Jakob Hultgren

This professor has taught: MATH135, MATH141, MATH858G

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Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Anonymous 05/15/2022	If you are taking MATH135 take Hultgren. He is a great professor and is very chill. He makes the class very easy and allows a formula sheet (front and back) for every exam and the lowest exam gets dropped. He also allows 4 formula sheets for the final. He's very accommodating and always is happy to answer questions. He also creates a practice exam and it's almost exactly the same as the actual exam. The material isn't too hard to understand and as long as you understand it you'll do well in the class.
Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Anonymous 05/11/2022	Really nice person, practice exams are pretty identical to the actual exams which was nice and even lets you have a formula sheet. The oral exams were pretty easy, just make sure you are present on that day. Worksheets were kind of random, some were easy, some harder but if you go to the discussions they pretty much can answer your questions and show you how to do the problems. Overall not as much stress with this class considering its a math class compared to others.
Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Anonymous 05/05/2022	Hakob (as he likes to call himself) is a silly little man and honestly this class is really easy. He lets you have formula sheets for all your tests, so you can get away with not studying for an exam if you have a good formula sheet (I managed to score a 97 on one of my tests without studying because of this). He's a really bad lecturer though so that's the only downside but as long as you understand the material it's definitely an easy A.
Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Anonymous 01/13/2021	I love Jakob, he's so kind. I took the class entirely online in Fall 2020 and it was a mixture of asynchronous and synchronous. His lectures were pretty good, he goes through every step of a problem and provides a lot of examples. There were some times that he would seem to skip a step and he'd write something on his lecture slide that I personally had no idea where it came from, but for the most part I felt that his lectures were really organized and made sense. He had weekly quizzes on Wednesday that were usually pretty ok, sometimes they would pull some out of pocket questions at you. My word of advice would be to do the practice textbook problems. They weren't graded but they were extremely helpful for the quizzes. The only issue with the textbook problems is that Jakob never went over them himself and his TAs would go over them in both a synchronous discussion and a published video the day of the quiz. These were probably my least favorite part of the course, just because it felt like there was a significant disconnect between Jakob and the TAs sometimes; the TAs would often explain how to solve a problem in a way that Jakob didn't teach and not go over all of the problems / go over ones that weren't assigned. There was also a weekly worksheet that was done with a group due Saturday morning, and these worksheets were very hit or miss. Sometimes they were really easy and sometimes they were extremely difficult, there was no way to predict it. They also didn't always align with what Jakob had taught that week, but there was a live discussion on Fridays to go over the worksheet before it was due. The oral exams in that class were also VERY easy, every single time. For the exams, Jakob would publish a practice exam that was usually very nearly identical to the structure of the actual exams, so the exams weren't too difficult. He would also give a lot of time for them and make them open all day. Overall, not too difficult of a class at all, even for someone who's pretty bad at math. Would absolutely recommend Jakob as a professor, aside from how he is as a teacher, he just seems like a really great person--I wish I had the opportunity to have him in person.
Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/08/2021	He is a really nice guy and is super approachable. He was also really organized when teaching the class online. His lectures are decent, so I would still use them as a resource to just get an introduction to the material. They're not really helpful in getting an in-depth understanding of the material so I would not rely solely on it. He had one synchronous lecture every week which was not recorded and I did not attend that at all. For discussion, we were able to either choose to attend a synchronous discussion or watch an asynchronous recording. The times on the quizzes/exams were super flexible -- we always had a 24 hour window to complete the quizzes and the exam window was very fair (I think about 1.5 hours something like that). For the final exam, he gave us about a 34-hour window to complete it which I thought was really nice. The textbook really helped the most -- especially the practice problems. We had quizzes once a week which were pretty difficult at times and it matters to do well because that is a section of your grade that will help you in the end. We were assigned into groups of 2/3 to complete a worksheet every week. This also matters to do well on because of the weight on your final grade. I found that at the beginning they were a breeze but they became super difficult. The best method I used was going to discussion sections on Friday to get help from the TA. Then there are "oral exams" every four weeks with your worksheet partner in which you attend your assigned discussion section and the TA will ask you one or two questions based on the worksheet that you did. It's really nothing at all to worry about and most of the time the questions are not math-related. They just ask about applications to the real-world. You should definitely get a 100% on all of them if you just have something to say, even if it's wrong. There is no curve in the class but this is because he drops a lot of assignments at the end which is actually a godsend. I got a D on the first midterm, B's on the next two midterms, and an A on the final. I had a high B/ low A average on the quizzes/worksheet section. I ended with an A- in the class (I had 89.56% and he rounded it without me asking!!). Overall, as you can see with my stats, if you start off a bit slow and do average on the other assignments you should end up with a good grade. The practice exam is identical to the actual exam. As for the material, it really is not bad at all and is way better than calculus.
Jakob Hultgren MATH135 Anonymous 12/17/2020	super nice guy. teaching abilities are ok. You might need to go to office hours every now and then. He gave out practice tests this semester the week of each midterm and they were almost identical to the actual tests. Would recommend over Rowland. This is corona so he taught us how to calculate everything with google sheets and wolfram...just plug and chug and you'll get it:)
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.
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.