she is very nice but she doesn't know how to teach.you would feel like you know all the stuff but when you would take test than you won't know anything. TESTs are really hard, there is totally different things in the test than what she teaches. DONT TAKE HER AT All. even if you would put more afford than still you wont get a good grade...

This was my first math class that I had taken in a little while so I was a little rusty. The professor, in my opinion, did not know haow to teach very well. She seems to be very nice but I think she is book smart, not common sense smart. I eneded up dropping her class and will never take another one with her. Her tests were difficult also.

Does not offer help when you don't understand something, she claims she is NOT a tutor. She missed @ 7 classes and had a replacement for 2 - we missed over a week of instruction.

She does not teach! She just makes power point slides she gets from the textbook and literally just reads them back to us, even her examples are the ones that are in the text. Horrible teacher

Horrible Teacher. Her homework's and lectures don't match her quizzes and tests. Don't take her class.

She doesn't prepare you well enough for the tests at all and she relies on you to learn how to use your calculator based on mymathlab. Whenever you need to use your calculator mymathlab says "use technology" and then doesn't explain how to use it. This class should not be as difficult as she makes it.

They said giving labor was the hardest thing to do... well this professor makes makes Math 90 even tougher than that! She complicates everything in the class and most of time gets her own answers wrong. Not helpful.

Took Pignotti despite the harsh reviews. I WAS a straight A student & determined to pass this class. Unfortunately, I received a D. I knew Stats would be difficult, so YES, I did take tutoring & went into her office for additional help. Don't feel that she cares for students. Lectures were confusing & tests didn't match review. Try another teacher.

Her lectures were boring, unclear examples, and seemingly unrealistic expectations. She constantly makes errors. This class was a major challenge for me simply because of the professor. I do not recommend taking it with this Professor.

Horrible teaching. She does not know how to break down problem solving. Lack of connection with students.

I recently took this Prof. for Stats. During lecture, she would spend the entire class covering problems that did not even appear on the tests. I felt confident in class and in the online homework, and knew how to complete problems, however the tests were completely different than what you would think you should study.

Uses MyMathLab, she assigns a lot of homework. The deadlines are unclear.

If another professor is available take another. She claims she has a doctoral degree in who knows what but it is irrelevant to class. Students sometimes correct her. Goes through lectures Way to quick and doesn't explain anything in detail. If u ask how to do a problem, she will do it her self on board and will pretty much say that's how you do it

By far the worst professor I've had in college! Her lectures are hard to understand and she is not very good at explaining things. Her exams are worth 80% of your grade, so even if you get A's on homework, labs and quizzes, if you do not do well on exams you will fail. I highly recommend you not take Stats with this professor.

Too test heavy, wish she would give out study guides for the tests. Not a great lecturer and messes up from time to time. She loves questions but you might end up more confused then before you asked it. I would not recommend this class to someone who isn't too great at math to begin with. I did alright because the material was familiar.

She rambles a lot. If youre trying to ask a question be ready for it to be answered in 10 minutes on how to do it. She tends to call people out even if they dont know the answer. Her personality matches with only select few kind of people.

She's very bad teacher as I have never had. She's very kind in speaking but not sincere to teach students for their successfully development of statistics and grades. She's so helpless instructor and she should be learnt more of how to teach students successfully.

It is not an good instructor as I thought. You have to learn by yourself from every source. She doesn't prepare for her teaching materials properly and she always mixes up and confuses students. I'm really disappointed. It is just waist of time, money & loose my intention too. College inspector should assess her teaching and more training for her.

If you really want to improve your stat and save your best grade, do not take her class. You will be disappointed for sure. She just a sort of teacher that wants her power and just want salary no matter ethical sense to the students. Many of her students are tearing inside while she is smiling. She's selfish & just pretend to be smart & good person

She explains not clear and she just teaches a lot the easy parts. But she likes to go fast on the hard part and sometimes she skips the hard parts instead of trying to guide students more exercises to the best understanding of her lectures. When students ask her, she just chooses the easy one to answer and likes to forget to reply to the hard one.

I recommend you don't take her class if you want to get the best grade. She always confuses you and she can't read the students' understanding. There are not many exercises, and they are not similar to the tests at all. She teaches one thing and tests another thing to confuse and trick students rather than help students to improve their knowledge.

It is hardly to grasp lectures from her. I have to learn from many sources like google, you tube, and pearson. When I ask her the hard questions , she just wait for other student ask her a new question and then she just ignored mine and jump to answer the easier questions. She's not helpful for me and I wonder I'm at risk to take her class.

Would not take again. Never gets to the point of the lecture. She is kind and nice, but her teaching methods need help.

AVOID THIS CLASS AT ALL COSTS FOR PETES SAKE. All of class period will be going over 2 problems. Every study guide or paper she writes will have a plethora of errors on them. She's quite nice, but comes unprepared and has no clear direction each day of lecture. Grading on tests is brutal and makes you show every little detail of work. Worst prof ev

Dr. Pignotti's a little difficult, but it is a math class for STEM. I wouldn't take her again. She can be a really tough grader, even over the smallest things. In addition, you don't want to skip class, or she'll have a talk with you, & she'll most likely drop you. She's nice though? Like, really nice. Just a tough professor.

horrible teacher, does not know course material for pre calculus herself

Youll never be able to pass it with A or B

Took this Calculus 1 course after taking AP Calculus in high school and passing the ap exam with a 3 and still struggled immensely. Skips over difficult topics with few examples. Constantly makes many mistakes in class that are simple and should not be made.

This teacher does not know any of the material herself, I took her help class Math181 and she would spend half of the class period to go over a problem and then get it wrong at the end. She also seems very unprepared for the class every day and it seems like the students are more prepared than she is, I passed my high school class with a 95%.

The worst professor I have ever had. Started off the class bragging that half her last class failed. Spends all lecture doing a couple problems, makes lots of mistakes that the students have to correct. Doesn't know what she's doing. Won't curve and 2/3 of my class is failing. She's nice but a god awful teacher. Take the night class instead.

This class is difficult even if you feel that you're good at math you'll find it difficult. There were classmates of mine who took calculus in high school just to drop this class. There is no room to breathe test determine your grade. Beware!!!! Don't say no one warned you.

More than half of the class failed (11/18) the second test (test 1 was worse). She sat there and tried to tell everyone that we need to retake Pre-Calc in order to get a better basis for Calc. I think if more than half of the class failed and only 2/18 people scored in the A/B range then you hold fault or is that just me? I dont recommend her.

I wish I could give pignotti a good review bc she is a sweet person, but as a proffesor shes the opposite. During her lectures she would get lost & ask us what to do next, I wouldn't learn anything from her lectures. I taught myself calc from YT videos. Gave us sooo much HW, 5 assignments due each night. More than half the class had Fs. DONT TAKE.

HORRIBLE. Made it seem like it was our fault for failing the tests, told us to go back to precalc & then come back to take calc 1. More than half of the class failed her tests. Lots of HW, couldnt keep up. Doesnt lecture properly, she gets lost then moves onto another problem. Didn't learn anything from her, had to teach myself & go to tutoring.

I looked at reviews before taking Pignotti I regret not listening to any of them, now Im a semester behind. She is horrible, told us we need to go back to HS algebra. She moves onto another problem before finishing one. Barely lectures, you need to teach yourself. You will be stressing if you take her. Cant believe she is still teaching. DONT TAKE

Her lectures dont help at all. The textbook was on Pearson and I had to teach myself from the examples on there. She doesnt go over questions in class because she doesnt have time. And the whole class is usually always failing. She blames the class instead of herself.. DONT take her if you want to pass!

Professor Pignotti was my first Math Professor at MJC and I did not have a good experience in her class. She does not do a good job explaining the math concepts and would often recommend you to take a prerequisite math course even if it is not needed. There are many more flaws, but one thing is to always be aware for any last minute changes.

She doesnt know what shes tecahing often and she doesnt really take the time to help

Pignotti was a horrible first experience with a college math professor. I took her trigonometry class, and she had no clue about what she was teaching. She would get confused trying to work through her own notes. Nothing on the study guides were on the exams, the exam problems consisted of things we were barely taught. She barely emailed back.

DO NOT take this professor by any means! Her lectures are LONG and they suck! I felt like I was basically teaching myself the material because she did not know how teach so I dropped the class. When trying to ask for her help or asking questions she makes you feel dumb and belittles you. Not worth your time just take another professor.

she seemed as if she didn't know what she was doing,asking her questions didn't even make any sense she made me more confused with her answers. used website called Aleks that she said would teach us more than her. she just goes through the packet and does it herself and doesn't really stop to explain things very well overall extremely hard class

I took her hybrid class and she spends our in-person class doing 1 or 2 homework questions the entire 1 hour 45. She treats us like kindergarteners in person then assigns heavy workload online. You WILL be teaching yourself half of the subject and she isn't the best person to teach. The lessons are packed but she skims right through (in-person).

to be honest her lectures where really long and most of the time i had to teach myself or search youtube vher lectures aren't very engaging ( at least for me ) and when asking for help she doesn't really help either but good luck if you're taking her!!

Where do I start? I completely FAILED this class. Along with I had a support class, which DIDN'T help at all. We just go through a notes packet and call it a day. There are quizzes EVERY Thursday. Many things weren't even taught, she said that the ALEKS app will "teach" us. There is going to be a lot of independent learning!!

This is literally the worst professor I have ever had in my entire life. I went to her office hours, asked for help, and she was the definition of no help. She gave so much work for no reason and half the time the homework doesn't even match the study guide and exams, which the exams matter a lot for your grade. JUST BASICALLY TEACH YOURSELF.

She is a horrible professor. She doesn't explain anything at all so basically be ready to be your own professor. She acts nice but then does nothing to help you, NO EXTRA CREDIT, she didn't even grade our final exams or the homework SHE FORCED US TO DO, which was uploading notes like we are in high school. If you love math like her, you'll be ok.