Terrible! Stay as far away as possible!

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Horrible Math professor!! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS FROM HIM! My class went from about 50 students to maybe 10.

Not only does he expect every student to be genius level, but also expects every student to already KNOW what is to be covered in class. He will slap a problem on the board, complete it, then hand out assignments assuming you learned what was needed.

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He actually guest lectured for my professor a couple time. He is arrogant and condesending. He shouts and is just generally an objectionable person to be around. He marks points off homework if he doesn't like the way you write your "plus" signs. HORRIBLE!!

He's loud, abnoxious, and has no business being a teacher with that attitude. I like math and I had to drop his class a week after it started because I couldn't stand him.

very bad teacher...he makes you do projects =/

He was not helpful at all and would not answer many questions that the class had. The tests contain harder material than he teaches in day to day classes.

He is terrible! He doesnt help at all! "Its typical to fail his class"- yeh those are his words! STAY AWAT!

UNINSPIRING AND TALKED DOWN TO STUDENTS. I FELT AS THOUGH I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL(THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO.) IT IS ALSO MY OPINION THAT HE GRADED TO HARSHLY. I DROPPED THE CLASS WITH A "B" WHICH WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST GRADES IN THE CLASS. I WOULD NEVER TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM AGAIN; NOR WOULD I RECOMMEND HIM.

He is the most condescending person I've ever met. He teaches his student's like they are idiots. He does not grade your homework on accuracy rather completion so you don't know what you get wrong and so you get in wrong on the quizzes and tests as well. He puts you in groups to teach you so that he can once again cop out of doing his job.

The worst, Jerry, the worst. Seriously what can I say about this guy that hasn't already been said in past comments? There is a reason why his sections are always half full while the others are completely packed. If you do get stuck with him plan on spending most of your time just trying to figure out what he expects you to know.

Professor Fitch was one of the worst professors I've ever had. After going to Every class, doing every assignment and every test i still had to get a 115% on the FINAL to pass the class. After all was said and done he told me I should have taken better notes in class. He was absolutely useless, and I warn every other student about him.

This professor should no longer be teaching. He wasted an entire month of my time before I dropped the course. He expected my classmates to teach me calculus. By the time we figured out that we did not have a clue it was a month into a difficult course. As a teacher he is worthless. He comes across as condescending and arrogant.

How this guy has remained on the teaching staff here at UAA is beyond me. I mean I know it's basically a glorified community college but this is absolutely ridiculous. When I pay good money to take classes I expect the instructors to at least be somewhat qualified to teach. UAA, wake up already and get rid of this guy.

Horrible. Don't take his class. He's arrogant and useless. He fails the students. A big waste of time and money, sadly. He's cocky, rude and condescending. Avoid him at all costs. You have been warned. D:

This professor is very rude, not helpfull at all. I learned absolutely nothing in this class. He showed no interest in teaching us, and treated all his students like imbeciles. He does not answer questions directly, he instead puts them in riddles that only he himself can understand. This is the worst class i have ever taken DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!

this teacher is practically a joke an expects the class to teach itself he dosent teach anything at all an he anwsers question with questions or he will say something smart an piss you off i definetly couldnt stand him or his so called "teaching" method

This is the worst teacher ever. He doesn't really teach you and tells you not to read your text book and only do the problems in it. He doesn't answer questions directly and makes them sound like he answered them but really doesn't.

Dr. Fitch is the most condescending, arrogant, egotistical man I have ever met. He was rude to me in class in front of everyone, could not WAIT to tell me I was wrong and why he was ALWAYS right, and he treats his students like they don't know anything. He even got mad at me for sneezing in the middle of his class! Don't take his class!!!

Tolerating his condescending attitude and rude behavior is the hard part; the actual material is a breeze by comparison.

Didnt really teach me anything. Tests do not correspond with the homework. If you are trying to learn math i suggest you get a different teacher

This math class is basically just a study hall. In class we work on homework and learn nothing from the prof. The tests are completely inconsistent with the homework. Not to mention the prof has no interest in helping students learn. He is intelligent but an ineffective teacher, which is obvious by the fact that the majority of the class has an F.

Does not teach. Puts lessons online to be learned before class and then places you in groups in class to do homework. Extremely condescending and very little help when you ask questions. Assigns projects throughout semester including 2 essays. Grades by looking for reasons to take off points. Everything i learned was from youtube. Avoid thisteacher

I'm already not good at math and I took this class in hopes of actually learning and getting a clear discussion on the lessons. Boy was I wrong. He doesn't even teach. He expects you to know everything. Whenever I asked a question as to if I'm doing something right, his response is "idk are you?". Not a good course with him. Avoid if possible.

Way too hard on his students. EXTREMELY condescending and expects you to knowunderstand everything before he even teaches it. He treats you as if you are stupid if you ask questions. By FAR the worst teach that I have had to UAA.

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Don't be fooled by his bowtie. Horrible teacher. Fitch puts you in groups and makes you ask your group any questions you have instead of answering them himself. He doesn't teach. Notes are taken "at home" and you do homework in class. Quizzes every day at the start of class. Not a good class to take if you aren't already good at math.

Posts lectures online, has you work on homework in groups when you get to class. DOesn't teach. Condescending and unapproachable. If you ask for help he tells you to ask your classmates.

You can expect to work in groups for most of the semester and read your textbook at home and preform your homework in class. The trouble is when you ask Fitch for direction on how to find the solution to a problem it's never a direct answer.

Was not very helpful when I had questions. He grades pretty hard. Participation matters. He gives projects for you to do and they are sometimes unclear and confusing. Must do the projects otherwise you won't pass. He has office hours but when I would go in there to look at my tests, he would look at his computer. Just didn't connect well with him.

I should have checked RMP first. I struggled in this class. The somewhat backward learning threw me off but wasn't a huge deal. What made it incredibly difficult was how he taught the lectures with not much explanation or help. I understand that he wants his students to really understand the concepts but this method doesn't work for everyone.

Tends to test us on physics material. A lot of the stuff we go over is real life problems, but are very difficult and he doesn't explain them well. He has very poor communication and comes off very rude. He posts all lectures online, but fails to give out the help that is needed throughout the class. His tests are nothing like the work we practice.

Fitch is not nice. He is a brilliant man and knows it, and has the tendency to make people feel less about themselves. This is not a good quality for a teacher to have. He puts lessons online and expects you to understand them without inclass help. HW is done in class. This teaching strategy is nice, but when answering questions he can be very rude

He speaks english but I couldn't comprehend things he said. Wouldn't suggest him especially if you are not a math person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are better off taking this class online or with a different professor that gets not everyone is in LOVE with math .

Trouble is he does absolutely no teaching in class that would benefit most of us. He relys on his videos outside of class. He refuses to even do a few problems before we do the homework so that we are staring the the problems like, what? He will do them the next day but if he would have given us the examples in class we would understand better.

worst math teacher I've ever met, treats students as if they are stupid and won't give help when needed. Ended up dropping his class due to his attitude and unwillingness to help students succeed. I witnessed him treating a pregnant student like garbage and couldn't stand the atmosphere

Fitch is strict. So strict that he wouldn't let me make up a quiz after a family death. In addition he is consistently condescending in class and grades inconsistently, sometimes denying students points on certain questions they got right because they got another wrong. Would never take a course with him again.

fitch fully and truly is a bad professor. meeting with him durring office hours was like a whole new person, he was helpful and kind but durring class he was totally useless. hes clearly likes math but hates teaching, maybe he should just sitck to upper level courses because he clearly looked down on us low lvl students when we didnt understand.

There's just so much. He grades on style not math (I got points deducted because I wrote my work in 2 columns but he preferred 1 column. The online homework system said everything you did was wrong so no one knew if they were doing the problems right or not, he was no help with that either. Basically didn't help in or out of class. DON'T TAKE HIM!!

He reads cryptic descriptions for 10 minutes then sends you to a breakout room with 1 or 2 other people for the rest of the hour. The tests are nothing like the homework or the rare examples in class. If you miss ANY part of the test question, it's marked as a ZERO. No partial credit. The WORST math class I've ever had. I'm a 3.5 GPA and got a D.

I thought his rating here was harsh, but it's honestly what he deserves. He takes points off for reasons unrelated to the material, and he does not answer questions (he basically tells you to reread the lesson). He also doesn't teach and everyone must learn in groups by reading the lessons together. If your group sucks, too bad. Wouldn't recommend.

I thought the previous reviews were just exaggerated, but they truly are not. He doesn't show ANY examples during lectures and when you ask a question he does not give you a direct answer. Exams are 80% of your grade and he takes full points off for the smallest things. I recommend taking calculus with another professor.

This class was the hardest Ive ever taken. Dr. Fitch may be a decent teacher at higher levels but his brilliance is his undoing at the lower levels, the subject matter is incredibly difficult and dont expect him to do you any favors, youre better off taking 105 or 151, please trust me.

Dont bother. You teach yourself and your classmates how to do the homework in groups while he checks his emails. Every other exam is scheduled outside of class so if youve got work or another class before class, too bad, you dont get to take the exam which is 80% of your grade. Waste of time and money for a prof who doesnt teach.

I took Discrete Methods. Instead of lectures, he made us present our answers to his homemade "textbook" while he silently watched. His unhelpful feedback would come a week later; by that time we'd already moved on to a new subject. The instructions on the tests were confusing and the correct answer involved figuring out what he *meant* to ask.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. He does not care that he is drowning you in work and does not accommodate for any situation. I took an ONLINE course, yet he made you go to in person proctoring even though UAA has RPNow(online proctoring program that almost every other professor uses for their online courses). Save yourself from the bad grade.

Constantly would change the requirements and rules for assignments so you would never get the credit. I would put one thing, he would say what to change, I'd attempt the assignment again and he'd then tell me to put what I had down for the first attempt. Had a cool concept idea to replace tests but was way too strict on concept requirements.

I have never used Rate My Professor before and now I regret it. When looking at rate my professor I don't usually take it seriously because some people might not try and then complain about the class. However, This class is one of the worst classes I have taken in my academic career. I wouldn't recommend this class at all.

Avoid this class if you can - the professor has a very rigid grading system and expects perfection. However, unstuckstudy helped me with study prep and made the material more manageable.

Ever wanted to learn backwards by doing questions first, getting them wrong, and then getting taught the material after? Mark Fitch is just your guy! If you want to be challenged mathematically, make sure to take Mark! And don't forget it's Dr. Fitch! He makes that VERY clear! Could not recommend better, he is an amazing teacher if you want to fail

Really, avoid this class. He takes what should be simple concepts and twists them around his teaching ideology to make it confusing and hard to follow. ANY other calc teacher would be better.

80% of the grade is from 6 exams that are so vaguely marked you don't know what to work on, and the problems are much harder than what's discussed in class. Speaking of class discussion, it's non existent; work in groups for an hour and get questions wrong for him to spend the last 15 mins just saying the correct answer.

Most of the time I went to office hours he just said he isn't able to answer questions at the moment and to come another day, defeating the point of office hours. Due dates are often wrong and doesn't give good feedback when grading.

There are 5 or 6 exams in this class that determine your grade, 2 of which are taken outside of class time. Additionally, when the exams are returned the feedback is confusing making review of said exam difficult. Finally all the class work is being put into groups and discussing the notes due prior to class. Then briefly saying what was correct.

This is the worst experience I've had in a math course yet, not because the subject was particularly difficult, but because most of the grade was based on five tests. On these tests, he provided unclear and minimal feedback, making it hard to know how to improve.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. To pass, you must teach yourself the material. Your entire grade depends on only 5 to 6 standards, which are graded with extreme nitpicking. Effort and attendance are irrelevant. The course is poorly structured, and the standards do not match the homework or practice. AVOID if you value your time, money, and GPA.