Matthew Welsh

This professor has taught: MATH240, MATH241, MATH241H, MATH858N

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Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A- gigi 01/04/2024	I overall would recommend this course to others if they’re willing to put in the time and effort to learn and fully understand the material on their own time. Since it was an honors course, the class was paced kinda fast, and we often did not get time to fully understand the material before moving on or deeper into the current topic but, oh well, that's an honors class. Although I did struggle with learning material on my own, Welsh was a flexible grader and professor. He was understanding of circumstances and was very approachable, especially during office hours. Although I wish the lectures were focused more on material on exams, I think Welsh was a good professor and a nice dude. I'd give him a 3.5 if I could.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2023	This class was hard especially towards the end but I think he definitely made it much better I think he's overall a great professor Pros: - really responsive to questions during class, in office hours, and by email, really friendly, and usually teaches the content well - handwrites notes mostly legibly, so the pace of the class is always followable - consistently asks for our feedback on assignment due dates, test length/style - always asks if there's any homework problems we want to go over, makes practice midterms that reflect the real midterm very well, gave us a list of topics to study for the final, and gives us a review day before each test. i think the tests are very fair to the content taught. Cons: - i think the lectures towards the end of the class became less cohesive, and there was a lot of jumping around between topics/explaining long proofs that cut down on our time to learn the topics and go over example problems. i think a lot of the later lectures felt less planned out than the earlier ones and topics could have been explained more straightforward/in steps Overall though my experience was good and the pros definitely outweigh the cons, would recommend him
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/16/2023	Pros: -He gives out practice exams that are very similar to the actual exams -He only gave out one MATLAB project and gave everyone a 20/20 on it -He is SUPER generous with partial credit when grading (such that the average on the exams was around a 90) -There is not a lot of homework (only 10 problems a week) Cons: -He is not a great lecturer and frequently makes topics far more complicated then they need to be -He does not curve or drop any quizzes or exams or anything of the such (which is not really needed tbh considering the class averages) -During lectures he will frequently go on confusing mathematical tangents that no one understands and will take up most of class meaning that in some class periods we ended up learning basically no new relevant material -This was his first time teaching the course and so he sometimes seemed slightly unprepared or unfamiliar with the material being taught and would mess up when doing problems -His exams would include insanely complicated algebra with large numbers for no apparent reason other than to make the problems more difficult which he would defend by saying "algebra is part of calculus" -He is not the quickest grader and took a month to get one of our exams back Overall he is not a great lecturer meaning that you will have to do some self studying on the topics however the way his exams are structured (with them basically being the practice exams with different numbers) and what a generous grader he is makes it fairly easy to get a good grade in this course.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2023	Chill guy, generally easy to follow lectures (though sometimes dull) and is very good at answering questions and clarifying any concepts students may have. Exams aren't too difficult, though he sometimes gives you questions just because they're interesting to him even if you haven't done anything like them for practice. Gives practice exams for midterms that are somewhat like the tests, and the study guide he gave for the final was very informative about what topics would be on the test. Sometimes takes a while to grade things, but pretty receptive to students' requests and suggestions in the class.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2023	I really appreciated Welsh throughout the semester and was happy to have had him as my professor. He tried to be very thorough with the material, and his passion for math was clear in every lesson he taught. While his quizzes were pretty much the same difficulty as questions from our homework, he often threw questions into his midterms that needed you to think a little bit beyond the material we had discusses in class. For instance, one question explained to us the concept of skew lines in 3d space and gave us the formula for computing the distance between these skew lines, with us then having to "prove" (much more of an explanation than any sort of rigorous proof) why this would be the case. Questions like these would be frustrating when you didn't get them, but very rewarding when you did. Either way, Welsh was very charitable when grading these midterms and took into account that he was asking some somewhat difficult questions in these cases. Thankfully, none of this ended up being a problem for our final, since he didn't have a hand in writing that. With all of that taken into account, I still would feel uncomfortable giving him anything less than five stars. He was very accommodating when I had gotten sick for a week halfway through the semester, and is generally very flexible when it comes to all that stuff. Tying it back into his passion for math, it's clear that he's here to help us understand everything -- not to try and fail us. If you end up taking a class like this with him in the future, make sure you really understand the material so that you'd be able to apply your learning a bit (especially if you're taking an honors section). I'd encourage you to do more practice than was absolutely necessary with the homework, and to use other resources like Professor Leonard on YouTube when he's not making sense to you. Overall, a great professor and a great guy.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/15/2023	I overall would recommend this course for others if they’re willing to put in the time and effort to learn and fully understand the material on their own time. Since it was an honors course, the class was paced rather quickly, and we often did not get time to fully understand the material before moving on to a fully different topics or deeper into the current topic. Although I did struggle with learning material on my own, Welsh was a flexible grader and professor. He was understanding of circumstances and was very approachable, especially during office hours. Although I wish the class was focused more towards the application side of calc 3 and towards the final exam, I think Welsh was a great professor, although I wish he focused less on theory. I would give a 3.5 rating if I could.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2023	Overall, Matt is a good professor. He is very responsive to students and will adapt his teaching and overall course to meet his student's wants and needs. For example, he gave us practice midterms that matched the midterms content almost exactly when we asked. The only downside to his teaching is A) his exams and quizzes can often be very hard and rely on having intuition about things outside of the course. And B) his lecturing can be unclear about what we need to know and what we don't. He often likes to prove theorems/formulas, which can make lectures more confusing. Sometimes he assumes we have intuition about a concept and doesn't explain it as much as he should. However, Matt is an extremely likable guy and wants to see his students succeed. I would recommend taking 240/241 with him 100%.
Matthew Welsh MATH241H Expecting an A DaFightah 12/14/2023	Professor Welsh was a very kind and generous professor, and he was obviously passionate about the math. He was very generous with partial credit to the extent that I actually felt like my understanding of the material was reflected by my grades on exams. Essentially he gave you partial credit for everything that you did right, and say you made one arithmetic error that lead to properly performed calculations yielding wrong answers, professor Welsh would only dock maybe 1 point from a 10 or 15 or 20 point question. He was very generous with the MATLAB too, and overall when you take the class you know that he is on your side. I think he taught many things quite well, and he often gave us a lot of freedom with what specific topics we wanted to cover, and I never felt afraid to ask a question in his class, because he always would treat questions as if they were important. The only down side I felt was that at times Professor Welsh, being very experienced in math, would take short cuts in explanations, or simplifications that were a bit too big of a jump for me and my classmates to understand. Sometimes I did feel like this confused me while learning as I would get distracted by his shortcuts, but I wouldn't always be in a position to pursue understanding them because there was so much other material I had to focus on in that moment. I was really able to appreciate his complex understanding and explanations of the material however. I took calculus 3 in senior year of high school, and when I took it this semester, I learned the material much more deeply.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting an A personasdfghjkl 12/14/2022	Overall, excellent professor. - Moves at an easy-to-follow pace, and covers the material in a way that fits an introductory course. However, he's also willing to talk about more advanced topics during office hours. (e.g. I asked him to explain the determinant, and apparently the determinant of A = [a_1 a_2 ... a_n] is the unique real number such that a_1 ∧ a_2 ∧ ... ∧ a_n = (det A) (e_1 ∧ e_2 ∧ ... ∧ e_n) where ∧ denotes the exterior product) - Notes are hand-written during lecture, he uploads notes to ELMS afterwards in case you miss lecture. - Homeworks are optional, but if you don't do them you'll probably fail the course - Exams are pretty much taken exactly from the homework, with some numbers changed - Clearly passionate about math
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2022	Welsh is a great professor, a really nice person and just overall pretty chill. His lectures are interesting, and he uploads the notes online. If you ask a question, he's genuinely happy to answer it, and will do so very thoroughly. The midterms aren't hard, and he's flexible with deadlines and overall accommodating. He actually listens to feedback form the students. The class feels like a community, where people know each other and are actually interested in the lecture material. He took a lot of time to grade homework and midterms, but that's not a big issue in my opinion. Also, during the last midterm, it was a bit of a disarray, in the sense that even the TAs weren't sure what material is going to appear on the midterm, but it worked out fine in the end. Overall I would really recommend Welsh. He's so far the best professor I've had.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/09/2022	A really nice guy and generally easy to understand professor, but took forever to grade assignments (other than midterms) and didn't always provide the best study materials. Seems a lot better than other lin alg professors though so he'd probably be your best bet.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Anonymous 12/04/2022	Excellent professor. Easy to understand, midterms are fair, and the best part is that the class feels like a community. I never thought I would say that I would look forward to go to math, but with Welsh, I always do.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/28/2022	Welsh is a great professor. He is is very accommodating towards his class and takes the class feedback into account. He writes his lecture notes by hand during the class which is nice if you are also taking notes. Even if you miss lectures, his notes are pretty easy to understand. He's pretty good at explaining the concepts but sometimes the things he says can be confusing, but just watch the concept on youtube or go to his office hours. He hasn't curved any of our midterms so far, but I've gotten a decent amount of points back on both, so don't be afraid to go ask for more points.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/28/2022	A living legend is a great way to put it. He's very kind and understanding and doesn't lack as a professor. He's flexible with deadlines and is very helpful during office hours. He definitely cares about his students and makes this class easy!!!
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/25/2022	He's good at teaching, understands the course subject very well. Don't let the content creep up on you, though... the first half of the semester is much more lightweight than the second!
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Expecting a C Anonymous 09/25/2022	Decent professor who hand-writes lecture notes during class and uploads them online so you don't have to attend lectures if you don't want to.
Matthew Welsh MATH240 Anonymous 09/21/2022	Matthew Welsh is a living legend. He is extremely chill and takes his time to explain concepts. He is extremely accommodating and truly adjusts to feedback from the class. The semester has been easy going so far as the workload is manageable and he makes sure to be reasonable with what he expects from his students.