Confusing

the professor is passionate. buuuuuut, he will make the concepts confusing even if u have learnt it before. he will cluster on the concepts but just don't get straightforward. i always don't know what his examples are asking about . it's quite different form the problems in the midterm test. i didn't go to his lectures and i still got 97% in test!

he teaches in a very confusing way. Makes you get confused about the things that you already know. does not do problem solving.

His teaching style is very confusing. He confuses even about the concepts that you know before. He encourages discussing the problems with the person beside you first and after that doesn't explain the solution properly. I don't recommend taking his class

Like everyone else says, he's passionate but can't teach. He tries to explain simple concepts in such a roundabout way that they get too confusing. His lectures never line up with the scheduled topics that the homework is on. I felt that the 3 hours of lectures a week was better spent when I didn't attend class and study with the textbook instead.

most confusing prof i've had. puts questions up and makes you work through them on your own and then never takes them up. also doesn't stick to the syllabus so everything kinda comes out of nowhere. when he does put things on the board, he doesn't explain them at all. asks questions and doesn't answer them. take a different section if you can!

Very confusing professor, instead of going through problems methodically and actually teaching, he goes off tangent and puts up very abstract questions that he never actually ends up solving. Pointless lecture, switch if you have him or just learn from the textbook. He did not prepare our class well for the final exam.

His ''gifted'' teaching method will mislead your thoughts and mess something even though you've already known, with an ease.

Youll never know the course average cuz he would not be reported if students dont see the course average. His purpose probably is not push you to study the math, but is to let you know how cruel the world is. The worst prof Ive ever had in my life.

Honestly I have never seen a prof who sends emails to encourage students to drop his course

By the end of term test 2, more than half the students who were enrolled at the start of the semester has dropped the course. Refuses to adjust his teaching methods/evaluation methods despite negative feedback. Overall, just an absolutely disastrous course coordinator.

To hard to get higher grade in his class. No average and curve are unfair.

condescending prof. Super hard midterms

He seems to assume that you know all the content from book and not talk about them systematically in class. Problem sets are not helping with exams at all. And courses not well organized.

Professor Siefken is the course coordinator for MAT224 this year. However, he lacks the experience of properly managing a course, which refers to maintaining a reasonable average, organizing TAs to answer questions on Piazza and during office hours. The 70% dropout rate indicates his low capability of being a course coordinator.

70% drop rate explains it all. Doesn't release course averages, doesn't release solutions for problem sets, and explicitly says no curves when it's quite clear most of the class did very bad on the term tests.

Not accessible outside of class. Horrible at organizing TAs to answer questions during office hours. Very miserable and stubborn style of exam questions, especially the last 20 marks, which deducts 2 marks for wrong answers. Extremely discouraging.

Absolutely refuses to compromise his vision of what the course should look like even when all his students are dropping. Very stubborn marker.

if its like the coordinator said why average is on our transcript? are you judging the school and all the other universities in the world on grading scheme like why would average even exists in statistics?

hes always sending us email saying he works very hard on giving us a fair exam and hope we will appreciate his effort. its not fair just from this oneside call. look how it reflects on the students. everyone remained in the class after tts are truly diligent students in maths look the bs final jason sent us.

if you go to his office at pg there's blackboard beside his door saying 'the best prof'. people saying it just for ass kissing but pathetically seems like he truly believes it. im in his section hes always bouncing around and confuse people. stubborn and not willing to listen to others. no one messed up with him since they are still in the course.

Coordinating MAT224 his reason for tunnel-visioning a course which started with 700 students and ended with 180 into the exam was that "I talked to the other profs and agreed on a course syllabus". TAs that dont show up consistently for OH, not revealing the average(40%) only for a more senior prof to leak it, and no solutions to HW problems .

Terrible MAT224 coordinator. What is a class with a 70% drop rate? Refuses to reveal averages. Harsh grading and does not tell us what we did wrong on problem sets. Then, he puts a problem set question on the test and everyone gets it wrong.

Has a tunnel vision on how 224 needs to be run. He even wrote a long post at the end of the semester defending how he ran the course that just makes him look unapproachable and stubborn. Perhaps he should approach Uppal to see how he ran the course since theyre usually well reviewed.

Very unorganized.

At the end of the semester, Professor Siefken wrote a long comment on Piazza outlining how he enjoyed teaching the course despite the course average is less than 60%, despite the fact that 70%+ people dropped. Arrogance, stubbornness, ignorance are the only qualities I see from this prof. He should approach Uppal and ask him how he ran the course.

Worst prof ever .The review session he gave is so hard ,some of the ta cant even do the question .Just dont take it unless u like nightmares

The worst Prof that I've ever met. NO SOLUTIONS TO QUESTIONS POSTED , NO EFFICIENT OFFICE HOURS and BAD EXPLANATIONS ON THE COURSE OBJECTS. Heavy tests and strict grading. Don't choose this MAT 224 prof. I'm really curious about why the school still keeps him.

Worst prof I had in my first year! The most stubborn professor i've seen in my life!

Do not take his course!

Compared with attending his lectures, I would rather spend three hours listening to Lil Pump's single Drug Addict repetitively.....

I don't know where he developed his techniques and I don't get why he thinks they're designed to work. Course is so disorganized.

Jason, who changed the course MAT223, make me learn more about MAT224 and use his own definition which makes me confused. He is the first teacher for my linear algebra and he also will be the last teacher for my linear algebra. Goodbye Jason, I am now knowing that I am not capable to be your student, and thank you.

He's one of those "there's nothing I can do" professors who doesn't care about individual students. Too "busy" to meet students one on one, prefers to send curt and unhelpful emails instead. Class and material was easy overall, but the prof was one of the worst I've had.

Considered MAT223 a bird course. Things get harder when you are supposed to learn his own definitions, which sometimes do not correspond to any conventional ones. Ambiguity everywhere, too many mistakes for UofT prof and useless lectures where you finish less tasks per hour(1-2) than you would on your own(3-4). Thinks he is funny. He is in some way

Horribly disorganized course coordinator. It's like taking 3 different courses: lectures, online work, textbook. Spends way too long on easy questions and "talk to neighbour" in class -- when 95% of the class has no idea/doesn't care. Tests emphasize content barely on syllabus or taught. Avoid course if you can...

The stuff in lectures, textbook homework, and webwork don't match up well it is confusing to keep up with content. He will walk around and ask you questions if you're sitting alone or not talking when we're suppose to "discuss." He assigns more questions on tophat for homework than to do in class which sort of defeats the point of tophat.

Worst prof Ive ever seen. Not student friendly at all. Very uptight and arrogant

Very patronizing . He picks on students when a lot are shy and may have social anxiety this causes a lot of people to feel uncomfortable and not want to attend his lectures - given he is a course coordinator I would expect him to be more aware of his students given that uoft is suffering a mental health crisis .

way too much material since tutorials, lectures and videos cover different things. Avoid him if you can.

I read the comments on read my professor before and I originally thought people give him bad rating because they do not try hard. After attending his class for MAT223. I find out he is exactly like the comments here. His teaching skill is really poor and his explanation are usually useless. Basically I learned everything by myself.

One of the worst classes I've ever taken. Professor calls you out and embarrases you for things like not putting your hand up during a poll. No feedback on assignments, grading scheme for them is very unfair as it is all or none and strict. His response to this was, "It's better to do a question and get 0 then to not do it at all"

Unbelievable. The first 20 minutes of your class is going to be him trying to inspire you. And he has this thought that he has to involve EVERYONE in lecture so he will call you out if you do not put your hand up or do not participate in discussions. Seems like he wanted to be an inspirational speaker than a math professor honestly. Did not learn.

I got a 95 in this course and I feel like I didn't learn a thing. The homework exercises were either trivial or very hard, no inbetween. The grading scheme was bad: no part marks and all-or-nothing for each question; no feedback. At the depth at which we learned the material, the essays were pointless exercises in the use of the English language.

good professor but bad course coordinator. his course is so hard.

This is seriously the most stupid format that you can learn math. Linear algebra can be a daunting subject especially if you have never taken anything like this before but rest assured Jason's self-written textbook will definitely make everything a hell lot harder. And guess what he force you to read and annotate it for marks too. DONT TAKE

regraded my first midterm ever to 2 marks lower, thanks Jason

Lazy professor. Doesnt actually teach anyhting useful in class, waste time and money assign questions for students to complete.. He also ignores piazza posts since he seems unwilling to help. He gives brutal exams with failing averages and never curves. His class is haunted afrter the first week. Worst course seen so far. Avoid him at all costs

Linear algebra is not very hard and the spring section was actually really easy. 65% of your grade was free. But learning sucks. His textbook is weird. It's not a standard order or way of teaching linear algebra, and certain common things (cross product...) are missing. Pretty wack overall.

The class is awful, so it might just be its own fault. Then again, I think he made it.

Overall, I feel that Siefken's class is not enjoyable. His MAT223 lectures do not discuss any of the concepts or give any intuition, and his teaching of this subject is much worse than previous courses in linear algebra I have taken. The way his textbook is integrated into lectures is good, although the textbook often has confusing explanations.

Harsh grading, when the way to answer is unclear. Spends 90% of the lecture time on excel. We learn about trivial ODEs through reading textbook solely, might as well self study. This ODE course is made for those without interest in mathematics and not in any mathematics program. However, Professor Siefken is a nice person.

Seems like he uses AI to grade assignments, they are not looked at by a human. Terrible professor. Assignments have no correlation to material, are more Excel related than math related.

Assignments are marked super strictly while the questions don't ask for rigour, in an almost deceptive way. The midterm has a group/collaborative portion. In a math course. He is also condescending in response to students' concerns, saying students are complaining on purpose to attention grab, and that we should be like Abe Lincoln lol

No concepts, just Excel and Desmos

Annoying and teaches useless information. Did not even do actual math

how hard ?

Course structure is beyond terrible. Most of lectures are spent discussing Excel spreadsheets. This is an ODE class, not an Excel class. Seems like it is catered more towards physics/other students than to actual mathematics students. Group component on midterm in a math course tells you all you need to know about his "innovative" teaching style

We have done absolutely nothing in lecture other than make models for random scenarios, followed by "now you guys take 10 mins and model this on excel". With the intention of catering to the losers in non math fields who need to learn modeling for their programs, "Professor" Siefken reworked this course from a normal ode course to this slop.

He does not tell us any definition in his lecture.

He never teach any definitions or theorems in his lecture.

Weird teaching and ta isnt helpful at all

He doesn't actually "teach" any of the concepts. I'll get assigned a problem set and have to study on my own because he didn't actually teach us how to solve anything. He seems like a great guy but man he ruined this course.

Hands down the worst prof I've ever had for any course. The way the class is structured is a joke. We're forced to self-study to solve any homework problem, he's taught nothing about solving ODEs and has proved no theorems in class. He also treats you with a condescending demeanor and brushes you off when you try to ask a question after class.

Professor Siefken's MAT244 class caters to economics, statistics and business students who use excel and constant visualization to understand concepts. However, this is not a class that is required or even recommended for these majors. Students taking this course should not go to lectures in order to avoid confusion and read the textbook instead.

Terrible experience with this course. Lectures are so, so slow and we spend so much time doing Excel. Even have to use Excel during the group exams (why do these even exist). 11 weeks in and we haven't learned how to analytically solve anything rather than separable ODEs. Doesn't even teach most of the stuff that was in the course description.

He always discuss the topic related to homework AFTER the homework deadline.

I never thought that this math course was completely different from the same course taken by previous students. Why do we have to add group sections in the exam, and why do we require Excel modeling?

After midterm scores came out, he adjusted the syllabus: splitting the final into group and individual parts and letting the final score replace the midterm if higher. We welcomed it at first, but the group final shocked us with unfamiliar questions. When asked about a curve on Piazza, he refused, leaving us feeling misled.

After midterm scores came out, he adjusted the syllabus: splitting the final into group and individual parts and letting the final score replace the midterm if higher. We welcomed it at first, but the group final shocked us with unfamiliar questions. When asked about a curve on Piazza, he refused.

DON'T TAKE HIS COURSEEEE

I learned nothing from the course. He also treats the class like high school/elementary school kids. Also obsessed with forcing people into groups for midterms and final.

very hard not any curve very mean average 42 fkkkkk

Firstly, DON'T CHOOSE THIS PROF'S COURSE! The homework grades are ridiculous, even though your answer is correct, but TA would minus the grade on very little things which are unnecessary. Learned nothing in the lecture, excel is useless in ODE. The group test can not be understood. All of the contents in this course are ridiculous.

Do not take this professor's course. so difficult, we need to more curve. His mid average is 42!!!!!!!!!!

Don't take this class. I put in a lot of effort into my learning, went to all the lectures, and did well on the individual assignments/exams, but my average was dragged down by the group assignments, which are worth a lot. I'm disappointed because we didn't study most of the material in the textbook, we basically only did Excel, no actual math.

100% trash. Like to give grades over 10+ 20+ and it's very easy to lose marks. Get a 50% or 60% in your grade, including hw and tests (both individual and group), is very easy. No relation with math, purely excel class.

Please don't take his courses... we did the minimal amount of integrals in an ODE course, and the whole course is purely based on Excel, group projects, and simulations instead of analytically solving for ODEs. The group portions and the midterm were also very tough and he didn't give any curvings and adjustments.

This is the most poorly structured course I have taken at UofT. It is unclear why the university keep hire such a professor. The refusal to implement a curve or make adjustments, despite many students clearly needing them. Also, the group portion of the midterm felt entirely random and lacked proper preparation or reference materials.

Do not take course of this professor or the course he coordinated. strictly no curve, the course structure is very poor and unorganized. I took intro to ODE and by the end of the semester I still don't know how to solve ode properly because he never taught us math. All we are doing is modeling and excel.. it doesn't prepare at all for PDE next year

Run Run Run Run !!!!

Bro literally taught the class like high school, don't take this course. Mostly worked with Microsoft Excel instead of solving ODEs, and there were group tests.

Assignments are marked like it's MAT157, but there are no proofs/marking rubric is unclear. He is defensive to any student requests/criticism. On piazza, he responds passive aggressively, with claims like 'any applied math course is not taught by serious people'. I hope they never let you teach any serious math course, you deeply unserious person.

I was expecting to learn how to solve ODEs in this course, but we mostly worked with Microsoft Excel. We did NOT touch a single ODE until probably the sixth week of class. Homeworks are very weird, group test of 12 items that counted for 20% of your grade, this course is a big waste of time.

if u see him; run for your life; he thinks uoft is a school in his hood

Don't choose his class if possible... there's a serious lack of content in this class.

Extremely slow lectures. Encourages discussion a bit too much, which takes up a lot of class time. There is less time where he is actually teaching the material, and more time "discussing." We only get through one slide during lectures. Extremely unproductive. Self-learning is 50x more productive.

Extremely bad at explaining concepts. Very condescending and incompetent. Relies much too heavily on group discussion rather than actually teaching. Makes Calc II much harder than it needs to be.

never have I experienced a course run as bad as this

why did he decide to teach calc2 backwards, the course is horribly structured (integral test taught before indefinite integrals), he gives us no good practice (half the practice problems involve goddamn desmos), and fails to teach us the basic concepts. please bring back camellia for calc 2 i cant handle ts anymore

The worst prof I have encountered in first year thus far. Lectures provide no value and does not cover what you need you know. All he does is yap about how he is here to support you, as his actions clearly do not reflect it. If students can vote to fire a prof he'd be on the top list. Not because the course is hard, but because he is full of bs.

☝🤓Question one is about drawing four rectangles under a curve. Please take 29 minutes and 30 seconds to discuss. To help you visualize, allow me to demonstrate with Desmos for 30 minutes. Now lets move on to question two about Taylor series, oh we ran out of time, let's spend 30 seconds to discuss, and then it will be homework.

Never answers questions. Fueled by ego and empty promises. Teaches MAT187 backwards. Collectively punishes. Zero respect.

Doesn't teach. At all.

If you are in engineering with any friends in artsci, please ask them about mat135's Sarah Mayes-Tang. He is the male version of her.

Desmos-pilled

Teaches through pre class readings which only cover the basics, then in lecture wastes time with silly team work on simple problems. Attending lectures is useless, and any other provided material wont teach you what you need to learn. Almost as bad as Jason Bazylak

Awful doesn't teach

I usually play devil's advocate for professors with bad ratings as I always try to see the good side of their teaching. This time it's literally impossible. This is the worst coordinated course I have seen in my entire life by a landslide. Lectures are useless. They make calculus look like rocket science, overcomplicating the simplest of concepts.

If he preaches so much about how much this course teaches, you should at least expect he can solve one of his own questions. Bad teacher with an ego problem.

Worst teacher

Doesn't teach and runs mat244 horribly. If you see he's teaching/coordinating, just take the course a different semester. Run!

Genuinely the worst professor ever.

bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

if the second midterm puts no methods of integration and has all of it on the multiple choice uoft is genuinely a horrible university and needs to go bankrupt how did we hire a prof that cant teach without desmos or make midterm questions remotely connect to what we've been learning for the past month

not good very bad

how this man still have a job?

This course is soooooooooo test heavy it's insane like if you can't already teach then can you at least give us the answers to the practice problems you post??? Course so brain dead and backwards the prof making it even worse

I don't care how old he is, he needs to retire.

This guy is literally my 13th reason. TERRIBLE at teaching, his ego is way too high given his terrible lectures that almost all his students are complaining about. If he's not gonna teach the course properly he should at least provide solutions to the practice problems. There's no way this man is keeping his job icl.

He only gives examples in the lecture to let students solve, with no introduction for the contents. I learned the entire course based on PCE. The exam is so hard, and the marking rubric is hard as well. NO PARTIAL MARKS for the process.

Horrible Professor. Unable to teach, expects us to learn the concepts thoroughly through the PCE but goes through the easiest examples in class. Spends majority of the class doing group work without teaching. Horrible Course Coordinator. Lessons aren't even connected and everything is thrown in randomly. Should really be removed from the course.

Both midterms involved mostly series, … methods of integration don't matter? Like seriously teaching integral test which needs improper integration BEFORE improper integration….) No calculator exams (that's normal) but ALL lecture activities and practice problems AS PER THE PROF need DESMOS, excel, graphing software, etc… make it make sense!

TERRIBLE HE USES CALCULATORS AND OTHER TECH STUFF THAT ARE NOT ON THE TEST DURING LECTURES

"told you Dave, I never lose..." - Ian Hawke

Our prof insists that work must show, but uses Desmos—what a blow. No phones, no tech, we're told in class, yet he just graphs and lets it pass. Our grades? A mystery unsolved, his office hours? Rarely involved. With limits high and patience low, this class is where our hopes plateau.

No work is checked, just right or wrong, No partial marks to help along. So through the textbook, deep we dive, To teach ourselves and just survive. He calls on students, makes them speak, No time to stall, no chance to sneak. Yet in the end, we can't deny, It builds the nerve to think and try.

I attended one week of lectures and then gave up on this man. He could not teach a lightbulb to glow. 10/10 recommend staying home and finding online resources instead. If his face is that interesting, watch Alvin and the Chipmunks (Ian Hawke is a close match)

Fair and reasonable assessments but god awful teaching. He teaches Taylor before Integration Methods. He “converges” his cumulative tests onto few topics and “diverges” his practice tests onto topics that are not tested. Neurodivergent man.

terrible!!!!!

I have never seen a course ran so badly as this one. This charlatan thought it was a good idea teaching the course backwards (HOW CAN YOU TEACH POWER SERIES WITHOUT TEACHING INDEFINITE INTEGRALS FORST??). In addition to that, there are no part marks, so even if you forgot to write your answer in the answer box, you get a 0. Also laughs at students.

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A king in a circus or a clown in Palace

Absolutely astonishing how this man is even keeping his job at Canada's #1 University.

oi oi oi, bakaaa

Bro even the professors don't like him

Most unorganized course ever. Even worse than civ & that's saying something. We can't even get our midterm grades back before a whole makeup exam. They gave us our ungraded midterm back but with the way they mark you can think your justification is correct but if u didn't say 1 small thing ur going to get 0 so self marking isn't even accurate.

worst class i've ever been in. disorganized, confusing, not worth it.

He did not provide structured concepts and examples during the lecture. His rubric of marking is unreasonable and ignores the process of solving problems.

I agree with the majority of the reviews here—Professor Siefken's “unique” teaching style is more of a nightmare than a benefit. Partial marks are either nonexistent or handed out at random. Once he explained smth with "Math is a wild world," now I know that math is indeed a wild world, and Professor Siefken made it even more chaotic.

I've wondered many times how such a person who shouldn't be allowed to be within a 5-mile radius of a chalkboard has managed to convince Uoft, a top 20 university, to even be part of the faculty, let alone a COORDINATOR of a Math course. I love how he goes through ONE problem in a lecture with DEMOS and won't be seen on the tests. ABSOLUTE TOOL.

Don't bother attending lectures its just better to learn on your own.

Teaches no actual material in his class, had to learn everything on my own. Both in and outside of lectures, he talks to students in a condescending manner which does not incentivize students to work.

Worst learning experience I have ever had in my life. His lectures taught nothing meaningful. Our exams were no-calculator yet half of the problems we went over in lectures, required desmos or a calculator to complete. The grading was absolutely awful as well. They would take off marks for no reason. THEY HAD NEGATIVE MARKING.

Couldn't teach math to a math major atp. Everything I've had to do was outside of the course he cannot teach at all.

Feels like none of your effort awarded as long as you don't get the answer exactly as they want you will be awarded zero part marks.

This self-obsessed, self-declared erudite is, in fact, an academic parasite, whose goals are to push the boundaries of how little we can understand about the subject. I had few complaints about him teaching the units essentially in reverse order. Despite this choice, the most backward thing about this course was actually the exam marking schemes.

horrible prof cannot teach for his life and acts like he's the smartest person in the room. I doubt he could pass some of the test he gives with the way he only uses demos. Joke of a course and Joke of a teacher

I've never had such a good teacher in my life. Part marks? HE LOVES EMMMM. Lost 8 marks because my upper bound was wrong. Lost 4 marks because I wrote approximately equals to instead of equals to. Guess what? Lost 3 marks because I had the right answer but my written justification was wrong. Got 0 marks. At this point buddy, go to a retirement home

The course was poorly managed, with slow grading and strict answer-only marking that penalized small mistakes. Lectures weren't helpful, and it was more effective to watch Professor Leonard on YouTube and review the PCEs instead. Only answer what you're sure of — no part marks means effort won't count if the final answer's wrong. HORRIBLE

I come back here to rate Siefken again and again and again because I genuinely cannot believe he's allowed to keep his job the way he is so disrespectful to students. This man is a horrible educator (if you can even call him that) he does not deserve his job/role and I would STRONGLY advise against going to any of his lectures/office hours.

listen to the reviews. he is not good

Out of all the topics we are expected to know, I can count on one hand how many were actually covered in class.

Skibidi Sigma Toilet

Knobhead of a guy honestly

Why doesn't this idiot post solutions to his practice questions. Does he expect a revelation to come to his students so that they know they're correct or not?

Terrible prof. Didn't test material covered in lectures on exams. The lectures were also terrible we spent the entire time doing maybe one or two practice questions.

Walnut/melon

He did not just take off your marks, he even deducted your marks, worst marking scheme I have ever met!!!

Dropped his weird iteration of the course to take it in Winter instead. So worth it, you actually learn how to solve ODE's instead of spending the entire class on like one Excel simulation problem.

Jason purposefully limits the resources available to students. Practice problems are unrealistically hard, and he tries to justify not posting their answers even after student confrontation. Instead of teaching the content, he wastes lecture time by making students try untaught exercises and with futile soliloquies in attempt to gain respect.

hes so bad

Pea brain/turtle

This son of a ...'s marking scheme is atrociously bad. I lost marks because my final answer was outside the provided box. I'M SORRY I RAN OUT OF SPACE BUDDY.

So this Ian Hawke ass guy only wishes to torture his students. All his exams are like a comprehension rather than a math assessment. Every question you'll do in his papers are gonna be 90% - Justify The other 10% - define Be ready to lose all points if you are one word off or write in a different way cos math is only based in english!

everytime i think about this class my chest starts to hurt

made me actually consider switching majors. even my therapist says he sounds like a bad dude

Difficult course made so much worse. Considered dropping out afterwards.

His teaching felt disorganized and slow, with little content covered in lectures other than irrelevant/abstract focii. He changed the course structure from previous years without benefit, only creating more confusion. Midterms were overly abstract and unfair (averages 50s-60s), and his attitude towards students was dismissive and unkind.

Gives absolutely zero part marks, forgot to put an infinity sign on the top of a Taylor series, and got 0/3 even though everything else was correct, bearly teaches in class just goes over questions using desmos, huge ego always thinks he's right, doesn't explain the concepts, have to teach yourself.

I thought his lectures were interesting and he seemed like he enjoyed being infront of the class. However, I found this course very difficult and there was not enough support from teaching staff. He got rid of the assignments that were there last year for this course and i just know that would have saved my grade.

Jason was the coordinator for MAT187, a Calculus 2 course for eng students. Emphasis on the "was" as he should not teach math to engineering students ever, or..for any students for that matter. He was rude to students, snapped his fingers, and made snark remarks. Course was flipped on its head (integral test before by parts). Absolute disaster.

Every single 5 star rating is sarcasm if you haven't realized yet. He's so bad it's impressive how bad he is. Olympic gold type of bad. Generational player type of bad. He's really bad. Very bad. And that was just HIM as a COURSE COORDINATOR. Imagine how terrible of a professor he is...

he needs a better haircut

He somehow manages to make the content harder than it needs to be. He spends too much time on the straight forward parts but tends to skips the crucial steps and leaves everyone confused.

JASON SIEFKEN CAN'T TEACH !!!! or coordinate a course

God help us

I want to cry, not recommended this prof if you want to learn math

Avoid at all cost.

He assumes that you have read all the concept before class, but I cannot understand them only by the textbook!!! If I can learn everything before class, why will I come to lecture in person??? He just skipped the concepts and taught something useless and meaningless. If you are a genius, you can take his class.

Thinks he is a male dancer, not a professor or instructor. Several of my second-year professors told us we would have to fill in holes in our knowledge because this guy taught so poorly.

I think Siefkans is not a bad TEACHER. He is a very proficient orator, and capable of explaining the more abstract foci. That being said, he is terrible course coordinator that fails to structure balanced lessons. Homework is 90% computation but exams are 90% theory? I feel the course wanted to teach 100 different things and failed most of them.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS. He spent too much time focusing on things that were not on the test and only completed the easy questions in class. His answers to questions were never clear and he was always calling students out. I stopped going after the first month and started watching the online recordings instead which were much better.