Explains in often times too much detail which probably bores most students. His quizes and exams are fair. Extremely helpful outside of class. Will go over hw ?'s in class if you show up a few minutes early and aren't afraid to open your mouth and say you dont understand it.

He is a good teacher and is willing to help. He is available in his office beyond his office hours which is nice. I like his lectures for he explains the material thoroughly and is excited about teaching.

It's easy if you do the homework and try to understand. He's very helpful and probably says once a week when his office hours are. He has a problem of working around the solution but if you listen closely you'll understand.

Peirce is a really nice guy and an all around good teacher. He knows what he is talking about and kind of bumbles around a little, but he is so willing to help and really understanding about the fact that college students have lives. Awesome guy, great teacher.

He is a nice guy and is willing to help. The quizzes all come right off of the homework, but then the tests are what kills you. The tests can be confusing and he likes to make them all story problems. The tests are only a few problems long, but they are all in depth problems.

Prof Pierce is an good teacher. i didnt like math before i had him. It sounds to me like all the bad reviews are coming from the same person!! come on dude, we are tryting to use this website to find good profs, not bash because we failed!!! LOL

cool guy. makes class fun.

interesting, clear, nice

More than willing to help out a student. If he isn't teaching a class, you can find him in his office. He makes sure you are aware of what is expected from you. Quizes and tests are fairly straight foward.

hard class and can be confusing at times. tests are hard and often not like homework problems, but he's more than willing to help anytime outside of class and try and clear things up, nice guy

Easy to understand, always there to help, will take time to answer any questions.

Calc is a hard subject but he tries to make it bearable. He's a nice guy and although he may be confusing at times, he's always willing to help you out. Overall, probably the best math professor i've had here.

Nice guy and passionate about the subject.

Dr. Peirce knows what he is talking about. He teaches a concept that you are expected to apply to different sitiations. He explains the concepts well, but expects the student to apply that concept in different situations. Great professor. He loves to teach math - I would say he is the only choice if you want to apply math to your career

nice guy and knows what he's taking about... take him, he's better than most math teachers here

Probably the best math teacher I have ever had. Really wants his students to learn and is always avialable to help. He explains problems multiple ways if you don't understand. I thought i was going to die in calc 2 but i thought it was easier than calc 1. I would recommend him to anyone! TAKE HIM!

He was my favorite professor by far. I was in Biocalc and he made the concepts easy to understand. He really enjoys teaching and is will ing to help anyone who is willing to get help. no surprises on the test. Book work is not required but exact problems from the book tend to show up on tests. Great teacher! if you have to take calc, take Peirce!

He is a really good teacher. Calc 2 is hard in general but he is always willing to help out. Is either in the math help center or his office pretty much whenever you need help. Explains things well.

He is very helpful and willing to meet with you at any time. He explains things well and loves being questioned. Take him!

Makes class not so bad to come too, shows better ways then book, goes over tests and quizes, answers all questions during class. I would say to take him!

Definitely not my fav. subject. It's been years since I've applied math other than what my science requires. Dr. Peirce is very willing to meet before or after classes according to your schedule. Great professor, rough subjects to be interested in.

Hard class, but Dr. Peirce is the man. He knows how to explain calculus very well. Do the HW go to class and you will be fine. Don't expect not to put anytime into it and pass with a good grade. He is also very helpful outside of class so don't be shy and go ask questions if you don't know something. It is kind of expected after all this is CALC.

Very nice guy, with good intentions. Seems a bit shy during class and messes up often. He is the most helpfull professor I have though, will always go over homework/quizes/exams in class. The class is hard and you have to put a lot of work into it, but its calc- what do you expect.

He is very helpful if you have questions on homework. He will use classtime to go over problems, and he has lots of time for students outside of class. There are weekly quizzes, and if you do your homework during the week you will do well on them. Exams can be challenging, but study and you'll be fine. Overall a great professor.

Peirce is a good guy. He went out of his way to have ample office-hours, and reviewed every exam question after taking. He provided good study guides, which, when followed, resulted in tests which were extremely manageable. 3 exams, 2 projects, and ~10 quizzes (lowest is dropped). "projects" aren't too bad. quizes are easy. You'll do well.

Totally cool guy. Super helpful and has great office hours. Not too hard but not completely easy. He makes it an enjoyable class! Have fun!

Dr. Peirce was awesome!!!!!!!! He was extremely helpful and he really helped you understand the material! I would highly recommend him for any class!

Dr. Peirce is as helpful as can be. He has many office hourse and is extrememly understanding if you are sick and will email the notes. Quizzes are fine, 2 projects that are pretty easy and tests are managable. Take him!

Very difficult class, but he does an excellent job of teaching it. Certainly the best Math teacher I've encountered. Tests are very hard, but he is VERY generous with partial credit, for which I am very grateful. Calc is always going to be tough, but at least here you'll actually learn it better, add in the partial credit, and you have a chance.

seems nervous at times and quiet most times. his teaching style is a little different, but he's a nice guy. grades fairly and very understandable when i was gone. he's always available for help and always willing to anwer any question in class and out of class. nice professor! would recommend!

Great math teacher. He was my favorite professor that I have ever had. He is very helpful in and out of office hours, and he really cares about the class. I totally recommend him.

Dr. Peirce is an awesome math professor! He is a fair grader and is really helpful/approachable. Im taking him again next semester for another math class! I recommend him :)

Best math teacher i've ever had especially considering that it's a tough course that many people have to but don't want to take. Was extremely helpful, clear, and made fun lame jokes. Was great at interpreting student questions and translating them in an understandable way, frequently stops and asks if there're questions. Highly reccommend him

Awesome guy. Very nice grader--will give partial credit. Easiest math professor to understand, shows very good examples. VERY willing to help out if you are confused. Highly recommend.

The most helpful math professor i've ever had. felt comfortable asking questions in the class. I hate math but Dr. Peirce made it fun to come to class- if there was a particularly boring topic he warned us beforehand and made jokes to make it fun. Extremely helpful, clear, knew what he was doing. Best math prof i've had. Take him!

super helpful and clear when teaching. answers all questions. really passionate about what he does. one of the best parts about him is that he's really generous with partial credit- it really helped me learn. i wasn't so overly stressed about the tests and it helped me perform and study better. I hate math but i learned a ton with him.take him

Calc is a hard class, no doubt. But Professor Peirce is awesome! He is prompt with emails, super nice & helpful. Quizzes OR Exam on Thursdays. Just make sure to go to class everyday, take notes, do the homework & webwork problems! (They will add up in the end.) It's a lot of work that you have to put in, but Professor Peirce is a great professor!

Calc is very hard that's for sure, but i loved Dr. Peirce. He is super helpful. The material can be very difficult but if you pay attention and ask questions you'll do fine. If you go in and talk to him and keep up with webwork the quizzes and exams will be easy! He's a great Professor!

By far the best math teacher I have ever had. JP explains everything so well. I am terrible at math, but he makes it so much easier for me. HW is all online and it can be challenging, but quizzes and tests aren't that bad. Also a very generous grader. If you show up for class and take notes, you will not have any problems

I had Peirce for applied calc so the class wasn't going to be easy no matter what teacher I had but he is so clear during lectures, gives tons of examples, tons of in class homework help and he is so willing to help anytime you need it. One of the best teachers I have ever had, if you have to take applied calc, take him.

Dr. Peirce is a great professor! I would definitely recommend him. He is always willing to help. Tests and quizzes can be tough but and A or B is achievable. Do all the homework problems, if you get stuck- get help! It will help you for tests and quizzes. The final was harder than expected, but I would take Dr. Peirce again in a heartbeat.

Extremely nice guy, sometimes hard to know what hes talking about but very good with questions. Not a whole lot of homework, quizzes are graded easily

Peirce has been the best math teacher I've ever had. His tests and quizzes follow the homework and examples given in class exactly, so as long as you show up to class and semi-understand the material, you'll be fine! Only received homework twice a week, and he made himself easy to reach by email and reasonable office hours. Definitely recommend!

Probably one of the best Math professors at UWL. If I could, I would like to take all of my math classes with him. His lectures make it very easy to understand the material he teaches. Truly and amazing teacher.

Dr. Peirce is phenomenal. Calc2 is a difficult class, but he does a great job teaching the material. If you ever have a question, you can ask him during class, or see him during office hours. The webwork is harder than anything on a quiz or exam, so it helps you know the material well before those. He also doesn't throw any curveballs on them.

He gave us so many projects that I don't think any other calc 2 class had. My friends in Madison and the tutors at the resource center asked if he hated us. The projects are hell, but he is a good teacher, so if you don't mind useless and drawn out applications of theories, take him. If you do, try to switch.

Made this class enjoyable. Willing to accomodate outside of class. All you need to do is ask for help. Super understanding. Material is challenging but you can tell he has a passion for it. Within notes, has spelling and grammatical errors but great guy willing to help his students learn. Recommendation: be very specific with notation on exams.

One of the best professors that I have ever had. Very clear in his explanations--he made the material very easy to understand. Also very willing to help and answer any questions.

Dr. Peirce is a wonderful instructor. Take his class! He makes everything super understandable, and if you have questions he has office hours four days a week. He also is pretty funny and uses really life scenarios for examples. Seriously, take his class!

Dr. Peirce is a great prof, but it took me a while to get used to him. I'm not very good at math, but the way he set up webwork and made himself available every day for office hours really helped me understand the concepts better. Gives you notecards for quizzes and a sheet of paper for exams for you to write examples or notes on. Good teacher!

Prof Peirce is really good at explaining concepts in many different ways, which I find essential in any form of math. He gave homework weekly, but it was always relatively short and easy to do if you paid attention in class. He allowed cheat sheets for quizzes and tests, which is always nice. I would recommend taking Prof Peirce.

Fun guy, the webwork homework makes it easy to follow the material, he drops one test, which is very helpful, and if you try there is nothing to worry about.

Peirce is a good prof. He assigns online homework every Monday and Wednesday. Lectures could get a little dry. He is extremely helpful in office hours and wants to make sure all of his students succeed. Exams and quizzes weren't too bad if you pay attention in class. Make sure to practice problems from the book because that will help you do well!

Peirce was a good professor. Applied calc is a difficult class but he overall wants his students to succeed and goes beyond most professors to make sure they do.

Peirce is a great calc professor. I was nervous signing up for this class because I've never taken calc before, but I ended up really enjoying it. I liked the business calc side of the class, and he made it easy to understand. The homework at time was a little much, but it did help me remember the material.

James Peirce was a great professor. I never had any exposure to statistics prior to his class, but he does a great job teaching the material in a way that will stick with you. He's funny and always available outside of lecture. Would definitely recommend.

Great professor, very passionate about math which makes lecture engaging. My section had four exams plus a final, lots of quizzes, a few projects, and homework which was basically a participation grade. Lowest quizzes were drops and the final exam helps more than hurts grades. Also very easy to reach outside of class and is very helpful.

I am taking this class online asynchronous, and I am pleasantly surprised with how it is going. It was set up in modules and due every two weeks. The content is kind of difficult, but as long as you do the work, you should be fine. Peirce is really good with responding to emails and answering questions. Overall a great prof for a hard class.

He's such a great guy and was helpful especially with my class being asynchronous. I would sit in his office hours and work on homework while asking questions. I don't like math but MTH265 applied it to real world situations which made it a little more interesting.

Dr. Peirce is great professor. He is such an overall nice guy. He has office hours in the math tutoring center of the library which I definitely recommend going to. His expectations for content on quizzes and exams are very clear prior to test day. He also goes over problems in the homework that people struggled with at the start of every day.TAKE!

Very average. He was fine and attendance wasn't mandatory. Took him for MTH160 and got a pretty easy A. End of semester project is very long. No exams, just webwork and 10 point quiz every other week. I'd recommend him.

Dr. Peirce was a great professor. There are no tests or finals in this class. Instead you work with a small group on 6 case studies and 5 applications and then a solo 10 point concept check every Thursday. There are quite a few homework assignments, but he is always available to help outside of class or during his office hours.

Dr. Peirce is an amazing professor. He has this course set up with no tests just little concept checks each week, web works, case studies, and quiz applications and he will help you on all. You can tell he really wants his students to succeed and is accessible outside of class to answer any questions. I would definitely recommend taking his class.

Best math course I have ever taken.

Professor Peirce is very easy going. You're graded by weekly concept checks in class. Application quizzes are every other week. 5 case studies too. As long as you go to class and stay on top of your work, this class should be easy.

Lots of little homework assignments on WebWork. Case studies are hard but if you ask for help he is really helpful. Weekly quizzes that are fairly easy. No exams! Amazing professor who truly cares about you. Class is very interesting and you can see how it would directly apply to a business majors job in the real world.

Professor Pearce is a really nice guy. He's a caring person who cares about his students. The course material consists of 14 concept checks, 5 case-studies, and 7 applications. There is also a lot of webwork. As long as you don't fall behind, this course is't too bad. That being said, the case-studies and applications can be difficult.

Dr. Peirce was an excellent choice for the summer session STAT145 course. He was incredibly organized, easy to contact, and clearly wanted you to succeed. Whenever I had a question, he'd always answer it within a few hours. Each week consists of 2 assignments, WebWork, and a quiz. I cannot recommend him enough for this class!

In MTH 160 you do Application Problems and Case Studies that you solve in groups. Along with those, there are Concept Checks every week to reinforce your knowledge of a subject, which I thought was very manageable. The weekly homework assignments were also very reasonable and truly helped me better understand the concepts we were learning.

Learning stats from Peirce made the class so much easier to understand. He preps you adequately for the weekly Webwork, case-studies/video assignments, and concept checks. He is willing to help if you ask him after class or during office hours. He is passionate about stats and it's very clear. Pay utmost attention in class or you will get lost.

I loved Prof. Peirce. All you need is the Coursepack from the bookstore and don't skip class. WeBWorK 2x/wk, Case Study/Vid Assignment 1x/wk, and a quiz 1x/wk. Seems super busy but was extremely manageable and I finally loved a math class for once. He's really nice, a bit awkward and can go quick sometimes. Easy A, if you give the bare minimum.

Professor Peirce is the best math professor I've ever had; he makes the subject so easy to understand and walks you through with several examples, spending time on actual homework problems and quiz questions. You have a concept check each week and WebWork assignments, but these are such good practice anyways. You also get note cards for everything!

Weekly concept checks and WebWork, only 2 full exams. If you take notes in the pre-made notebook it makes the class much easier. Makes the material as easy to understand as possible, is really friendly and encourages class participation but doesn't force it. Leaves time for questions on the homework in the beginning of every class

Professor Peirce runs a great class with no exams, just concept checks, case studies, and applications. The workload is manageable if you stay on top of it. unstuck study and office hours help a lot too.

He runs the class in a concept with no exams, just weekly concept checks and doing applications like every other weeks in a group of 3. He was accessible outside of class if I needed help with my homework, or the final portfolio.

Amazing guy, really wants you to succeed. Always goes into good detail and is always willing to help you out. The class was broken up into lectures and quizzes that didn't expect too much out of you, other than paying attention to what's going on in the class previously.

No actual exams, which is great. He truly cares and wants you to learn and is a very nice guy.

No exams which is super nice. He really cares about his students and wants them to succeed. He is always willing to help and answer questions at the beginning of class. Webwork due every monday and wednesday with a really small quiz every thursday.

The grading system for this course was so beneficial. There were group quizzes on Tuesdays and regular quizzes on Thursdays. It was so easy to get help outside of this class and questions were always encouraged. In addition the professor actually cared and the homework always aligned with the quizzes.

In the first few weeks I was concerned because I wasn't used to going through content fast but once you catch on you will be great. He is always super helpful and lets you ask questions on anything begging of class everyday. This class overall better than college algebra in my opinion.

As long as you show up to class you will be fine. No exams, just one group assignment and one quiz on the content learned a week. The final project was kind of annoying and he was very particular about it but overall good professor and class.

Absolutely loved the consistency of the schedule. Very easy to get a good grade, only group assignments and small quizzes with some easy homework. Professor Peirce was very approachable and just honestly a good guy, I would recommend.