AI Rate Professor

Mathematics

Daniel Strivewell

MATHC · MATH121 · MATH123A · MATH227 · MATH112 · MATH115 · GEOMETRY · MATH123B · MATHLS10 · GEOGEO · MATH265 · MATH123C · MATHB3392 · MTH123B · 34 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.4/5
Take again
20%
Difficulty
3.7

The decision

Avoid unless you already excel at math and want a .

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerTest HeavyTough GraderLots of HomeworkConfusing LecturesRun Away Warning
  • Most students warn against him for , and .
  • while support and as missing or belittling.
  • A minority of older or hardworking students praise clarity and humor if you already master math.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

Tough grading, few graded items, and workers.

Online and ; online is especially dire in recent years.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

24/100

Pace is fast or , and exams emphasize the hardest problems.

Both formats call the course extremely hard; and long assignments.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

22/100

and skipping is tied to failing or missing critical content.

In-person almost always mandatory; but work volume replaces it.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Would-take-again is about 20 percent and .

Recent ; in-person has a small older positive minority.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

18/100

; partial credit is scarce and .

Format shift

online.

Workload

Overwhelming

15/100

, and long tests turn the class into a full-time job.

Format shift

Online homework volume is extreme; tests.

Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

Many say he confuses himself, rushes, refuses help, or belittles questions, despite a few fans.

Format shift

In-person has mixed older praise; all three online reviews rate teaching as awful.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

82/100

with homework as a required base.

Format shift

Both formats are test-heavy; .

Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

31 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

Long-running in-person record is mostly harsh: fast or , and .

Main concern

Students report belittling responses to questions and .

What students said

“ . Test heavy class... This class was basically a full time job, all to get a D.”
MATH265
“He will clown u if u ask questions. !!”
MATH227
“He is constantly putting you down and he is very unapproachable.”
MATH115

Remote format

Online

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

Recent online reviews are uniformly negative: , and advice to skip the term.

Main concern

and time limits are too tight.

What students said

“Run far away skip the semester do anything but take this proffesor he will .”
MATH227
“He will not give you and they don't correlate to what he was showing during class.”
MATH227
“ if he is your only option skip the class for that semester”
MATH227

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

without calculators, and poorly aligned to lectures.

Test HeavyNo CalculatorsHardest Chapter ProblemsLong Impossible TestsShow All Work

Assessment risk

Strict

22/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

, and show-work requirements with little partial credit.

No Calculators On TestsFive Hard QuestionsTest HeavyShow Work Or No Credit
“ !!”
MATH227
“Tests are 5 questions each of the hardest questions in the chapter that he didn't teach”
MATH123C
“ .”
MATH115

Online

, and poorly matched to taught material.

Impossible Test LengthInsufficient TimeMisaligned Content
“ and impossible to study for.”
MATH227
“He will not give you and they don't correlate to what he was showing during class.”
MATH227

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ . Test heavy class... This class was basically a full time job, all to get a D.”

Voice snapshots generated from 34 reviews, weighting recent warnings against sparse positive outliers. Credibility rating: High.

🚫 Recommendation

18/100

“ but ”

🎯 Teaching Quality

28/100

“Wack. Belittles students and ”

📚 Workload Pain

15/100

“I have never done so .”

📝

22/100

“Tests are 5 questions each of the hardest questions in the chapter that he didn't teach”

Theme 1

⚠️ About Teaching Problems

  • HORRIBLE TEACHER. Better off teaching yourself
  • and i mean a lot
  • He will clown u if u ask questions.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • This class was basically a full time job, all to get a D.
  • YOU MUST MASTER THE MATERIAL TO GET A GOOD GRADE IN THIS CLASS.
  • if you deserve an A he will give you a B.

Theme 3

👍 Minority Positive Voices

  • Awesome teacher.
  • My first A in math EVER.
  • The .

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

34

Recent reviews read by the AI

34

Lifetime ratings

84/100

Evidence confidence

Thirty-four reviews over many years consistently warn about difficulty and teaching problems despite a few defenders.

Inside 34 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 57
4 out of 54
3 out of 51
2 out of 58
1 out of 514

Course coverage

MATH123C6 reviews
MATH1155 reviews
MATH123A5 reviews
MATH2274 reviews
MATH1122 reviews
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MATHC1 review
MATHLS101 review
MTH123B1 review

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

16 reported outcomes

A range

1

A 1

B range

3

B 3

C range

2

C+ 1 · C 1

D range

2

D+ 1 · D 1

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

7

Drop/Withdrawal 3 · Incomplete 1 · Not sure yet 2 · Pass 1