Very difficult to understand, seems irritated when you ask ?s, treats you ba

Has no class objectives, irrates him to answer ??s, hard to understand

Hard to understand, mumbles with thick accent. Didn't learn a thing.

you see my friend this is american...please speak english

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Dr. Assaf is very hard to understand and not willing to help students. He was hardy available for his posted office hours. He gets pissed when you keep on asking questions. This is America, so speak OUR language of English not your jibber!

Absolutly terrible...He thought we were "stupid americans"

Assaf was extremely hard to understand! When we didnt answer his questions he asked if we had pride in our country and our family.... what is he talking about! Does he have pride in his country!!?? Probably not.

VERY difficult to understand him. What the heck does 12/0 have to do with Algebra? Not willing to answer questions. If he doesn't understand you, he simply says that he doesn't and goes back to what he was doing. NOT fun.

I'm not ****, but I think that if you are going to teach in a predominantly English-speaking culture, you should be able to clearly speak English. Most of class time was spent trying to understand him.

I was not able to understand a single word he said. I found myself spending two to three extra hours a day simply going over what was "said" in class. Do not take him under and circumstance.

Agh! Impossible! He is sooo hard to understand, and smiles when he hands you back your paper, with a big "55%" on it.. *slams head on desk* Avoid at all costs..

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He is very hard to understand because he can hardly speak english, and if you ask him a question he sometimes gets annoyed and starts talking even faster. He might be a good teacher if you speak arabic

Hard to understand and sometimes a exam pops up because you never know what he is saying. Try to get a different professor if possible!

Very hard to understand, not helpful at all, worst professor I've had yet

This guy is terrible. You can't understand a word he says, he doesn't want to help you, he's boring, doesn't seem to care. Don't take this class with him, find someone else. He might know math fairly well, but he can't teach if you can't understand what he's saying.

He knows what he is doing, but he can not communicate to the class. He gives take home quizzes, but even with the help of math assistant or tutors the quizzes are impossible. He can't speak english very well so sit in the front row. I would recommend any teacher besides him...but if you get him do the homework and use the text book

DON'T TAKE HIM!!! he can't speak english and he doesn't care that his class average is a D-. Everything is "your" fault, even though he is the horrible teacher

OMG STAY AWAY! Literally can not understand a word he says, the first day i honestly thought he was speaking in a different language. Tests/quizzes are so hard that not even the tutors can get full points, he takes random deductions from problems with no explanation, just a (-18) wrote at the top, and makes you feel stupid if you ask a question.

NEVER TAKE THIS TEACHER!!!! More than half of the class Fails. He is impossible to understands and doesn't even care. If you ask questions he makes you feel stupid and quizzes and test are impossible. There is no such think as curving even though class averages are in the 30% range.

This guy is the professor I have ever had. It's extremely hard to understand him, he constantly needs to be corrected, and his class is very dull. I love math, but this professor made me dread coming to class.

dont take this professor unless you're fantastic at math. He mumbles a lot, and even though he says "questions?" every five minutes, he's terrible at answering questions. If possible take this class with a different professor.

DO NOT TAKE THE CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR he is absolutely horrible and the only thing you can understand what he's saying is "questions?" and "now and example." overall a horrible teacher.

have to keep up on the online homework and the online walk through, when you are doing the homework is more helpful than the actual teacher.

He has very poor english, very hard to understand what he is saying which makes learning extremely hard while in class. Count on just watching what he writes on the chalk board and blocking out his voice. He gives barley any homework and doesn't take attendance nor has he ever tried to learn anyones name. Prep to teach yourself.

Worst math class ever.

This is a hard class to begin with but taking it with this prof. makes it even harder. If you have the choice take with a different professor. Grades on 3 tests and a few quizzes. Strong accent and some words are hard to understand. Not a bad guy, just not a great professor.

Get a different professor for this course if you can. You cannot understand him and he does not go over everything that may be on the test. Do all the homework and do the practice tests he provides in order to do somewhat good on the exams. He is a nice guy but overall a terrible professor

Nice guy himself, but worst professor I've ever had. Gave us a blank test to study for our exam, but wouldn't give the answers so we didn't know what to do. He states this math is supposed to be easy & we should've learned it in middle/high school. He doesn't curve grades, or give extra credit. If you go & talk to him personally he can kind of help

He writes his own notes & tests. He posts the notes/hw on BlackBoard that are named random chapters and tells us to do the odd number questions whenever we finish a section which we never know what one we're on. Very strong accent. The tests will scare you, but always checks answers because I'll have the problem correct and have 0 credit given.

Terrible professor, his graders mess up on every test and homework assignment. Barley can understand him

Notes are hard to understand and he has an accent so thiccc that you can barely understand any words he says.

Worst class I've ever taken. He is a really nice person who is funny, but his teaching is awful and he is so hard to understand, especially with his accent. Grading was horrible and done by a grad student. I dropped the class and after money deadline so I will have to retake 107 again.

I took calc classes in high school, and even after that I couldn't understand a single thing we would try to get us to do. The schedule was just about non-existent and there's still no grades in. I'm definitely going to fail and honestly stopped going because I couldn't understand a word he says. It's not even all the heavy accent, just confuses me

It is very hard to understand him especially online. He is very-very bad at posting things online or telling you when things are due, I think he just chooses not to, the blackboard shell for his class is a mess and it's very difficult to find what you need. I emailed him like 3 questions and he replied "yes" to one of them.

10/10 WOULDN'T recommend this professor. You can't understand him most of the time. The lectures and homework don't correlate with the exams. He makes typos on the final and expects you to fix them in the last minutes of the exam. WORSE PROFESSOR EVER!!!!! It's not even difficult, he just so unorganized. If I could rate him a 0, I would.

He is genuinely a very nice man, and he tells some funny; albeit very strange; jokes and stories. He also responds to emails quick but they are hard to understand and he often doesn't understand your questions well. Tests usually have questions that are nothing like what we do in class and he is hard to learn from. Nice dude, horrible professor.

Horrible teacher. If you ever ask him a question he will never fully answer it plus when he emails you it looks like he's talking to you in a text. All of his assignments were word documents when he could've simply used my math lab. He would often put the wrong number in certain equations and then email everyone a new number and it still be wrong.

I emailed him several times about questions that I have had and he emailed me back with simple answers of yes, no. Then I emailed him a question about my grade and he acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. He isn't good with technology. he makes excuses when he makes a mistake.

The tests have a few questions that were never discussed in class. The professor is very hard to understand especially when online. The communication from the professor is not good and usually very unprofessional. Tests were not graded the same between students, you could have the same answers and completely different scores.

I would not recommend taking a course with this professor on the fact that he is extremely hard to understand. The content in class is from his notes, making It even harder to understand because nothing is thoroughly explained. He doesn't explain when someone asks a question. The actual content isn't hard, you just have to teach it to yourself.

He was hard to understand in class, and was terrible about posting things online outside of class. I would not know the dates of tests and quizzes until a few days (or even sometimes *the* day) before class, as there was nothing useful contained in his syllabus. Avoid him if you can, it will make your life easier.

Unfortunately, Dr. Assaf is the only one that teaches this course at CMU. So, good luck taking this course with him. He is not a good professor and is hard to understand. Notes don't make since, and you end up having to try and teach yourself the course material. He is not the most respectful towards students, he, at times, can make you feel dumb.

Cons: - Doesn't respond to students on WebEx, the only way to contact is through email - Doesn't prep you very well for tests/exams. Quizzes are easy and open book, but tests/exams are very hard. - Only resource he gives is scanned copies of handwritten notes. Pros: - Generous w/ grading (because you're struggling to understand the material)

Cannot understand him when he talks but doesnt give out homework. i basically taught myself during this class.

Lord have mercy for whoever has to take this professor. All the comments about the professor is true, this guy mumbles when he talks, so if you don't sit close to him you will probably never hear a single word coming out of his mouth. Very strong accent Grade is dependent on your exams. DONT TAKE HIM FOR MTH175 UNLESS you wanna learn it urself.

Professor Assaf cares about his students, but it was a struggle to get through this class. I certainly don't doubt that he knows what he is talking about, he just isn't very good at teaching/explaining the content. His class is unbelievably boring, good luck staying awake, and will explain & answer questions by responding with "use your eyes."

Not a good prof. Mumbles and also has a thick accent. He was not knowledgable in the subject and constantly made mistakes. If you do not teach the material to yourself you will fail. The entire course is dependent on 3 exams, one being the final, and a couple of quizzes, worth barley any points.

I'm ngl he is a very sweet man but omg you will not be able to understand him. Only three tests- one is the final. My advisor told me not to drop at the beginning of the semester and I hate that I listened to him because I failed the class. DO NOTTTTT take this class with this prof unless you are ready to teach yourself the entire semester.

Believe every review you heard from this guy. Really nice guy, however, SO HARD to understand! Heavy accent. The only positives is he'll allow open note for tests which is great but he's a slow lecture prof. If you have this class, switch to another professor because you will not understand a word he says