Dave is a great math teacher. I had alot of test but there was not an over amount of info to learn for each test. You know whats going to be on the test as long as you do the homework he gives. His personality makes the class a lot easier, and he is usally avaiable for questions.

Dave does a great job teaching. His personality makes class more interesting and he seems to have a good understanding of what areas people will have trouble with. In our class he sped through easy stuff so we could really spend time working out the harder concepts.

A good professor and take his classes

Dave is the ideal of a good teacher: a laid back guy who has a real interest in what he teaches. Pay attention and you should have no problems in his class. He will give you every opportunity to succeed.

great guy, and a good teacher. knows the material and makes class fun. he is willing to help you if you need it. i would take any class that dave teaches

Great guy and teacher, take any class Dave teches and you will pass if you try.

David Vinson is the most laid back math teacher I have ever known. He really cares about what he teaches, and still does what he can to prevent every period from being just about work. His classes move at a fairly fast pace, but he always focuses more on the knowledge than the work.

Dave is absolutely hilarious and a very intelligent professor. His tests are taken straight from the assigned homework problems so if you can do them, there is no excuse not to do well on the tests. Most of the times class is basically used as an office hour, so any question is up for grabs in class and it prepares you for self-study at university.

He is an amazing teacher. He is the best teacher I have evr had. He is also an awesome person. I would take his class 100 times if I could.

great

I've had Dave for several classes in the past. This time around was no different from past experiences. He will assign homework, but when it comes to tests he picks some of the most difficult and challenging questions. I cringed when I found out that he was the only one teaching this course during the time that I needed it. Wouldn't recommend him.

What can you say calc 3 is hard. I believe that he tries hard and does the best he can but he still gives hard tests and you will have to earn a passing grade but he will help you if he sees you are putting forth the effort. He tells alot of jokes during class so be ready for that. He is also a very understanding chilled out teacher.

Interesting professor. Has a different sense of humor. Assigns homework for practice. There were no surprises on the tests. The problems were very similar to homework problems. He is always willing to help if you need it.

Mr. Vinson was an amazing Calc 2 teacher. His class was easy if you paid attention and took notes. The test were straight from the homework just different numbers. He is a fun teacher and real easy to get along with. He will help you if you ask questions.

Great professor, took him for both calc 3 and differential equations. Makes things straightforward and tests over method not details. He is a great guy and very knowledgeable when it comes to mathematics.Overall,Dave is the man and I would recommend him if you show up to almost every class and do all your homework.

I absolutely hate math> But LOVE Mr. Vinson's class. I highly recommend him. A fellow student told me I needed to sign up for class with him when I signed up for classes last term, and I listened, thank goodness!! He is so incredibly patient and gives you plenty of chances to succeed. If you fail this class, you just didn't show up, he is awesome!

I was being bullied by a lot of the other kids and Mr. Vinson offered to be my bodyguard. I was getting picked on by the old cherry tree, but he zoomed in on his motorcycle and starting knocking noggins. After that he gave out swirlies on my command. Eventually he taught me to stick up for myself.

Professor Vinson is the only guy who can psychically create images in your mind. This makes even the most abstract mathematical concepts a breeze to grasp. The best!

Vinson is the best. He introduced me to numbers I didn't even KNOW were numbers. I mean, "47"??? What's THAT. In any event, Mr. Vinson changed my attitudes about math. And life. And love. And THAT's one to grow on.

Before Mr. Vinson's class I could only do my times tables up to 8. Now I won the Fields Medal! Signed, Ngô Bao Châu.

Like Jaime Escalante before him, Professor Vinson starred in a movie with Lou Diamond Phillips. And like Jaime Escalante, Professor Vinson succeeded where no one else could-- by telling us to get up against the wall, like a snake. But unlike Jaime Escalante, Professor Vinson is still with us. Heavens be praised.

In addition to being a great instructor. Professor Vinson taught me to play the banjo and helped me with my screenplay. Friends of mine who've also taken his class tell me he's also an accomplished amateur boxer.

His class is more than just numbers. We reenacted Wayne's World 2 in class and I learned about LIFE.

Professor Vinson knew I was afraid of numbers, but he boxed the fear right out of me, and boxed the maths in.

"I've got it bad, so bad. I'm hot for teacher!"

On April Fool's Day, he switched my travel mug of coffee out for an identical mug full of barbecue sauce without me noticing. I still don't know exactly how he did it, I sit in the back of class and he was lecturing in the front of the room.

Professor Vinson inspired me to try out for the Olympics in Modern Pentahalon -- a combination of fencing, swimming, pistol shooting, running and horseback racing. He's really good at Fencing.

Prof. Vinson is one of the all time greats. One time he serenaded the class, singing the Queen classic "Don't Stop Me Now" to explain the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit, using a kazoo and a slide whistle. True Story!

Mr. Vinson is a good professor, but he's also a very odd fellow. During class, he would always play tapes of his old college band, Vessel. Who wanted to hear that? Not only that, but he seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with Defense Independent Pitching Statistics. And he was always muttering about boxed wine. Very, very strange.

On the first day of class, Profressor Dave lit a cigarette, threw his leather jacket over his shoulder and asked, "Who here is too cool for school?" He walked slowly to the chalkboard and began writing out the Semiquadratic Equation. A semester later, I had forgotten all I knew about Math - but I was well on my way to a degree in Life.

At first, I thought this guy was a grade-A sockhop. Help!...It's the Hair Bear Bunch! is NOT minor Hanna-Barbera, whatever Mr. Vinson might say. Nevertheless, Mr. Vinson's course made me a brilliant mathematician. Due to him, I recently received a MacArthur grant and a Fields Medal. I also became more handsome because of his grooming suggestions.

I'll be honest with you.I'm still not entirely sure why we spent half the semester reading and evaluating the prof's HAPPY DAYS fan fiction. It's even more of a mystery why we spent the second half performing plays based on this fanfiction for widows and orphans.But I got an A so I must have learned something.And Prof. Vinson made a stunning Mrs.C.

Like a modern-day Patch Adams, after half our class developed fatal brain tumors, Mr. Vinson visited them every day at the hospital, in full clown make-up, until they all died. His bringing a suitcase full of uranium to class might have been an eccentric choice, but most agree he made up for it with his award-winning routines in the cancer ward.

Less a mathematician, and more a mathemagician. Professor Vinson once introduced us to derivatives using only a mouse in a cape, who scurried back and forth across the classroom floor. It was the funniest thing you've ever seen, and yet highly instructive.

Don't let the fact that Prof. Vinson is a Vandy fan fool you into thinking he don't know nothing about no math. He knows the math, but he's loyal and will keep raising his saber high. I have to respect that.

Dave Vinson is new teacher and an inner city college like nothing he has ever seen before. The students have to go through metal detectors and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Dave and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business. Great semester!

I met Professor Vinson in a dusty old bar in Laredo, TX back in 1973. Those days I was a no good drifter, scalawag, loner, son of a gun with a heart of gold. Mr Vinson taught me the true value of love, happiness and calculus. I will be forever in debt to him for that.

Mr. Vinson truly made me believe in myself. This was an impressive feat, given that I am imaginary.

What a memorable teacher this guy is. One day he showed us his back tattoo. It was crazy, in big letters it said "CHAIN RULE" and showed Gottfried Leibniz in a circle pit whipping a chain around. He also had this Rolodex of celebrity cell phone numbers. One day he called the PC from those Apple commercials, who sounded really caught off guard.

Working 40+ hrs/wk on my pudding truck business stretched me pretty thin that semester. Mr. Vinson sensed that I had potential but lacked focus, so he let me borrow his cassette of King?s X's ?Faith Hope Love.? He assured me that Ty Tabor?s guitar tones would inspire me to greatness. He was right. I now own several erotic fruit rollup kiosks.

BEST PROF cause, one day I was starving, I had run out of money, & i'm too shy to ask anyone for a sandwich. I'm in class, I keep smelling food like crazy then at the end of class Mrs.Prof. Vinson shows up with 23 home made pies for us cause it's 3/14 Pi-Day!!! 3.14159 Pie R Sqrd, but these pies were round. Next 3/14 bring a pie to class 4 him=A

ABC, it's as easy as 1 2 3, Do Re Mi, baby, Prof and me girl !!! BC CALC is so much better than AD CALC, I didn't even need my ritalin Prof Vinson 'splained it so well!!! He really rocks!!!

The first day of class, Mr. Vinson said 'I'm going to turn your brain into a carwash'. I had no idea what that meant, and honestly I was scared. But then Mr. Vinson tore down the wall preventing me from understanding math, AND the wall preventing me from understanding and loving myself. So my brain was kind of like a carwash. It made sense.

I had Vinson for Math in the spring, so I was surprised to see him teaching Geology in the summer. It was fantastic, each class he brought in a different cover version of Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" and he taught me how I can use crystals from God's earth to help cure my flagrant bowel troubles.

Dave is great! Though I am a bit disturbed by the level of his Three Stooges (or as he calls them, The Southern Gentlemen) obsession. Seriously, I don't know how he manages relate them to EVERY mathematical principle. Also, I warn you: DON"T WEAR PERFUME OR COLOGNE TO CLASS!!! It makes him weird and angry!

Most people don't know that Prince attended Pellissippi State, but even fewer people know that Professor Vinson was the one who inspired Prince to talk in numbers. When Prince says "Love 2 the 9s," or "I Would Die 4 U"... that's all Professor Vinson.

In lieu of a textbook, he gave us printouts of the wiki page for The Clash with Mick Jones' name crossed out and his own name scrawled in. Now I both know how to work with integrals and know my rights.

I really enjoyed this class, especially the day Professor Vinson came to class in full clown makeup, brandishing Faygo, and rapping about the confusing nature of magnets. I've never learned so much in so little time. If asked if I recommend Professor Vinson to perspective students, I would reply with a "juggalOH YES!"

Had a habit of zoning out mid-sentence, usually while answering questions. He would eventually return from wherever he'd been, convinced that he'd successfully answered the question. Once he went so far as to show a student his brass knuckles and imply they might be used if the student continued to ask the question he believed he'd answered.

Although attendance is mandatory for the students, Mr. Vinson himself was often absent, preferring to send in his stead a small, copper robot named Minimettle. The robot would only respond to prime numbers, and its responses were often sandwiches (a different one for each number). I would try to get to class early to get a sandwich.

Professor Dave or Kool Moe Dave as he preferred to be called was unforgettable. He often came to class wearing a billowy black robe and would randomly "answer" questions by shrouding himself face & all until class was over. Apparently this had something to do with calculus though I could never really understand his thick Micronesian accent.

This was usually a fun class. Especially the few days when Prof Vinson came in with his basket full of socks, the socking matching game was BEST!

A good teacher, but he's no Jonathan Lamb.

A student in this class must do homework on their own or in a study group if they are to succeed in this class. Expecting to be taught all the skills needed in any class is juvenile. Dave provides the tools necessary to succeed and expects questions about any material that has been attempted,(but is still murky.) Overall, worthwhile class.

Quizzes are largely based on lectures, so make sure you take good notes. Decent amount of homework, but not too much. Definitely get him to tell the story about the monkey in the van!

Learned a lot. Only thing I didn't like about the class was the fact that he blasts Santana's Guitar Heaven during tests.

Classic country fans: Prof. Vinson is the guy for you. Don't let him fool you with his pronouncements on progressive rock and his tales of almost meeting some punk rock singer. Vinson has tons of great stories of his lunchtime adventures with Opry legends like Roy Acuff, Stonewall Jackson, and Dottie West.

I thought this independent study w/Prof.Vinson was going to be hell, boy was I mistaken, what went to hell was my preconceived, unschooled notions of Linear Algebra, Prof. Vinson set me on the straight and expansive linear track! Now if I could only understand geometry so well.

Thought math was a grimace without the mirth but after prof knoxville explained why galactus didn't just devour mars instead of bothering with earth in a proof, i knew he a teacher for my generation.

Math has never been interesting to me before. But Prof Vinson has shown me that counting to infinity can be a fun and worthwhile use of my time.

The only reason he has so many ratings on here is because he told everyone to troll his profile. When I had him 2 years ago for STATs, he was a bit lazy at teaching. Now don't get me wrong, he is a BRILLIANT mathematician. He is also very liberal as is any other stereotypical college professor is these days. However, he won't admit to it

Very nice and helpful. Also pretty laid back and funny. I enjoyed the class. He loves math. Easy A!

really good professor. gives you 100pts at the end of the term if you show up to all class meetings, and he'll replace lowest test score with the final (if itll help your grade). so far hes been my favorite math professor.

Not only does Dr. Vinson love math, he's a smart guy all around - especially concerning sociology, anthropology. We're all going to get degrees at the end of our college career thanks to him!

I had always struggled with Math, in particular Metaphysics, until I took Prof. Vinny's class. I now completely understand the multi-verse and how it was created thanks to Prof. Vinson's explanation of the singer Bob Dylan's motorcyle crash in 1966 alongside another fellow's motorcycle crash. Everything now makes perfect sense.

Nice guy, decent class, not too hard, not too easy.

I'll be honest, I don't think I would have made it past the first semester of college without this guy. Comes to class cheerful, a somewhat lax grader, and willing to help whenever you ask. Just don't be dead in class.

Dave is the GOAT. Helped me fly through Calc II and succeed. He's hilarious. His favorite number is 37, and he cares about your success. Will answer questions when you have them and ensure you understand. Take Dave.

I had Dave for Math 1910 P06 (Calc. 1) for Fall semester and it was one of the easiest courses I had taken. He gave students many opportunities to ask questions over an exercise during class and was very lenient on grading tests so long as students understood the concept, even if they didn't get the right answer. He even told us about this website.

Dave is a great guy, but overall his teaching style takes a little getting used to. If you are taking this professor I suggest you do all the "optional" homework. If you understand the Homework you will ace his tests. I took him for cal 1 and struggled because I wasn't used to his teaching style and will be taking him for cal 3 this fall.

Dave is Awesome, by far my favorite professor I've ever had at pellissippi. He's thorough in his problems and reviews. The Assigned homework perfectly fits the tests and he ensures clarity in his lectures. He's cheerful and makes class exciting. Would highly recommend. It's hard to fail If you use his topic list and follow the textbook. 10/10

I don't care what the other students say I thought he was okay.

Dave's class is not as hard as it may seem. In an online format we had homework on Achieve with very lenient due dates. We took 4 exams with an optional final. Dave encourages his students to email him for help on homework assignments. Doing this always lead me to the correct answers. Do the work and the class is easy.

He is very clear abt / forgiving about grading and giving partial credit, so you don't lose all your points if you make small mistakes which helps a ton on tests. He will answer every question you have thoroughly. Doing the 'optional' homework is the key to passing. Very dry/dark sense of humor, generally laid back. Taking him again for Calc 1!