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MATH180 - 1.0 rating“I don''t get where the positive reviews are from”
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100%
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97%
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5.0
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Reviews (91)
Ok, we're a month in, and this guy is a mess... he is all over the place and doesn't explain a thing. He seems extremely unorganized, and he is not teaching anything- he is kind of doing examples for the heck of it, w/o purpose. Take someone else!
Never take this guy! U won't know what section him on! My class has only 17 students left after the second week! Even if u study hard for the test, u won't get the good grade because it don't base on the book and it is extremely difficult, U can't do it !
It was very difficult, I tried to stick in there, but... I just quit. It's basically an online curriculum for precalculus and attendance count. He's very nice, monotone, and a bit helpful.
It was a horrible class so I dropped it. Basicaally an online math class but you have to go to class. He is very monotone and not good at teaching. I would advise you not to take this class.
DO NOT TAKE! We took our first test about a month ago and he still has not given them back. Also, he doesn't even introduce the identities to section, he just gives examples of probelms and foes through them. He's a nice older guy but does NOT explain the material well or at all. Lots of online wo
Do not take this guy! He cannot teach... he's kind of freaky, he e-mails his students sometimes and chats with them... he does not have a syllabus and wants you to do the homework and has these online quizzes that your supposed to do that take forever.... he is nice, but no emthusiasm.... don't take
Its been about two months and this professor hasn't corrected our first test yet. I love math, but wow I'm doing so bad in this class. Not a very good professor!! I've gone from an A math student to a D. Worst math class ever!!
Dude, do yourself the favor and do not take this guy. Avoid this man like the plague. He assigns a ridiculus amount of internet homework and never tells you your grade. He is impossible to understand and doesn't explain problems well. Whatever you do, avoid this man. He is nice, but he can't teach!
he is the WORSE teacher EVER!!!!! you cant understand him. The way he looks is just frightening and doesnt know wat he is doing. on top of that does ex problems wrong! you also dont know what is expected of you! NEVER take him!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Millikin is a genuinely nice guy, but he definitely has his shortcomings. First, he gives an ASTRONOMICAL amount of homework. If you want to keep up and get good grades, plan your schedule and classes accordingly, because you will be working your ass off until the early hours of the morning.
This guy is a horrible teacher and he doesnt even know what the hell he's talking about. If you are in his class drop it before its too late.
Require knowledge of calculus before taking class. He go over lecture quickly, but he talks s-l-o-w-l-y. He curves the grade, gives pop quiz (don’t worth much, but do not ditch) test based on book, online quiz (extra homework). Need to devote time to this class to do well. 2 out of 15 student got A.
The truth is that he is a very nice guy. But not a very good teacher. If you are into math you MIGHT enjoy his class.It's basically an online class with required attendance. Quite monotone and hard to stay focus and pay attention to him. Doesnt really teach. jus do problems on board. but very nice!
Beware!! this guy is totally inept! he doesn't have a clue about pre-calculus. if he does, he keeps it a secret. he always screws up equations in class and then puts same ones on test - also doesn't return tests or tell us our grade.
Worst teacher I have ever had, a total waste of money. The least amount of learning I've ever done in any class. He has a way to just suck the motivation right out you. Totally not recommended.
He is a very nice old man but he is boring as hell. He is not clear and isn't helpful. Don't ever take math with this man!!!
I had the third highest grade in the class which was a 82%, not one A in the class! It is like 3 classes in one: 1. online 2. in class and 3.the book. I had a tutor twice a week and worked the hardest I have ever worked before. I got all A's except for this class! don't waste your time or money
The class started with about 70 students and now has about 12 during finals week, if that tells you anything. And i dont think anyone still in the class has above a C.He's a little crazy and it seems as if he likes to pick on people in the class, especially if you yell out the wrong answer. Dont take this course with him.
He is a nice guy, but I didn't like his style of teaching. The online work was actually very easy, but taking his in-class tests was rather difficult. I had the highest grade in his class, it was a B, and there were no A's. I would recommend taking another professor.
Terrible. Absolutely terrible.
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WORST PROFESSOR EVER...if you take this class be prepared for retarded stories, stupid faces, the longest hour (or whatever) of your life, and DO NOT LISTEN...OR DONT DO THE HOMEWORK...dont try to do both he'll only confuse you.
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his tests are impossible to understand.
wat everyone says about this professor is true...just took his midterm...he wrote it out himself in writing...the test was weird...didn't understand nething...understood the hw...but didn't understand his question...i think he should retire already...everyone in class sits as far away from him as possible...i suggest nobody should take him..
I have never rated a teacher before, but since this guy is so, so bad i am taking the time to leave a review. After this teacher i swear to never take a class without using rmp. Please do not take his class, if no one takes his class maybe occ will fire him. I'm an A student 3.75 last semester, i expect a C in this class. Simply WORST PROF ever
Worst professor ever. His class is really bad, he can spend the whole class doing only one problem and at the end, the anwer is not clear. The midterm was horrible. I am not a bad student, last semester I had a 4.00 GPA ( I took 17.5 Units). For this class I am hoping for a C- if I am lucky. PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE A MATH CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR!
I took this class my 1st semester of college. I was HAUNTED by this professor every time I looked at the book! I dropped this class with a W because I think I was failing. You never know what grade you have in the class because he never gives back your exams. The W was worth it. I took the same class with Koines, passed with flying colors, A!
TAKING THIS GUYS CLASS IS LIKE SUICIED..U WANNA KILL UR GPA BY GETTING A C OR LOWER THAN TAKE HIS CLASS. HE IS HORRIBLE I COULDNT EVEN LOOK HIM IN THE FACE...
I usally don't put up reviews, but I have to for this teacher. He is by far the worst teacher on the face of the planet, I've never had a worse teacher than this guy. It worth not to take the class than to take it he is absolutly horrible. NOTHING HE SAYS MAKES SENSE AT ALL. HE IS RETARDED.
TERRIBLE teacher. I didn't know people so boring existed on this planet. Not only does going to the class do NO good, but he is completely unhelpful when approached. I'm 100% certain he is legally retarded. STAY FAR, FAR, FAR AWAY FROM THIS CLASS!
DO NOT take a class with this professor, do yourself a favor by staying away from any of his classes. If you want to do a favor to other people, please tell them to stay away from him. WORST CLASS EVER. STAY AWAY. WARNING, WARNING!!!!!
This is the worst class I've ever taken. I'll make sure I use rmp from now on. I'm an idiot for not dropping the damn class.
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!Regardless if you are here just to learn,or to transfer he is still the worst teacher in every aspect of the word.I have allA's and with lots of effort I got a D in this class.I do feel pity for him,but he should know his teaching dosen't benefit;it actually hurts you.If you try to stick it out,you won't be able to.GET OUT!
he's absolutely boring! he's a really nice teacher but the way he teaches makes NO sense at all.
Worst teacher...I got a D in his class and A's in my other classes. He is really nice, and doesn't care about attendance, but what does attendance matter if you're failing anyway? I got an A in my last math class, so I can't be that bad at math. Now I'm stuck retaking this stupid class! STAY AWAY FROM THIS TEACHER!
Worst teacher I've ever had. Boring, confusing, horrible. Class went from 70 to 10 people by the end of the semester. DO NOT TAKE.
he is not a good teacher he needs to retire already. he thinks that we are all the perfect A students but he teaches things that are not on the tests and the whole class basically failed the class.. even the people that were smart didnt understand him and had no idea what was going on.. dont take him ever..
He isn't very clear and does not have any empathy for his students. I think he is the worst teacher I have ever had.
Unorganized, boring, over-all terrible teacher. I did all of the work and got B's and over on the tests but he was not clear when the online tests were. I ended up dropping the class because he was such a difficult person. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS.
STAY AWAY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I got burned out with hours and hours of homework that didn't help on tests. Don't take this class
He can take things the wrong way sometimes.
allowed only 75min to take only ONE part of a midterm, which was 35 questions. this was not even close to enough time, so what happens with the problems you didn't finish? ZERO. no sympathy what-so-ever for the student.
AVOID! If you are bad at math do not take this class! He rarely teaches, or practices examples on the bored, but instead talks constantly about off topic things. He assigns hundreds of questions on course compass each chapter and you will spend countless hours doing homework in front of the computer. I DO NOT recommend this class!
Do not take a class with this professor if you need to learn the material. The only perk of this professor is his leniency on attendance, however he assigns several hours a week of online work. I STRONGLY recommend you avoid this class unless regular attendance is impossible, as you will invest many, many more hours than what is remotely fair.
completely terrible. Horrible at explaining things and is ALWAYS off topic. avoid!!!!!!!! HOURS of homework a week.
WORST TEACHER EVER!!!! NEVER SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THIS CLASS!!! I HAD THE HIHGEST GRADE,84.5%, AND HAD TO DROP BECUASE I KNEW I WASNT GOING TO PASS... WE HAD 40+ STUDENTS AND THERE WAS 6 PEOPLE WHEN I LEFT... AND THEY ARE WERE GONNA FAI
Useless professor. Does not teach effectively; only does problems on the board. Assigns hours upon hours of laborious online homework. AVOID.
don't take it if you don't HAVE TO. I mean it. I am staying up till 4am every weekend. his class is a fultime job. at leat 150 problems a week plus 4 tests and quizzes and it's all if you already know the stuff. if not, double it w/ the study plan..
He is the worst.I ended up with an A since I had learned all that stuff before.There were so many homework, a lot of quizzes.the final takes 30% of your grade and is from your homework.he allows you to do quizzes and exam online at HOME.I dont take him again this semester though other math classes are full.DONT TAKE OR YOU WILL REGRET.
As a fellow student, I want to help you out. SERIOUSLY, do not take him! Homework is 60+ questions long, and then he says "I don't think you guys are getting enough practice," and assigns more. There were 40 kids at the beginning, and only 4 or 5 left by the time I dropped. Honestly, the smartest kids were the ones that dropped after day 1.
I thought that his ratings were low because students were just being lazy and blaming their bad grades on the teacher, but, after taking this guy (and having to withdraw), I realize the comments were totally realistic. You won't get your tests back, you won't learn anything, and you will be bored to death. Do yourself a favor, and avoid this guy.
If a giraffe high on acid lectured on math, it would still be more coherent and directed than Mr. Millikin's "lectures". It is no surprise that we are in a budget crisis when $50K (or whatever) a year is wasted on giving this guy a job. Plus, you can identify him from 10 miles away because he wears the same neon orange vest EVERY DAY!
Monotone. Rambles.
50+ students in the beginning. 4 students now.
He is the worst professor I have ever met. He is poor at teaching, now I realize that he is just a poor fool! In his class he is just doing shows, not teaching. So pleasae do not take his class! If you do, I am afraid you will have a horrible time!
I decided to drop, do not enter..
God hates me. Yes, that must be it. This was the only Calc class that worked with my schedule, and I was hoping previous reviews were exaggerated. Nope. He's got the vest. He rambles like no other. He stares in the distance when talking to you and assigns you a number instead of using your name. He might as well be speaking another language.
HIS CLASS IS SUICIDE. He uses Course Compass, that's fine except HE NEVER GAVE US THE COURSE ID! Took me 5 emails to get course ID, by the time I was able to login, I have 10 assignments due in 2 days, each about 30-60 questions. Weird orange vests, monotone, He gives numbers, rather than call us by names. He messes up his own math. DON'T TAKE!!!
I had no idea I signed up and was paying to be made fun of by the teacher who cannot teach the material. Avoid this class by all costs, save yourself the money and time and enroll in another class.
Worst math teacher ever first time I listen to anything he says for the whole class he starts talking about the sin of hotdog compared to the sin of hotdog seriously SENILE and dresses like tommy chong. The guy had to have dropped some major acid in his life or something.
Does anyone know what section he is teaching? Not me! And apparently, not him either. Does he even have his credentials? Or did he just get his Ph.D and WHAM! He's a teacher? He has NO STRUCTURE to his teaching, and while "nice" I hate to say he should not be teaching anymore. Sorry dude. Can the school force him into early retirement? Saves money!
He assigns 300+ math problems in the study plan for you to do, in order for you to gain access to the REAL homework, but if you don't do "satisfactory" on the study plan according to him, he'll assign even MORE. So by the time you get to your real homework, you'll have no time or ENERGY to even finish it. Please tell me why he's even a professor.
Worst teacher ever. He had the lowest attendance comparing to other classes. Never actually taught. Uses Course-compass. Deserves a score lower than a 1. Sorry, but that's how he is. Drop if you have him.
Worst prof ever PERIOD. Never seen a class with only 3 people attending.. All the materials are in CourseCompass and he hardly teaches anything in his lecture I should've known this earlier.. dont make the worst choice I made!!
Dropped out after 3 visits/classes. HW and classes are all computer/coursecompass.com based. There is no way to get help if you need it or get stuck on a problem. Prof is unreachable. Basically, you are on your own.
HW and classes are all computer/coursecompass based. There is no way to get help if you need it or get stuck on a problem. Prof is unreachable. Basically, you are on your own.
HW and classes are all computer - coursecompass based. There is no way to get help if you need it or get stuck on a problem. Prof is unreachable. Basically, you are on your own.
He is really hard. He shows you the information, skips steps and expects you to understand it. His homework is very difficult since it is done off of coursecompass. This class requires you to teach yourself the information, do not rely on him.
Basically, he gives too much homework and fails to teach the material.He doesn't lecture much,when he does he's impossible to understand.He skips steps and chooses the most complicated methods to teach us.He never answers questions clearly either.Besides that he can never keep his policies consistent and gets upset when you don't understand them.
SELF TEACHED CLASS, MIN INSTRUCTOR SUPPORT. nice in beginning, changes as class progress, very RUDE. HW/TEST online, no EXTENSIVE work, no credit. easily FRUSTRATED. You have to be there in class. Does not teach well. Lots of random story. NO SYLBUS, so you dont know when the test are. Stay on top of thing or you will fall and fast too.
this class is by far the worst class i have ever taken. he teaches nothing and expects you to know everything prior to this class. i would recommend ANY other teacher besides this one.
I had him for math 180,185 and got both A. Everybody didn't like him coz they didn't really understand him. He is a pleasant teacher and easily takes a "A" from him. Only need to study his study plan,hw carefully.Enough time to do them if study at the beginning semester.For Math185's final, u should review AppIntegral(volume,area) in his book.
Absolute worst teacher i have ever had! He literally did not teach us a single thing the entire semester. You will have to teach the entire class to yourself. For your own good, DONT TAKE THIS TEACHER!
I cannot begin to tell you how much I advise against taking this teacher. I truly believe he means well, but he is absolutely horrific. I had a hard time not yelling at him in the middle of class. Between online exams he had to erase because the ENTIRE CLASS FAILED and his total lack of respect for students, I had no choice but to drop!
One does not simply pass his class! impossibru
Worst class ever! Huge waste of time. I liked that we only met once a week for 2 hours but he barely taught us anything. He just assumes that everyone there has taken Elementary Algebra the semester and skips the review and of the 9 weeks I was there he taught us for a total of 1 and a half hours. Horrible horrible horrible. Avoid him at ALL costs.
Look, here's the deal. This is a college course. Do not take this course if you do not have discipline. Your homework is online and he teaches in a room with computers. If you cannot hold the discipline to not pay attention to his lecture without doing your homework, avoid this class as you will fail. Pay attention to his lectures and ur fine.
I can safely say this is the most unclear class I have ever taken in my life. This teacher does mean well, but almost every aspect of class is unexplained and the in class lectures rarely match the homework or tests. Everything I have needed to learn throughout the semester has been taught to me by a tutor. Stay away from this professor.
I ve just taken this professor for F12, PROS : + All tests/ quizzes based on homework/ study plan ( he picks some of them to add the tests/quizzes ) + Attendance is not mandatory ( he let us leave after the break ) CONS: + extremely vague about syllabus, schedule, lecture availability in class --> easy A class if you could study for your own !
This is a SELF TAUGHT class! Not only does he NOT have a syllabus at all, he was absent so many times he only assigned ONE CHAPTER TEST (out of six chapters) and the final, so he treated that test as a midterm! Fail either one or slack off on homework, you WILL FAIL! A student LITERALLY cried during the final. Don't be in that situation, STUDY!!
Completely useless professor. He would come in and just do problems on the board for 2 hours with no explanation whatsoever. There were 30 people in the class on the first day and seven left on the day of the final. I know four of those of us stupid enough to stick around didn't pass as I saw them in my algebra class the following semester. AVOID.
Having few minutes previewing of the chapter content a little bit every time before the class (like doing study plan or reading e-book for 7 minutes), and keeping taking notes of his specific calculation steps in class,then his clarity will unfold. Getting an A is easy because I paid full attention to his class, and he gave partial credits for exam
Studying math always need a little bit preview of the book or study plan in order to clarify any professor's lecture content.He assumed that we've already known a little of the chaptercontent but only lack specific skills of doing specific problems.I didn't do preview and sucked in his lecture, but upon sufficient final preparation, I managed an A.
He is willing to help students but the fact is that he is not really helpful at all. Just do HW and study plan before the test and hopefully you will be fine. Crossing your finger as well
If you want to self teach everything by using google YouTube and the book including extraneous number of assignments. He is your guy. PS avoid him. I don''t get where the positive reviews are from.
This E D Millikin is the same as Evan Millikin. Anyways, if you are looking to put yourself in misery and torture, then Millikin is your man. ABSOLUTELY USELESS!!!
This class is possible to pass but you HAVE to be able to teach yourself the material. The lectures are kind of at whim on whatever he feels like demonstrating. But if you are brave enough to stick with the class, pay attention to due dates on MyMathLab (don't expect him to tell you) and he does try to help out the students if they are struggling.
I can't say much, other then I only lasted two days. Im sure he has good intentions, but I can't learn math his way. The lecture the second day was confusing, and i found myself unable to keep attentive. He takes awhile to explain things, and isn't clear at all. I also took offense that he takes roll and calls us by numbers.
I would say that he is the nicest teacher I have ever met at OCC. Approachable, helpful even though I have a very hard time to understand the lecture. Very flexible.
Class Info
Attendance Mandatory
100%
Textbook Required
97%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
C+
Grade Distribution
Rating Trend
Stable
+0.19 avg changeRatings by Course
M185
5.0
(1)MATH1282
3.0
(1)CAL180
3.0
(1)MATH185
2.5
(8)MATHA185
2.0
(2)Difficulty by Course
MATH170PRECAL
5.0
MATH170030
5.0
MATH30
5.0
ALGEB3091
5.0
CALC185
5.0