SUCKS!!!!

Bad teacher. Doesn't teach any material. Don't take this class.

I've always been bad at math so this is probably very biased, but I had a TERRIBLE time in Keppelmann's class. I rarely understood what he said and he used cheesy metaphors to explain math (which was kind of funny but mostly confusing). If you have a tough time with math I would recommend another professor.

I have struggled with math my entire life, and was really hoping that this class would change my mind. I never missed a day of class, went to extra tutoring, and even went to him, and was still confused on what we were covering in class. Whenever you asked for help, his suggestion would be to just drop his class. Really? No.

Don't take this class. Smart guy, but very poor teacher.

Absolutely the worst professor I have ever met before. I was retaking Calculus I and I could not believe how 100% different these professors were. Consistently cancels office hours. Expect to pass, but you will learn nothing. Our last test as a 46 point curve. TAs do not understand his problems. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS IF YOU NEED TO LEARN MATH

While he is a nice and very intelligent teacher I advise to stay away. He is very unclear when he teaches, and the test averages are very low. He does let you take retakes on all test but only one section which normally isn't enough to get your grade up.

He only lectures and it seems as if he is learning the content as he's explaining it. He doesn't elaborate and when he does he goes too fast to comprehend. He is not a good math teacher especially when you need extra elaboration and help.

I am traditionally an A student and am usually ok with bad professors but Keppelmann is by far the worst professor I have ever had. Through college and high school this is the only class I have ever failed. He lacks the ability to teach and in lectures all he does is confuse you. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

attendance is mandatory, you have to use an app and punch in a code every single class except exam days. I don't know about his other classes but for mine, he had to curve and give out retakes for literally everything, the average for my class was barely 60%. his exams & quizzes are super difficult while the practice ones are super easy, DONT TAKE

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Definitely go into the tutoring place if you have this teacher. He is not good at explaining and gives a lot of homework. Most nights we have 20 problems with many of them being 1a-1g. You type in a code for every class to make certain that you show up and there will be questions on the app. Do not take!

You are assigned at least 6 homeworks a week, plus a quiz every Friday. Your attendance counts towards your grade. In lectures, he vaguely explains things and goes over problems, but then gives a harder problem on the test. You do get a chance to do a retake on one portion (out of 5) on his exams, and he includes an extra credit question.

The test average for my class is 43%. No one learns anything, and the tests are ridiculously long and hard for the time given to take them. Everyone I talk to has an F in this class. He is corrected by students constantly and i dont trust his teaching strategy.

By far one of the worst courses that I have taken. He is constantly correceted by students, and his teaching method is not good. When you ask for help outside of class, he responds with attitude. Also, he takes forever to grade exams so you are never sure of what your grade is.

I completely regret taking Keppelmann and am just hoping I pass. His lectures aren't helpful, my classes test score average is a 43% right now. He knows the material, he's just absolutely terrible at explaining things. The tests are always so long the majority of people can't finish them in time. I would absolutely never take him again.

The worst class that I have ever taken. He teaches exclusively from powerpoints, which is unhelpful. He also gives tophat questions for homework, but never gives us notice, so they usually end up going unanswered. Attendance is mandatory, so if tophat isn't working that day, you're marked absent for class. His exams and quizzes are hard to pass too

He is the worst math professor I have ever had. He is so behind on grading things and expects you to know material from classes that aren't pre-requisites. He does not do a good job of explaining concepts and just copies a lot of stuff from the book. He is a nice man but sucks at teaching.

Tests and quizzes were extremely difficult.

One of the worse teachers I have ever had all the way up until the very end. He was terrible at getting the material across. He was incredibly lazy outside of class. Its the end of the semester and he still has not graded everything. Overall, to much wrong with this professor to convey in this review. Avoid if possible.

This is by far the worst math professor I have ever had... 0/10 would not recommend to my worst enemy. He teaches exclusively from PowerPoints and does not really even teach... He shows the topic, shows the problem, shows how he solved it, but does not give a play by play of how to go about the problem. Stay away if you can... Got all help from TA

He only shows pre recorded lectures without any context or extra help available. Taking Pre-Calc with him and I've already taken this class once before and still not doing well. Had to hire an outside tutor to teach me because he does nothing. Just plays videos during zoom calls and sits there picking his nose and eating it. Seriously... No Cap

This dude is straight up awful. He does not know how to teach. This is the reason you get to retake all of your tests. You must learn them yourself or you will fail.

Dude, maybe I'm just bad at math but this guy sure ain't helping.

I'm surprised that this guy has been working for UNR for over a year. Fire him and pay the TA. If you get him, drop the class or transfer to a different teacher. All his lectures are google doc examples that skip major details all the time. His class is composed of horrendous self made khan academy videos. A toddler with a crayon is more helpful.

Worst class I have taken here at UNR. Keppelmann needs a serious wake up call. Avoid if possible.

This professor was the worst professor I've ever had throughout college. He assigns 2 quizzes per day which are super hard along with quizzes friday and 2 homework assigments every week. I did not have time for my other classes and he was not willing to help fix that. In the first two weeks I had a 20% in the class, yet I usually get A's and B's.

This was my last class for my math minor, & I just wanted to quit pursing it. Worst class I've ever taken. He teaches everything off of a powerpoint where he cares more about the transitions between each slide than showing how to do the problem itself. He is very confusing & his exams are nothing like the content covered in class. Avoid this class.

Do yourself a favor and avoid this class at all costs. Professor makes you take all tests without notes or a calculator which is ridiculous for a 100 level math class. He treats the class like its a 400 level class and the only way youll learn anything is if you listen to the TA. Slides are brightly colored and impossible to read. Dont do it.

Worst math teacher Ive ever had. Flew through examples in class and did not clarify steps when we asked to go back through them. The powerpoints are hard to read and do not flow well at all. The TA is the only reason I knew what to do ever. The tests do not allow calculators and there are so many quizzes and hw assignments he doesnt address.

He started the semester by saying not many enjoy his way of teaching and he had no intention of changing methods, red flag. His slideshows are bright-colored backgrounds with illegible fonts. There’s no teaching, only how to understand graphs. His only teaching strategy is to use Desmos and praise the calculator.

If you are someone that needs to see math problems written out step by step and explained carefully and slowly, DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!!!! The actual teaching of calculus often falls on his TA's. While his powerpoint transitions are very funny, his lectures are confusing to follow. He advises you NOT to take notes... worst mistake!!!

The worst professor I've had. Teaches by showing Desmos graphs and illegible slideshows. I had a family emergency the week before finals and I contacted my TA and professor immediately asking to make up a quiz I would miss. Neither read nor responded to my emails for a week and once they responded it was "too hectic to do anything special now."

Please at all costs avoid this teacher. He uses slideshows to present the material. He goes really fast and does not work out the problems. There are daily quizzes and homework on top of that. Then an actual quiz weekly. The homework can take up to 2 hours to complete.

A good professor at heart, but he fails to properly teach. Presents examples that don't get fully solved, then expects questions to be solved and a little more on quizzes and tests. Homework through daily quizzes with the addition of online homework makes this class's homework sometimes too overwhelming to bear.

It seems as if he puts more effort into his neon colored PowerPoint slides than learning the material himself. Half of the lecture times are often him correcting his work and making lots of mistakes. There is also daily quizzes, a weekly quiz, homework that takes up hours of time, and has failed to respond to me when I need help.

This class was overwhelming. the lectures were very confusing, the concepts were not well explained, and he made constant mistakes with examples. In addition, he assigned way too much homework and midterms. The "daily quizzes" always had mistakes and were a waste of time. The only saving grace was test corrections & extra credit on the midterms.

Oh. my. god. Keppelmann is literally the worst professor I think possible. He would grade our assignments using an answer key which was wrong like 60% of the time. When we told him his answer key was wrong, he told us "yeah, I'll fix it." AND LITERALLY NEVER DID! Everyone in this class probably lost 5% because his key was always wrong. Worst ever.

You're going to wish you took a different professor if you take this class. No calculators(you will wish you had one for 330), mandatory daily assignments, tough exams, tough grading, hard-to-follow lectures. The lectures are power point slides that are difficult to reference because they don't show intermediary steps or explain solution steps.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. Ed allows retakes of parts of each exam (except the final) and he curves a ton at the end of the class. Both of these happen because the averages are always failing. He has DAILY quizzes, does not go over the homework, and his lectures will give you a headache. No calculators on tests which are so long that no one finishes.

Avoid at all costs. The only saving grace in this class was exam retakes since every exam had awful averages. Daily quizzes are rough, and his lectures are straight out of 1998 with 60 second PowerPoint animations on his neon slides. Self studying is not enough to pass in this class. No calculators on exams with hilariously large numbers.

Awful. This is the worst experience of a class I have ever had. Every class Mr. Keppelmann teaches off of a colorful PowerPoint with long transitions and raves about DESMOS. I urge all students who have the chance to switch this class immediately. You will have to teach yourself the material and take away time from other classes and your hobbies.

Awful experience, his lectures are on colorful slides that explain nothing. Have to teach yourself the material. Impossible to communicate to outside of class. Please do yourself a favor and switch out if you can. Daily quizzes are confusing as well. Talks about DESMOS too many times.

He seems like a really nice guy who really does care for math but its not enough to be a good professor. He seems to spend more time trying to make his lecture slides cool and trendy with bright colors and lots of transitions but the slides themselves have no valuable information. You have to learn a lot by yourself.

His class was WAY too much work for a math 120 class where most the students are liberal arts majors trying to get a math credit. Most people in the class failed and or barely passed. He gave so much homework and was very bad at teaching the material, his slides were ridiculous. I had to teach myself all the material for the class independently.

Worst professor. Horrible lectures & instruction. Went into office hours & not only did he confuse me more but emailed me after saying he misled me. Course load is wack. 2 exams & huge project in the last 3 weeks. Assumed we knew concepts I had never heard before. Graded on things we were unaware of! Didn't know grades for weeks. Bad. Never. Again.

Disorganized lectures off of slides that were way too much to actually retain any information from. Daily assignments that were way too hard and he had constant mistakes on. Homework was extremely tedious, and these often-had mistakes/typos as well. On the third test we competed against each other for a test grade, bad pedagogy. Nice guy, bad prof.

Another bad professor in UNR. Daily quizzes instead of in-person attendance will stress you out. Rigid grading in quizzes with no partial credit. I noticed that WebAssign access was free, but that's not worth it if Ed's setting you up to fail.

awful professor! I have no idea how he's still here. it was a struggle to pass this class. he talked to us like we were already supposed to be experts in the content and we had a quiz every single class. so far the worst class of my college experience. he also made a lot of little mistakes so it was hard to trust his answers when he was teaching

He's a very nice guy, but dear god stay away. Impossibly difficult daily quizzes, illegible slides, unreasonably long exams, does not go over basics of a concept before going into hellish examples. Makes no fewer than 5 mistakes per lecture, and his answer key is wrong about 50% of the time.

STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS. I was forced to take this class after a schedule glitch and I figured I could make it work, but no. Take this class if you don't want a social life and only want to do homework. God awful at teaching and gets so many things wrong in his lectures. Do anything else but take him. Trust me I'm sparing your sanity.

Daily quizzes, will fail your test if you accidentally grab the wrong colored one that you're grouped into. I had a job, I had other classes. I could not imagine myself passing like this, so I dropped and will plan to take another professor.

Keppelmann's lecture slides are extremely hard to learn from and don't provide enough examples to be fully prepared for the abnormal problems he includes in quizzes and tests. He has received many complaints regarding the slides but has never changed them. His study guides are horrific and his workload is much heavier compared to other teachers.

Seems like a good guy outside of teaching, but please no. Lots of homework, make sure to keep reminders to yourself somehow because if you miss it rip your grade. Test every. single. week. Exams were not like the study guides. Sobbed the night before the last exam and barely passed with a C. Way outside of my major, but forced it take it. Stay away

Seems like a nice guy and is a friendly teacher. But his teaching method and slides are a mess and are not understandable. Quiz every week and homework following every class. Workload wasn't to difficult, but unless you want to teach yourself I recommend finding another professor.

Class is very difficult if you do not show up. Tests are worth 50 % of your grade so make sure to pay attention. His notes are very hard to follow so you basically have to teach yourself.