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“Literally the worst professor ever”
MATH1700 - 1.0 rating“One of the worst educators I have ever been plagued with”
MATH180002 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
89%
Textbook Required
43%
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B
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PRECALCULUS
3.0
(2)PRECA1500
3.0
(2)CALC
2.0
(1)FUNCTIONS
2.0
(4)GEOMETRY
2.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
PRECALC
5.0
MATH1400
5.0
BUSINESSSTATIS
5.0
MATH213
5.0
MATH2200
5.0
Reviews (84)
Hard time speaking English. Often absent, and grading unclear.
Poorly speaks english and typically 15 minutes late. if you are best friends with your book you would be ok, but this man isnt a good teacher.
He teaches from the book, which is very hard to learn from, especially in Math. He doesn't speak english very well.
Had a difficult time understanding him. He was always patient and helpful. You just have to pay very close attention.
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Difficult to understand, impersonal also.
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He TRIES to help people out, but usually he makes multiple mistakes himself when doing a problem which can be VERY confusing. He is very passive. Many students become aggravated due to the way he explains things & his misinterpretation of questions asked
Very nice guy, cant teach well, makes many mistakes which harm you due to not knowing exactly what to do.
usually arrives 10 minutes late to class. VERY difficult to understand. you may get what's going on...if you read the chapter three or four times. labs are mostly busywork.
Nice guy, cant understand him tho. you have to ask questions in this class bc if u dont u wont have any idea of whats going on, and usually the other students teach the class. Easy quizzes, easy gpa booster.
Very hard to understand. Makes many mistakes while doing out problems on the board. Almost always takes 10 minutes to set up overhead projector. Gives study guide for midterm, but not for final.Final is cumulative, mostly stuff that was on midterm though
very hard to understand. some what leinent on grading, which is good beacuse he doesnt know how to teach! not recommended if your struggling in math in any way
Awful. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but his accent gets in the way of understanding what he's talking about. If you're a bad math student (like me), this guy is NOT for you. I learned the hard way.
very nice as a person but not too great of a teacher
he is hard to understand and teaches the entire class off of a power point slideshow that he downloads offline. it takes him 10 minutes to answer a question if u ask him, he has no idea whats going on...
gouging out my eyes for no reason would make more sense than this class. its a good thing that its wicked easy math that i already kno, but he cannot teach in any way. i feel bad for the people that dont already kno this stuff...b/c they still wont after this class!
I took 3 classes with this guy... that was enough. Cannot understand his very heavy accent
Horrible teacher. When a professor gives me a problem, and I identify the pattern, and he can't, there's a problem. And JESUS that TOOTH. So distracting.
By Far the worse experience of my college life, students have to teach other students for him because he is to stupid to teach his own class. Very sorry teacher.
If there is a reason to not go to college he is it. He is a really nice guy, but cannot teach in any way. Other math students who are math majors are the only way to pass the class. its sad when the math tutor center has to teach his entire class. I do not recomend him.
He's very hard to understand and in math that can pose a problem. I got a 3.5 in his class, but I'm very good at math so I could teach myself if I had to. If you're a student that struggles with math, or can't teach yourself things when the professor isn't clear, do not take a class with him.
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had to drop the class because i could not understand a word he said
Cant understand anything he says. When you ask him a question his answer makes it seem even harder than before you asked.
Could not understand him. Each class, I basically read the book instead of listening to him so I could actually understand it, and finished the homework in class. I would not recommend him.
He speaks with an Indian accent and fairly quickly, and assigns homework regularly (~5-15 problems), but he's very kind, very considerate to students' needs _even when they're rude to him_, and he tells you which problems he picks from for tests/quizzes, which are _very_ short. Read the book, and pay attention to what he writes, not what he speaks.
I took this course in summer school and received a 2.5 in the class. Almost everyone in my class went to the math center because we could not understand him. He is one of the worst teachers I ever had at FSC. The only way you can pass his class is by spending alot of time in the math center because the tutors know more than he does.
doesn't understand what he's saying. doesnt know what happening, or what he's teaching
He is a really nice guy but I couldn't understand a word he said. I needed to go to the math center everyday to survive that class. His quizes are easy though because he takes them right out of the book.
I took his class last summer. Noboby in the class could not understand him. Only person in the class receive a 4.0. If you are not a math major, please take any math class at another college.
teacher is hard to understand, but his quizzes and tests are right from the book. His class was an easy 4.0 if you just studied the quiz answers in the book and the test questions too.
good luck
Great professor. Quizes and tests were easy, straight from book or hands out a practice test w/sol the real test is pract identical! He has an accent, by no means hard to understand and you learn from your book, always there to help students. His finals though are usually all inclusive but he lets you bring in notes. He's a good professor.
DROP IT WHILE YOU STILL HAVE THE CHANCE!!
Good teacher, but hard to understand!! now has you do homework and tests online which makes it really easy to ace. Take him if you just need to pass the class, but if you actually want to learn i would say to try another professor.
DROP THIS CLASS!!! Take it with Michael Stassen he is much better and speaks english!I honestly think the average grade in the class was a 1.0!
Find a way to take this class with anyone but this man. Lectures are insanely confusing, half of what he said was actually wrong and the class had to correct him. Thankfully he did post practice tests, then had the real tests almost identical to them. If you memorize answers you'll do good, but you won't take away anything from this course.
He is the worst math teacher!!!!!!very hard to understand english and goes through sections like its a piece of cake without asking if anyone understands. and if you dont he does the same problem and move on. When you get into the book he gets to a point where he cant even figure out the problems. then has exam. im an A math student but not w/him
DO NOT RECOMMEND. Unorganized, loses papers all the time, inconsistent grading, doesn't teach the material thats on the online homework and quizzes before they are due, the only good thing is that the tests are based off of the online stuff. Easy to pass but a serious pain to be in this class.
Could not understand a word he spoke. You basically have to teach yourself, but atleast his homeworks and quizzes use MyMathLab which has very helpful things like Help Me Solve This. I would never ever consider taking him again.
he doesnt teach, gives way too many tests, and grade like a jerk. oh yeah, and he cant speak english. DO NOT TAKE HIM. He is more trouble than he's worth. He makes you wonder who would hire a bad teacher who can't speak english or organize a course at a small teaching college in new england. he is a disgrace.
Horrible. Gives out online homework and doesn't even go over it. The website used for the homework doesn't give you help either. You'll be basically paying the school to teach yourself math, statistics in my case. He also does some stuff on the board and its hard to read and when he runs out of room, he continues to write behind projector screen
doesnt speak much english, doesnt teach at all, refuses to help students, all homework is online, you pretty much teach yourself the math then he tells you a different way of doing it. way to confusing. avoid at all cost your 90% chance of failing even for a studens
Terrible professor, my biggest regret is that I didn't drop the class before the deadline! The class was graded off of two quizzes and a final, the syllabus said we would have 8... his homework is meaningless and he hardly even goes over the assignments. When you hand him a homework assignment you never get it back, I think he just loses them!
The only reason I did well was the fact that I took a difficult precalc course in high school. He is a horrible professor, teaches you nothing, and speaks broken English. When solving a problem he will change parts of the function in his explanation making him impossible to follow. He is the plague of the math department, avoid him.
No one could understand him. He gave us quizzes before we had gone over chapters and really didn't know what was going on. He literally wrote on the whiteboard with a marker that had no ink in it. I sent him emails and even left him a voicemail and never received anything back. If I didn't have MyMathLab i would of failed.
One of the worst, if not the worst teacher I've ever had. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM!! EVER! His use of the english language will baffle any who try to listen to his lectures and he consistently will show up late and hold the class much after it should leave. You will need to self teach all the material. DO NOT TAKE HIM
Probably the worst math professor you will have a possibility of receiving in your life. Tough to understand, lectures make no sense, self-taught, always late.
Impossible class. Prof is very hard to understand and does not what he is doing. Have to self teach the material and take your own notes to even begin to understand. Doesn't answer questions at all and seems to not understand what is being asked. Just pushes ahead without really giving you a chance to begin to understand what is going on.
Had two classes with him... and in both he is awful. Spits the textbook back at you and provides no explanation at all. Tries to cram in everything he can in one class so he doesn't fall behind. Homework doesn't make sense if you don't understand the textbook. Confuses himself while teaching. AVOID!!
Mumbling through many of the lectures, Zekeria makes the subject more unclear as he progresses. He paces the class horribly, running though four chapters in the last two classes. if there's another teacher you can take a class with instead of him, then do it and don't look back
Do NOT make the same mistake I did. I heard he was a terrible professor, and I didn't listen. Do NOT take a class with him unless you've already mastered pre-cal. Even then, he'll confuse you to the point where you don't know it anymore. I'm withdrawing from the class I'm taking with him now. Take any other section but his class.
Awful. Assigns final on four chapters that he goes through in the last two classes. Horrible communication over assignments. Emails students at odd hours for things needed the following morning. Requires a lot of extra tools to be bought (online homework access, TI-83, etc). Also uses Microsoft Sam to narrate his lectures.
One of the worst educators I have ever been plagued with. He is very hard to understand because he doesn't speak great English and he assigns projects and tests due the very next day. He requires everything to be handed in manually not online and makes it hard to hand assignments in when he does not have office hours when it's due.
He is concerned, respectful, and helpful
He is hard to understand, doesn't answer emails, and the program used for homework is alright but it was not explained how to use it.
This was the worst excuse for an online class that I've ever taken. The lectures are hand-written illegibly, and make no reference to the $180 book we had to buy. It took him two weeks to respond to a question about the online class. He wanted the homework scanned and e-mailed to him, or done on paper and physically MAILED to him. Never again.
Avoid this class at all costs, unless its a requirement. If its a requirement, my best advice to you is to do all of the online homework he gives you and take all of the online quizzes. The in class tests are based on his lectures, so taking notes might help. I didn't take any notes because he's a little hard to understand. And yeah, good luck!
Rushes through course material and recites the information without explanation or further detail. Assigns homework online with various due dates and homework to be handed in during class time but does not notify you when the online homework assignments have been posted, and often tries to start a new unit with little to no class time left.
Extremely difficult to understand. Ridiculously fast paved, will not slow down. Very hard to understand lectures and concepts in this environment.
Literally the worst professor ever. Doesn't speak English and refuses to take the time to teach instead of just doing it all himself.
He is very difficult to understand. He does not explain what he expects and his assignments are very vague. Lots of group work which I hated because everyone was on different levels of math skills, and getting everyone on the same page was very hard. He never explains due dates or dates of exams. He does out the work but doesn't explain it well.
Never take the class. you cannot understand anything he says. His handwriting isn't legible. He basically teaches himself. Gives random quizzes and uses tophat that you have to pay a crazy amount for. Gives random homework assignments.
This dude is awful. Had to comeback for a second 0 rating now that its finals season.
This man has just about no clue about what hes doing. He forces us to pay for and use a 3rd party program called tophat that he barely understands the basics of. He barely teachs, he just shows problems and does the work while rarely explaining what hes doing. A student could teach this class better while using discord and a free drawing software
Easy the worst professor/teacher that I've ever taken a class with. No communication, completely lost
This teacher is extremely disorganized, won't tell you what's on the test, mumbles to himself the whole time, and calls it "teaching". Do yourself a favor, and switch from his class as soon as possible. You will not pass. This class will make you unlearn math.
Zekeria is a nice professor, but hard to understand. He has an accent in which is really hard to understand most of the time. During this class, I had to teach myself a lot of stuff and watch videos about it. The answer to every homework is in the textbook and we would do practices in class. The study guide to the test was similar to the test given
Hes having a hard time adjusting to online learning . Hes a very nice man and respectful. He has no control of his accent, plz be respectful. Class is hard and more of independent learning but hes trying .
Does not teach, makes students install borderline spyware for tests, treats homework like tests, you can't understand a word of what he says. Plays videos for the class and uses that as a sad excuse for "teaching". Rarely answers questions when asked due to him not looking at the online chat. Choose someone else immediately if you can
DO NOT take this professor unless you MUST to graduate. I cannot state enough how incompetent this professor is. It is actually shocking that he is still on payroll. Has no idea how to use technology and does not respond to emails or show up to meetings HE schedules. The whole class was watching YouTube videos. I feel scammed.
Completely disorganized and bad with spelling/dates. Makes you install this terrible software called tophat that barely works half the time and is always having connection issues. Also has in class quizzes where he tests you on unrlated things like reading
Completely disorganized and bad with spelling/dates. Makes you install this terrible software called tophat that barely works half the time and is always having connection issues. Also has in class quizzes where he tests you on useless unrelated things like reading
Terrible professor. Had to pay for an online textbook called Tophat that barely ever worked, and when reaching out to him about it would get no response. Nearly failed the class due to this, and him grading correct test answers wrong.
Terrible professor. Had to pay for an online textbook called Tophat that barely ever worked, and when reaching out to him about it would get no response. Nearly failed the class due to this, and him grading correct test answers wrong. His lectures are more of him talking to himself or playing videos, don't take this class.
I seriously cannot stress enough how much I don't recommend taking a class with this professor. Although I had to because of a major requirement for my degree. I could never understand a single word he said and the only reason I passed was due to my previous knowledge of statistics. Also, he uses top hat which only ever made things more difficult.
Worst prof ever
**Do not take this professor ever** Quiz and test heavy. Totally hard to understand. Flies through the material. Doesn't confirm with the class if we had any questions. Constantly incorrect in his class examples to the point where students would correct him and he'd give extra points (yikes). Awful experience.
Hard to understand, way to fast speaking in order to take quality notes and poorly explains what hw is importand tawds grades and what is practice because be gives both. But a rather nice guy, he is a good person but chose the wrong career.
I did not understand this professor. His lectures were hard to follow and very lengthy. We also went very fast, even if everyone in the class was lost. Even went to tutoring and it did not help. Would not recommend. Also does not allow you to take the course evaluation at the end of the semester.
Not hating but this teacher is learning with us no cap. So many times I see bro STRESSED about the assignments he assigns. Not to mention the broken English. Not to mention bro is quiz and test heavy. Not to mention he's on a speedrun challenge when he teaches. Again blud doesn't know what he teaching he's a student in his own class. That's wild.
This professor has nothing going on in his head. Every class was a lecture but there was no point in listening since you can't understand him with his thick accent. Many tests and quizzes but you can easily cheat. Homework is online and there's 10 questions due every Sunday. Went for tutoring and no one could even help me or get the correct answers
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
89%
Textbook Required
43%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.39 avg changeRatings by Course
PRECALCULUS
3.0
(2)PRECA1500
3.0
(2)CALC
2.0
(1)FUNCTIONS
2.0
(4)GEOMETRY
2.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
PRECALC
5.0
MATH1400
5.0
BUSINESSSTATIS
5.0
MATH213
5.0
MATH2200
5.0