts. Overall though, Professor Conway is a very good professor who welcomes questions and is responsive to emails and when you attend office hours. The discussion worksheets were extremely challenging, however multiple end up being dropped and you can work with the people around you to figure them out!

Sudheer Shukla
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
02/09/2024

Sudheer was my TA for MATH141 and he SAVED ME in this class. The absolute goat. He held exam reviews before every exam, sometimes holding multiple review sessions for an exam, and was super understanding if anyone needed to miss discussion and didn't penalize you if you didn't have a doctors note or something like that (we only got one free pass to miss discussion). He always answered every single question you had exhaustively, and would help if you ever asked for it. If I could give him a six star review I would. I had Eoin Mackall as my professor, and Sudheer taught me the content way better than Eoin did. GOAT.

Arpith Shanbhag
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
02/08/2024

The worst TA I ever had. Did not teach, could not speak English, and just handed out the quizzes and stood in the corner for 50 minutes.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
02/08/2024

Dr. Conway: His teaching strategy is to derive every equation, and unless you are a math major, I don't see the point in it. It would be a better use of time if he spent more time on examples then derivations. However, he stayed on schedule, and was able to cover all of the material. His exams also text to be relatively straight forward if you know what you are doing. MATH141: This class has a lot of material and is very difficult. If you have the opportunity to take it at a community college, I would recommend that. The quizzes during each discussion are the worst since they tend to cover material to a degree we did not reach in class. The final exam was also impossible.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
01/23/2024

A decent professor but a terrible teacher. His lectures of him reading off the textbook are nigh on impossible to follow, and he never answers questions: instead opting to just say “I’ll get to it” while never getting to it. Heavy accent and terrible handwriting as well does not help the understandability. I would recommend not going to lecture at all, and instead just read the textbook while going to discussion to ask questions. All the TA’s (especially Hong my goat) are pretty good and willing to help. Discussion quizzes are also just free points, and expect a decent curve on every test and a huge FINAL GRADE (not exam) curve.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A-
djacobs
01/18/2024

Going into this class, I was pretty nervous because I don't consider myself particularly math inclined. But Professor Conway made calculus 2 bearable. He always answered my questions and his office hours were really helpful. If you do the practice exams and follow the class notes, you'll be fine on the exams. The web assigns tend to be a lot more difficult than the real exam, which is better than having it the other way around. Overall, as a non-math person, this class was manageable!

Ben Goldschlager
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
01/04/2024

I'll be the first to write a review. I was a part of his first-class teaching MATH141. He was simply not a great teacher. He is a math genius and can do our calc problems extremely easily to a fault. He will skip unintuitive steps and explain extremely intuitive steps. He writes very fast and by the time you decipher what steps skipped to get to an answer, he is already on the next problem. His exams were also quite inconsistent. The quizzes were fine as they were just made up of homework problems however the 'midterms' were very unpredictable and extraordinarily difficult to study for. It became a running joke in our class that everyone was failing even though that wasn't really the case. Our grades came out fine overall with the class likely scoring around the average for the course however to get this grade I had to put in a significant amount of hours studying. Office hours were also often packed and on multiple occasions it seemed the entire class was in office hours which should have been a clear signal that everyone was confused. But, Ben is a pretty nice person and his office hours were reasonably helpful as he would pretty much do whatever problem you wanted and would explain steps if specifically asked so 2 stars.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/31/2023

- he explains the proofs of every single problem, which I found to be very confusing. in his proofs there were a lot of variables and symbols I didn't understand so I would just zone out during lectures. me personally, I did not like his style of teaching because he taught in proofs. so the lectures essentially were pointless to me. - BUT what made the class bearable were the TAs. My TA was great because they explained the problems and concepts really well. And on like 2 or 3 days during the semester, some of the TAs came and taught lecture because Brosnan was sick and these were the most helpful and informative lectures I have attended. so my piece of advice is if you have brosnan, use your TAs to learn the content. Pay attention in discussion, make use of office hours, and ask questions. Also, there are GSS (guided study sessions) for Math141 that you can attend for extra help (I found these to be very helpful) also I would watch youtube videos online for extra help (some helpful channels to me were Professor Leonard and the Organic Chemistry Tutor). - back to the topic of Brosnan: he is funny, but he goes on tangents. everyone learns in a different way, so you may find Brosnan to be helpful, but I didn't. - However, I liked the way his grading for the class was structured (in other words, I am not entirely mad about it). So throughout the semester there is a total of 10 quizzes, 4 midterms, 1 final, and a bunch of webassigns. Out of these assignments, the lowest 2 quiz grades are dropped and the lowest midterm is dropped. This was very helpful for me because I basically bombed one of the midterms. 4 midterms may seem like a lot, and I guess they kind of are because we would have one every 2ish weeks, but having these midterms kept me on track with learning the content. - some final remarks: do the webassigns on time, do the practice problems in the textbook because the quizzes were very similar to these (you learn more about what I am talking about once you get your syllabus), don't be afraid to ask for extra help, and find a good group of people to study with!

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/29/2023

The professor clearly has a passion for calculus as seen through his lectures. However, he spends too much time proving theorems and techniques and not enough time explaining and doing practice problems. Frankly the proofs aren't something you need to know unless you can't remember a trig identity or substitution method or something. If you have a friend who took AP Calculus BC in high school (or if you took it), I'd use those notes since the textbook can also be confusing with its math language. Warning that I took AP Calculus BC my senior year and got a 5, but there is some content covered in MATH141 that I did not learn last year. Paul's Online Math Notes or the Organic Chemistry Tutor on Youtube are also good options if you need help. There's a quiz every Thursday, so be prepared for that. Your TA should be nice enough to tell you what sections the quiz covers, and it's just two questions. The WebAssign homework assignments are finicky with how you enter your answer, and some of them require a calculator even though there are no calculators allowed for any exam or quiz in this course. The questions there are also much harder than on any test you're going to take for this course. Don't slack on studying for the final, since it's 45% of your grade. Best I can say is to show all your work and write down any formulas so you can get pity points for knowing those.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/26/2023

This class is much more difficult than it needs to be, and that's the mentality you need to enter it with. But Dr. Conway makes it much more manageable. Yes it will take you hours each day between lecture, homework, discussions, and studying, but if you go to lecture his quizzes are extremely straightforward, and fair. He is one of the few professors that cares more about your understanding of the specific concept than trying to make you regurgitate algebra which makes it so much better. He is a great lecturer, and extremely nice and helpful at office hours. WARNING!: you WON'T be prepared for the final, the quizzes are much easier so make sure to really do well on all 4 midterms before going into the final.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/21/2023

You will do well in this class IF YOU PUT THE WORK IN. To be honest, don't expect to learn during lecture. Amin's style is hard to follow. Use the notes he posts before lecture, read the textbook and take notes, watch Organic Chemistry Tutor videos if you still don't understand a concept, and do the WebAssign right after to practice. Don't fall behind on WebAssigns because you'll hate yourself when all 30 of them are due before the final. Go to TA office hours if you need help with a problem or concept, they will help you get it right. TA HONG IS A REAL ONE. You'll be rewarded with good grades on the weekly quizzes if you do the textbook practice problems, because the questions are taken directly from the textbook. The best way to do well on an exam is to spend time every day learning and practicing and do not fall behind, as the course moves at an extremely fast pace. Even with a curve, exam averages are low, from 60s to 70s. I slacked the first two exams (mid 70s), but came out with a good grade because I got my act together for the remaining exams. Also, Amin's grading policies make it so that you can still finish with a good grade even if you fumble two exams. An A is possible with Amin, as long as you work hard and take advantage of his grading policies.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B
homework420
12/19/2023

Very fun professor, and very reasonable with midterms and quizzes. The quizzes in particular are just taken directly word for word from the book (at least my TA did that), so I essentially just mastered those questions. The midterms are very reasonable as well. However, I feel like he spends WAY too much time doing proofs instead of actually explaining the formulas we need to know. He knows this too but it does not seem like he will change this. I think this is stupid cause we are NEVER tested on the proofs ever. In addition I feel we are underprepared for the final, so start studying early for that. Overall, you can tell he is a nice guy but I really wished he would spend less time with proofs.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/19/2023

Me personally did not have a great experience with Amin as a teacher. His lectures are extremely hard to follow and he skips steps constantly. After I pooched the 2nd exam I started teaching myself from his lecture notes and I got a B and A on the 3rd and 4th exam. He did something weird with the 4th exam by giving us a problem bank before thanksgiving break then the exam was just questions out of that problem bank. Quizzes were easy bc they also come from a problem set from the textbook. Make sure u do good on these bc they replace ur second lowest test score. HWs were hard and tedious but good practice. I left them until the end of the semester. DO NOT DO THAT. To succeed in this class you really just have to live in the textbook, do a crap ton of problems from the one he gives in lecture and in the textbook. If u do that ull be okay. Easier said the done but the class is a battle of wills. Also from curves and grade replacements after the final my grade went from a 64 to a B-. The one other nice thing for stem majors, is that this class teaches u good study habits. U absolutely cannot cram for these exams unless u are that smart. So I would take him again just for the college reality check. So I guess inadvertently he did teach me something.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/19/2023

Very nice guy and has a good sense of humor. His teaching style is a bit confusing, because he spends the lectures writing proofs for rather simple concepts and does one or two examples near the end of class. The webassign homeworks are challenging but good practice, and he makes them due the morning of each exam which is pretty nice. His exams are 4 questions, 25 points each, similar in difficulty to the homework/textbook problems, so if you know what you're doing in the homework, you'll be fine. The course was fairly light until the sequences and series unit, which I needed to do lots of extra practice outside of lecture to keep up with. The final exam is like the midterms, but on steroids.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
12/18/2023

Prof. Brosnan should not be teaching a 100 level course. Having a final exam worth 45% of a grade is insanity. His exams are extremely easy, on the plus side, but the final exam is so much more difficult and a massive shock. Nice guy, but could the WebAssigns he begs us to complete be worth more than 5% of our grades?

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/18/2023

Great professor and good guy in general. His midterms were more than fair (around an 80% average on all of them except the last one) and he does a good job explaining topics in lecture. He does like to go into complicated theory in lecture sometimes but it technically doesn’t hurt to have a deeper understanding of the concepts. He drops your worst 3 homeworks and discussion worksheets as well as cuts your worst midterm in half. I also think he curves final grades a bit as my grade jumped a full letter grade. MATH141 is pretty brutal at UMD but Conway does a good job at preparing you to succeed.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/16/2023

Great and friendly professor! The class is quite hard and requires you to remember many topics from previous classes. Pros: Recorded lectures and notes (on ipad!), legible handwriting, easygoing, punctual, and easy-to-understand prof, lowest 3 hws/worksheets dropped + lowest exam halved which did wonders for my grade, very fair exams with high class averages (except for the final), fast responses to emails (and accomadating when sick), fast grading for exams (within 1 week), CURVE! (but highly depends on your class + exams) Cons: Webassign formatting kinda sucks, class is fast paced + you have to put in the hours, surprising amount of memorization :/, certain topics are much harder than others, i was not at all prepared for what was on the final (the final was nothing like the exams we had in class, likely because the department wrote it), some worksheets were super difficult Advice: Practice problems + practice exams!!! Do the problems in the textbook and check your answers with the textbook answers. And try on the homeworks and worksheets, they will help you actually learn the content since there are only so many problems that can be covered during lecture. Talk to Prof Conway if you're struggling, he seems like a very approachable professor and he is also quite funny which makes the class bearable. My grade was saved by the curve since the final average was really low (like 60%). I literally got a 50% on the final and got a B-. Prof Conway says he does not curve individual assignments and only looks at the final grades to see if he should curve so definitely don't rely on it. This class was a rollercoaster of emotions for me and I almost got weeded out but I would recommend.

Bilal Aytekin
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/16/2023

Great TA. Super approachable and kind. Did tons of relevant example problems in discussions, took care to make sure he explained concepts well, and answered questions thoroughly. He made the often complicated material of Calculus II much more digestible. Very helpful during office hours as well. It was clear he really wanted us to succeed.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/16/2023

Amin is not a good lecturer. Period. He will put the textbook on the projector and read off it, doing some of the problems on the board. He does post his lecture notes but like....its just textbook problems again. His class is set up like this: there's 30 web assigns do all on one day at the end of the semester and 2 get dropped (stay on top of it you will hate yourself later). There's 10 quizzes that consist of 2 problems from the textbook and he does drop 2 quizzes. He does give you 7-10 problems in the textbook those questions could be, however he does do it where he will teach a chapter the day before the quiz and you have to learn how to do all the problems that night with no help from the prof or TA. That was extremely frustrating for me to be taught material the day before getting quizzed on it on top of him being a bad lecturer. I can only speak for my TA and...he was not helpful. Super nice guy, but not great at teaching. The tests are hard and averages typically be in the 60s, but he does drop a test and replace another test with the average of either your total hw or quiz grade (depending on which is lower). My advice if you take Amin? Watch professor leonard on youtube or at least some other resource to learn the material. His tests can be hard so practice as much as you can from problems in the textbook. Also, his curve is very nice. People went from a 55 to C-. He also gives bonus points in class if you answer a question.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/15/2023

He explains concepts super well. Lectures can be a lot cause he needs to go semi-fast to cover all the concepts but he records everything and posts his notes if you need to look back on them. He's also very approachable during office hours and will help you with any concept you're struggling with. The exams were overall pretty fair and he would outline what the general topics of the questions would be before the exam and emphasize what we really needed know. Sometimes homework questions and worksheet question would be overly difficult but I feel like that was more on the department rather than him. The final was pretty tough and the average was really low because he wasn't the one to write it which I think is a bit unfair as the students in the sections with the professor writing the exams have an advantage, but again thats on the department. Overall, calc 2 is a weed out and is bound to be difficult and time consuming, but if you put the work in you should be ok!

Jason Schultz
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/15/2023

Professor Schultz is genuinely one of the best teachers to take for a Freshman Connection calc 2 course. He's engaging with students, very helpful, and actually wants students to succeed in what's supposed to be one of UMD's weed-out courses. In classes, you have lots of time to take notes plus constant reminders of quizzes and tests so you know when they will pop up. He also explains everything in detail (and provides proofs and examples if you don't get the theory part) and tries to avoid relying on the textbook for key information, unlike some calc 2 professors (looking at you, Pinsky). For tests, Schultz gives out study guides that are relevant to the test and the exams are very fair if you do use them (which I didn't for the first exam, earning me this B), plus is willing to do questions from the WebAssign and practice exams if you go during office hours or shoot him an email. Not only that, the curves are very generous (especially for that godawful standard final which everyone bombed), which goes to show that he cares about students succeeding instead of weeding them out. Overall, Schultz is an amazing professor and will help you fully understand the material and get good grades.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/15/2023

Not a very good lecturer. Confusing and has bad handwriting sometimes. WebAssigns are dumb sometimes but they can be helpful for review for quizzes and midterms. He drops 2 lowest quizzes and lowest midterm grade, but THE FINAL IS 45 PERCENT OF YOUR GRADE so it doesn't even matter. Quizzes and midterms are relatively easy if you study and know the material from watching organic chem tutor and reading textbook bc everyone knows you cant learn anything from brosnan. Overall, calc 2 is a weedout so j study and hopefully ur chillin.

Jiaxing Liang
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
12/15/2023

TA Liang is genuinely one of the worst if not the worst TA I have ever had. First of all, when she teaches she moves all around the board never just writing top to bottom or left to right, so you are constantly getting lost. She also is so quiet and is unable to control the class, like she is scared of us or something. Sometimes we would ask for help on a certain homework problem or something she would ask us how to start it because she genuinely did not know how to do it. She wouldn't follow the pace of lectures, so our discussion quizzes would be stuff we hadn't even learned yet. Overall, this class is great as long as she is not your TA.

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
12/15/2023

I have mixed feelings about Dr. Parekh. While he is one of the better math141 professors (from what I've heard), he also is VERY unorganized which makes this class more difficult. First off, he is always late to class by at LEAST 5 minutes. This isn't that big of a deal except for exam days (there are 3 midterms) when you lose time on your test. This also had us rushing through material so fast right before the final so I truly understood none of the last chapter and a half for the final exam. He also gave us a note sheet on the first 2 exams then told us 4 days before our third exam that we didn't get a note sheet on it because the final didn't allow us to have one. That is understandable but he told us so last minute so it was stressful. We also were allowed graphing calculators on all 3 exams then he told us one week before our final that we didn't get one, which meant we had to re-learn the class without a calculator in one week. He also told us never to email him because he doesn't like responding. In terms of why Dr. Parekh is one of the better math141 professors, he is very lenient. He gives extensions on any homework you want and he also curves the exams if the class did bad, which is uncommon in this course. He is good at teaching the topics despite the lateness and he posts all lecture notes so if you miss something you won't fall too behind.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/15/2023

As many other students have said, Amin is a nice guy who cares a lot about his students; but, his teaching style is a little difficult to follow because he is expected to fit so much content into a 50 minute lecture. However, he always posts copies of his lecture notes and a recording of the lecture on elms. Furthermore, he makes the class fairly easy to pass with many implemented policies designed to boost your grade like dropping the lowest 2 quizzes and webabsignes, as well as your lowest exam score. The weekly quizzes are not hard to do well on because their questions are chosen from a set list of problems for the textbook. Overall, if you're willing put in the time and effort you should be able to pass just fine.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/14/2023

Phenomenal professor. Lectures are engaging, and Conway is very approachable and willing to help. Would highly recommend.

Ben Goldschlager
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/13/2023

HavingBen as a professor was helpful in how he emphasized understandings of the topics over mindlessly doing practice problems, without actually understanding the applications.

Jason Schultz
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/13/2023

Very understanding teacher. Loved his teaching. If you pay attention in class, do the homework, and go in for help you should be fine to get an A. I trolled on the last few quizzes so it bought my grade down, but amazing teacher.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B
johnparis
12/13/2023

If you have the option to take Amin as a math professor, definitely do it. Out of all the people I've talked to with other teachers Amin is by far the most lenient. I got < 70 on 3 exams, and have to get < 40 on the final to get a C. He is super lenient on how much he drops (like double other teachers), and the quizzes are super free. Also the final grade replaces your grade if its better, so you also have the option of doing ok and then trying hard for the final and getting an A. This is on top of the supposed curve he apparently will give. For a weed out class he really wants you to succeed and understands that the content can be challenging for no reason. Yes he is a bad lecture, I had to basically stop going to lectures because of how confusing it was, I would definitely recommend at least learning the content from videos online out of class, but when it comes to the grading and assignments Amin is top.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Anonymous
12/12/2023

Honestly, I was always good at Math my entire life and I took him for Calc 2 and I started not understanding what's going on. It is definitely a somewhat difficult course but I found his teaching to be difficult to understand. He spends alot of time explaining things that you won't use and when it comes down to the formulas or examples, he runs out of time so it is very rushed and he does not go over it again. Oftentimes, he gets confused at what he's writing or messes up on the board which is okay because everyone makes mistakes but that just adds to the difficulty in following along. I know people who excel in my class, but I am not one of them and I struggled alot and had to mainly rely on the TA who was actually easier to learn from

Shalin Parekh
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/11/2023

only take him if you can learn everything on your own

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/09/2023

Records all lectures and exams are very similar to the practice.

Weimin Jiang
MATH141

Anonymous
12/07/2023

I struggled with my calc 2 professor's teaching style, but Weimin did a great job at explaining the concepts, doing step by step example problems, and making sure everyone in the discussion understood the material. He answered every question that was asked and is an amazing TA overall!!

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/06/2023

Not a good lecturer. Not enough examples, subpar explanations, and sloppy handwriting. Stopped going to lecture bc of how useless it was. Just read the textbook, watched youtube vids, and went to discussions. The exams and quizzes aren't that bad if you do the webassigns and prac problems.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/03/2023

Amin has a teaching style that may feel hard to follow/scattered sometimes which can cause confusion and misunderstanding. He is very passionate about teaching and math and gets super happy when students answer a difficult question/bring up something he hadn’t thought of. Amin makes it really easy to pass the class, all of the quizzes (10 of them) are out of the textbook problems he suggests, all of the test problems are out of either his class notes, suggested problems, or WebAssign so it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. He also drops the lowest test, lowest 2 quizzes, and lowest 2 webassigns while also curving at the end of the semester. He also has all of the WebAssigns due at the end of the semester which is convenient if you like flexible deadlines. If you put in the work to be prepared for assessments and complete the WebAssigns on time, you’ll pass this class.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/02/2023

Amin is such a nice guy like he genuinely cares about the course and his students, the only problem is, is that his lectures are a little bit scattered and it's hard to understand. However, with this I HIGHLYYY recommend watching short videos on what is taught in the lecture before hand, so that you go into lecture having somewhat of an idea as to what he is talking about, because I found that since the lectures were only 50 minutes he did not have enough time to actually get through the material, so if you watch like organic chemistry tutor before hand, the lecture will be a little bit easier to follow. Additionally, professor Leonard on YouTube is the biggest G, if you just watch him you'll do good in the class because he explains the same things. About his grading, his grading is immaculate. You can basically fail 2 tests and be fine. But still try on each test because you wanna get the highest score possible. Also quizzes are the same questions as the homework, but they are sill hard because it is a lot of questions you have to remember with not enough time to study, so make sure to take those seriously despite the fact you have the possible questions before hand. This is because there are like 20 questions and there's only 2 of those questions on the quiz, so while it is helpful to have those questions, you still need to know how to do the problems. All in all, I think he's a good professor to take only because of how he drops so many things, so at the end your grade doesn't suffer. However, if you want to understand the material then you have to do a lot of extra work.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/01/2023

Professor Brosnan seems like a fun, smart guy, but the teaching style is just not for me. He focuses too much on the proof aspect instead of explaining the formula and how to correctly use it. For most topics, he will just start a proof, then write the formula, and then do one or two example problems without diving too far into the concept. The midterms are four questions, worth 25 points each, so if you miss one question, you can watch your grade drop in real time. The final being worth 45% of the grade is honestly insane, even he says his exams are easier than the other professors', but he does drop one midterm and two quizzes. The WebAssign homeworks are super difficult compared to the exam problems so they are not comparable, and some of them require a calculator and won't be seen on any of the quiz/exam material because calculators are not allowed. Overall, Professor Brosnan is a nice guy, but the class and it's content can be a struggle because of the lackluster explanations and I will never get over how much weight is put into the final exam. To anyone who took AP Calc BC like I did and got a 3 or less, you will go over all of the same topics (and a few extra ones), but the difficulty will be increased ten-fold.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B
apandya7
11/30/2023

Professor Brosnan simply does not know how to lecture and goes over proofs for formulas (not needed information) to then skip over the explanation of the formula (important information). Sometimes he get's very confused in his own proof and drops it all together. Some of my class had switched professors, however I naively decided to stay in the class -- very big mistake. His final for the class is a whopping 45% of the grade which is ridiculous considering the hours of homework of webs assigns only accrues 5% of the total class grade. Overall, although Patrick is knowledgable and an intellectual mind, he cannot teach and is not fit to be teaching MATH 141. I even suspect he is confusing to those in 300-400 level classes

Mirna Pinsky
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/26/2023

Please do not take this professor... she is a sweetheart and her exams are a little easier than a non-fc MATH141 class but for all things holy please do not take her class. Her lectures are pointless, as she makes mistakes and is incredibly uninformative. She doesn't know how to "teach", but she does know how to write on the chalkboard and ramble, which are two very different things. For your mental health's sake, and to not flare up your anxiety every class, do not take this class. And if you are FC just drop her section.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/17/2023

This class isn't supposed to be easy at all. At first, I hated Amin and his teaching style. His lectures seemed very winged and unprepared, but at the same time, it isn't his fault. He is given only 50 minutes to try and teach you subjects that are complex and difficult to understand. He does his best, but honestly, the lectures will be confusing regardless of your professor. If you take this class you must put time and effort outside of lectures and discussion to learn the material and master it. The webassigns are all due at the end of the semester which is like a double-edged sword. It gives you some wiggle room to slack but if you slack too much then you won't be able to finish in time. Most of the webassign is impossible to cheat on (you can't use photomath or mathway) if you do at least 2 per week you should be fine. His exams aren't insanely difficult but I would recommend you study every day of the week following the exam to ensure you pass. His curves are generous and his TA's are exceptional. My TA was Shin Song and she was honestly pretty good. Quizzes are every Thursday but should be a free 20/20 every time as long as you do the practice problems he assigns. Overall his class isn't impossible to manage but is very difficult and will require a large amount of your time. Amin has a passion for math and enjoys teaching it. He also enjoys questions asked during lecture which should be utilized if you need help. Don't take this class lightly and you should be able to pass easily.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/16/2023

This class is a lot of work. It is hard. You will most likely struggle. I understand the criticism of Mackall, but he is a fair professor. His exams are incredibly hard but he curves generously. His homeworks are due at the end of the week instead of the middle which is a plus. His lecture style can be chaotic but he genuinely does want you to succeed and his lectures are interesting and he has a lot of enthusiasm about teaching and is not phoning it in. If you need help or don't understand something, his office hours are helpful, he is very nice. You will need to put a lot of time into this course, you will need to grind out practice problems and read the textbook. The reason this is a weed out class is because its really about managing your workload and not procrastinating and being responsible, if you can do that you will be fine in this class and your future ones.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/10/2023

Amin is a good professor if you work with him. In class his lectures can be hard to follow and scattered, however if you meet with him, complete the recommended problems for each section, study and try to understand the concepts in your own time AND (i cannot stress this enough) keep up with the webassigns, you will not only pass the class but will also retain the material. Calc II is considered the most difficult of the Calc sequence, so the class will never be easy by any means regardless of the professor teaching it. Amin is obviously brilliant and has a genuine passion for math. In the beginning of the semester it was hard to adjust to his lecture/teaching style- however as the semester progresses you will become more familiar with his notes and the way he structures his lectures and class as a whole. The tests are very hard, redo all the problems in his written notes + the recommended book problems for your best chance at getting a good grade on his tests. Another thing is, KEEP UP WITH THE HOMEWORKS. Calc II is the epitome of a weed out class. It can feel overly complex, the exams are difficult if you aren’t 110% prepared, but most importantly- all of his webassign homeworks are due at the end of the semester. These homeworks are not something you can mathway/integral-calculator your way through. Each homework requires a considerable amount of effort and also time, and falling behind with the homeworks/not keeping up with them will screw you grade wise and also in your understanding of the material. They cannot be done all within the last week of the semester. The weekly quizzes are simple enough and if you do the recommended text book problems you should be able to secure a 20/20 on each one. To summarize, the class is hard. Focusing more on understanding the material and worrying less about your grade (as there is a big curve) will ensure that you come out of the class feeling like you actually learned a lot. Math genius or not, Calc II is rigorous and leave you feeling lost and confused at many points. Practicing is the only way to strengthen your understanding of the concepts as this is not a class that you can cruise through because you think you are good at math. Amin does his best and although he may not be the best Calc II professor, if you take advantage of the resources that are recommended to you then you will be okay. Amin does not make the class more difficult, Calc II does that all by itself. This is a class where you are expected to teach yourself along with what you are taught, and that is not specific to Amin.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/04/2023

Great professor! Explains everything really well and is happy to answer questions and provide help. Also records all lectures and posts to canvas which is really helpful. Would definitely recommend taking his class.

Nathan Janus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
09/06/2023

Nathan is the best TA. 10x peak any professor, especially Pilachowski. You won't be disappointed if you have him.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Anonymous
09/03/2023

Really nice guy, funny but extremely confusing. Took two days of his class and understood nothing. He mostly just talks and writes the equations on the board without actually explaining or giving examples.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/26/2023

The great thing about Tim is that is he does not give ( - )grades, and he rounds all percentages up by one. However his lectures move extremely fast, especially towards the last units. If you go to his lectures, you will find yourself looking back at his videos to understand what he is saying. So most people avoid lectures altogether and watch his videos instead. Tim is a very convenient professor in that respect, since most students avoid going to lectures and manage to do well. First two exams are easy, last two were on the harder side, with a curve on the fourth. If you are looking for a professor that does more than teach from a PowerPoint, I do not recommend Tim. If you prefer studying on your own, Tim is a great pick. As of spring 2023, there were no quizzes.

Randy Martinez
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
08/22/2023

After I got a D in my previous semester, I retook 141 with Martinez and got a B+. He's a nice instructor, and is very generous on curves (which is sort of expected, as his exams were on the harder side... averaging 40-60). He gave curves on each exam; in one instance, my 47 became a 73. He also gave letter grade adjustments at the end of the semester, making my B into a B+. However, just realize that he doesn't necessarily go over various types of problems that you'll see on the exam during his class time. I didn't utilize his office hours as I felt that I didn't need them at the time, but you should ASAP if you feel iffy about the material (which basically broadly applies to every class). He also doesn't have great handwriting, but that is kind of expected for a math instructor.

Jermain McDermott
MATH141

Expecting a C
einna
08/04/2023

The lecture notes were messy and confusing as his handwriting isn't the best. Sometimes, he would breeze through problems to the point where he confused himself and provided wrong answers. Homeworks are lengthy worksheets but are doable since they can be found online or you can ask other students, make sure not to do them last minute! Quizzes aren't too bad since they are open note but prepare for silence if you are doing them in Zoom breakout rooms. There are three midterms and a final. The lowest-scored midterm, quiz, and homework are dropped! If you don't show every little step on the exams, he may give you an entire 0 or take off a huge amount of points from each question, a common problem we experienced. Overall, he isn't rude but can be slow to answer emails and can have a bit of an attitude if you press him about a score. The drops and his grade cut-offs are pretty helpful but you most likely have to rely on outside resources like Khan Academy or Organic Chemistry Tutor to really understand the content. If you can, take someone else, if not, be prepared to dedicate a huge chunk of your life to this class.

Jermain McDermott
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
07/26/2023

Just not the best experience. Lectures were just him writing notes onto a slide - weren’t always terrible but got cluttered and on occassiok his solutions were wrong. Quizzes are fair, group work anyway. Major event was him failing half the class on second exam because he believed we were cheating. He also stated before class he would likely adjust grade cutoffs based on class performance, he did not curve the class despite final exam average being a 69%. Doesn’t respond to emails but I’ll say his office hours could be helpful for you. I wouldn’t recommend taking this class but if it’s your only option just make sure to go to office hours.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
07/25/2023

Jonathan is perfect I would say. He posts all the lecture videos and notes in elms. He had one worksheet for a week that we were to submit online. So no need to appear in the discussions. But I recommend going there because TAs (Garrett) are helpful. They will make you walk along with the professor. Exams are fair enough. Just do worksheets and previous exams, and you will be fine. Exams will be way easier than worksheets though. He curves a lot, so don't worry about grades at all.

Jermain McDermott
MATH141

Anonymous
07/21/2023

This guy accuses people of cheating left and right. If he doesn't like your answer, then you cheated according to his logic. Everybody who got a 0 from his accusations were too scared to report it out of fear of the math department taking his side, even though he had 0 actual proof. This is incredibly ridiculous so I have nothing to say other than this is one of the worst classes I have ever taken at this university.

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/20/2023

He's honestly an amazing professor, I would definitely recommend taking this class with him! Personally, I didn't think his lectures were dry, he was just always to the point. He would go over anything you asked and was always very helpful. He also thoroughly goes through practice problems, practice exams, and provides a lot of resources. Everything he asks on exams is the content we've covered in class and usually similar to practice problems, so nothing is unexpected.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/10/2023

Jonathan is a great guy but a not-so-great professor. His lectures are disorganized and often confusing, and I recommend not going to them since they're recorded. My TA was amazing, which helped a lot. Worksheets were due at the end of the week and could be done anytime within that timeframe. Exams were slightly curved, and the lowest exam score was replaced with the final score if it was better. He even curved the worksheets and the webassigns. Its easy to get an A in his class so long as you have a good TA.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
07/06/2023

Great, reliable professor. As far as UMD math professors go, I think he's one of the best options. Homework was manageable, exams were pretty much exactly like the practice exams, and he gave a lot of resources. I had a horrible professor for MATH140, and I went into this class with the same expectations but was pleasantly surprised. I definitely fumbled on the 4th exam and the final, but had it not been for those exams, I would've easily gotten an A in the class.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
06/04/2023

Prof Chadwick is a very good lecturer. He was easily the best 141 teacher in terms of teaching the content. That being said, his exams were probably some of the hardest exams among 141 teachers. Chadwick's exams were much much harder than Fernandes' exams, but Chadwick was a much better teacher. Overall, I am glad I took 141 with him, but was frequently frustrated by the exam difficulties compared to other teachers. Chadwick is very safe bet and you will learn a lot if you take him. MATH141 sucks a lot and will require a ton of effort and work, but most of that is not Chadwick's fault and you will be just fine if you take him.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
06/01/2023

He is a super chill professor and really wants you to succeed. He added a three-point curve to all our exams and curved more if necessary. My lowest midterm grade was a 98, without taking math140 first semester. This was truly just due to doing the practice exams and the additional practice questions the TA's sent out. If you go to discussion and ask questions, you'll be fine. I was scared of taking this class, but Fernandes made it completely digestible. Definitely go to office TA hours though!

Dominic Flocco
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/29/2023

The GOAT. The Man. Super friendly and explained concepts so well. If you have Dominic as your TA then you're in safe hands. If not then you should switch to his section to have the highest chance of passing your class. Always started off the discussions by recapping what we learned in the previous lectures and always welcomed questions. He explains things very well and I definitely learned more from him than I did during the lecture. To get the most out of Dominic, go to his office hours. So helpful and made difficult concepts easier to understand. Always kind and patient with any questions during office hours. Take advantage of his office hours! Calc 2 has a reputation of being a weed-out class but Dominic made it 100x more bearable. Take Dominic.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
05/28/2023

If you have another choice of professor, take it. While she isn't the worst professor, it's hard to pass her class. Luckily she gave mine a huge curve, but I did not enjoy the experience.

Sudheer Shukla
MATH141

Anonymous
05/26/2023

I think this is the right Sudheer. I had Sudheer as my TA for MATH141 and he was a lifesaver. Sudheer didn't send practice exam solutions quickly as my TA last semester did, but he's extremely accommodating and wants his students to succeed. If you ask him questions and attend his exam reviews, you'll be utilizing him well :)

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Anonymous
05/26/2023

Don't take him, go for Chadwick instead. Practice exams will be Chadwick's anyway, and I had a much better experience with Chadwick last semester with 140. Mackall is a nice guy per se, but he fools around class a bit and it's hard to understand or catch up with the material (but this pretty much is relevant to the entirety of the professors in the UMD Math department oops). If you want hard hard work and a decent curve at the end of the semester, maybe take Mackall? But the question again is why you would want to do that to yourself?

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/24/2023

Jonathan is pretty middle-of-the road as far as UMD math profs go; you could do better and you could do worse. I got an A and I’m not exactly a math genius, so that’s saying something. Pros: worksheets and WebAssign homeworks are a relatively large portion of your grade, and get curved. Also, you can take worksheets home with you and submit them online at the end of the week, so you don’t need to rush during discussion. All midterms have a 3-point curve, and he gave an additional curve on one exam because he accidentally included a problem that was way too hard. Cons: tends to arrive at lecture late and run over time, so leave yourself some wiggle room. Sometimes as he is doing problems he scrolls away from something immediately after writing it, so you have to write fast or have a friend you can copy from if you miss something. He also doesn’t always get through the entire content of the lecture. The worksheet problems are usually different/harder than the lecture problems so you have to hope your TA will explain everything.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/22/2023

Not the greatest instructor but makes it very easy to succeed in the class by making everything easy, midterms were the same as the practice exams he provided just with different numbers. Also has a lot of questions in those midterms straight out of either the textbook or the worksheets he provides. Never went to the lectures as they were very hard to follow along, but the discussions were very helpful. I mostly learned from youtube/ textbook, and those were more than enough to succeed. He made the worksheets and the web assigns out of a 92, so if you had more than a 92% of either of those categories you were given a 100%. This was really helpful as they make up for 40% of your total grade. He is literally your best bet if you want to get a good grade in this class.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/20/2023

Tricky exams but nothing incredibly difficult. Really generous curve. If you are willing to work and like math, take him.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/20/2023

Conway was an amazing professor. Recorded, and posted notes (if he doesn't simply email him and ask), and he answered questions well. To me, it was really easy to learn in his class and his practice exams prepared you well for every and any exam he gave, tho series was a pain. Would 10/10 recommend. He does his best to respond to emails even late at night and makes a weedout into a very manageable class. NO QUIZZES. Cons: He could go fast at times during his lectures. The course overall is TA dependent (not in his control), while it is doable, most of your actual learning will happen in discussions as worksheets often mimic exams. A good or bad TA is a big factor in whether you succeed or fail. My TA was amazing, a goat, and he, as well as Conway, are why I was able to do well.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/19/2023

Dr. Mackall is very personable, nice, and knowledgeable. His exams are very difficult compared to other professors, but he curves generously (his last three exams all had a 65% average, but he curved the 2nd and 3rd to an 80%). For the final, he did not give us a lower grade than we already had in the class. The fourth midterm on series and stuff was the most difficult, in my opinion. About halfway through the semester, I stopped going to class because the textbook was enough to study from (and I was very busy), although going to class was helpful, and he teaches well. I would recommend him if you are already confident in your math abilities, and want a professor that doesn't bore you to death. Worst thing about this class were the discussions, but those will be awful (and mandatory) no matter what professor you choose. I'm lucky I had a good TA - shout out to Turner (Hugh Mclaurin). Also one of the midterms was on my birthday so that was a bummer...

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/18/2023

I had Dr. Chadwick for 140 and 141, am I'm really glad. His lecturing is fantastic! He writes everything on the board and explains example problems really well. His tests are also extremely fair. The structure of his class is 6 quizzes (lowest one gets dropped), 4 unit exams, 2 worksheets a week, and 2 online homework a week. Overall, every assignment was useful to my understanding of the content and my TA was amazing. I never found his exams to have any tricks or excessive theory. He also provides a practice exam and practice problems before each exam. He would work through these problems the class before the exam, so I always knew what to expect. While it was useful having an online copy of the textbook, it wasn't necessary because Dr. Chadwick is such a good lecturer. Overall, Dr. Chadwick made Calc I & Calc II very manageable classes. Expect to put at least 4 hours of work outside of class and discussion to do well. My only complaint is that he was frequently 5 minutes late to class, probably because he was helping students from his previous class, so sometimes content felt rushed. But, on the flip side, he was always willing to stay after and answer questions. If you can, take Dr. Chadwick. He is an engaging lecturer and will make your Calc I & Calc II experience very pleasant.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/18/2023

Seems like a great guy. Not a great teacher. I started skipping lectures a month into the semester because I realized I wasn't getting anything out of them. He was going too fast for me to understand, and my notes were getting so messy that they weren't even useful. My TA was very helpful though. Last time he taught 141, I heard he dropped their lowest exam. This semester, he replaced our lowest exam score with our final exam score if it was higher. Just so you're aware.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Guest
05/18/2023

Professor Fernandes is a great professor, and like those who share the sentiment, he's definitely one of the better MATH 141 professors. His instruction from the beginning of the semester started out strong, and so the first exam was relatively easy if you pay attention to class. However, as we shifted to more difficult content, the quality in instruction deteriorated. I became more reliant on my TA for help on topics, and because of their incredible response rates, it was easier for me to contact them than Professor Fernandes. It is known that he's unresponsive to emails and such, so to get the best opportunity to speak with him, stay in the lecture hall after class. Now, he doesn't use any chalkboard, rather his iPads. This makes for good and bad things. It's great because he's able tor record lectures, even broadcast them live on Zoom. Moreover, it's fairly easy to go back to content discussed in lecture. However, it makes for keeping up with him in lecture incredibly difficult as he scrolls away quickly. I spent hours upon hours on web assigns (homework), and he curves these at the end. Moreover, we're assigned weekly worksheets, which are also curved at the end. The exams were fair, and practice exams will help you.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/17/2023

Recorded lectures, relative easy and fair exams, good at teaching content. Highly recommend

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/17/2023

Conway had great lecturers and showed example problems in his notes which greatly helped me understand the content. His tests were reasonable and I usually got a B on them. He is transparent about what his exams will cover and his problems aren't too confusing to understand. He seems like a nice guy who truly cares that his students understand the course. I will say what made this course even better was my TA. She was very responsive and the way she reviewed the topics in discussion was easy to understand. Make sure to use the umd test bank and read the textbook when studying and you should be okay in this course.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/16/2023

Wow, such a good teacher!!! not! I learn nothing from this class, difficult to understand her, and she doesn't show up to her own office hours???! Professor Leonard (from YouTube) carried me in this class.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
profayle
05/16/2023

Had him fall sem, lectures are decent but can get confusing for people especially if they don't have a strong calc/math background. USE THE TEXTBOOK!! I failed the first exam, but after that I would just do the practice problems to study and do really well on the exams after. Thought I was gonna get a bad grade but the curve was INSANE. Literally failed 2 tests and the final, but with a bunch of dropped grades and replacements, I somehow ended up with an A LMAO

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/13/2023

Conway is amazing. Great lecturer, fair exams, RECORDS HIS LECTURE <3 and truly a sweet and kind professor. I did pretty badly on the series exam, but besides that, I averaged between an 86-92 on the other three exams, and the averages for Conway's class were pretty high as well (usually high C/low B range, which is amazing compared to other calc II sections I talked to!). He is also SUPER accommodating, before our second exam I was extremely overwhelmed and had awful migraines - and very last minute (I believe 12/13 hours before the exam?) emailed him asking if there was any possible way I could take the exam sometime the following week and explained my situation. Conway responded within 10 minutes of that email and was EXTREMELY understanding, and seemed to genuinely care, and I haven't been able to say that for many of the professors I've had so far. The one thing about this class is that your grade depends ENTIRELY on your exam performance (350 for the four exams + 200 pt final + 50 HW pts + 50 discussion work pts), so one bad exam kind of makes or breaks your grade and for me, that was the series exam <3 :( Overall, GO WITH CONWAY!!! He gives you everything you need to succeed AND ACTUALLY WANTS YOU TO SUCCEED!!!

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/13/2023

I'll keep this short and simple, and give the info that I would want from someone who uses planetTerp. Pros: • Reasonable Exams (provides practice exams which almost replicate the questions, just different numbers for the most part) • Very nice and open to questions, always readily available through email • Good lectures that are recorded too! • Verbally understandable unlike some professors • No weekly quiz's, instead their worksheets (still for a grade tho) Cons •Does not curve, at all. What you see on the syllabus is what you get, no exceptions. Overall I'd recommend very much so, as someone who's taken the class twice already:/ MATH141 is a weed out class, in other words it's going to drop kids from their major and path, if you ask for help when you need it and also use orgchemtutor you will be fine.

Nathan Janus
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/12/2023

Nathan is the best TA ever. He has like 5 or 7 years of TA'ing experience and it shows. He always goes above and beyond for the students in his discussions. Some examples of this is his lenient grading for discussion worksheets, and his answer keys he types up and prints himself to help us understand worksheets we don't understand. He explains concepts extremely well, sometimes even better than the professor. He deserves every best TA award and everyone needs him as a TA for math. He also is just a very nice guy in general and is very easy to talk to.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2023

I have taken this professor for both Math140 and Math141 and he has been one of my best professors I have had since coming to the university. Yes, his midterms are hard, but this is CALC2, it's not supposed to be an easy course. Self study is required as it is just too much material to be covered in lecture time. His curves were much more generous in Math141 than Math140, and all around he has a very humorous and sarcastic guy, which makes it enjoyable to go lectures. Also keep in mind that everyone in calculus 2 is doing the same hw and discussion worksheets, the midterms are the only thing that differs from professor to professor.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Anonymous
05/12/2023

The slander in these reviews is insane. Amazing professor, 10/10. Some of my favorite lectures out of any course were with Eoin: First he starts off with the theorems or general ideas we need to know for that day's topic. Then he does between 1 and 4 examples, each focusing on a certain nuance or a certain type of question relating to the general topic. He would sometimes be so efficient that we would end early. Two homeworks are both due on Saturday night every week, which was very fair since other professors would have them due in the middle of the week but Eoin knew from feedback in last Fall's calc 1 course that people would prefer them to be due later so that the topics were fully covered before homework was due. He incorporated this feedback into this calc 2 course, which was wonderful. He had generous curves for all his exams. The exams were harder than other professors, but the needless complaining within his reviews is frankly a sign that people don't actually want to learn the material. The way he taught facilitated actual learning and understanding of the material, and did not follow the formulaic exams other professors seemed to have. Eoin had fun writing the exams, and he put passion into the class and helping us succeed. He's very personable, EXTREMELY patient with questions, and a hilarious guy.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/12/2023

Everyone says they dislike him for his extremely difficult exams, but in my opinion, the content we are tested on is fair and accurate. He only wants us to push ourselves to really understand the topics. Yes, the exams are harder compared to other professors, but they are still manageable. Most people complain about having to self-study a lot with him, but calculus 2 requires that anyways, no matter the professor. He is a really personable professor who will accommodate to his students. You can really tell he enjoys teaching during his lectures. They can be a little confusing at times as he does derive unnecessary formulas at times, but in my opinion, they are only meant to be an introduction to a topic that can be further clarified by looking through the textbook and going to discussion. He also posted lectures notes at the end of each week in case you wanted to review something talked about in class. He applied very generous curves to most of our exams despite his syllabus stating he would only curve at the end of the semester because he truly just wants his students to succeed. My TA for this class also extremely helped (cleared up so many different topics). At the end of the day, Eoin is a very good professor to take for MATH141, but just because of this you cannot expect to go into this class without some self-studying and dedication to the class.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Anonymous
05/11/2023

Do not take this professor. Goes over theory 90% of lecture time. instead of practice problems. Insanely hard midterms, had some of the lowest averages this semester (Spring 23) for his midterms. Most things I learned were through self-study. Only gets 2 stars because of promised curve.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/11/2023

Conway is a great professor who teaches math the way it's actually supposed to be taught. At times he made me forget the reputation Calc 2 has at this school. He doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to teaching topics and not only clearly explains what it is we are learning but actually goes over examples problems and how to solve them. Homework was never too hard and the exams were also pretty similar to the practice exams so I would highly advise doing those. Contrary to most people's experience, my one gripe with the class was my TA, who was overall pretty unhelpful. Even for review discussion he would be super stingy about helping you solve questions despite my being pretty obvious about not having a clue how to solve the problem. Even with a bad TA discussions aren't too bad if people in your section work together or you press the TA hard enough. Not sure if he does curves or not as the semester isn't over yet, but you do get your lowest 3 discussions and homeworks dropped, and your lowest exam gets dropped by half. Definitely a fair class by normal standards and probably one of the easier ones by UMD Calc 2 standards.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/11/2023

Good guy but dam does he does not curve enough, compared to other sections I would have had a A- minimum, the class is designed to be impossible but he tried his best. His lectures were not great(just reading from textbook), but his office hours were good

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/11/2023

From hearing from other professors, Fernandes seems to be the best option available and I would generally agree with this. He records lectures and posts his lecture work for every single one which is very nice. I had Mackall for 140 and Fernandes was a major improvement for me and I'm glad I switched. He is just overall better and more accommodating professor. I actually didn't feel like Fernandes was actively out to make me fail his class which is different than the other professors. I'll discuss the content of the course now. Fernandes has weekly worksheets (that he made himself) that are due every Friday that generally take some time to do but aren't impossible like Mackall's worksheets that have to be done by the end of the discussion. This leaves the discussion either to be your TA actually teach the content of the course or just go over the worksheet answers for you so your mileage may vary. The grade distribution for this semester was: Webassign 15%, Worksheets 25%, Mid-term Exam 35%, Final Exam 25% Fernandes exams are very similar between years so all of his practice/previous exams will give you a GREAT idea of what will be on the exam. Honestly just overall, Fernandes gives you the resources to succeed if you try hard enough. No matter what professor you get, you will struggle in the class so in my opinion Fernades is your best way to succeed in the course

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/10/2023

After having Prof. Chadwick for Math 140 and 141, I can say he is a very solid professor. He comes off as a bit of a strange guy but can be funny at times and is willing to engage with students outside of class. I like the structure of his class the most because despite learning whole sections in a day(which every teacher does), he manages to make it feel slower-paced because of his steady rate when he speaks and writes. If you're in a room with multiple boards, he'll write from left to right allowing students ample time to write all the notes from the board. He uses plenty of examples and explains overarching concepts and theorems in sufficient detail(not much different from the textbook). Some people might say he is a worse teacher in 141, but truthfully it's the content of the course itself and sometimes there's no better way to explain a topic which means some topics are learned better eventually through practice and application.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/08/2023

TAKE HIM HES LITERALLY MY FATHER, he literally made the class so easy Grade distribution was fire: Worksheets: 25% WebAssign: 15% Exams: 35% Final Exam: 25% 4 Midterms and 1 Final Lowest midterm grade replaced with your final exam grade if you did better percentage wise.

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/08/2023

BEST TA. Literally nothing else. He is so clear with his explanations, wants you to understand the math rather than just memorize. Emails are superb when you ask HW questions, and office hours are basically extended discussion because he will stay with you for however long so you can understand the work. He is passionate about math and it shows, and he wants every student to succeed. Also, he clutches you for quizes by basically guiding you while taking it, but still allowing you to do it yourself. Loophole. 100% recommend him

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/08/2023

I took calc1 and calc2 with Tim and got an A both times without any prior experience with Calc/pre-Calc in High School. Tim has pre-recorded lectures from covid which are helpful when you don't want to go to lecture. The lecture themselves follow a format where he starts with theory and follows with example problems. The slides he provides are outdated and the actual lecture is like listening to a audiobook, however take good notes and you'll be able to somewhat understand the content. Tims exams are fair 80% of the time and he will always drop your lowest exam by 50% and does not do minus grades. This semester he curved the grade cutoffs by 2%. Overall, Tim is a decent professor and does not deserve all the hate he gets on his reviews. There are better first choices but don't be stressed if you get stuck with him. No one is stopping you from going to another lecture if you don't like how he teaches. Put in the extra work like actually doing the homework, going to GSS, exam review sessions, and group study sessions and you can get the grade you want. Your grade is reflected on how much time/effort you put in, not how good your professor is. Tim does not like electronic scooters.

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Anonymous
05/08/2023

Do not take this dude. He spends most of the class going over theory, with little practice problems. I literally had to teach myself the content most of the semester, didn't even bother going to class most of the time.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
05/05/2023

A lot has already been written about this professor so I will keep my review brief. - Terrible lecturer, could not explain anything and just made thing confusing so I basically stopped going to lectures - If you have a good TA they will carry you and your grade. I had Dominic and he was amazing, he explained the concepts incredibly well and he is the main reason I learned anything in the first place. - The midterms were pretty fair but the averages were incredibly low (think in the 50s and 60s) - Dropped the lowest midterm - Final exam average was also abysmal - There was a MASSIVE curve because without it like half the class would have failed In terms of the actual class, it is definitely manageable if you go to discussion and if you teach yourself a lot of the concepts straight from the textbook or watch YT videos/Khan Academy. Not a fun class at all but if you try hard then it will pay off. If I had put in more effort I definitely could have finished with a B or better, so just do your best and it will pay off.

Dominic Flocco
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/05/2023

Dominic was a super nice guy and definitely the best TA I have had in college by far. He always took the time to explain concepts to us from the beginning to the end and help everyone understand them in a simple way. Every discussion section he would do a recap of the previous lecture in a very concise manner so that we would be able to understand all the necessary information needed for the particular section. He always made himself available to help us understand concepts so that we would be as successful as possible. 10/10 TA and made this class easy to succeed in, make sure you take him if you get the chance!

James Conway
MATH141

nalomar
05/04/2023

One of the best Math professors I have had at UMD. Responds instantly to emails. He goes at the perfect pace in classes. All lectures are recorded and posted. Exams are very fair.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/04/2023

Lectures are recorded and his style of teaching is very nice. He responds to emails fairly quickly which is another plus. As long as you know the content he's teaching the exams are pretty fair. Would recommend you take him if you ever have the chance to.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/03/2023

His lectures were pretty average and didn't always leave you feeling fully prepared, but he did give PDFs of his lecture notes and recordings of his lectures. The quizzes were out of a set list of textbook problems, which made them basically free points. The exams were somewhat challenging, but the class had a generous curve which helped significantly.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/03/2023

haticeGOAT absolutely W teacher with a W syllabus and W lecture I definitely learned so much in this class. 100% recommend, especially for you math240 people trying to waitlist in other teachers rn. You should take hatice. Get off the math240 waitlist bruh.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/02/2023

Dr. Fernandes is definitely one of the better calc 2 professors to take from what I've heard, but definitely would not take him again. I took Chadwick first semester and Fernandes second, so here is my comparison of the two: Overall, I learned a lot more from Chadwick than I did with Fernandes, and his teaching style worked a lot better for me. Chadwick writes on the chalkboard and goes over everything you need for every homework and classwork assignment. Fernandes, on the other hand, writes on his ipad and scrolls immediately when he is writing notes on the board, making it really hard to follow and write in time. Chadwick's exams are decently hard (I averaged an 87 for all 4) and Fernandes' exams were easier at first, but the last exam was very hard and was a curveball to all of us (the average for the class was a 68). The first 3 exams for Fernandes were extremely similar to the practice exam, so if you study the practice exam, you're good. Fernandes does teach too much theory in my opinion and misses the important stuff a lot. If you don't have a good TA, don't even bother taking Fernandes. My TA carried us this semester and I also found myself reading the textbook, watching videos, and attending office hours weekly. Fernandes consistently shows up late to class, and he never gets through everything we need for the homework that night, leaving us to fend for ourselves. At first, he was fine, but the second we got to more difficult material he would get confused or say our TAs are gonna teach us--but keep in mind we also had to do a worksheet during discussion so we don't have time for our TAs to lecture. The one thing I like more about Fernandes is that worksheets are due friday night, so there's less pressure to turn them in at the end of discussion. Finally, Fernandes does not offer a curve on exams at all, he does not even drop the lowest exam to half, so you really have to self study for this class. He considers an A+ anything over a 99, so you also have to score extremely high for that. All in all, do everything that you can to take Dr. Chadwick. He is a great professor and explains concepts really well. Definitely do not take Fernandes unless you have to.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/02/2023

The pre-recorded lectures were such a life savior this semester. I did not go to a single lecture in person unless it was an exam which I found very beneficial in this class. His in person lectures are way too fast but having the lecture videos and being able to pause and re-watch while studying for exams was very helpful. However, you cannot fully depend on his lecture videos. I found myself having to go to the textbook and look up videos on certain topics. I strongly recommend Pilachowski for the sole purpose of his non mandatory lectures.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B
FozzyBear1
05/01/2023

For the disaster of a class that is Math 141, Fernandes is probably your best bet. A lot of my problems with him probably come from the fact that Calc 2 is an artificially hard weed-out class that is designed specifically to destroy the soul of the students taking it. Fernandes however, turned the rat poison that is Math 141 into Coors light. It still tastes like shit, but at least it won't kill you. The lectures started out well. Even though they focused heavily on theory (35 minutes of theory to maybe 10 minutes of examples), I felt like they were effective in helping me succeed on the problems we did in the discussion and the exam. However, Chapter 8 (Integration Techniques) and ESPECIALLY Chapter 9 (Series) were a nightmare. We fell behind quickly in lecture, leading us to focus almost entirely on complex theory with no time for examples. In fact, we didn't even cover in the lecture how to find the roots of a complex number, something that ended up being worth ~10% of our grade for Exam 4. This meant that our poor TAs had to teach us how to do all the practice problems. Luckily, despite the mess that was the lectures, the tests were incredibly easy because they were literally just copy-pasted from the already fairly easy practice exam he gave us to study. This caused the test averages for all of the tests to float around the 80% mark, which is great considering the averages for all the other professors floated around 60-65%. I looked at Pilachowski's Exam 4 and it looked WAY harder than what was on our test. He also is a really nice guy. Despite the class having 200 people in it, he would make an effort before every lecture to ask us all how we are doing. Overall, Fernandes is awesome if you just want to get a good grade in Math141. If you actually want to learn the content well from lectures, however, Chadwick would be better for you (although his tests are WAY harder so I'm not sure that trade-off is worth it). I'm giving him 4 stars because my grade is better than it would be with other professors, and I believe that most of my complaints come from the design of the course itself.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/29/2023

Conway is a great professor honestly, he responds very fast to emails and tries his best to answer questions during OH. Lectures are recorded so you don't have to show up to class, but make sure you listen to the lecture recording rather than just writing what you see. His exams are easy enough if you do the practice exams because everything on the practice exams that he posts, will be tested on the actual exam so just study the concepts.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
04/28/2023

Tim does not teach, he reads off of slides. If you're anything like a normal person, you learn math when it is actually performed during lecture, not when it is an audiobook of the text. Studying alone and with others made this class bearable, but I would not wish having to take math with him on anyone else. Please choose a different professor for CALC II as this is difficult math and new material for those who did not take B/C in high school. Ishvak is the best TA, if you have discussion with him be grateful and ask him to explain concepts.

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Anonymous
04/27/2023

Absolutely fantastic guy. Really tries to get to know you and wants you to succeed. Always willing to answer any questions and help you with anything. I would trust him with my firstborn and also all of my other children.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
04/26/2023

Perfectly nice person, but a terrible lecturer. Little to no organization to what she was saying and what she was writing on the board. She would get completely off topic without telling anyone what was and was not something we needed to know for the class. She also had a tendency to start writing proofs without telling us what she was doing or even explaining what the proof was for at the end. If you've taken calc 2 before it is definitely possible to keep up with and learn from her lectures, but if you haven't, you'll have to really rely on the textbook and your TA

Eoin Mackall
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
04/26/2023

He only gets 3 stars because of his curve. His exams are much harder than any other professor, so if you rather rely on yourself instead of some curve he decides based on how he is feeling in the moment, then take a different professor. A lotttttt of self study is needed. Personally, I'd only go to the lecture on the Wednesday before exams. Study homework problems, study textbook problems. Use professor leonard on youtube to learn all the topics instead. Much more in depth.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
04/18/2023

Absolutely terrible. Writes complete nonsense on the board and writes at the speed of light so its impossible to keep up. Also difficult to understand her

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/06/2023

Personality wise, he's a very nice professor and is open to answering questions which stay relevant to what was covered. Teaching wise, Fernandes' lectures more so focus on the theory of whatever lesson or chapter you are on, rather than explaining the process or concept then going into loads of examples. To compensate for this, the class is structured so that you MUST attend every discussion session to go over the worksheets; those are your key to passing this class, as they are filled with example problems. No quizzes, just graded worksheets, WebAssigns, and exams. Exams are extremely fair as the average for the last 3 exams have all been above 80s (about a 3 point curve for each one, except for the latest one we took we got a 6 point curve), so just do the sample exams which are given through ELMS and REVIEW THE WORKSHEETS. Fernandes also records all lectures, which is an added bonus. Luckily, I got an awesome TA (shoutout to Mengting Chao!), but depending on what TA you get it will either make or break this course. Just don't get caught up too much in the theory, and focus more on what's covered in discussion and you'll be good to go. Good luck.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
03/29/2023

She's not great but I think she gets an overly harsh rep. In the first three units she is decent, but in the last it kind of feels like she drops the ball and doesn't explain the taylor series stuff well at all (mostly relies on textbook ie proof based explanations, which in theory is helpful but in reality is exceptionally difficult to understand, and she doesn't really contextualize it for what a normal college student could grasp). This becomes really bad due to her tendency to mismanage class time and do all the complicated stuff in the last 10-15 minutes. HOWEVER, she is very very nice AND her mismanagement of class time is because she answers questions VERY thoroughly (this is nice but can be problematic because some kids in the class clearly havent taken calc in 3 years and are behind, and i wish her answer would have just been "go to my office hours" and then continue with her lecture, but instead she really tries to help them by re-explaining calc 1 concepts; again, kind of her, but problematic bc we run out of time for the actual class content) ALSO, her class is literally graded on a curve, which is pretty redeeming. Not a great teacher, but like, if everyone is confused then everyone is on an equal playing field, and its not like everyone will just get a B. ALSO, she gives way more time for homework than all other professors, like, instead of making it due the night of the lecture she gives you the entire next day as well, which is nice because of the flexibility. IN SUMMARY, you can coast through the first two units, third she teaches well enough but you need to practice, and for the fourth i would look to khan academy or something similar. She's a really nice professor, with pretty easy exams (not technically relevant bc graded on a curve) BUT it means students who are struggling a bit can still do well, and I think she gets a disproportionately bad rep because when she gets really bad is RIGHT AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, which means that people remember that when writing their reviews and nothing else.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
03/10/2023

Not a good prof. Has good intentions, but his exams were extremly unfair and irrelevant to his lectures. Decent curve, but won't really answer questions that well, leaving you more confused.

James Conway
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/08/2023

Amazing professor! Really good at explaining stuff and his exams are easy too.

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/04/2023

Really good TA for MATH 141. He held exam review sessions which are really helpful because students were able to ask questions and review common exam problems. He is really great at teaching and reviewing the lectures the professor had taught the day before.

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/04/2023

Really good TA for MATH141. He held review sessions before exams which is really helpful since he goes over problems that are commonly seen on exams. He also review over the lectures that the professor had lectured about the day before.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C
brooke957
02/28/2023

Please do not take this professor if given ANY other option. I took his Calculus II class and it genuinely ruined me. I have always been a fantastic math student, consistently earning A's in every level I've taken. This professor took it upon himself to taint my record. He has awful handwriting on the screen, so much so I'd have to ask my friends what he wrote and even they wouldn't know what it was. His exams were unnecessarily hard; he even put one question on the exam that ended up being unsolvable (oh yeah, he doesn't check his exams and makes them the night before) and the students with that version of the exam had to spend extra time outside of class to retest. I will say he is a very kind guy, and makes the occasional joke, but he cannot teach.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a B
akl2025
02/20/2023

I took him in Spring 2022, and he isn't as horrible as most students think. Pros (great resources): online lecture videos, notes, grading policy, reviews, etc. Cons: his in-person teaching style. As long as you study diligently, you will pass the class!

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/08/2023

Good professor, it can be hard to understand the course at times, but he is helpful during office hours and his TAs are knowledgeable as well. His notes are all posted on canvas and once you get used to his handwriting, they help understand the material. The only minuscule problem I have with him is that he does not clarify when he is deriving a formula, whereas for the class you only need to know the end result. His teaching style is different but enjoyable.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/08/2023

Amazing professor!! Got an A -- most definitely not an easy A, but still an A

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/03/2023

An amazing TA, he has helped me so much throughout calculus and I would not be nearly as confident or successful without his assistance. He is incredibly accessible and will always answer your questions, and he never makes you feel stupid for not knowing something. I wish I could take him for more classes! If you can, take his section, he is wonderful.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/02/2023

Professor Pincus was a great calc 2 teacher. He gave practice exams that closely resembled the actual exam. He taught the concepts clearly with tons of examples and was extremely helpful when you went to office hours. To do well on the weekly quizzes, you have to do suggested textbook problems because they are very similar to the quiz questions (some questions were copied directly from the textbook). None of the 4 exams were curved but he curved the final grade to make up for it. I would take one of Professor Pincus' classes again

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Vashin
01/23/2023

I was gonna write a really long grating review about Amin, but one of the people below me covered it pretty well. I'll rehash the main points and add a few things. Gholampour's a nice guy, but he's a terrible lecturer. After the first exam, I stopped going to lectures simply because they were making the class more difficult than it was by just learning the material in other ways. The TAs, as mentioned, are generally excellent. What I will say is often one TA will be better than others, so try and find the best one by trying out their various office hours. Gholampour's exams are completely brutal, averages were quite low (low 60s, a 75, and a 33), with the final exam average being a 48. When our fourth exam average was a 33, I went to a lecture with the purpose of mentioning my thoughts to him, so I talked to him after that lecture about my thoughts and he was completely unsympathetic to the idea that this somehow reflected on either his teaching ability or his ability to write exams. As for my advice for passing this class: watch Organic Chemistry Tutor videos on the topics, and follow along in your notes. Don't just watch it and assume you understand, genuinely walk through them with him. If you're taking it in a semester where GSS is offered for the course, go to GSS. And go to Keystone. It's not a well-known program, so it was generally 1 on 1 tutoring, although with the publication of this review it may get more traffic. Amin's curving policy was ridiculous, and in my opinion gave far too much leeway for people who slacked off, rather than reward those who worked hard (second lowest exam was replaced by your homework grade, which was basically a free A on an exam for everyone, regardless of how well students scored on their second lowest). Additionally, lowest was dropped, and specific exams were curved (albeit not the final). At the end of the day, what matters is your grade and not anyone else's, and because I got an A-, I am satisfied enough. But I wish Amin structured this course far better. I would recommend taking another professor if possible.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Ovrthegrdnwll
01/18/2023

I honestly think a lot of the problem with this course was that lectures weren't long enough. 50 minutes was not enough time to cover the topics we were learning, and class would often end before Gholampour was finished teaching what he had planned. He's a really nice guy and is clearly trying, but it's incredibly difficult to effectively teach 2-300 students in a giant lecture hall in 50-minute increments. For me, my TA carried the class. Dominic Flocco made every topic understandable and he was a really nice guy who also wanted us to succeed. This class was very difficult, and I'm speaking as someone who already knew the material from having taken AP Calc (Exam grade didn't transfer). However, Gholampour added multiple grade-saving curves/grade adjustments at the end of the semester, so most people passed even if they weren't doing well.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/02/2023

Hussain Ibdah is a decent professor. Not a great lecturer, but a nice and pleasant guy. Handwriting is rather terrible, but you can figure out what's written in the end. His thought process throughout the lecture can sometimes be hard to follow, but in that case you can just ask a question or request to clarify something, and he always takes time and thoroughly explains anything that's unclear. He posts his notes and the subject of the lectures online. Attendance isn't mandatory, and you can just grasp the material from reading his notes and/or the corresponding chapter in the book. Exams were moderately difficult, quizzes were okay. The curve in the end was pretty nice. If you're not used to such teaching style, you may find taking this class with Dr. Ibdah to be difficult. Otherwise, personally, it was a pretty chill class, not requiring too much time or effort.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/29/2022

Took Calc 2 with Tim in Spring 2022. The guy is extremely rude when you email him for administrative issues (of which are his fault) or questions regarding concepts. Mans goes off of a 20-year old power point that's EXTREMELY vague and has never picked up a pencil to show us some examples. You will not learn JACK in his class, and will definitely have to spend hours watching Youtube videos/going off of the textbook. I would like to thank myself for excelling on the final. TAs were absolute legends.. shoutout to Joe! One thing I gotta give him credit is his generous grading system with having no +/- grades -- strictly A, B, C, etc..

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/28/2022

Dr. Ibdah is an okay professor to take for MATH 141. As other reviews have stated his handwriting is bad and he lectures fast, but after 1 or 2 lectures you get used to it so its not that bad. He is very nice, accommodating, and willing to answer questions. Personally I enjoyed his teaching style where he derived a formula or idea and then went through examples. Through this I felt like I developed better critical thinking skills. However, I will warn you that you need to really pay attention in lecture because the material is hard in the first place. He does post his notes online which were a life saver. Exams were difficult and not similar to practice exams, however he did curve at the end of the class. If you take Dr. Ibdah I recommend studying a lot from the book as he said he pulled concepts similar to problems from the textbook. Regarding the other reviews- most of the people who took the course this semester were freshmen and are complaining about many things including his teaching style, assignments, and handwriting. Honestly, Dr. Ibdah is just your average college professor and freshmen are not used to being "spoon fed" answers- thus why many people harp on his teaching style. Intro courses have a lot of assignments that's just a fact of life. I have never seen Calc 2 material before and studied a lot for this course, so do not be wary of taking him if you have not seen the material before.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/28/2022

While I did end up doing well in the course, it was less because I was able to understand and master the content and more because of Amin's insane curve (My grade went from a c+ to a-). I feel like most of these reviews are a little misleading. He's a super nice guy, but let's not fool ourselves, his lectures were awful and exams were unfairly difficult. Luckily the TA's for this class were great- office hours is where I truly learned the course material. For anyone taking this course in the future, that would be my strongest recommendation for this course. DON'T SKIP DISCUSSIONS AND GO TO OFFICE HOURS. Also, as a lot of these reviews mention, Amin is a super compassionate and caring guy and makes himself available for office hours pretty much everyday, so if you have any questions you could also go to him. I never went to his office hours, but some kid in our class group me explained how he met with Amin everyday with questions and did very well in course. Any way, this is a hard course and one that easy to fall behind in, so stay on top of your work!

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/25/2022

Curved my D+ (68) to a B-! Exams are a little tricky, but quizzes are fair because they come straight from the given textbook problems. Lectures are a little hard to follow, but he posts hand-written notes and posts the lectures online. As long as you practice and do your best, you should be alright. Math141 is not an easy class but with Amin, you’re nearly guaranteed to pass!

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/25/2022

Calc II is an undeniably challenging course, but it was made easier by Amin. His lecture goes fairly fast, but Calc II is a hard and fast-paced class, so there’s really no way around it. That being said, he replies to emails extremely quickly and does office hours by request throughout the day and even at night till 9 pm. And he truly is an amazing teacher, so there’s no way you’ll leave OH confused. I emailed him about OH at 8:13 pm and ended up meeting with him at 8:30 pm. When I asked him how he was so dedicated, he told me that he truly loves math. His passion for the subject matter undeniably makes this challenging class manageable. For my Fall 2022 class, he curved 3 out of the 4 tests and the final (10%, 10%, 0%, 25%, 10%). He dropped the lowest test and the lowest quiz. He had 5 attempts per WebAssign and also curved your overall grade as well. He also had two other grading policies that are a little too complicated to explain here but should increase your grade by ~2%. He’s an amazing lecturer, an approachable instructor, a kind person, and undeniably one of the UMD math department’s best professors.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/24/2022

Good calc teacher with fair exams and preps students well with practice exercises and practice exams.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/22/2022

I was fooled by these reviews into taking Amin for Calc 2. I, and many of my classmates, found the lectures to be very hard to follow because he makes too many leaps and expects everyone to follow, even though we are very unfamiliar with the material. The weekly quizzes were essentially homework checks composed of two problems selected from the recommended homework. The quizzes were pretty helpful in forcing you to do the homework, which forced you to maintain some level of competency in the class. Other than that, the tests were pretty hard, beyond a level that you can express your true knowledge of the topics, and the WebAssigns were a little too niche and overly complicated. The curve on the class was massive but it was more to address the fact that many of us had not been properly taught Calc 2 and performed poorly as a result. He's a sweet guy who means well but I think this class sucked a lot more than it needed to.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/22/2022

Lectures are great, he records them and posts his notes too. Sometimes lectures were a little fast but it's fine, lots to get through. Textbook is good resource. If you want more on proofs go to office hours. Four midterms (3 curved for me) and a final (curved). Gives EC for finding lecture mistakes. Overall great professor, caring, definitely take Amin!

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/19/2022

I'll say this flat, she isn't a good professor but has fairly simple exams when compared to other professors. Her grading is based off of class rank (the top 30% get As, 30%-70% get Bs, and below 70% get C or lower). Also, the TA's will carry you throughout the semester and I would recommend skipping the lectures since she just rambles on about useless information and only covers things in the last couple of minutes of class. Personally, I think she is the best professor for calc 2 only because she drops some of the lowest hws and quizzes (they are given weakly) and the exams aren't too difficult (averages were around 75% for first 2 and 65% for last 2).

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/19/2022

Amin is the best choice for Math 141. Exams are insanely hard but quizzes are super easy. Curve is insane my 66 is a B- just don’t slack off and do the practice problems he assigns and you’ll be good. Hes an Ok lecturer but he’s a great tutor during office hours

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2022

He went through content fast and his writing was sloppy but he was a goofy dude who made class fun most of the time.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2022

Dr. Gholampour is a decent lecturer, but amazing grader. His way of lecturing may not work for everyone (which was to go through example problems of the topic at hand) but I felt it worked out for me, especially because I tried to do the WebAssign practice problems a day or two before he would go over the topic in lecture. MATH141 can be very difficult, but with Dr. Gholampour, the experience can be rewarding if you are willing to put in the work doing the homeworks on pace with his lectures and the practice problems in the book he gives (which are very similar, if not the same, as the questions you'll see in quizzes). If you do fall behind on the homeworks, you don't need to worry, as all of them are due at the end of the semester. If you fall behind on the actual material, you can always go to his office hours or meet with the TAs, who are very helpful in discussion and in exam preparation. His exams were definitely challenging, and when I talked to those with other professors, they had easier questions. However, he curves a lot (to the point where you can go into the final with more than a 100% in the class), and the final is also curved (even though it is pretty challenging. Your lowest exam is dropped, and your lowest quiz is dropped, which in the end allows you to actually focus on learning the material instead of stressing about your grade.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/17/2022

Hands down the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Lectures are 50 minutes of nonsensical rambling and incomprehensible scribbles on the chalkboard. Wish my TA taught the class ngl. Nice lady but man I did not learn a single thing from her.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/17/2022

I think Hussain is a nice guy, but I would not recommend taking this course with him. The best way to describe his teaching is by using his own words, from an email he sent to our class after the final: "I apologize if my unorthodox teaching methods didn’t resonate with you. When teaching freshmen level courses, I always try to transition you guys from the “spoon feeding” and “recipe learning” techniques used in high school to becoming independent learners who understand, and not memorize the concepts. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don’t, but I strongly believe this is the way it is supposed to be: part of your college education is not only to learn new material, but also to become independent thinkers." If you want to understand the material, please take any other professor. The only way I managed to pass was by learning everything on youtube.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Anonymous
12/17/2022

Hussain is a really nice person and he actively tried his best to help students in what ever way he could. However, as a professor, his lectures were down right horrendous. He would make simple concepts completely confusing and much harder than they had to be. His exams were absolutely unreasonable and unfair, being completely unrelated to what we did in class. His handwriting is poor, and the class downright sucked. I feel that some of this is the class itself and not directly his fault, but Hussain could and should have done a much better job teaching. Unless he's your only option, do not take a class with him.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/17/2022

This dude is an absolute clown. All of the negatives from below sum up his teaching style fairly well. The TA's this semester were great and carried most students. I will say the curve at the end of the year was more than generous. I do not recommend taking him if you want a deep understanding of the course material. A+: 95.5 and above A: 88.7-95.49 A-: 87.4-88.69 B+: 80.2-87.39 B: 75.41-80.19 B-: 72.70-75.40 C+: 69-72.69 C: 61.4-68.99 C-: 58-61.39 D: 51-57.99 F: Less than 50

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/16/2022

Taking MATH141 is absolutely never a fun experience. Being one of the hardest lower-level math weedouts with a significantly high fail rate made me extremely nervous to take this course. I was never good at calculus, so my stress levels were at its peak while taking this course. However, Amin made this experience worth it in the end- his lectures definitely were not my preferred style of learning but he is by no means a bad lecturer. He is always happy to answer questions before and after lecture, and during office hours. He also gives bonus points to those who catch his mistakes during class. He also records each lecture and posts notes every day (though the quality of the recordings are subpar, they can prove useful sometimes.) His class is formatted in a very straightforward way- there is a weekly quiz that will only feature examples directly taken from the textbook. As long as you study the textbook problems given, you will absolutely get 100%s on all your quizzes. These quiz problems also help you a lot for the midterms. I would say Amin’s midterms are significantly harder than other professors midterms- but FEAR NOT! While the exam averages were quite low, the curves given were insane (10%, 10%, 0%, 25% respectively). He also drops the lowest midterm score and the lowest quiz. This offered a massive cushion to those struggling in the course. As long as you do around or above the average, there is no fear of passing. Amin also offered a system where if you are still failing the course, if you do well on the final the final grade can replace your course grade- so hypothetically if you get a C- or above on your final you have a chance at success. All homework was due at the end of the semester, although I would highly recommend doing the homeworks as you do the units covered in class for maximum success in this course. Overall, I am extremely glad to have taken Amin for MATH141. If you are a student debating whether or not to take him: TAKE HIM! I cannot stress this enough. He might be an angel from heaven.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/16/2022

Awesome professor, he is kind and genuinely tries to help his students. Make sure to keep up with your homework so you don't have to do it all in one day lol. Textbook problems are highly recommended as they are basically what is on the exams and quizzes. It may be a bit difficult to follow lectures if your knowledge of calculus 1 is little (things you should know are unit circle, derivatives, limits, some basic trig identities like sin^2 + cos^2 = 1, etc.).

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/15/2022

Please avoid her if you can. I'm only getting an A- because I have previous experience with some of the material. Hatice is often incomprehensible and awful at doing practice problems on the whiteboard. My TA does a much better job at teaching, and even my TA acknowledges that Hatice is an incredibly incompetent professor.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/15/2022

There is a reason why he is highly rated compared to other professors. Where to begin? First off he drops one of his exams and exams are 50% of the grade so you only need to do good in three tests, there are other professors who don’t drop exams. He also makes his quizzes based on the book problems what that means is the same problems in the book are the same problems that will be asked on the quiz. So really it’s almost impossible not to get 100% on quizzes easy 12.5% right there. Homework is hard but you can google or use a calculator if you want or ask him for help more on that later so another easy 12.5%. His exams are harder than usual which prepares you for the final and because they are harder he usually curves and oh boy the curve is CRAZY he curved the class like 4 times. He isn't your enemy he is on your side I joined the class late and got a crappy low quiz score the TA wouldn't drop it so I talked to the professor and he dropped it without any question. He is an okay average lecturer if you are excepting him to magically teach you everything in 50 minutes he can't do that no other professor can but his lectures are way better than some of the other choices if you think he’s bad go watch the other professors lectures you’ll miss him. He follows and explains the book and answers any questions pretty typically stuff. What makes him probably one the best math teachers and a 5-star teacher, in general, are his office hours. The way he runs office hours is like a free tutoring session he is an amazing teacher one on one. All you gotta do is ask him when is he available for office hours then you’re set to ask him any questions he always helped me with my homework daily because there are some people who thought he was just “another bad professor” and never bothered asking him for office hours there mistake. Trigonometric substitution, partial integration, and series you name it all complicated topics that I didn't understand at all but in 30 minutes I learned it easily because of his office hours. 100% take him. Also, he makes all his homework due at the end of the semester and drops the lowest homework and quiz so that's neat.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/15/2022

He's a pretty good professor and the class grade is distributed fairly. He goes over the concepts and examples during class. The practice exams are basically the same as the exams with different numbers. Just make sure to do the practice exams and know it all before the exam. Webassign is basically free points. The worksheets are graded pretty harshly so I recommend checking all your work and doing it thoroughly before submitting them. There is a curve for this class so don't worry too much about your grade. I heard most of the other professors for MATH141 are bad so I recommend taking his class if you have the opportunity.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
12/14/2022

THIS TEACHER IS THE WORST FOR MATH141 DO NOT TAKE HER. Ok so let me start out by saying that the lectures did not help me understand any of the material AT ALL. My TA, who held discussions on two of the days did a superb job of explaining topics to me, however it was not enough. The lectures were just a waste of time and I would write notes that would not make sense to me at all. If you are trying to take this course, I highly advise not taking this teacher.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/14/2022

Amin has been a fantastic lecturer and provides more than enough information to succeed in this class. He is a very nice person and is very fair when grading. While his tests are difficult, he curves nicely and they help to prepare you for the final exam. He also has weekly quizzes on problems given in the textbooks, which makes it very easy to get 100's on them. They also help to reinforce the understanding of these topics by making you do some extra practice. This has been a great class and I would highly recommend him to anyone taking this difficult class!

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/13/2022

Amin is quite possibly the greatest professor you could take for MATH141. He explains concepts extremely well, and answers a lot of questions during lectures. The TAs he chooses are really good at covering what he does in lectures in a little more depth, as well as general doubt clearance. He provides you with a list of practice problems which help you cover most, if not all of the major concepts that will be tested. These practice problems are also used for the quizzes, so if you are thorough with the problems there is no reason for you to lose any points on the quiz. His curves are also extremely generous, and he makes changes to his grading policy in order to bring up the class average if he sees that the class is not doing so well. All the homeworks being due at the end of the semester also mean that you can do things at your own pace, which I really liked about the class.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Anonymous
12/09/2022

He is an amazing professor. He handles the content extremely well and he picks the best TAs to help the students. The TAs that he picks are willing to go above and beyond for their students. He is also very understanding and compassionate with the students. He will recognize the effort that students are willing to put into his class and rewards them for how much effort they put in instead of just simply their scores. Thank you, Amin!

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
vlelchuk
12/09/2022

I took MATH141 last semester and I had Tod Rowland. Rowland is very clearly smart, but his lectures were impossible to follow and he was very absent minded. He is a really nice and accommodating person. Unfortunately, his lectures did it for me. I couldn't follow through the second half of the year. I ended the semester with a C- and I needed a B-. I retook 141 with Amin and I have a 93 right now. Yes I am retaking the class, but he is one of the best 141 lecturers. He does not give any discussion worksheets and instead gives weekly quizzes (lowest is dropped) and the questions come straight from the textbook, meaning you can get 100s every week with little effort. His homeworks are ALL due on the last day of the semester so no more staying up until 4 in the morning on mondays and wedensdays for WebAssign, and lastly his tests were very hard but he curves very very well. Currently he is curving the first 2 tests 10 points, the 3rd one 0 points and the 4th one 25 points, in addition to that the final is being curved and it seems he is going to lower the letter grade cutoff as well. Will likely end the semester with an A+, please please take Amin actual goat.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/08/2022

I recently had the pleasure of taking Calculus 2 with Professor Pincus and it was an exceptional experience. Professor Pincus is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about the subject, and it shows in the way that he teaches the material. He is able to explain complex concepts in a way that is clear and easy to understand, and he is always willing to help if you have any questions. One of the things that I particularly appreciated about Professor Pincus is his dedication to his students. He is always available for office hours and is more than happy to help you if you need it. He has a great sense of humor and his enthusiasm for the subject makes the class enjoyable and engaging. Overall, I would highly recommend Professor Pincus for anyone taking Calculus 2. He is an exceptional teacher and I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to learn from him.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/08/2022

The other reviews on this professor raise some suspicion. While he certainly isn't a bad professor by any means, he is far from the best calc teacher I have ever taken, and all of the other review for MATH141 coming on 11/07/22, I would question if this rating is genuine. To do well in this class, you have to do very solid the first 2 / 3 exams, as there are 4 midterms and a cumulative final. Luckily, the lowest exam gets drop! :D yippee! However, despite how great this sounds, exam 4 is the killer. With the HIGHEST score on exam 4 being a 70 last year, the average coming out to around a 50, exam 4 is always the one dropped. So, if you are able to keep your cool and get relatively high scores the first few exams, you'll be sitting pretty. I enjoyed Pincus, but I cannot in good faith give him 5 stars, simply for the large spike in difficulty that comes with exam 4. Pincus, if you read this, please stop teaching the hardest topic in the class in the week over Thanksgiving as a video. Explaining it in person, even if it was rushed, would likely largely improve the exam 4 scores, singlehandedly removing the one flaw I see in your teaching.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
12/07/2022

I'm so sorry, we wrote the last 5 5-star reviews(the ones on 11/07/2022) as a joke, but after the last exam average was in the 30s it wasn't funny anymore. Take this class if you want to self-learn the entire thing and have a mental breakdown. Horrible at explaining, ask him a question and he will freeze, ramble a half answer, and move forward. This class is 100% an avoid, the workload wasn't bad but you just don't learn from him, HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TEACH! Going to class is pointless, he's such a bad teacher, he spends the entire time going over proofs without actually teaching. The entire class stopped showing up and is watching youtube videos(Online chem tutor for the win), as going to class is a waste of time, and you won't learn the topics. Even people with Calc AB/BC couldn't follow his classes, his strategy is to read out loud the textbook but skip any explanations. I can't emphasize how bad he is at teaching, there are units where the entire class just didn't learn a topic. No curve, again we gave those 5-star reviews as a joke. DO NOT TAKE PINCUS. He's not a bad person or mean, but he doesn't know how to teach, we all had to self-learn the entire year and that made it hell.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/03/2022

This professor is unbelievably horrible. He literally acknowledged how terrible his handwriting is and basically just told us to deal with it. His written lecture notes are SO BAD, it's impossible to pick out what the actual necessary information to know is. He makes even simple concepts more convoluted, and my TA is basically the only reason I could make sense of the material. I used to enjoy calculus but this class ruined it for me. If you can avoid taking this class with him, I definitely would. It's not the end of the world, but it definitely will not be a good experience.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/01/2022

DO NOT TAKE HER! Some ppl might be smart but do not know how to teacher. My TA is a better teacher than her and that's the only reason I am surviving in class

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/30/2022

This professor does not teach well at all. He is fast-paced and will skip steps he "expects" you to know. If you ask a question, you are more likely to get more confused. He makes mistakes while doing problems, so when he corrects them, you are more likely to get confused. He does examples from the textbook and has no original contributions to the content. His tests are insanely hard for no reason, and sometimes on small details. He doesn't curve individual exams but says he will curve final averages and replace the lowest exam grade with the final exam grade. He does give partial points for problems like every professor but it really depends on his mood on how much each part is worth. There are quizzes every week except the week of an exam. There will be many homework assignments all due on the same date, so you pace yourself accordingly. Any questions about homework are told to be directed to the TAs. His handwriting is terrible (except when he writes on the blackboard (which he barely to never uses)), but he does post all his notes in case you missed class. The class started out with all the seats filled and by the end of the year, it was down to 1/4 of the class attending. I taught myself most of the content. The TAs teach more than he does. Seems like a good guy but can't teach. TAs are the only saving grace for this course. As far as I know, the people that did well in this class taught themselves everything. I don't know about other professors, but avoid him if you can.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/18/2022

This professor does not care if you actually understand the material or not. He moves way too quickly during lecture and completely overcomplicates everything. I mainly learn through Youtube videos and on campus tutors. Everybody in the class is always confused as he does not explain what he writes and skips over important steps he took in the problem. I took Calc II last year and I found the topics were way more simplistic when taught by another teacher. I have no idea how people are taking this class without being exposed to calculus II concepts. The exams are extremely difficult and he uses problems that are not similar to anything we have been exposed to in discussion, lectures, or homeworks. I do NOT recommend this professor. Save yourself.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/07/2022

This man is a saint, he is helpful and kind, and will give you extensions on the hw if you need them. He is thoughtful and doesn't care if you are on your phone in class, and will explain in depth the solutions and proofs. Would reccomend.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/07/2022

Really appreciate the hard work from Mr. Pincus! When attending office hours, he does not stop until he makes sure you understand the material and are prepared for the next units. He also is a really nice professor and understanding.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/07/2022

Actually the best teacher of all time. He is what is known as the GOAT. If you struggle in math, take his class, he does not move forward unless everyone understands the material and he is extremely clear when explaining problems. 10/10, would take his class again.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/07/2022

Super Helpful Professor. Probably the easiest A I've gotten in any math class. Like WOW. His notes are clear and concise and takes the step above for each of his students to succeed.

David Pincus
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/07/2022

Greatest professor of all time! Amazing teaching, makes sure you understand every concept before moving on. Lots of extra practice in-class. If you plan on taking 141 and you aren't taking Pincus, you are making a mistake.

Hussain Ibdah
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
10/18/2022

He is breaking new records -- from the bottom. I am beginning to seriously think that it might have been better to have just not taken the entire class in the first place, and waited for the next semester, instead of taking Calculus II (Math 141) with him. Not only can't he teach for nuts, he is completely unprofessional. He'll cancel office hours 20 minutes before they are slated to happen. Bombard you with emails, and then with more emails to correct the first round of emails, then even more emails stating that he got "confused" and that the first round of emails was originally correct. I just gave up going to lectures because it was completely impossible to understand anything he was saying. His handwriting, when on a blackboard, is actually readable. Fortunately for you, he will NEVER use the blackboard except in rare circumstances, instead always choosing to write on an iPad in the front of the class. Good luck trying to ready his digital handwriting. Truly should be fired. Completely incompetent. Suffer what you can before taking his class as a last resort. If you don't believe me, then you should check out the reviews he had at his last college on Rate my Professor: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor?tid=2429447

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a W
Anonymous
10/14/2022

This teacher is a pile of shit. Doesn't answer your questions in class. hardest exams in your life that you cannot complete in 50 minutes and his lectures are very, very fast. TAs are also complete and utter dogshit. Literally take any other professor for this dogshit class.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
10/13/2022

Her teaching is very fast and unorganized

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a W
Anonymous
09/15/2022

Stop believing the 5 star reviews he has been known for giving himself fake reviews to boost his average. Unless you dedicate 15+ hours a week or have years of previous calc experience he is not a good professor, he teaches off a 15 year old power point and has never picked up a marker and done an equation all semester. He has the highest D,F, and W rate among all popular calc teachers

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
09/13/2022

If you have ADHD/ADD like myself please for the love of god do anything you can to not take this class. the notes she writes on the board during lectures are so disorganized, they just look like the kind of work youd do for a homework problem where work isnt required to be turned in. because of this if you daze out or get distracted for even a moment you cant figure out whats happening at all by looking at the board. i tried so hard to pay attention in her class, and im even medicated, but its so frustrating when i daze out for 30 seconds and look back and i cant even tell what order she did her math work in. be prepared to completely self-teach any concepts if youre not good at following things. shes very nice and cares about her students but her lectures are not friendly to anyone, let alone people who have trouble keeping consistent *unwavering* attention on the board.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
08/18/2022

MATH141 was an easy A+ with Pilachowski. Strongly recommend taking this course with him.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
07/18/2022

Had an amazing time in MATH141 with him. The course felt rather easy with his grading scheme. Recommend taking him if the schedules match.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
07/03/2022

8 am was brutal, canvas never accurately reported the grade, and he gaffes wat too much on the problems. Skips all tje algebraic steps amd leaves you wondering wtf is happening. Webassign problems took up all day and the discussion assignments were irrelevant and not graded fairly.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/21/2022

Like everyone else says, Dr. Rowland is very nice and cares a lot for his students. He held review sessions on zoom the night before every exam which were nice, but like his lectures, were sometimes a bit all over the place. It felt like the way he lectured just simply did not work for the majority, if not all, of the class. He goes far too quickly through new material and brushes over largely important topics that leave you scratching your head at the WebAssigns wondering how some of the most important stuff was never covered. If you end up with Todd you will be okay for sure if you put in enough work, but it probably does require more outside studying than other professors. Similar to another review below, it feels like teaching calc 2 might not be his strong suit.

Josue Avila Artavia
MATH141

Anonymous
05/19/2022

Josue was a fantastic TA. He almost always knew how to solve any problem and break it into comprehensive steps, and his office hours taught me more than the actual lectures did.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/19/2022

Dr. Chadwick's class definitely improved from 140. His biggest flaw is that he still spends far too much time on the derivations of the formulas that you will need to memorize for his exams (which are unnecessary to know for a 100-level course). As a result, he often ran out of time when doing important examples but made an effort to answer questions. His exams also improved and closely mimicked the practice questions and exams that he sent out beforehand. As for the class itself, Chad was very transparent with all test, quiz, and hw due dates and never had any surprises. While his lectures could be improved, he's definitely the best of the 100-level calc profs.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/19/2022

Todd is a nice guy, and he is also pretty funny. However, the way he teaches did not help. It felt like he was reading off the slides. His lectures are confusing and boring. He teaches using Wolfram Alpha/Coding and doesn't really demonstrate the problems well. Overall, if you are good at teaching yourself the material, Todd is a must. (Also ESJ is a nice place to study)

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
05/19/2022

Todd Rowland is a nice guy and is accommodating and knows his math and stuff. Only problem is he is not really good at communicating his knowledge and actually teaching. Most of the time his lectures are all over the place, and it is really hard to understand what is going on most of the time. If you rely on a lecture teaching style, don’t take Rowland because you’ll end up needing to teach yourself the entire course. That being said, because he’s nice and accommodating it’s a little easier. Another thing, his tests are really hard at least as of spring 2022 I don’t know if it’s because the end of COVID or something but yea his tests were really really hard.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/18/2022

Dr. Chadwick is a fantastic person and lecturer. Exams are reflective of the lectures/readings. There are many horror stories of this class, but if you just focus and practice every day you will be fine. The sample exams help significantly.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/17/2022

If you want to do well in 141 and are willing the put in the work, then Pilachowski is your best bet. He provides lecture outlines for each class which are very detailed and helpful. I wrote on these notes for every class and it was very helpful to look back on when studying for tests and especially the final. Secondly, he also provides lecture videos which are just about the same as going to class. Taking advantage of the lecture outlines are the easiest and best way to do well in this class. If you are still struggling, he also provides additional textbook problems to help you understand concepts better. One of the things I liked most about Pilachowski teaching is that he points you in the exact place to go for help. When it came to 141 concepts that relied on information taught in 140 he points to the exact place in the textbook to go to if you need to review. He offers all the resources and material you would need to do well and it is clear that he cares about how well students do. This class is hard but if you put in the work for the class it is possible to do well and taking Pilachowski can give you a pretty fair shot at it.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Anonymous
05/17/2022

Todd is a funny and friendly professor. As many of the reviews below me state, it's pretty hard to learn from him. He tries to connect with students by learning names and stuff, but kindness does not give out knowledge. I went to every lecture and could not grasp the concepts in his lectures alone. Rather I had to find other outside resources to know what I was doing in class. For the good things, he has very nice curves and offers extra credit for your final grade (an extra 2% which seems not like a lot but is great for borderline grades). He halves an exam, drops 3 homework, 3 worksheets, and 3 "classwork" like weekly quizzes. He also does not do pluses or minuses and does only normal letter grades. Great for low percentages, bad for high. I would not recommend Todd to be your #1 choice, but if you happen to land in his class, be prepared to learn on your own and have to rely on curves for your grade. Good luck!

Jianlong Liu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/16/2022

I can understand why a lot of people disliked having Jianlong as a TA. If you don't go to him and ask him for help, he didn't really help you with the seemingly impossible worksheets that we were given in Calc 2. In addition to that, my lecturer, Todd Rowland, although a very nice guy, was horrible at lecturing, which made the worksheets even harder. Over time though, I realized that if I kept going up to him and asking for help, he did explain to me how to solve it, but he wanted us to try and think about it first, which for me personally, I found it very effective. I ended up learning a lot more in discussion than I did in lecture, which is why I appreciated Jianlong as a TA a lot more than others.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2022

Not gonna lie, I genuinely thing that the majority of bad reviews this guy gets in 141 are from people who never bothered to print out the lecture notes that he has on his website. Those lecture notes are REALLY detailed and help you keep track of the countless formulas and techniques that you will have to memorize through the course. The notes were a godsend for me since I am a terrible note taker. I cannot emphasize enough how helpful these lecture notes were in helping me do very well in the course. Seriously, this guy literally has a resource that will make the course significantly easier for you and yet so many people are too lazy to bother printing them out for use. To be honest he should emphasize the importance of his lecture notes more, since his lectures become much more easy to be followed when you have them with you. He is a good teacher, but if you want to make the most out of his course, for the love of god, USE THE LECTURE NOTES. Almost no one I knew in the class used them and I consistently performed far better than them.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/10/2022

His teaching style did not personally meet my learning style, and it seems that it did not meet others' styles as well. In his lectures, he basically just reads through examples and narrates what is happening. It becomes really unclear at times and I would've preferred if he worked out questions in front of us. For the entirety of the course, I pretty much had to learn everything via YouTube. His tests are not too bad, and there is a ton of partial credit to be earned.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/09/2022

Todd is a nice guy, and he does care about his students, but he should not teach calculus 2. His lectures are confusing and boring. He skips and adds material to the course randomly. He is unprepared for classes and spends about 15% of lecture time trying to remember what to teach us. Tests are quite difficult (not too difficult) and are very long. I cant in good faith give him one star, because he is kind and he does care. Based on other reviews of him, my guess is that calc 2 is just not his strong suit, which is fine, I would just stick to another professor for math141 if you can. If you do end up taking calc 2 with him, find resources outside of class to help you learn the material.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/05/2022

Make sure you have taken Calc 2 in high school prior to taking this class, unless you have a ton of time on your hands. I took this class in Fall 2021, and her teaching was not helpful. She is pretty disorganized and her lectures have little to no structure. The textbook for this class is pretty confusing, so having to rely on it was a pain since I did not gain much from lecture. I had taken this class in high school but college Calc 2 is drastically different- there was a lot more application to physics, especially in the first portion of the class, and the integrals were a lot harder. I got two Bs, a D, and an A on her midterms- they were not that hard, although it was difficult to know what to expect and her wording for questions is extremely poor. Her practice exams were also not that helpful, which we did not even receive until the last two exams. The worst part about Dr. Sahinoglu's teaching style is she did not prepare us at all for the final. The average was somewhere in the 40s, and I scraped by with a 50, which gave me a B- uncurved. I ended with a B+, so the curve was generous but did not make up for the fact that the class was taught so poorly. I am not a math genius by any means, but I do feel I could have done better if I had a better professor and I would avoid her if you can. The only thing that saved me in this class was having a good GSS leader, which you'll have to attend if you have Hatice.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B+
anon154
05/05/2022

Gulick is very straight forward with fair exams that have decently high averages. Calc 2 is a hard course in itself, but he does a good job to teach the material and make sure you understand whats going on. Overall he is the best professor to teach this course and I learned more than I did in this course than any other math course here at UMD.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/03/2022

I would like to personally thank myself for carrying myself in that class. The powerpoints go over the most simple examples of each unit which is irrelevant because he picks things that have not been covered in class or are the hardest to do for his exams. He should switch careers and be a rapper too because he goes through the PowerPoint at an astronomical speed. He posts lecture videos online which is more helpful than in-person lectures. He does drop a good amount of discussion ws and hw but the TAs are my favorite part of this class. #lovePhil #loveJoe #loveJosh

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
05/02/2022

He was a decent professor, nothing absolutely amazing nor do I recommend the 8 am schedule. If you have to take it with Gulick, he is a fine option. He stopped doing lecture quizzes so my grade was a but more inflated than it should have been. He is genuinely smart and passionate about the subject, so not the worst. Not great, not terrible.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Anonymous
04/28/2022

I had Pilachowsi for MATH140 and 141, and I can say wholeheartedly I won't miss it. I thought he was fine when I took 140, but that was probably because I had already taken the class in high school so not much was new. Math141 is a different story. While I did pretty well in the classes, that is through no help of his. His lectures are him reading the textbook off of his PowerPoint slides to you. The only redeeming part is that he puts all the lecture videos online, so I haven't been to class since the first day. His exams are hard but not ridiculous if you study, and his TA's grade nicely (at least in my experience). There is no curve and his grade distribution will kick your butt in the end. If you can take someone else, I would recommend it.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Anonymous
04/24/2022

Her exams were pretty easy, however I found the lectures quite useless. She would do stuff without explaining what she is doing. I personally self studied the entire class and ended up with an A-. I stopped going to her lectures, instead, watched YouTube videos to teach me the concepts.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Anonymous
04/21/2022

Take Hatice if you are good at teaching yourself math. Lectures are practically a waste due to the fact that she often spends more time explaining arithmetic than the content that you are actually learning. Her tests are definitely on the easier side, being that we often get cheat sheets for important trig values and most of the questions are straightforward. My TA this semester has been my saving grace, teaching me exponentially more than Hatice.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
04/13/2022

This guy is the best. A few things to note that might have changed from previous reviews of him: -Lots of people saying that his exams are super easy. Well he definitely has changed that recently, his exams are on par with the difficulty of other professors if not harder -He's not the best at answering questions in class. Super nice guy but he just gets anxious and doesn't always answer them correctly -The best thing about him is the fact that his notes are clearly understandable and he writes on the board (unlike others cough cough pilachowsky). Also he's not afraid to host class on zoom for religious holidays and stuff so reach out to him if that's an issue for you Overall, out of all the MATH140 and MATH141 professors at UMD, this is the one you want. He's not intimidating at all (quite the opposite) and everything is explained clearly and meticulously.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Anonymous
03/02/2022

Her tests are fairly easy, and that is her only redeeming quality.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
02/18/2022

Pretty decent lecturer. The curves were nice and allowed me to succeed in the class despite getting Bs on most of the tests. Weekly quizzes, but he told us the possible problems ahead of time so if you did them ahead of time you were fine. All the homework was due at the end of the semester which was great. I personally did not like him as he seemed more responsive to the questions/answers of the guys in class compared to the girls, but he was a good instructor and I'm glad I took his class compared to what I've heard from other professors.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/23/2022

Prof. Fernandes consistently showed up late to class. His lectures focus too much on theory and history of mathematical concepts rather than concrete examples. The TA you sign up for is CRUCIAL; my TA is the only reason I succeeded. Be prepared to teach yourself concepts outside of class. Invest in a full solutions manual to the textbook.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/17/2022

I am not going to lie, I thought Hatice was a terrible professor. I will agree with the other reviews that state she is nice, but kindness does not cut it when the professor simply cannot teach. I did not feel like she did a good job with how she answered questions in class. She also frequently just started doing work without explaining what she was doing. Another thing is she would just do proofs that do not help the class at all and if anything make what she is doing more confusing and overall would just waste time in class. I often walked out of lectures confused as to what was going on. Her midterms are not too hard so studying would result in a fine grade on them, but the final was brutal. Thankfully I took this class in high school and doing that mixed with having a tutor and going to GSS sessions before tests made me be able to get an A in her class but I would not say that she is a professor that I would ever want to have again.

Brandon Alexander
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/07/2022

Dr. Alexander was a really good math professor, and I believe he taught the material of calc 2 really well! He was lenient in grading when needed, and was very accommodating when it came to homework attempts. He was on Piazza, not even lying, 24/7 to answer our questions. I like how he showed the proofs of the topics and I liked how he'd give a summary of topics before each quiz and exam. Highly recommend him if you're taking any course he teaches.

Brandon Alexander
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/31/2021

Dr. Alexander is a solid math professor. He explains concepts well, gives you plenty of examples for everything, and gives you plenty of tries on the graded homeworks to get a 100. He responded to everything very quickly on Piazza. He also went over all of the quizzes in class and wrote up solution guides for the exams, giving you plenty of resources to study with and find where you need help. Regularly scheduled office hours can help those that are struggling.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/28/2021

Really nice guy, In order to pass this class you need to work together. Find resources that help you. His lectures aren't useless but they aren't the best content to learn Calc 2. HE IS THE BEST MATH141 PROFESSOR FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND HEARD. Good luck, you're gunna need it.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/27/2021

Good teacher. Midterms are very fair and Matlabs are easy to complete but bring decent comprehension of the software.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/23/2021

Definitely some salty engineer/cs majors in these reviews. Just for reference, im a bio major (not very math oriented) and his class was fine tbh. Lectures are all recorded, so in case you want to sleep in one day u can always refer back to the recordings. Weekly HW’s were definitely hard for sure, but i don’t understand some of these reviews saying “bad ta= wont do well on hw”. One of the TA’s posted all discussion recordings on canvas (shoutout to jianlong liu) where he worked out essentially every hw problem. I just looked at his recordings and did the homeworks that way. Dr. F gives sample exams to every midterm, which essentially lays out the entire format of the test, so as long as you studied the sample exams, (Dr. F also gives solutions to sample exams) you were fine for the test. He also provided a monstrous curve for this class, and no +/- grades either which is clutch. Also, I may have just gotten lucky, but the one time i emailed Dr. F, he responded within minutes. This was at 2 in the morning also. Overall he’s a good guy, and i definitely recommend him to everyone. Note to rising freshman: Just putting this out there cause I wished someone had said this when i was a rising freshman. But just make sure you understand that calc BC in high school is not the same as calc 2 in college, and you’ll have to put some amount of work in. I came into this class thinking it was gonna be a breeze cause of prior knowledge, but this class is only like 15% BC review, 85% new material.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/21/2021

Jonathan was a great teacher and really amazing person. He helped me develop the joy for mathematics some people who don’t love math might not like Jonathan’s teaching style since it is not about telling you how to use formulas, but more about deriving them and showing some basic proofs (he can over explain sometimes). Although this might be annoying to the people stopping at calc 2, it was quite refreshing for myself since it gave me a taste of what advanced math was like. If you want an A+ definitely watch professor leonard on youtube in addition to showing up to his lectures. Doing this you’ll master the applications of the formulas (leonard) and expose yourself to more complex proofs that will be useful later in your math career(Fermendas). 4-5 times throughout the year he’d spend the first 5-10 minutes of class giving us life advice about how to succeed is college and life in general. He talked about being useful to your peers and such (giving not only receiving). He has really good dad jokes about math. funny guy. The complaints about emails were quite valid. However, you can also see this as a learning opportunity. In work environments you will likely have many bosses who suck at replying to emails and need 2-3 follow ups.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/21/2021

Before you read any further, just keep in mind that the entire math department at UMD is doodoo, so I am writing this review with this standard in mind. About MATH141: - This was the hardest class I ever had to take. I never had problems with math, and I actually enjoyed AB Calc in high school. But MATH141 in college made me hate math and question why I chose engineering. - I spent 12+ hours on just math each week, which was draining because you will have to self teach yourself a lottt of the material. You will not understand much of the material taught in class and the textbook is just as confusing, so Khan Academy and the Organic Chemistry Tutor will be your saviors. - The amount of work you have for this class is astronomical. You have homework assignments due after every class, which are a pain to complete. But one of the worst parts are the weekly worksheets. They are quite literally not possible to complete. If you do not have a good TA, you will fail these worksheets (and I say this because some of the graduate student TA's have zero clue how to complete some of the questions). - We had 4 midterms and a final. I think these were fair and the practice exams he provides, as well as the web-assigns, were good indicators as to what you should expect. Keep in mind that the average on these midterms ranged from a 62% to a 69% (and the final was sitting at a crisp 50% average). But at least we didn't have any weekly quizzes. - At the end of the semester, he applied a generous curve: dropped our lowest midterm, dropped two of our lowest scoring worksheets, curved the webassigns, and curved the final. This boosted people up quite a bit. About Jonathan Fernandes: - I will start with the positives. Fernandes records all of his lectures and has zoom as option if you can't make it to in person class. He also posts all of his notes from class to Canvas. As a person, Fernandes is a kind and understanding individual who cares for his students and tries to make the class entertaining by cracking a few jokes (not to mention he has been listening to our advise and trying to improve his teaching). - Now onto the things which need improvement. I don't think he is good at explaining. I left every lecture confused, frustrated, and dreading my life decisions. I did not understand a single thing he taught in class, and he almost never finished his lessons (he usually accelerated to lightening speed in order to try to finish, and even then never did). Another thing which bothered me was the fact that he barely gave any examples in class in the beginning of the semester (he improved on this towards the end of the semester). He just went over proofs and the conceptual part of math rather than demonstrate how to solve the problems through examples. Good luck with MATH141 and say goodbye to your sanity in advance. My best words of advise will be to always expect the worst and hope for the best so that you can avoid disappointment as much as possible (be prepared to fail and know that it's ok). Hope this helped :) and most of my grade is a compilation of my efforts to self-teach myself, the Organic Chemistry Tutor, and tears.

Brandon Alexander
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
12/20/2021

He is a great professor and teaches the concepts well, however, he moves really fast and covers a lot of material in every lecture. This course relies more on applying the concept, not just memorizing formulas, which can be very difficult given the pace and difficultly of the course. However, he does hold office hours before every lecture and tries his best to explain the concepts in detail or work with you on the web-assign homework problems. I would recommend him as a professor, I would just encourage you to come in with some experience if you can, like reviewing the material before taking this course.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/20/2021

For some reference: I took AB and BC in high school I got a 5 on the BC exam but there were complications where I didn't get my score until the middle of the semester so I had to sit through the awful class of 141 even though I could have exempted it all along if the College Board was somewhat competent. I will say that I forgot a lot of the content, so I basically had to relearn it all with Hatice. Hatice is a very interesting professor. For starters, she really is not the best teacher. On one hand, her accent makes it a bit tougher to actually pay attention in class, but on the other hand she really just doesn't teach a lot of important concepts that are integral to the class. She generally goes overtime in lecture which makes it super annoying when you already have a walking conflict and on top of that says to read the rest of the chapter in the book. She is a pretty nice professor when it comes to making up exams and answering questions in class- I was very sick the night before/day of the exam and just had to email her and she let me take a makeup exam which didn't go the best for reasons I'll explain in the next section about exams. Hatice's exams are really medium-difficult but super easy compared to other professors' exams. Basically do the WebAssign homework (which take hours, to be honest), a couple of the suggested practice problems, and the practice exam (BEFORE the lecture preceding the exam because she generally does it as a "review" in class), and you should be good to go for her exams. I realized that her exams were significantly easier than the other professors' when I took that makeup exam and she gave us another professor's exam which literally looked like Chinese to me. I had no idea what was going on, and it was by far my worst grade. Although you might assume that easier exams are great.. they are NOT when it comes to the final, which other posts have mentioned. The mean was a 47 and the high was a 90 which is terrible for 20% of your grade. Overall, don't take Hatice if you can help it, but if you like to self-study most of the content or have taken BC before, and are ready to work extra hard for the final then she's not a terrible professor.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/19/2021

one of the most caring professors at UMD. unfortunately i think it is rare to come across a professor that cares so much about students grades AND well being. I have to admit his calc two class was extremely extremely difficult especially since I'm not a math or engineering major. I probably put 8x the effort in that course than any other course. he dropped one of our midterms, two homeworks, added bonus quizzes to help our grade, and curved the final. Even with all that, I barely got an A. Very appreciative of his care for students. I do recommend him, his class is very hard so read the textbook before and go to office hours, but if you put the effort in from the start you should be fine.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2021

Dr. Fernandez is a good person more than he is a good teacher. He has office hours often and is willing to listen and help students out. If you're confused (which you will be), you're going to want to attend these. This class requires an astronomical amount of work. I once spent 7+ hours on one homework assignment (there are three homeworks per week). This class is an absolutely massive time sink. If you have a good TA, everything becomes a LOT easier. They explain the worksheets in depth and guide you to the answers. If you have a bad TA, I'm sorry, and good luck...

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2021

Ishfaaq is a pretty good professor. Granted, I had already taken BC calc in high school going in but, his lectures were pretty good at going over concepts that we needed to know and he would choose good practice questions to apply the concepts to. However, like the previous review, I agree that his lectures are generally pretty dry and to the point. He will also brush over certain things however when prompted, he will go over them. Not to play devil's advocate or anything but MATH 141 is calc 2, therefore the professors usually will have some expectation of what you already know. He curves the final grade based on the average, I had an A- in elms but in testudo, my final grade was an A, just for your reference.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/18/2021

literally could not have asked for better. Sometimes lectures were a bit fast but that's just the pace of the course. He went out of his way for his students to do well. He offered bonuses, got rid of our lowest exam, curved the final, and our final grade.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a D+
Anonymous
12/18/2021

This teacher is terrible at emailing, TAs we’re not helpful this semester and the exams were not too difficult however this class was not conducted well and lectures were not helpful to learn from, spent then entire semester trying to teach myself the curriculum.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an F
Anonymous
12/18/2021

Terrible teacher Great personality Good luck

John Quah
MATH141

Anonymous
12/18/2021

He seems like a genuine professor, but his teaching style is very hard to follow. He talks in very technical terms and I found myself having to self-study this course because I could not understand what was being said in class.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/17/2021

She really is a very nice person but she is not a very good teacher. Her lectures were useless (thank god I had a good TA, good luck if you don't) and keep in mind that the HW may take you a very long time (I did find it useful though). The major issue I have with how she taught the class is that while her tests were incredibly easy, this is a double edged sword because easy tests combined with little to no resources with which to study for the final made the final exam a massacre. The class is half the difficulty found on the final and for reference, the mean grade was a 47 and the high was a 90. Combined with the fact that it is 20% of your grade and she doesn't curve at all (no mercy here) this means that the final will probably drop your grade 5 points easily. She clearly is not teaching to the standards set by the department.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/17/2021

Professor Fernandes is a good professor and an excellent person. He cares a lot about his students, constantly asking for our feedback and providing us with comprehensive web assigns and study material for tests. He also uploads his notes and lectures, which is very helpful. However, he can be a bit disorganized at times. Aside from these issues, I learned a lot from his class and it was great having him as my math 141 professor.

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Anonymous
12/17/2021

Very nice lady, but cannot teach to save her life. Everything I learned in this class came from my TA. Best advice I can give is don't go to lectures, never skip a discussion, and take the notes directly from the textbook/khan academy/some other source. Also her grading policies are terrible. Most other 141 professors drop the lowest exam grade, Hatice doesn't. Most other 141 professors also curve all 4 exams, Hatice doesn't curve any of them. Her lack of teaching abilities also left all her students extremely unprepared for the final, especially in the last 2 units.

John Quah
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
12/16/2021

I think Quah definitely wants his class to like him and he seems generally nice. but is pretty awkward in teaching. He often goes on tangents about more complex math(which would be welcomed if there was more time in the year) which just confuses everyone. The exam averages are very low. The exam average started around 80 for the first exam, but slowly dropped. The next three exams had averages in the low to mid 60s after the curve. Most of the exams seems to pair up with the UMD test bank questions in style, however there are some questions that are more complicated than what was taught. For two of the exams, Quah mentioned how he made the exam the day before which was concerning. For one exam, he changed parts of three of the problems halfway through the allotted exam time. The quizzes are not too bad and are doable if you study. It seems like he assumes most students already covered a lot of this material in their Calculus I courses, which isn't true and thus he tends to move pretty fast. One thing that I did not like was how after the low (62%) exam score after the curve, instead of offering advice or giving more points, he instead gave us 'extra credit'. This was in the form of a quiz that he told us not to tell the absent students thus helping us more for the curve. This seemed a bit rude to me. The lectures are not very engaging and the general consensus from the rest of my class is that he is a poor teacher. I don't think anyone in the class has a 90 after asking around, most have averages in the 70s or low 80s even though a lot have already taken Calculus II at their high schools. I would not recommend this professor if you want a good Calculus II grade. Even if you are confident about your calculus II skills, I think other professors would be more engaging.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/15/2021

He is a good teacher and kind to his students. He is super generous !! Like súper!! You will do absolutely fine in this class if you actually do what you're supposed to: go to lecture, do your homework, and seek for help from him/TAs when you need it. You have to put your own effort in HOWEVER I know he doesn't write the finals himself but my God that was the most brutal final exam I've ever had in my entire life. Don't rely on the final to boost your grade bc damn.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/15/2021

Average Lecturer. Godlike human. Good curves (10,5,3,20) on the four tests. I think he even curved the final. The test questions were similar to the final. A quiz a week on two homework problems. WebAssign all due at the end of the semester. He is very nice and understanding of student's concerns. Calculus 2 was not a fun course, but it was a lot easier taking it with this professor.

Amin Gholampour
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/14/2021

Amin is a sweetheart with a PhD in math. His lectures are good, and his tests are fair. Quizzes are easy if you do the practice problems. My only issue with this course was the WebAssign homework. Most the topics covered in them are not relevant to the course, or are too far fetched.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/12/2021

Jonathan is an extremely nice guy who genuinely wants everyone to succeed in his class. His lectures were pretty hard to understand for me but he uploads zoom recordings of them so eventually I stopped going to the lectures and just watching those which then evolved to me not watching them at all lol. I found it more helpful to thoroughly read the textbook since that has more complex examples to go over. Jonathan tends to just do proofs during the lectures and if he does do an example it's the most incredibly surface level example that doesn't really help you on the HW. I gave him three stars because I do think he loves his job and wants the best for everyone. Pretty generous curve at the end of the semester as well. Overall, this being my first class with him I think it comes down more to the work you do outside of class if you want to succeed.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/12/2021

He is a really good professor with a great personality. He will try to help his students as much as he can. He listens to complaints and tries to solve them. However, you will need a support system for this class. Going to discussion and having some classmates to study with will make your grade. The lectures can be confusing since he is required to go over theoretical definitions but with the supplement of discussions, you will be okay. The exams are not difficult if you practice the sample exams. Overall, he was a great teacher with a great sense of humor and personality. He is humble and down-to-earth.

Brandon Alexander
MATH141

Anonymous
12/08/2021

He's extremely responsive! He will check piazza at least a few times a day and always provide thorough answers to your question no matter how big or small it is. He never shames you for the questions you ask. His tests were mostly fair, and he is the most fair grader I have come across. When most students messed up the same questions, he would give more points back. His averages are very high (B range) and his lowest grade was around the 50s. Teaching was okay, I think there were too many proofs and textbook like ways of explaining, but I think thats the case for most teachers. I would take him again.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/08/2021

The professor focused a lot on the theoretical side and provided little examples, but if you put in a little bit of work outside the class and used textbook problems for practice the class is pretty easy. The sample exam is practically the same as the actual exam so learn how to do the sample exam and you'll be fine. Not a large curve on exams but dropped the lowest exam, 2 lowest homework worksheets and curved web assigns out of 90. If you are good at math you should do fine in this class.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/08/2021

He's great, but the class is hard. Curve is pretty generous (drop 1 exam and 2wks). Overall, his teaching style is fine, but you need to have a great TA to actually understand the wks and some concepts.

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/06/2021

One of the best MATH Profs. His exams and quizzes are very easy and you just need to pay attention in the class. Would 10/10 recommend to take him!

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
12/06/2021

TOUGH CLASS(in general) this professor is very understanding and tries his best to teach in a way that helps students in the long run. I will say at first i was not a fan of this class but soon realized, its the material and not the professor. Jon has a great sense of personality and WANTS THE BEST FOR YOU. All you have to do to pass this class is go to class and try to be as active as possible, exams are fair, require studying and understanding, not just memory. homework is a little tough, try to find a friend to work through it, if you're lucky you will get a TA that basically does all of the work with you in discussion. I CANNOT PRESS THIS ENOUGH if you ever are struggling go to office hours, it helps a lot and is definitely pushed by prof. all of my friends who had other professors said they were swamped with work, this class is less work and more self study, so if you don't do good with self study do not take this class.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/05/2021

I give him two stars because he's a nice guy. He truly does care a lot about the students and the way he changes his grading policy throughout the semester shows it. However, please do not listen to these spur of 4-5 star comments coming out of nowhere. He is not good at teaching. It literally is a TA lottery and if you have a bad ta you are fucked. The lectures are useless because he teaches proofs and ignores doing examples that will help with the homework or worksheets. The worksheets are only completable if you to go discussion... they are pretty much impossible to fully complete on your own. He comes into class late every day and always gets sidetracked by random stuff. It can get frustrating and for a bit, I just stopped attending lectures. Overall, He's a really nice guy. I would give him 3 stars just because of that but I don't know if I can because I have never taken a class worse than his in my entire academic career (I'm a junior). He just has no idea how to teach the course.

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/05/2021

Ignore the bad review below. Ishfaaq is generally a good professor. I would say the course load isn't too bad. For MATH141 you'll have a 10 question WebAssign worksheet due every Tuesday/Thursday, a one-question quiz every week (that is very very easy especially if your TA is good and goes over the concept right before the quiz like mine did), and then exams after every chapter/group of concepts. You will need to self-study for the exams though, just because the course material itself is just hard. Ishfaaq is a pretty good lecturer. He will set up a concept, write down the theorem for that concept from the textbook, show you a proof for that concept when need be, and then do example problems involving that concept. His lectures and homework also relate very well to what is on the exams. Overall, I'd say he's a good professor. That said, he's also not great. Some lecturers just have that special talent to make lecture engaging, but his lectures are very to the point and cut-and-dry. Not that that's a bad thing, though. That may be why you're looking for. I just feel like he could do more during lectures to explain concepts and sometimes he will skip steps or brush over something that "you should already know how to do". The review below is a little misleading though, it's never THAT bad. When he skips a step or brushes over something, if you just raise your hand and ask for clarification he will 100% do his best to clarify and make sure you understand. He also never makes you feel stupid for asking questions and never answers them condescendingly which I really appreciate. One thing, though, is that he does not curve. Your 4 lowest homework and lowest quiz grade is dropped, but exams are never curved. I've heard that he may possibly curve everyone's final grade by some margin at the end of the semester, but I can't say for sure since I'm writing this review right before my finals.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/04/2021

This is a college calc 2 class so expect to have a lot of work and spend time everyday to do well in this class in general. Fernandes' lectures are kind of hard to understand so you will NEED to read the textbook and practice problems from there to understand the topics. He is a very kind professor and cares about his students, but the reason why I would say he is good is because his tests are very similar to the worksheets and hw. If you can do all the problems from the worksheets and hw you can literally ace every exam. TA's are also very helpful and answer questions really well. He is dropping our lowest exam.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/03/2021

I think a lot of the bad grades are from people who didn't expect the workload that comes with college and are unprepared to independently do well. It's a college calc two class - it's going to involve a lot of work and a lot of confusion. However, the TAs I've talked to are capable and even if yours isn't, you can go to any TA's office hours for help. You WILL NEED to go to office hours, read the textbook, and do extra work to do well in this class but that's the same for any math class you will take in college. If you spend this time learning the material, the tests will be easy as he makes them exactly like the homeworks. Fernandes does have some teaching flaws but he is a good professor and genuinely wants everyone in his class to succeed. If you aren't doing well in his class, you won't do well in any calc 2 class.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/03/2021

He's a very caring professor, and it shows. His class is difficult, and for good reason. I would be surprised if it wasn't, it's calculus after all. The homework and exams are challenging, but never completely unfair. I will say that he sometimes does not explain complicated concepts well. Other than that, he's a good professor, and a good resource if you're willing to put in the work for yourself.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
12/01/2021

My professor who taught me Calculus 1 at a community college easily trumps Fernandes ten-fold in terms of explaining the concepts and doing the examples. If you don't have a good TA, you are screwed. Going to UMD Math Success has been an integral part of me being able to pass this class, other than that, the tests are really difficult unless you are good at doing math problems quickly. He often has technical difficulties in class and always starts the lecture 3-5 minutes late. He rarely ever does examples, like what you see on the WebAssisgns and the worksheets, instead just talking about proofs and concepts rather than how to actually do the problem. The weekly worksheets are impossible unless you are gold-like or have a good TA. Overall, I've stressed more about this class than all my classes combined, and I do computer science for crying out loud. Overall, this is the only class I have ever taken where I am uncertain about it I'll even have a C at the end. Only good part about this class is that there are no quizzes and he is a nice guy.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
11/29/2021

Look, he's a great guy. But he really struggles to teach. If you win the TA lottery, then you will get an A with ease since the professor likes to curve things with the average being based on his lackluster explanations. Otherwise, good luck. Good grade or not, you're looking at 10 hours / week of homework, 4 midterm exams (for some reason), and a whole lot of stress. I give my prayers out to whoever has to take this class (which, unfortunately, is every engineering and computer science major).

Hatice Sahinoglu
MATH141

Anonymous
11/19/2021

She's Really hard to understand and doesn't explain the material well. It's really hard when the book doesn't explain anything well either. I've mostly learned from the TA's. lean on them heavily.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Anonymous
11/17/2021

literally tragic the way this man teaches. often has technological difficulties and goes through long round about ways of explaining concepts that is not needed as well as doesn't explain everything that we need to know for homework. 10/10 do not recommend

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/17/2021

An absolutely horrible professor. He shows up late to every single class and never finishes a lecture. He does not do relevant examples and always makes mistakes so nothing makes sense. He also gets easily distracted and wastes a lot of in class time. You need a great TA or you will fail, some TAs will explain the worksheets and some have no idea how to do them. The worksheets of which are basically over complicated challenge problems that he will not teach you how to do. Even if you've taken calc 2 before it is extremely difficult with him as a professor. If you read every page of the textbook and do every possible practice problems you might pass. Luckily there were no quizzes so your grade is mostly the exams...

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/03/2021

He clearly knows the content very well but is terrible at explaining it succinctly. He goes a long round-about way of explaining the material in a conceptual way that could be shortened by just giving us the equations since no one really cares about proving the equations. Then he doesn't test us on the conceptual stuff; he tests us on applications that he glosses over/skips entirely in class. The weekly worksheets (25% of the final grade) are pretty much impossible unless you have a good TA who explains the entire thing. The twice-a-week WebAssign homeworks (15% of final grade) are also very difficult, and you really need a lot of friends to figure it out together and to use all three attempts of each person to get to the right answer. He often doesn't finish his lectures during class and has to hold zoom make-up sessions or just posts notes he expects us to go through on our own time. He doesn't go through any/nearly enough examples for us to understand the topic. If you don't read the textbook sections before class and land a great TA, good luck. On the bright side, we had no quizzes, just the 4 midterms and final.

Foivos Chnaras
MATH141

Anonymous
09/23/2021

Such a nice TA! So helpful and wants everyone to succeed!

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
09/02/2021

Absolutely sucks at teaching, those dated reviews of when he was a TA are pretty much useless at this point since he is now a lecturer. Half his examples and explanations are begin with a problem, then he says "aNd YoU sHoulD kNowW hOw To tHis pARt yOuRseLf" and viola he somehow has an answer. If lectures aren't your speed then I highly recommend him because its going to be a good amount of self studying.

John Quah
MATH141

Anonymous
09/02/2021

If possible, do not take him. Today was my second day with him, and I'm already kind of lost. He never really explains anything well, and if he does try to explain it won't make sense. It also doesn't seem like he takes the effort to teach anything, just talks and shows examples. The textbook he tells us to use barely makes sense, which doesn't help the fact that he can't teach. We also need to pay for WebAssign for homework, which forces you to write answers in a specific way for points. I took Calc BC and honestly didn't hate it (except for things like polar and taylor polynomials and whatnot), but unfortunately, I didn't get the credit for the class. I expected this class to be a review, but nothing he says makes sense, and his way of teaching feels so cold. His voice is so mundane and he hasn't smiled once. I hate being in that class, it's so unwelcoming and silent. I was like 3 min late for my first class (bc im a freshman) and he didn't even try to fill me in. I'll be happy if I can even pull a B from this class. I'll post again at the end of the semester.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
08/10/2021

In my opinion, she is a pretty decent professor. A lot of people mention her accent and how hard it is to understand her, but I didn't think that she was hard to understand at all. Her accent was never a big distraction to me. I thought that she explained the MATH141 concepts decently, and I would almost always come out of her lecture understanding those concepts pretty well. Her tests were reasonable, and she never tested us on anything that she didn't teach in class or that wasn't on the homework or the practice test. Overall, she is pretty nice and cares about her students. She also curves individual exams if the average is below 70, and she drops your lowest midterm, which is pretty great. I was dreading MATH141 because everyone kept talking about what a hard course it was, but I thought that she made the course relatively easy and reasonable.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/22/2021

I definitely recommend taking calc 2 with Rowland, he is a great person and teacher.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/13/2021

Wu is a really nice professor that actually cares about her students. She makes notes before hand that are availiable in the files section so you can see what you are doing in lecture before it evern starts, during class she always reads chat and answers all the questions she can, she shows proof for how formulas work (this sometimes confuses people though) instead of just handing it to you that why you actually understand the concepts, her drawning skills were pretty helpful at times, her office hours were right after lecture so you could stay and ask questions if you were still confused, and best of all she records all of her lectures (and office hours) so if you didn't follow something, wanted to study for a test, or even just sleep in because you're overworked, that is something you can do with Wu. As far as I am aware she is one of the only math professors who record their lectures and thank goodness she does. A lot of people have mentioned her accent, but it's honestly not that bad. I, and im pretty sure most poeple, didn't have trouble understanding her at all. Going after class ends happens often but it's usually about 1-3 minutes more; keep in mind she has been answer questions during lecture which takes up some time. There were a couple times when she went about ~10 minutes after class ended with some of the heavier topics, but if you can't afford to stay you can always leave and watch the recording later. Her exams weren't crazy and if for whatever reason the class didn't do so well she would curve the grades up for so the average would be 70%; she curved people up at least 10 points one time. Proffesor Wu is an extremely nice professor who does her best to accomidate every student and give everyone the best chance to succeed (which for Calc 2 being as hard as it is, you'll need). Do yourself a favor and just sign up already.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2021

If you have the chance to take him for calc 2 do it. He really cares about his students and is one of the nicest profs at UMD. 141 is typically looked at as one of the hardest classes at UMD but he made it very doable

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/12/2021

Todd Rowland is a super nice guy. Honestly, if you go to lecture and discussion you will succeed in this class. Just like anything, if you put the effort in, you will learn. Plus, Rowland is literally the nicest teacher you will ever have in your entire life.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/08/2021

It's a tough class. Gulick is a tough but fair teacher. I don't think you will find many better options at UMD. Make some friends and work together on the homework and worksheets, that will make the class more manageable.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/07/2021

Todd was a nice guy who in my opinion had decent lectures even though at times I seemed to have no idea what was going on. The course in my opinion got significantly harder towards the end be he does really want to see his students succeed. With some work outside of class and staying on top of the homework the exams will be pretty easy. I would recommend him if you are able to do a bit of self learning.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/04/2021

Compared to other calc professors, Gulick is a good option. His lectures are synchronous but recorded so they can be watched back at any time. His exams are challenging but he gives you multiple practice exams from previous semesters that mirror the actual exam very closely. As someone who isn't great at math, if you work hard you can definitely succeed in Gulick's class. Very knowledgeable and definitely recommend.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
05/04/2021

She's incredibly nice, but she doesn't teach incredibly well and her English isn't fantastic and therefore causes additional issues. Her work is jumbled and cluttered on the screen and incredibly confusing to understand. When you ask questions the answers aren't fully clarifying, which is hard because it leaves you feeling like you don't want to keep asking. Class typically ends on time, however she did hold office hours immediately after class. The tests are also super short and the TA's treat them like they have a stick up their butt and out their mouth.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/04/2021

Her teaching is very confusing and all over the place, she is nice with accommodations, but the lectures are so hard to follow and you leave class having so many questions still for preparing for worksheets and tests. If you are not a math major and need this class, I would suggest a different professor if classes are full for a later time

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/29/2021

I took Chadwick's MATH140 and wanted him for 141 and I was lucky to make it into his class from the waitlist (he's really popular). -He gives detailed lectures and reasonable amount of work. Just like CALC 1, its 2 HWs/ week, 2 WKSTs/ week, and quizzes every other week and an exam maybe after 3 quizzes. -The only thing is that he's very meticulous about lecturing such that he doesn't love it when people ask a ton of questions. It gets him antsy that we're taking up time when he could be finishing notes. He also isn't flexible with quizzes and exams. I emailed him that I was getting my vaccine and wanted to take the quiz ahead of time but he ignored my email. -Other than that, his exams are pretty reasonable similar to questions he goes over in lecture) - I hear Guilick is good (he makes the exams I'm pretty sure). But the only thing about him is that he gives pop quizzes and Chadwick lets us know thru syllabus when quizzes are Yeah would reccomend

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/26/2021

Had him for online, lectures are eh. He codes in wolfram the whole time, hard to understand. However, if you read the book and actually do the HW you will be more than fine. Todd is a very funny and great guy. He also drops midterms and homeworks from your final grade. Exams are easy and almost the same as the practice ones he releases. Makes 141 a breeze. Wonderful experience.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/26/2021

Dr. Rowland is one of the nicest professors I've had at UMD. Very genuine guy and he wants you to do well. I had him during a covid semester and his online lectures were not very good because he always used wolfram alpha. Exams were always very easy and were very similar to the study guide. Definitely one of the better professors for 141.

Yijing Wu
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
04/23/2021

She's really nice but she's a terrible teacher, by far my least favorite I've had. She has her notes prewritten and then fills parts of them in during lecture but she never leaves enough room so they always end up going all over the place which makes them very hard to follow, especially when you look back at the pdfs. She also can go very fast which is hard to follow and she never understands what students are asking so she typically just wastes time and causes people to be more confused. She NEVER ends class on time, always goes over and it's usually the important things she does after class so if you have to leave you're kinda screwed. If it is between taking her or postponing the class a semester, I'd recommend postponing.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/08/2021

I haven't gone to any lectures but I have gotten a 98 or 100 on every exam because he makes them so easy. If you do the practice exam and review a tiny bit on Khan Academy you're good

Kendall Williams
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
04/02/2021

I took Dr. Williams spring 2021 and it was... an experience. He has zero pity for tech issues. I had my whole exam not upload in time, I watched it spin and spin, and I even took video of it spinning 5 minutes until the time went out. I had to email him the videos and he still had no sympathy. Luckily, ELMS seemed to crash for everyone, so I was good, thank goodness. His VOICE for the recorded lectures will PUT YOU TO SLEEP. I wish he had SOME kind of energy in his soul to pour into this class, but he has nothing. It makes the 50 minutes go by so slow, and I feel so disconnected to the work. I would not recommend him because of his teaching style and teaching "attitude" I could say.

Bo Tian
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/01/2021

Bo was my TA for MATH 141 for Spring 2020. When in-person, Bo would review the content and then go over the discussion problems. He was clear with his explanations and would help as much as he could. When we switched to online, Bo continued being helpful and clear with his discussions. The course is challenging, but Bo made it more understandable, you just need to go to his discussions to learn it.

Jingren Chi
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
01/19/2021

He does not teach but at least he follows the textbook. His lectures are basically him copying down a chapter and kind of talking through it. He doesn't really give much explanation and reading the textbook would be more helpful than watching the lecture. Online tests for Fall 2020 were completely unsupervised. There would be a pdf posted then you had to upload and submit your work within an hour. In the end, the curve was pretty nice. I went up a full letter grade.

Brandon Johnson
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/17/2021

Brandon was really great to have as my Calc 2 professor. He teaches in ways that I was not used to, however some of these methods were beneficial. He is slow on grading, but I did not really care about that. I highly recommend him!

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
01/12/2021

I had Stefan for MATH141 (online - fall 2020). He is an excellent professor, explains things very clearly, answers emails, and is very personable. I highly recommend taking him.

Brandon Johnson
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/05/2021

Brandon is really charismatic, fair about everything, and accomadating. It was his first semester in charge of a class when I was taking his class, and although he was learning as he was going he made notes and made sure to explain everything in detail with easy to understand class slides and small group time. The one thing about him (if it's a concern for you) is his grading. I didn't care too much but it sometimes takes him weeks to grade things and sometimes you won't know your grade for an assignment for a while and in our case we didn't have a grade by the drop deadline. Other than that I would completely recommend him.

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/26/2020

I felt so lucky to have Stefan for 141. He is straightforward in his lectures and explains concepts pretty well. Best of all, he doesn't throw any curveballs on his exams! If you attend his lectures, go to your discussion section, and do the WebAssign homeworks, everything on his tests will look familiar. I actually found the exams significantly easier than the homework. Best of all, he's a really nice guy and brings a bit of humor to his lectures at times. Don't settle for a lesser professor, take Stefan!

Stefan Doboszczak
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/23/2020

I had him for online this semester His lectures were strong and his exams were quite fair. His lectures are not mandatory and the exams were open notes due to covid. He does curve exams if the class does poorly on it

Jingren Chi
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/21/2020

Lectures aren't really helpful, better off reading the textbook. Very generous curve and reasonable tests.

Jingren Chi
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/15/2020

You have to really know the textbook to understand the lecture. He basically goes over the textbook and whenever he does an example he does a bunch of calculations at once so sometimes it's hard to follow. The TA taught really well though.

Jonathan Fernandes
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/15/2020

He's a decent professor who applied a very generous curve at the end of the semester, dropping the lowest exam, lowest two quizzes, and lowest two worksheets. The class itself is just very difficult and his exams are somewhat difficult. The weekly quizzes also stack up in damaging the grade and are pretty tricky. However, he's always very open for questions and records all his lecture. He also provides his notes. The class is definitely not an easy A or easy, but he's a decent professor for a hard subject.

Jingren Chi
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/13/2020

He is a very boring professor and his lectures do not make too much sense. as another person wrote youd be better going and learning it yourself. Or cheating honeslty.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/03/2020

Like the other reviews said, he is a nice guy but I stopped going to his lectures very early on. He teaches using Wolfram Alpha/Coding and doesn't really demonstrate the problems well. He is disorganized and confuses himself during teaching. The TA's did way better at helping us understand concepts. He drops a lot of things at the end of the semester though, there is no curve on anything due to this. He even ends up dropping one of the four midterms you have to do.

Todd Rowland
MATH141

Anonymous
09/16/2020

One of the nicest people I've ever met, but I think some of the students in the class could explain calculus better then him... He does not understand some of the things he teaches, and is often corrected by students. I've been teaching myself thus far as the instruction/lecture is less than helpful.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
09/05/2020

His exams throughout the semester are not difficult at all. But that’s the only thing he has going for him. His lectures are really confusing and he does not prepare you for the final exam which determines way too much of your grade. I had an A before the exam and ended up with a B-.

Brian Smithling
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
08/10/2020

great professor, would take again if I could

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/26/2020

Dr. Chadwick is a very thorough teacher. His lectures are all handwritten, and his example problems are very helpful for the homework. Exams and quizzes for his class are very fair, and cover whatever he reviews (no trick questions). Dr. Chadwick is still not able to answer questions during his lecture, but go to his office hours since hardly anyone does unless it is before an exam. Discussions are helpful, but really depends on who your TA is.

Nathan Manning
MATH141

Anonymous
05/15/2020

I was retaking this course in the spring because I didn't do well in the fall, so I expected the course to be much easier. Dr. Manning makes the course so much harder than necessary. The worksheets are graded for accuracy every Tues & Thurs and the TAs grade somewhat hard. His exams are some of the hardest I've ever seen and don't relate to class at all. I got a 100% on Midterm 2 first semester and with Manning I got a 69.5%. That should not be possible. He also isn't great at explaining things and kind of goes all over the place. DO NOT take him if you don't have to

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a D-
Anonymous
03/07/2020

My failing grade is mostly due to me being a bad student and going through a rough patch but I also have stuff to say about his class. He's a pretty okay person and his tests were decently easy but he just goes on and on about proofs when we could be doing examples and actually learning how to solve the problems. So I guess take his class if proofs help you. Also I felt severely under prepared for the final and bombed it. I went from a C+ to a D-.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/19/2019

Makes Calc 2 doable. He drops a midterm, like half of the quizzes, and 5 or 6 homeworks. Lectures are a bit proof-heavy, but the midterms are easier than some other professors'. Final is rough, but he does curve.

Jakob Hultgren
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/12/2019

Good. Not great. Gotta figure out a lot yourself, overall a good guy. Super easy tests.

Victoria Whitley
MATH141

Anonymous
12/09/2019

Great TA. Way more helpful than the TA which is important in calc2

Brian Smithling
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/06/2019

Fantastic professor, goes a little fast through material. Quizzes in discussion are what really drop your grade, but the exams are not that bad.

Martin Molina Fructuoso
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/05/2019

the easiest professor for math141, by a long shot. people say math141 is a weed-out class, but no one dropped our class. he grades so leniently its great. however, lectures are boring and pulled straight from textbook, but even if you have a slight interest for math, you will be fine. also, very leninent on webassign homework grading and deadlines.

Jakob Hultgren
MATH141

Expecting an A
Kamicosi
11/26/2019

He's a sweetheart, but an awful lecturer. His lectures usually consist of him writing formulas on the board with very bad explanations. He reads his notes from an IPad, which he spends half the class time staring at in disbelief as if he cannot understand his own notes, which wouldn't be a surpirse considering there have been multiple times this semester that he has given us the wrong formulas and would send out an email the next day correcting his mistakes. In fact, mistake should be Jakob's middle name because he makes at least three in every lecture he gives. You cannot trust this man on anything he says because he messes formulas and explanations up so often that everything he does you can assume will have at least one mistake somewhere. I would be giving Jakob one star if it weren't for the fact that he gives easy midterms, so if are okay with learning the course on your own in exchange for easy tests, go ahead and take this class with him. Otherwise, take literally anybody else.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/17/2019

I enjoyed his class. His exams were far easier than the other professors. He is not the best teacher but definitely worth taking him for those easy exams. He also drops 1 midterm, 2 quizzes, and like 4 homeworks... (Fall '19)

Adam Telatovich
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
09/22/2019

I feel bad for this guy honestly. He seems to know his stuff but he speaks soooo quiety even with a microphone that always has low battery. His markers always seem to be drying out so if you sit in the back not only can you not hear him but you can't even copy down notes for the day. He is a nice dude but a nice dude got me a C despite me being good at math.

Adam Telatovich
MATH141

Expecting a D+
Anonymous
08/30/2019

He trys really hard to be a good professor but he falls kinda short. He isn't very confident and speaks very softly (even with microphone). He tries to help you when he can but grading between his TAs was very inconsistent. Each test problem would be graded by a different TA which is normal but it felt like each took their liberties with grading difficulty. Now I'm not generally a D student, and I had a B in this class until the last test and final which were on content he rushed to get through.

Stavros Papathansiou
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
08/21/2019

Best math TA in existence, period.

Martin Molina Fructuoso
MATH141

Expecting a C+
Anonymous
07/23/2019

Amazing lecturer - he truly cared about what he was teaching. He focused on making the course enjoyable, as well as making the exams relatively easy. Easy grader as well. At the end, he made our lowest exam grade worth 50% less, so that boosted me and a ton of my classmates.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a D
Anonymous
06/09/2019

Tim tends to read off of the lecture slides instead of working through problems. I managed to do well on the quizzes but terrible on the final (hence the D). Tim does not curve so be sure to do well on every exam. The lowest exam score is counted as half which doesn't boost your grade up much. Quizzes, WebAssigns, and Discussion Worksheets can boost your grade up a few percentage points and he drops at least 3 of the lowest scores - this is the only grade booster you'll get. The TAs are helpful during discussion and very accessible. Definitely retaking this course again for my major - keep in mind that I scored a 4 on the BC Calc exam and got a D on the course and 98% overall on the pop quizzes...

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
TopHat
05/23/2019

Gulick is certainly an interesting professor. At times he runs through material a little fast, and makes a few mistakes while writing out work on the chalkboard (the class always catches them). However, he is one of my favorite professors here at UMD. He knows exactly what he's talking about, and does have his funny quirks that make class enjoyable. He gives you practice tests a few days before exams which are extremely helpful. WebAssign can be a pain sometimes, but it does prepare you for the exams. The final is fair, as he gives you practice ones for that as well. I would recommend taking Gulick for Math141 (and MATH140). Take his class with some friends in case you need to work on homework or test prep. Good luck!

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/19/2019

Pilachowski is an OK teacher. He teaches the concepts pretty well, but the biggest problem is that he just stands there and goes through his online lecture slides. He never does any practice problem in lecture which is not helpful. Also, ALWAYS go to lecture. This dude will at some random day pull up a graded quiz. Expect him to pull up a quiz on every single day in the week. He doesn't curve at all in this class, but it's reasonable. His exams are FAIR in which if you really put in the work in this class (USE THE TEXTBOOK EVERY TIME), they are extremely easy.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a C-
Anonymous
04/22/2019

Overrated professor. Sure he is quirky, but he teaches a little too fast. It is hard to follow work in class not to mention he's hard to decipher what is being written. Note I sat 3 rows away from the board. His exams are pretty fair. WebAssign will take over your life. Do NOT take this class if you are not a morning person.

Terence Long
MATH141

Expecting an A-
braniac9
04/11/2019

Great Lecturer. I was in FC though so he had no TAs so took a long while to grade exams. Didn't respond to emails, and when I ask . him if he recieved something of mine he sounded like someone pretending to know what an email was. You will probably have a 5 star experience if he has a TA for your section so your exam can be graded while TLong plays Quake.

Adam Telatovich
MATH141

Anonymous
04/11/2019

Not the best but not the worst. Very quiet and monotone but wants kids to learn. Went to office hours a few times and not the most helpful but is really nice and means well.

Maxx Cho
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/28/2019

Maxx was an amazing professor. With him only being a grad student, he explains things very well and very thoroughly. I took Calc BC in high school (but obviously didn't get a good enough score on the AP exam) and took this class the semester after. The difference was noticeable. I think he's on to bigger and better things now since I'm pretty sure he's done with his graduate degree. Mad respect for my mans Maxx though.

Patrick Brosnan
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/22/2018

Easy exams, but doesn't teach

Bradford Sanders
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/17/2018

Great professor who really knows what he's talking about. Study for the exams with the practice ones he gives you and GET 5'S ON THE QUIZZES(he gives you the problems they will be on form the textbook). Needed a B- and got a C but regardless he's truly an amazing teacher with a quirky sarcastic side.

Bradford Sanders
MATH141

Anonymous
12/14/2018

Brad is a great professor who talks fast but is more than open to questions during the lecture. I really like the way he taught. I did wish he had more office hours but he's truly overworked with no time in between classes :( I mean what's up with that UMD?? Tips: GO TO LECTURE -He gives "pop" quizzes (with warnings) -Seriously you're here to learn calc 2 GO TO CLASS STUDY FOR QUIZZES -12.5% of your final grade DO IT! -Good practice for exams EXAMS Do every single practice exam (he gives 3-4 examples from previous semesters) and you'll understand that he has hard exams but if you pay attention and make sure to study ahead you'll be ok WEBASSIGN Just do the damn webassign everyday and you'll basically get practice + 6.25% DO NOT JUST SYMBOLAB OR WOLFRAM all of them. Do the ones that you are struggling with. Overall I am happy having taken him. Unfortunately I needed a B- (woo internal transfer:( engineering) but I'll probably end up with a C. P.S Finals hard so don't count on it.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/13/2018

I had Pilachowski for Calc 1 and Calc 2. Pilachowski provides lecture outlines that you should print out and bring to class. These are so helpful and keeps the material organized!!! During class he makes sure to emphasize the things that are important for you to focus on during class. There's a lot of material he needs to cover in a 50 minute class so sometimes topics are rushed, but that's where the lecture outlines help a lot. Webassigns can be difficult sometimes but he drops the lowest couple of homeworks. He also doesn't give minus grades. No curves :( but he says that he will round up to the next letter grade if you're very close ex/ 89.1 to an A or 79.1 to a B. Regardless of what teacher you have you'll have to put a lot of time into this course and in my opinion taking Pilachowski is a safe choice.

Daniel Kaufman
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/16/2018

Super great teacher! Taught everything very clearly and had fair exams. Clearly was there to help students

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
09/06/2018

Chadwick is easily the best Calc 2 teacher. He gives the easiest tests that are simply plug and chug (no theory or proofs). He gave our class a 3% curve as well on top of a semester with an abnormally high gpa average for Math141

Bradford Sanders
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/20/2018

While he talks fast, I think he does a great job at explaining the material. His lecture videos also help a bunch when it comes to understanding the material. His quizzes and tests are hard for sure, but all quiz questions come straight out of the textbook where you can try them out beforehand. Either way, be prepared to put in work if you take him. (I'd recommend at least 90 mins a day for practice and hw)

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/18/2018

The best choice for MATH140-141. His lectures consist of him working out some proofs and doing examples that relate to the WebAssign and his tests. His tests are pretty straight forward and not very hard since he posts his old test. Averages for the exams are around low to mid 80s. He also prepares you well for the final. I ended up getting a solid A on the final exam even though I got a few B's on his test. Overall just a nice guy to.

Bradford Sanders
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/17/2018

Best math professor by far. If you have the opportunity to take Brad for 141, take it!! This class requires a lot of time and effort but Brad is very detailed in his explanations, his prefectures helped prepare me for class, and I just overall liked coming to his classes because they really helped me understand the material and concepts a lot better than I ever have and will. A big note to take under consideration: he has the hardest exams out of any of the math professors in 141, but don't let this intimidate you. They help prepare you so much, especially for the final, which isn't even written by him. I'm not big on test taking at all but Brad really tries to help prepare everyone for the exams and he's helpful at office hours and just in general. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!

Steven Chadwick
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/05/2018

A true blessing. This man is the best teacher to take for MATH141. He makes the exams incredibly easy. The averages for his classes are on a whole other level than the other classes. And, he seems like a very nice guy.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Anonymous
12/17/2017

Possibly the worst professor I have ever had. Hamilton scrawls the lecture material on the blackboard without explaining what the hell he's doing. Not that it matters really, you can hardly hear him anyway and his handwriting is unreadable. He went through the material backwards, so we did difficult chapters like sequences and series first. Several of the chapters were designed to build on each other so it was a mess. I have no fucking clue why the class is structured this way. So many people dropped out that my discussion session shrank from 25 people to maybe 5 on a good day.

Zeyad Emam
MATH141

Anonymous
12/13/2017

Excellent teacher. I had this class with Hamilton (Fall 2016 btw, this is a late review) and it was hell, his lectures were impossible to follow even with prior knowledge or reading the material ahead of time. Zeyad is the only reason I passed - he was a million times better at explaining things, and really wanted us to succeed.

Archana Khurana
MATH141

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/13/2017

Her test are fair and she holds more office hours/review sessions than you could ever dream of going to. She will do anything to make sure you succeed.

Emily DeBoy
MATH141

lactaid
12/11/2017

Great TA! Really wants her students to succeed.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/13/2016

For David Hamilton Taking this class with Hamilton is the worst mistake I have made in a long time. I ignored the bad reviews and thought I could handle it. Don't be like me.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
08/09/2016

I honestly don't understand why Gulick is so highly rated. Yeah he's funny and adorable sure, but his class is simply far too difficult. His webassigns will consume your life after class, there were many times I had to give 3 hours to complete one webassign. His discussion classes are absolutely useless as the assignments given there are just theory and you're not actually tested on them. Furthermore, the class is only four credits, but you spend close to six hours per week in either class or discussion (50 min MWF class, 1hr 20 min TR discussion) But don't take my word for it, the median on the first and second tests were a 74%, and Gulick even said "that's around what we go for when we make the tests."

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a C-
oopboop
06/20/2016

Czaja's grading was extreme and the opposite of lenient. No partial credit was given. The final exam was easy, but the other exams were the hardest exams I've ever taken. Class average was a D+. Czaja was a great lecturer but his exams were too hard compared to lecture. I wouldn't suggest taking him at all.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/13/2016

If you haven't taken calc 2 before or in high school, I do not recommend her. She has very high standards and expects you to know the material before you come to lecture. I had to read the textbook and watch youtube videos (Professor Leonard) before every lecture. I also went to her office hours, my TA's office hours, attended other MATH 141 lectures, and did almost all the book problems but I know I'm not gonna end up with an A. This class requires A LOT OF EFFORT and the way she grades is RIDICULOUS.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

didlyjones
02/18/2016

The worst professor I have ever had. She only goes surface deep on each chapter section, and then gives you homework which she gives no information on how to complete. She is also extremely mean, as I was leaving the class one day to use the restroom she yelled goodbye to me as I walked out. She seems to really look down upon the students. It saddens me to see a professor like this still have a job, especially teaching a class that a lot of people find very difficult. I highly recommend avoiding her as a professor.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/02/2015

Ok this guy's lecture is quite real. He explains stuffs at such a complicated and minor level that I have no clue as to what is happening. Furthermore, his examples in class are so basic. I learned more for discussions than I did from lectures. His accent is quite distracting also. The quizes are hella easy, but I feel he types "hardest calc problems ever made" in google to get the four problems he needs for the exams. In the final exam he will probably make us prove fermat's last theorem, so can't wait for that. My grades went like 72 100 52 (fourth one will probably 43 or something). This guys is chill doh, and he is wayyyy more lenient than the other lecturers. So pick this guys. oh and he is funny af.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
09/01/2015

Awful professor with control issues. She is condescending and her lectures are uninformative. Her tests and pop quizzes are overly difficult (especially with her teaching skills). Asking questions results in rude replies and condescending answers. Avoid her classes by any means necessary.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
nassu30
02/18/2015

A wonderful teacher. Accent can a bit difficult to follow though. But makes the subject matter easy. His way of grading was far by one of the best. 4 exams-lowest dropped 7 quizes- lowest 2 dropped A flat score of 50 for scoring atleast 30% on Web Assign and no weekly deadline for homework. I got an A in his class. Definitely take him

Terence Long
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/09/2014

Terence was an awesome teacher. He is very passionate about math and it shows while he is teaching because he always goes out of his way to show you why something works or why a formula is the way it is. His class can get a little boring at times but overall he is a pretty good math teacher who wants you to get a good grade. He is awesome about giving you opportunities to bump up low exam grades with his grading system.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
04/09/2014

This is my second attempt at 141. My first was with Hamilton, which was a disaster as he went through the material out of order and had unreasonably difficult tests. This semester, everyone but Frances was full, and I braced myself for a serious struggle. I noticed that the majority of the negative reviews were for 115, but she is not *that* bad for 141. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with the material, maybe she respects her 141 students more than her 115 students. Whatever it is, I'm definitely clicking with her better than most. It's definitely some serious work, yes, and I hate online homework, but if you have the diligence to put up with it, you'll find that her tests are mostly fair. She'll answer questions in lecture and office hours and is not nearly as condescending as everyone makes her out to be. She's actually one of the more personable professors out there. She also gives white papers and quizzes. Quizzes are closed-book, but they're rather infrequent. White papers occur approximately every 2 classes, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less. These are open-note, open book quizzes, and she leaves examples on the board. They're free points that make sure you're on board with what's going on. You can compare answers, but don't copy. You NEED the practice to ensure that you're getting it. That's not to say that this won't be a difficult class. She's preparing future teachers, scientists, engineers, doctors, and whatnot for the rigors of what's to come. She sometimes has her TAs take off points from tests and white papers for the silliest, most stupid reasons but that should only serve to motivate you to do better. It's all about figuring out what she wants from you and to deliver. This class is going to be a serious challenge and anyone who comes out with an A has my undying respect. Come to class, go to office hours, dedicate a strong part of your studying to this class, and if you put in the effort, you can pass. Let this class be your reality check. It'll be tough. You're tougher.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Anonymous
03/16/2014

A word of warning - I made an account on OurUMD JUST so I can say this to future students. If you are signing up for David Hamilton, the math professor, do not be fooled by the OurUMD rating which has numerous reviews for a physics teacher. Go to ratemyprofessors and look at his reviews. Those are spot on, I don't even need to say anything else.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
03/06/2014

She is a bit condescending, and at the same time teaches you very little. You will not be able read what she writes on the board. It wont really matter because it is not helpful anyway. I have looked at the notes other classes get in their lectures and realized just how terrible she is. Other teachers seem to want to help make sure you understand the topic. It seems like she is afraid to teach you too much. It is almost as if she believes that if she teaches you any topic too well, then it will be too easy. This results in our class averaging way lower on tests than any other. She does not give you any breaks. White paper quizzes almost every day, even on topics you do not know yet. Worksheet every discussion. Your grade bases heavily on your attendance which sucks because you learn very little in lectures. I was warned this past fall to avoid at all costs and I didn't listen. I really wish I had though. Calc II should not be this hard. At least she's really hot.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/26/2014

This review is for David Hamilton, the math professor. I had math 140 and math 141 with Hamilton, and I got an A in both courses. My success had absolutely nothing to do with Hamilton's teaching abilities because he has none. He has a point system where you receive 1 or 2 points for correcting a mistake of his or answering a question, but if you answer incorrectly he'll laugh condescendingly at you (I never answered any questions because of this, screw the points). Hamilton never makes it clear exactly what he is teaching at any moment, and often quickly goes through proofs, skipping steps, making it difficult to follow. He also likes to erase the previous board before you can finish copying instead of using the other two blackboards. I gave him 2 stars instead of 1 because of his grading method. He gives 3 exams, each with a makeup exam the following week which can replace the previous grade. Because of how low the average was on the first two exams (both in math 140 and 141) he allowed the exam 3 grade to replace the grade for exam 1, and the exam 3 makeup grade to replace the exam 2 grade, which certainly helped a lot of students. In both math 140 and 141 I decided to focus on his notes rather than the textbook before exam 1 (don't ask me why I made the same mistake in 141), and I only scored a bit above the average. After that I strictly took notes from the textbook while skipping most lectures and got A's on the rest of the exams. Conclusion: Hamilton is a poor professor, though he can be funny at times. If you are willing to study from the textbook and like the grading method I described, I'd recommend taking him. If you like to actually learn from your professor (imagine that), stay away. I'd recommend someone like Justin Wyss-Gallifent.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
testudo_ourumd
12/19/2013

Dr. Czaja (pronounced cha-ya for others who may not be fluent in polish) was quite a character. He first came off as a little mundane but as the semester progressed, he would tell more and more jokes in his matter of fact tone which made them even funnier. For my semester (FA13) he gave 4 exams and 7 quizzes. Each exam was 100 points, and 1 was dropped. Each quiz, administered by your TA, was 20 points, and 2 were dropped. Homework was through WebAssign, which Czaja states very clearly is terrible. He is sort of forced by departmental people to use it, apparently, so of our homework grade, if we complete 30% of homework in general for the semester, you get the 50 points for homework. My only complaints would be that he is sometimes a little slow with putting out the practice problems for the exams/quizzes. For example, he didn't send the answers to the practice final exam until 4 hours before the exam was held...sort of annoying. Speaking of the final, it is a test made by the Calc II department head and is considerably tougher than Czaja's exams, at least this year. I got a 99, 100, 99, and 87 respectively on Czaja's four midterms, while hardly getting an 84.5 on the final. Be prepared to study your butt off for the final and DO PREVIOUS EXAMS. Czaja said that "practicing the previous exams will only tell you what will NOT be on this one" and while that is partially true, the topics are more or less exactly the same and the questions are asked in the same way since the same guy writes it every year (thus far). Work hard, and you can get a great grade. I worked hard and got the highest grade in my 200 person lecture (617/650 total possible points).

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
03/11/2013

Denny Gulick is one of the best math teacher I have ever had. He is very straightforward with the material and the tests always mirror the practice exams. I took him for MATH140 as well. Calculus is not easy, but he makes it understandable with tons of examples in class. I highly recommend him because although the classes are at 8 am, you know what you're getting in the professor.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Anonymous
12/16/2012

Rosenburg is a really nice old man who is super smart. Too smart to be teaching 141. He spends all of lecture doing proofs and going into the mechanics of a formula without explicitly stating the formula and what you can use it to do. Accordingly, lectures quickly got smaller and smaller. You need to go to discussion to survive. TAs will prepare you for quizzes and will teach you how to use formulas and do practice problems. However, my TA was not the greatest. If you get a russian guy named Alexey, it's gonna be pretty rough in the beginning, but he gets more comfortable as the semester goes on. He still managed to teach me a lot and prepared us for the quizzes. And the last chapter is the hardest. The series test is a *****. Class average was a 45%. Overall, Rosenberg was alright. I heard about other 141 teachers that were a lot more intense, so I guess he's not a bad choice. Hopefully, he'll give a nice curve.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a C
nicoleumd
08/19/2012

Frances Gulick is one of the hardest professors I have had yet in my UMD career. I really learned nothing from going to lecture, but was forced to because of the graded pop quizzes and white papers. Lecture was really a waste of time and I could barely understand what my notes said. My TA was helpful, but she makes the TA's take off a lot of points for minor errors grading exams. I wish I had listened more to these reviews before.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/25/2012

I had a very hard time in her class. She teaches some of the material really well, but a lot of times you will try to do the webassigns and realize that you really haven't learned any of the material on the assignment. She also makes a ton of mistakes when she's solving problems on the board, which can be really confusing later when you're trying to use your notes to study or do the homework. I always thought I was prepared for the exams but as soon as I would see the exam I would realize that it really had nothing to do with what we had learned. For the first exam, she put a question involving the use of the shell method, which she hadn't covered and had specifically said would NOT be on the test. Another test primarily focused on the domains of inverse trig functions, which is something we did go over in class, but makes you feel like you wasted your time studying the material you were actually supposed to be tested on. What makes the tests even worse is that they count as over half of your grade (and she doesn't tell you this in the beginning of the semester) Attendance is absolutely mandatory (for both lecture and discussion). She gives out white-paper quizzes, which are like a pop-quiz based on material she has just covered. (i.e. she does an example and then gives you a similar problem you have to do right then). She gives no warnings about when she will give white-papers so you really had better show up to lectures. In addition, you have to complete ridiculously difficult worksheets in discussion, often involving a proof of how a formula is derived. The whitepapers and worksheets count as a significant portion of your grade. Don't bother trying to talk to her about points, since she just gets really rude and refuses to be at all lenient. She doesn't curve at all, so the grade you see on your tests is probably the grade you will end up with. I really wouldn't suggest taking her class since it is a very painful experience.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/17/2012

Denny knows his math. He is a ok teacher too. He doesn't have a curve(well he gives out .5% curves so that your 79.5% will be a B) and it is hard to get an A in his class. He is actually really overrated. He is friendly but don't except any mercy from him he won't even bump your grade up by .5%. He seems to like honesty a lot.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/16/2012

I was initially worried about taking her class because of all of these bad reviews but her section was the only one open. The first few weeks and the first exam was pretty rough, but I attended every class and did all the webassigns and ended up with an A- after struggling to get a B in Calc I. Very reasonable teacher but a tough grader. Having a good TA will help you tremendously. If you want to learn calculus, take her class. If you want good grades and easy work, take someone else.

Kasso Okoudjou
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/16/2012

Professor Okodjou is a wonderful teacher. I definitely struggle with math, and this class is far from easy,but I would definitely recommend taking Professor Okoudjou. His practice tests are a lot like the actual tests he gives, so study those a lot! Other than that, put it the effort and he will definitely try to help you out. He is a nice guy and cares about all of his students. I took him for MATH140 and MATH141.

Kenneth Berg
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/08/2012

Berg is a nice man, and he certainly makes classes entertaining. However his teaching styles leaves something to be desired. There are times where he explains concepts really well, and other times where he couldn't explain why a paper bag is brown. The TAs really help. Berg also grades super lightly.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting a D
Anonymous
01/13/2012

Wentworth was not a good professor. He can be monotone while teaching and his lectures are poorly planned. Examples in class were complicated and not helpful. Like others have said, he tends to stop mid-thought during problems, trying to figure out the next step. His tests were hard and had very challenging problems. I felt like I understood the material, but struggled with the difficult of test problems. He made this class much harder than it needed to be. No curve at the end either. Seems like he's a nice guy, but definitely should not be teaching.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/26/2011

Dr. Czaja's grading scale was: 90-100 = A 75-89 = B 60-74 = C 50-59 = D The total class was out of 650 points made up of 4 100 point midterms(1 dropped), 19 10 point quizzes(4 dropped) and the final 200 point exam. Dr. Czaja does webassign but does not include it in the grade. Dr. Czaja, unlike many of his colleagues(Or maybe they just don't care, which is very possible) recognizes how poorly the webassign system is designed and the high frequency of lost points where a student puts in 'c' for the constant rather than 'C', among other issues. In studying for the midterms, focus on the review problems Dr. Czaja posts on his website rather than webassign, because those are more likely to be on the exam. Only after doing all the practice problems should you bother with webassign. This is the MATH department, so your success all depends on who the TAs for your lecture are and the TA you have for your discussion. And for the departmental final, the TAs for the course that semester. I lucked out with a very good TA for my discussion, Adam, who explained topics well despite the early hour of the morning, wrote helpful explanations on our quizzes as to where we went wrong, was easily approachable after discussion and in office hours. Furthermore, he took the time to write us up review packets for a few of the midterms. On the other hand, there was also a TA that was very strict on their grading, and according to some of my classmates(unconfirmed second hand), a much less valuable TA in discussion. Dr. Czaja's lecturing style is essentially basic proofs. He'll go over basic examples for each of the required concepts, and leave more difficult examples for TAs to go over in discussions. While Dr. Czaja has a fairly strong accent, it's very easy to understand, and his chalkboard handwriting is clear enough to understand as well. The textbook, the same book from Calculus 1, is useless. It is used in Calculus 2 to 'save Calculus I students money' as they continue in their Calculus track. There are better free textbooks and resourcecs online, such as <http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/> The person with the authority to assign the textbook for Calculus 1 is none other than Dr. Denny Gulick, who is the author of the textbook, and profits from every copy sold. The Mathematics department as a whole cares very little for undergraduate students, and contradictory to the goal of education, spends your tuition dollars doing its very best to minimize the # of people who succeed in their classes, which are required for every student in CMNS and ENGR. Despite all this, Dr. Czaja cares about his students' success, even in undergraduate. If you can, take his lecture of 141.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a C
Hosea
12/21/2011

Calculus 2 is HARD. However, Czaja has a very forgiving grading system which makes it easier for one to get a high grade. 50% is a D, 60% is a C, 75% is a B, 90% is an A. There are 4 exams during the semester (drops 1) and 19 quizzes (drops 4). I will admit I have a very weak math background, taking precalc and calc 1 from a community college and coming here to take Calc 2. Most people I know that came to UMD after community college and took calc 2 had to retake calc 1 again. But I managed to squeak by after thinking I was going to get a D in this class. Dr. Czaja's a really nice guy, and seems to be clear when he lectures in class. I noticed that a lot of people don't seem to show up though. I think it is because he usually does examples from straight from the book. This Fall 2011 semester, Czaja did not require webassigns for hw, so that was a big plus. However, it can be a double-edged sword because you end up not getting necessary practice for the concepts if you aren't diligent enough. So I suggest you just do the problems in the book instead. Once again, I stress that this class is hard. You have to do hw daily and make sure you actually understand the concepts as they come or you'll end up with a C like me, which could have been very avoidable, especially with Czaja's grading system. The good thing though, is that its almost impossible to get lower than a C in this class. I got a 65, 50, 64, 66 respectively on the exams and a low quiz average and somehow managed to get a C. If you get anything lower it's because you blew off this class.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Anonymous
12/04/2011

Hamilton's teaching style was awful. He is a terrible teacher on most accounts, but between the amount I remembered from high school and my wonderful TA, Andrew Brandon, I was able to do well. His tests are more frequent than the other teachers' tests are, so there is less information to remember, but the tests are harder. Apparently, this will help us on the uniform final, but I have not taken it yet. He is also terribly condescending.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/11/2011

I did well in this class but ONLY because I had a good TA and because Wentworth's exams were much easier than the other 141 professors at the time. His lectures are disjointed, very abstract, and poorly planned. He doesn't bring in notes or examples to do so it gets frustrating watching him try to come up with one on the spot. Brilliant man, not the most approachable guy, bad bad teacher. Avoid him if you rely heavily on lectures but if you're good at teaching yourself the material, you may be fine because again his exams are very easy. Utilize the Kirwan TA's before exams though, because Wentworth doesn't write the final. The Gulicks do, and the Kirwan TA's essentially belong to the Gulick so they know a lot better.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a D
Anonymous
08/20/2011

This class was horrible. Let me tell you something about Denny Gulick. Very nice and very intelligent. He is sometimes funny...I did not find him very funny like other people did. He holds really great reviews sessions for upcoming exams. He is a great person,but I would have to say, as a professor, he sucks. He is only a good professor if you take the extra step and talk to him and often as you can. The class for me was very difficult, and his office hours were during the times I had class, so I could not see him for help. We had WebAssigns, which were very difficult. I found myself having to stay up late/putting a lot of my time into these webassigns (~5 hrs). We also had worksheets during discussion (i had a horrible TA by the way). The worksheets were hard as hell and didnt give us good practice at all. Some people say these do not make a whole lot difference in your grade, but they do. The worskheets brought me down a lot. He also teaches way to fast, very hard to keep up. This class needed about 50% of my time, not to mention I had other difficult courses and I was pledging, so time was limited for me. I took this course over the summer and got an A+. If you have prior experience to the material, have a lot of time, have a great TA, have a strong study group, can make it to his office hours, can manage to do the webassigns, and can wake up at 8am, I'd say there is a chance you can ace this course. Otherwise, drop it before it is too late and take the summer course. He is difficult and his course is way more demanding than this course for other professors (except his wife, who is way worse).

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
08/20/2011

I feel this professor is the most overrated professor at UMD. Basically, when I was registering for Math141, I was scared that I was going to get a horrible teacher,so I made sure I waitlisted for all of this guy's sections. I was beyond happy when I got into his section. First off, the 8am sucked, but it is manageable for a lot of people. I am definitely not a morning person so I missed quite a few lectures. As for the lectures, here is one reason my grade went down. He teaches way too fast. He will go over a topic super fast, and make the topics seem confusing, and would not go over it again. He also writes crap on the board that he just thinks of at the top of his head and then tries to explain it. He makes quite a few mistakes too and doesnt realize it until someone points it out. He wastes time this way. He would talk fast, and write fast (and sloppy; everyday someone would ask me what a certain word/num was). No doubt he knows his stuff and he is very intelligent. But, me and the people around me could barely keep up with what he was teaching and often found ourselves reviewing the lecture from the book (poorly written by the way). I also had the worst TA, which really brought my grade down. He was a tough grader, and at the same time he was clueless. He didnt even know what we learned and try to apply his own concepts he learned in his grad courses. He never helped me and didnt care whether we were failing or not. He was not fit to be a TA. The exams were fine, some easy and some just hell. The average was pretty low for each test. The final was hell, totally not a good test that covered all the material there was. There were like three questions that were proofs, that we barely covered. I would suggest taking him if everyone else is horrible. But if there is another teacher with similar stats, I'd say go with him/her and not this guy. Hard teacher, goes through material fast, hard webassigns, etc.I spent more time trying to ace this class than trying to get a grade in all my other classes. I took this class again over the summer and aced it with flying colors. If you can take it over the summer, do that!!! Only the people who took this course in high school ended up surviving, others just dropped the class.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

thisismygrade
08/07/2011

Does professor Czaja give practice exams for 141 and how many exams are there? Thank you

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Anonymous
07/29/2011

Prof Czaja is an okay prof. His exams and quizzes are fairly easy, but I hated his teaching style. He spent half the class wiping the board. Assignments (when I took him in Fall2010): 3 exams (drops lowest), 27 hw's (drops 7), 7 quizzes (drops 2), and the final. His grading scale is on a curve (a 75 is a B and an a 60 is a C).

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
07/17/2011

(Both MATH140 and MATH141) Significantly better than the other professors that teach these courses (from what I have heard). Well worth the 8 am class. PROS: He is entertaining during class, writes neatly, writes detailed email responses if you even have a question about the homework (or a last-minute question before an exam), and really enjoys helping students. CONS: His answers to questions people ask in class can come off harshly... but honestly he just wants to make sure you understand the material so he gives very thorough answers. He goes over easy examples in class when he teaches new material, making the WebAssign homework and discussion section worksheets extremely difficult, but they play a very small role in your grade and his classes always feel significantly more prepared for the exams. Suggestions: if you can switch discussion sections before the cut off date, try to get a good TA (or at least a nice one) because it really matters. Show up to class because there are weekly quizzes. If you get stuck on a homework problem, go back over your notes... you probably just forgot you went over it because it was at 8 am.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Anonymous
06/19/2011

He's a nice guy but he is a terrible lecturer! His exams were all right but a bit unpredictable. We also had a lot of questions on our tests that the other MATH141 classes didn't have to learn. His quizzes are unannounced (I guess to get people to go to discussion but it was annoying that I didn't know when to prepare for them). He was incredibly unprepared for lecture and spent much of our time staring at the board trying to figure out where he made a mistake. His examples also didn't make much sense and he never offered clear explanations and instead provided us with vague, beat-around-the bush responses. He was also very boring, mostly because no one knew what he was even talking about. I would definitely not take him.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting an A
zhangsta
05/26/2011

Dr. Rosenberg clearly knows his stuff, but he isn't that well-suited for teaching. In class, he likes to go over proofs of the equations that we use, but does very little on actual applications. However, the exam questions were entirely applications, but you'll probably learn how to apply the equations in discussion and on homeworks. In addition, Rosenberg loves to throw questions that involve special cases on the exams which is/are usually the question(s) that the class does the worst on. The best way to prepare is probably to do his old exams, which are on the testbank because you'll get some practice on how to approach his questions. Another great resource is Schaum's Outline of Calculus, which is pretty good at explaining a lot of the concepts clearly.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/25/2011

Lectures are pretty boring so I never went. Learning the material from the book wasn't too hard for me, just make sure that if you decide to skip the lectures then you should definitely go to discussions. One of the test averages was like 40% so he gave everyone a take home exam to replace the grade with. Overall, not a bad teacher. He knows what he's talking about and gives a nice curve at the end (something like 85-100 is A, 75 - 85 is B, etc).

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/23/2011

Denny. Amazing. Its not a question. Notice that I did not put a question mark after amazing. For all those who say Denny is overrated, your wrong (and I've heard several). Notice once again, no question mark, because its a fact. Denny explains things very thoroughly. He only goes over material that he needs and he goes over proofs and 10 or so examples in class. It's amazing that he gets so much done in a 50 minute class. Because he wrote the textbook and writes the final, he prepares you the best because he teaches material that will be tested, while for instance, Dick Wentworth taught non-seperable differential equations to his class, but those weren't taught by Denny and didn't show up on the final. Not to mention that Debbt tries his best to be interesting and funny, and he succeeds on almost every occasion. I wasn't lucky enough to get Denny in MATH140, but I still went to his lectures because they were worth it. Denny. Amazing. Thank you.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/20/2011

He is really cute and nice. He also teaches really well untill the end. I felt like he was worn out toward the end of the semester and made some of the materials confusing. But I would choose him for math141.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting a D
Anonymous
05/18/2011

wentworth is the worst math teacher i have had at maryland, and seems to be the worst teacher available for calc 2. i have never recieved any emails from him and he has never replied to one of mine. additionally he does not post grades anywhere. previoius teachers had posted them on webassign or on the math website. he spends class solving his own examples which he has not previously solved. while this is better than a teacher that is just a reverse power point, he is not a sucessful teacher.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a D
GoTestudo!
05/18/2011

Denny maybe as good as it gets for Calculus II. He teaches from examples instead of proofs, and is very, very approachable. He's a bit quirky and fun. My only complaint is his discussions. Worksheets are meant to get you to think--but they were horrible! They're really difficult to drill through, and once you do finish them, questions don't show up again! Exams were most relevant to Webassign and suggested homework problems. EDIT: This guy does not believe in curves. I ended up with a D--the first D in my entire life!! Disappointing class and instructors (including TA's).

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
05/17/2011

I am pretty sure this was his first time teaching 141, and it showed. He expected students to understand tricky, new concepts right away. If you asked him questions about exams, he would say, "Is that all you care about is the exam? just learn it and the exam will not be hard". Mathlab due every Tuesday and Thursday, they were worthless and tedious. Lecture became useless, learned it all myself from the book. Worked incredibly hard and got a B. Take Gulick or someone else. Maybe he is better at upper levels? but he really sucked as a 141 teacher. Also little or no curve, we will never know because we dont see our final and no contact after class is over.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B
ningchris
05/17/2011

Okay. Cal 2 is actually not that bad. Denny is definitely a good teacher. Funny and patient. If you don't understand the material, just go ask him and send him an e-mail. He will explain to you very thoroughly. But if you really want to get an A in this class, do attend every discussion and pray you will get a good TA. My TA is total asshole, grading all the worksheet harshly. Denny will curve a little bit. Just a little. So work your ass off for this class to get an A.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting a B
jdietri1
05/16/2011

Wentworth was at best ok. He seemed to stumble through his examples and was corrected by students a lot. He didn't seem to have thought through his lecture and often times made things up. He would say this is the equation because it is or magically this is the equation. He does not teach the way the book does. He has invented his own way of doing problems and teaches those ways but often times cannot explain how he arrived at the equations he is using. I would only recommend him if you have no previous knowledge of the class because he will teach you in a way no one has before.

Richard Wentworth
MATH141

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/03/2011

I do not think he is a bad teacher, its just that some of his teaching is confusing and when people ask questions, he does not really answer it. Since its hard for me to comprehend him when he teaches cause he pauses alot and says uhh alot i had to teach most of the material myself to get this grade. His exams were fairly easy compared to other lecturers. The other reason i am doing pretty well is because i had probably one of the best math TAs on campus.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
RLJ2009
01/18/2011

I heard horror stories that Cal 2 is the worst of all three of the Cals, but with Czaja is was very easy to get an A as long as you studied hard. For half the semester he was a good teacher, then when it got to chapter nine he just stopped being helpful and I had to rely heavily on Math Success Program. He drops a test, two quizzes, and five homeworks. Also his curves are so kind. I got a B in Cal and managed to get an A in Cal 2. Would definitely take if you don't mind teaching yourself and reaching out to outside help!

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
01/16/2011

Czaja was a very good teacher however, the final exam had problems more difficult than exams or quiz's. Czaja made us laugh just about every class. Homework was assigned on the website webassign. These problems were a real pain. The first problem on every exam was graded for either full credit or no credit. Czaja actually awarded everyone twenty points when almost everyone one of these wrong.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
F00zball
12/16/2010

Czaja is a great teacher. He absolutely knows his shit. I can't remember a single instance of him not knowing how to do a problem or stumbling when answering a question. He comes in and starts class right away. He's got an accent but it's nothing bad, you can still understand everything he is saying. Class is generally engaging and he is hilarious when he jokes around. Some of the material is hard imo, and you will probably need to go to class and look at the textbook after. He drops a ton of the grades, curves when necessary, and his tests are pretty fair. The final was ridiculous though. I thought I was going to get a C but ended up with a B. Recommended.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

recjra
12/16/2010

Prof. Czaja was easily the best math professor I have had. He was able to explain the concepts very concisely and I felt like I actually learned in his class instead of simply memorizing what we needed to know for the exams. His grading scheme is awesome and it's basically impossible to fail. Plus, he was a really nice guy and wanted his students to do well.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/07/2010

He has an accent, but its not that big a deal. The biggest problem is that the examples that he uses in class are either way to simple so that you can't really study or learn from them, because the tests are much more complicated, or they are so complicated that it is impossible to understand the material. Additionally his tests are hard, yes he posts old tests to review, but usually there were not solutions posted, and he usually put s them up really, really, late the night before the test so you can't even ask your TA any additional questions about the material on the test. I took AP Calc BC in high school and not only got a 5 and I also got an A in the class. I retook Calc II so that I could refresh and get a solid A as a freshman, and no thanks to Czaja that will not happen despite working my tail off in this class.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/27/2010

This guy was a great professor up until the first test. After that, everything goes downhill FAST. The examples he offers in class are completely useless and unhelpful for studying. Overall I really didn't enjoy taking this class and thought that czaja was very unclear in how he presents the tough material, ex: taylor series, lagrange remainder.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
Kevin Garcia
11/23/2010

Fantastic professor. Great sense of humor. Posts practice exams the night before the actual exam that are near exact copies of the actual exam. If you can ace the practice exam, you'll ace the actual exam. Has an accent, but rarely gets in the way.

Kasso Okoudjou
MATH141

Expecting an A
vnsach
11/02/2010

Very hard class to get an A but very easy to get a B. His teaching style is pretty bad. Rambles on in a heavily accented drone but his tests are very easy if you look at the practice tests. I would probably recommend him because this class is hard regardless of the teacher who teaches it and his tests seemed to be the easiest compared to the teachers's.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A-
jcywong
07/09/2010

Prof. Czaja is a great Math Professor - if you see him in a course you are thinking about - choose his! He explains Calc quite clearly and definitely enhanced my understanding of the subject. The course IS challenging guys no doubt but if you go to every class and pay attention, do the work there should be no problem. He welcomes questions in office hours and always makes extensions prior to exams. His grading system is extremely fair - a mini-freshmen forgiveness program! Best of all is that his accent and humor, really makes Calc fun especially in that dim smelly armory. I am SO going to miss his famous "well"haha. Wish he taught Calc 3 I would so take his section.

Kasso Okoudjou
MATH141

Expecting a B+
vaalbara
05/19/2010

Had him for both 140/141. Cool dude, good teacher. People rag on him for his accent & handwriting, but they're honestly not that bad. He'll gladly read and rewrite any word that you don't understand, and his accent just sounds like he's cheerful all the time - even if we aren't. A little bit of a secret: his exams are usually (all but one of the eight he gave) very, very similar to the practice exams he gives, and they are, for the most part, relatively easier than the other exams. Put in some effort - go to reviews, do the practice exams, go to office hours - and you'll do just fine.

Kasso Okoudjou
MATH141

Expecting a B
jamgord
05/04/2010

I personally liked Okoudjou way better than D. Gulick, who I had for MATH140. I don't know if it was because class was at 12pm instead of 8am or if there was that much of a difference between professors, but I absorbed so much more information in 141 than I did in 140. The tests were ok, and the webassign sometimes took forever, but if you have a good TA (or excellent one like Joe Altman, who actually won TA of the year during my semester) that can explain the material more thoroughly in discussion, then you should be fine. I recommend going to every single review session before tests, from both D. Gulick and the TA's (usually Brad Sanders, also a great TA). They really help because all you need to do is keep doing practice problems and tests so that you can get out all of our little mistakes on those problems and know exactly what to do or not do on the actual exam. Overall, I think Okoudjou is a really good professor who explains the material well and if you don't get it, he won't give up until you do. Also, his accent is the cutest ever, and the way he writes his letter "f" is so beautiful.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/20/2010

She certainly knows what she's talking about and expects the same from her students. She'll give in-class problems to do on random days, and there are graded worksheets in discussion so expect to go to class all 5 days of the week. If you've gotten AP credit for this class, do not bother retaking it - you will not learn one new thing in any MATH141 class.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B+
BIOE
04/08/2010

I don't understand why other people gave really good reviews for him! He does NOT explain things clearly and many people didn't bother to go to class....the only good thing is his grading system is fair! If there is a professor who actually teaches math well like margetis or justin and they are teaching this class TAKE IT WITH THEM! anyways I didn't like him take justin you will be better off!

McBlaine Boyle
MATH141

Anonymous
01/29/2010

I'm sure he knew what he was talking about, but the way that he presented the material was not helpful at all. He'll put the equations on the board and the proofs, but doesn't take the time to explain them and make sure that you understand.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
01/10/2010

Professor Hamilton never seemed to care whether or not the class kept up with him during his lectures. He seemed to do what would have made him learn, as a mathematician, rather than what I felt I need to learn, as a science major.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Expecting an A
terp315
12/18/2009

Denny was amazing. One of the best math professors UMD has to offer. If you're willing to get up early, you will learn.

McBlaine Boyle
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/17/2009

Ok, I'm going to say this very bluntly. Don't take this class with Mike Boyle. Very smart man, terrrrrrrrible professor. Anything I learned that semester was from my TA. He goes on and on in lecture on the stupidest, most nuance-oriented problems on one specific topic, then his tests are ridiculously difficult and are not even on what we learned in lecture. This class sucked hard-core. Take it with anyone else, not Boyle.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
mreese
12/17/2009

Czaja is a very fair and respectful teacher. I really enjoyed his sense of humor and did not find his accent annoying or difficult to understand whatsoever. The practice problems he posts on his website are very helpful and he loves helping students outside of class. Although the tests can be difficult, Czaja's grading system is extremely forgiving, although the no-partial-credit question on each exam can suck if you make a careless mistake. I forgot to write pi in my answer to this question on the first exam, but he generously awarded full credit with a little note reminding me not to do it again. Czaja takes time to explain the interrelatedness between all the concepts, so stuff actually makes sense if you pay attention. I highly recommend taking his class.

McBlaine Boyle
MATH141

Expecting an A
jthompson
12/15/2009

Agree with previous reviewers on Boyle as a teacher, final was pretty tough, but the dropped test and quizzes helped with grades. Didn't do any of the written homework but kept up on webassign, go to the lectures and discussions

McBlaine Boyle
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/09/2009

He knows the material, but prefers to focus on the history and proofs more than the actually formulas. For someone who likes to learn from their professor do not take his class. The only advantages are he drops several grades(in my class one test, two quizzes, and four homeworks)I think there are much better professors out there for MATH141

McBlaine Boyle
MATH141

Expecting a B
rhunter1
11/03/2009

I'll start with this: Mike Boyle knows Calculus very well, and knows what he's talking about. So much, in fact, that we never learn in lecture what ends up being on the tests. I can't tell you how many times I left lecture knowing the proof of why an equation worked, and not how the equation worked. However, he is very easy to get in touch with, and he does make a few dry jokes here and there to keep you interested.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/29/2009

Professor Hamilton is great. Very clear with enough humor to keep things flowing. Very fair grading system which allows you to work up to an A grade. System of tests every two weeks and TA quizzes is tough but it keeps us on the ball. This paid off with a class average of 87% on the last test.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
gmichali
08/17/2009

This professor is fair. His tests are extremely polar (5 questions on each test); there will be one really, really easy question that will recieve NO partial credit because it is just that easy. Meanwhile another question on the test might be quite difficult. The other questions will be somewhere in between. Has an odd sense of humor. My test scores were a 94, 59, and 67, my quiz avg. was likewise around 78 (after dropping 2 lowest), and I got 160/200 points on the final. Somehow came out with an A-. Take MATH141 with Czaja. His lectures are average. I stopped going after the 1st (of 3) tests. He drops your lowest of 3 tests, 2 lowest quizzes of 7 quizzes, and lowest 3 (of 13) homeworks. You only need a 60% overall for a C, 50% for a D, 75% for a B, and 90% for A. Overall, this professor is very fair, much more easy going than the other Calc II profs. I mean come on, you need only a 60% for a C. Take this class if you want to avoid Francis Gulick, Ray Johnson, or even the great Denny Gulick also.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
06/17/2009

Take Calc II with Denny Gulick. Pilachowski sometimes can't even do the problems he assigns you.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B+
AmazingReviewer
05/21/2009

This teacher obviously knew what she was talking about, but she did not care about her students. Her grading methods of her quizzes were a little harsh and her webassigns take a while to complete. The grading of the tests was a little more fair. The TA's graded the majority of the exams and she would grade 0% to 20% depending if there were 4 or 5 problems on each exam. There was no curve in the class and most people seemed to end up with horrible grades. You will struggle in this class. You will. You will. You will.

Timothy Pilachowski
MATH141

Anonymous
05/12/2009

Average in all aspects...will arrive 5-10 minutes late to every class, often looking quite disheveled. Decent lecturer, but will use corny phrases often. Will help you when asked, but doesn't really go out of his way. Sometimes will go off topic, which can actually be good- he once spent nearly half the class explaining his experience in ballroom dancing, which was hilarious.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a B
joepenn1
05/01/2009

Czaja has one of the fairest grading systems where 1 test, 2 quizzes, and 3 home works are dropped. Loves the theory behind Calc 2 but usually only uses examples from the book. I got a C because I only did the Webassign and no additional problems on my own. With that said if you understand the basics of Calc 2 material and do the practice problems/quizzes he puts up you will do fine. Lecture attendance is person to person basis depending on how well you know the material. I'd go though.

David Hamilton
MATH141

Expecting a B
ddaily
04/28/2009

Dr. Hamilton is a decent lecturer. Easy to understand and presents the material very well. As long as you do the homework in this class you should do fine on his exams and quizzes. He also has a nice policy regarding finals that can really help your grade at the end of the year.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
04/24/2009

He was a very smart man, and is probably a very good teacher for higher level maths, but he should not be allowed to teach Calc2 to first semester freshmen. It pretty much seemed like he wanted us to cry. The kid next to me in a test actually did once. After the course was over, I realized I actually liked the math, but I hated the class. I would strongly recommend getting a different professor for Calc2.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/22/2009

Czaja is probably one of the better professors for math141. Exams, though challenging, are actually quite fair. He has a grading system where you are allowed to drop an exam, 2 quizzes, and 3 homework assignments. He is very fair and understanding. Though his lectures may seem dull, he is more than happy to answer your questions if asked. He has a lot of safety nets for those who might fail the course. If you truly work hard and do problems from the book (not just webassign), then there should be no excuse for anything lower than a C.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Anonymous
12/20/2008

I would highly advise that you not take Calc II with Prof. Czaja. First, his accent is understandable, but can be quite annoying. Second, his lecture comes right out of the book, so you don't get the benefit of additional examples. Third, his exams and homeworks are downright rediculous. The homeworks are extremely tedious to complete, and often on topics you don't need to know. Furthermore, the tests are extremely difficult, and test the smallest details of the course. For example, one test was on the chapter involving infinite series, and there was not one problem involving Taylor polynomials/series, which is a major part of the chapter. Instead, he tested on the stupid little details that no one remembers. If you are forced to take this guy, going to class is really not necessary, just study and do a ton of examples, and you can probably scrape by with a B.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
tallboyt
12/18/2008

He is a good teacher and don't be alarmed if all you do in class are proofs b.c that's normal. He drops 2 quizzes, 3 hws (from online) and 1 test. He is helpful from the fact he gives a prac test b4 an exam which is almost alike. He gives lots of prac that will be on the final. from easiest to hardest: test -> quiz -> webassign. good class overall.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2008

Czaja (pronounced shy-ya) is an interesting professor. He cares that students actually understand the material, and unlike other professors that I've had, he will step back in lecture and remind you of the "bigger picture" behind Calc II. Czaja had a fair grading system: he lets us drop an entire test (1 out of 3), 3 out of 13 homeworks, and 2 out of 7 quizes. The final exam is worth a lot, and he puts a lot of emphasis throughout the class on its importance and weight (200 pts out of 600pts of the grade). I did not find him to be an *amazing* lecturer, but I wouldn't say he was bad either. Overall, I think Czaja is a good professor, and I would recommend him for anyone looking to take calc III and higher level math.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/17/2008

Rosenberg is one of the smartest guys around, and a good teacher overall. If you take notes and pay attention in discussion, then you have a chance of doing well in this class. His tests are very difficult, and if he feels like the grades on one test were too high he will make the next exam very nearly impossible. Most of the questions on the exam can be answered fairly easily if you know the material inside and out, however, most of the time there is at least one question that even hours of studying could not have prepared you for.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH141

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/03/2008

Odd professor in some ways. He was a good teacher, but he made it difficult. Wanted us to learn the material on our own as much as possible, only because he truly wanted us to learn the material and this was the best way. Fairly hard exams, very hard HW, not an easy professor, but is a great professor to teach you the material and prep you for Calc III and on.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/24/2008

Rosenberg is a relatively bad teacher. The material is tough and his lectures are often indecipherable. He talks with his back to the class and mumbles into the board, and tries to explain everything with proofs instead of examples. The TAs are relatively helpful, and you learn most of the material either with them or outside of class with the book. He is not very approachable and is definately not a people-person. His tests are extremely convoluted and difficult, and the TAs grade extremely hard. Most people I know in the class are getting a C, and I am hopefully in the A to B range because I am doing so much work outside of class. Try to get someone else if you can, but Rosenberg isn't completely horrible if you are good at math.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

asianterp
11/16/2008

He goes over proofs and theories in class. So that means that you have to work really hard outside of class on the actual problems. His exams are impossible...I did all the homework, the webassign and i even went to my TA for extra help but it didn't prepare me at all for his exams.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/09/2008

I actually learned a lot in her class. As long as you goto lecture and do the homework then it is easy to do well on the exams. The exams are straightforward and are based on the homework problems she sets out at the beginning of the semester and webassigns. If you just want an A without doing a ton of work then avoid her, either wise she is a good professor.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
07/29/2008

Dr. Gulick is a very good teacher, but challenging. It is not an easy A. She will challenge you any way whatsoever. From pop quizzes, to quizzes in discussion, and web assign(241) and homework/web-assign. I took her for two semesters even though I didn't get A's, I actually learned calculus as opposes to just cramming for the test. DO all your home work on time and you'll be fine. Again, It is not an easy A. SHE DOSENT CURVE. I got 89 the two times but still got B's. If you want a stress free semester, DONT TAKE HER

Frances Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/22/2008

you might learn a lot but end up with poor grade. she is the worst teacher ever.. if you are not good on math, stay away. you received 4 credits but it feels like you ware taking 6 credits class.

Frances Gulick
MATH141

sccrmic09
05/15/2008

Transfer out of the university before taking her class. Yes its that bad. Exams are completly irrelevant to material in class and web assigns. Grading scale does not exist whatsoever, she just randomly adds points to different catagories at the end of the semester. Her grade distribution compared to the rest of the university is much lower. I'm not just blasting her becuase shes going to give me a bad grade, she dosnt belong teaching anywhere. Don't put yourself through the unnesessary. Heed the Warning...

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
05/06/2008

He explains everything very thoroughly. He sometimes talks to himself like he's a little kid... just take it all in stride, it makes the class interesting. The webassigns aren't too bad if you go to his lectures. He will usually cover the material/concepts in the assignment the day before it is due but sometimes random problems in an assignment will be from previous chapters. His quizzes are sweet too. Make sure you attend the class after an exam because most students won't, therefore he'll give a quiz, and when he's too lazy or there's not enough time for everyone to finish an actual quiz he'll put up two problems on the board and go through the answers with the class and then tell the class to hand in those problems. 10 points without doing actual work right there.

Manoussos Grillakis
MATH141

Expecting an A
gundamwing4132
05/01/2008

Exams and hw were fair. Slightly heavy accent but very helpful teaching sytle.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a B
mhd101
02/11/2008

He is a pretty good professor. He does a good job explaining the material. Discussion is helpful to learn the material better. His tests are really hard though but there is a pretty generous curve.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Anonymous
12/24/2007

Overall Rosenberg is pretty good. WIthout the discussions I would have been a little lost. He teaches the concepts and empirical proofs, where in discussion you learn how to solve the problems. The weekly quiz is fair and his tests are a bit difficult. He uses a lot of "special case" problems which make it much more difficult. While his tests are hard, he curves the exams and is very approachable.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting an A
sga001
12/22/2007

Rosenberg is a tough grader. Even though he will tell you he curves, out of a 300 class lecture only 7 of us got A this semester. Expect to learn mostly from the book, and be prepare because sometimes he decides to be creative with the exams... By creative i mean he will ask the oddest question in the worst possible way ever.

Jonathan Rosenberg
MATH141

Expecting a C-
trimalchio
11/28/2007

Rosenberg is a good calculus teacher, he explains the material and is understandable and I got a lot out of the lectures. His tests are incredibly hard though, and he expects a lot out of the class that the class can rarely give him. Rosenberg is generally nice and is approachable. For a Calculus professor Rosenburg is better than most.

Denny Gulick
MATH141

Anonymous
11/15/2007

If you can get any calc teacher get him. He is an excellent professor and will hold review sessions before every exam. If you come to class and do the webassigns you will get an A or B.

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