Jaime Paradela

This professor has taught: MATH141, MATH241H, MATH410

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Jaime Paradela MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/10/2024	DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!! Only take this professor if you are really good at teaching yourself. He does not explain the material well and refuses to answer questions about the material in class. Furthermore, he even ignores or gives "sassy" responses, like mentioned in the previous review. In lecture, rather than explaining the material, he simply just reads from notes and examples written in the book. The poor teaching method translates to the homework, where there is material that you never go over in class. The one thing about this class was my TA, who did an amazing job explaining concepts that this professor could've just taught us himself. The exams are also pretty difficult, but the class itself is not meant to be that difficult. If you are looking for a math 141 professor, I highly recommend taking anybody but this professor.
Jaime Paradela MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/09/2024	Easily the worst professor I've ever had. He very clearly doesn't want to be there teaching and is rude when responding to questions. The other review that talks about how he's "sassy" is ignoring that people don't ask him questions to try to be funny — they ask them because they don't understand whats going on. When you ask him a question he often gives a very unhelpful response, and he always acts like you're an idiot for not already understanding. His lectures are just him writing the examples from the textbook on the board and he doesn't explain them very well. Also his lecture notes are definitely provided by the math department, and you can tell that he doesn't read them before class. Multiple times he has had to stop the problem he's working on and do a little bit of math on the side to understand the steps his notes skip. He's also invented his own notation during lecture including "star" (), "dot" (.) and "double star" (*). His new notations only made that lecture more confusing, and I ended having to teach myself how to do partial fractions, which aren't even that hard. His homework is awful, but I think thats a universal problem for MATH141. The main problem with it is the due dates are all over the place. At the start of the semester he said we would have homework due Tuesday and Thursday morning, just before our discussion section. However we quickly realized that our homeworks were asking us questions that covered topics we hadn't reached in lecture yet. We asked him about it, and he did push them back, but he messed it up at some point and the due dates got really screwed up. Some weeks we've only had one homework, and others have had 4 assignments. This wouldn't be a huge problem, except that these assignments usually take upwards on an hour, so 4 of them in a week ends up being about 4-5 hours of homework. His exams are difficult, but thats normal for this class. What makes his exams bad is that he sometimes realize mid-exam that he messed up some of the questions. During one of our midterms he ended up changing multiple questions, after realizing he made them unsolvable. The one saving grace of this class was my TA, who is the only reason I've been able to do well on most of our midterms. Right now i'm expecting an A-, but if I can somehow get a basically perfect score on the final I'll get an A.
Jaime Paradela MATH410 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/09/2024	Regardless of who you take 410 with, it's gonna be really hard, but I think Jaime did a great job teaching it for the first time. Although he lectures straight out of the textbook, his lectures are easy to follow and fast-paced. He is very approachable and will explain things really well during office hours. He has great handwriting and his accent is very understandable. He gives out suggested practice problems that will help develop your understanding of concepts. There were two midterms and one final, all weighed together as 85% of the grade. The first midterm was pretty fair but the second midterm was very unexpected. There were 3 quizzes and 3 homeworks that were all weighed very little. He wants his students to do well as he will curve the assessments based on the average. Additionally, he will curve at the end of the semester as well. Overall, a wonderful person and decent professor.
Jaime Paradela MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/23/2024	He is a good guy, very understanding and responsive to student feedback. However, he is just overall unaware- meaning he sets dates for homework and midterms and doesn't change them even when we are behind schedule. Also when asked questions while taking a midterm he is very unhelpful. Lectures are good to attend but if you have enough self-discipline to just read the textbook you will be good.
Jaime Paradela MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 11/23/2024	He seems like a pretty chill guy and his lectures are ok. Do not be afraid to ask questions, because he makes sure that if someone asks a question, he explains it until they understand. He may be sassy but he does want to help. Sometimes his lecturing can get confusing or unclear because it is hard to understand what he is trying to teach us about, especially around the sequences and series unit, but otherwise lecture helped with hw and exams. I wish he'd give us formula sheets because it is a lot of content to cover and I don't want to be stressing about remembering the right equation rather than focusing on how to do it. We received 2 HW assignments each week based on lecture content and had unit tests (~6-8 questions) per chapter. I didn't use the textbook and just paid for HW because I don't think the txtbk would have helped much. Honestly, the TA that you had also could impact you a lot. I had a good TA who was helpful in teaching us how to do the problems and walked us through that so we could be prepared, but some TAs just kind of threw their students into it.
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.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting an A Anonymous 08/27/2024	Jaime is a contradiction. He is a wonderful person and understands math at a very high level. Unfortunately his teaching skills need a bit of work. He comes in as a foreign teacher so his notation and vocabulary is different than what I have learned in the past. I second the Pros and Cons review but will say, the HW questions are often nearly the exact same as the quizzes. And the Quizzes often show up on the Exams. So make sure you're doing the practice problems.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/31/2024	Loved him as a person and professor. He was a little hard to understand and he didn't really post his notes on classroom which was a little annoying but I still understood all the class content. He was also always very understanding about personal stuff (he let me reschedule my final because of a family event). I don't know how to describe it, I just liked him as a teacher. I don't recommend him if you teach yourself some concepts because I definitely had to do that sometimes.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/28/2024	He's an okay lecturer but a really, really nice guy. Lectures and exercises are straight out of the book and somewhat dry but he clearly understands the contents of the course very well and explains it well. I wish he'd spend less time on the proofs behind concepts (which aren't applicable in this class) and focus on doing more practice problems, but it is what it is. Quiz and exam questions are mostly modified textbook questions and aren't unfair, and he does do reviews for both if you ask. He's extremely nice and understanding and is always willing to break down course material more if you don't understand it. He's very willing to give extensions on assignments if you have a good reason and responds to emails quickly.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/31/2024	I'd rate 3.5 stars. He gives good homework exercises, his exams are fair but can be a bit difficult, and he gives plenty extra credit opportunities plus massive curve in the end. Main critique is his lectures are exactly the same as the textbook, and I wish he would explain certain parts of the course more in depth.
Jaime Paradela Anonymous 01/31/2024	jaime!!
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting a C+ Anonymous 01/02/2024	Very nice guy, who obviously knows what he's talking about when it comes to the math itself, but when it comes to general teaching skills, he isn't where he should be. Fall of 2023 was his first semester ever teaching, and as a result, simple things like explanations to confusing practice problems or MATLAB were sadly not his forte. Hopefully he is better in future semesters because of more experience, but otherwise, I would say try to take MATH241 with a different professor, as the content is already hard enough on its own.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/15/2023	There were three tests, weekly quizzes, and one MATLAB assignment that was really easy and his instructions gave the answers. He also gives out a few extra credit assignments. DO THEM! They will definitely help your grade in the end. Pros: - Curved the class in the end by 2% - Gives out extra credit - Is really funny to talk to - Optional homework, but do it because the quizzes are similar to the homework - Helpful in office hours Cons: - Goes into unnecessary detail with proofs during lecture - Exams are really difficult - Isn't very good at lecturing - Teaching style is literally just writing what the textbook says - No practice exams for the midterms If you take this class with Jaime, you'll have to do a lot of self-studying with Justin's videos and notes but he's a great person to just talk to and super funny and he definitely tries to make sure that you pass the class.
Jaime Paradela Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2023	If ur coming into ur freshman year, you'll have a great time here. You'll make a ton of friends, have a lot of fun, and still get to enjoy multi variable calc for what it is. If you're a little older and and are just trying to pass a class, then this class is a little lacking in resources. You'll need to do a lot of homework and research on your own to prepare for the final properly. Jamie is a great guy, although sometimes I do get lost in his explanations since they get too conceptual, and are sometimes hard to relate to actually solving problems. Overall, the community in this class combined with the initial rigour it provided leads me to give this class a solid 9/10. Just try not to make any mistakes, he gives really bad partials.
Jaime Paradela MATH241H Anonymous 09/02/2023	Great man, really funny!