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Quality4.3
Difficulty10%
Would Retake124
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MAT117 - 1.0 rating“The problems is Kazlow love making this class 100x harder than it needs to be”
MAT117 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Attendance Mandatory
24%
Textbook Required
92%
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D
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MATH104
5.0
(1)MAT236
4.7
(3)MAT132
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4.0
(1)MAT131
3.0
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117
5.0
137
5.0
70049
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Reviews (124)
He said to the class and I quote "Are you confused Good you Should Be"
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VERY VERY VERY VERY HARD, but very good
cs major you fail from day one
extremely confusing and unorganized.Sorry it's true.
his pre tests are exactly like the exams. you just need to remember the answers
Very boring. Most of the class fell asleep and the lights went out.
horrible professor. made easy class very hard
horrible man at the end of the semester only 6 students left in class.
famous quote "uh... um... uh" unclear and boring, pretests are tests
Quote "Have I Lost You Yet?" Try to stay away. Very picky grader.not generous
Very, Very Boring Professor.... Exams are similar to sample exams...
I loved his tricky questions. if you are not good at math stay away. I had an A
a disgrace to pace
he's really good if u understand math, which i don't, but i still got a B
Final average for class is 17 out of 100, says anything
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why do people hate him. u only need a 67 for an A -. his test=sample test
Finite math is HARD, kazlow made it bearable. not the most entertaining, but ok.
I don't know why this prof has bad reputation, sample test=exam, easy!
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course is hard ! but he answers any questions you have about the lessons
Horrible professor! Very unfair! Doesen't respect students!
You must have been a sinner in your past life to deserve him in this one.
I hate him, he gave me a D+. sample test=nothing like real test
Terrible, taking his class was like a Nightmare on Elm Street. I'm not kidding.
Totally unclear, fools people with grading system..stay away!!!
Just awful, loves to fail people, doesn't deserve to teach at all!
great guy, didnt do any hw, paid attention in class, 94 average
Easy grader, no homework, funny guy. TAKE HIM PEOPLE!
very hard professor. my only d ever!!!
Bar non, my favorite professor at Pace, actually cares about students which is more then i can say about every other prof i had at Pace. Reputation as a hard-ass totally unwaranted. Enjoy his class, and considering its math thats saying something!!!
Good Profesor, clear, funny and easy to get along with, but if you take his class you need to be prepared to work HARD to earn a good grade
Easy class but exams are a little tricky. Very helpful with students. Wants all of his students to pass. He easier than most calculus professors at Pace. Make sure you study though!
PROS = grading policy, respect for students, wants to help, funny CONS = HARD exams(multiple choice), material is confusing
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it's very hard online. Hard tests, weekly quizzes. 67 guarantees A-. Available for help. wants students to do well. tries to get people to understand
I was happy i got a D.
If you don't like math, you won't do well in this class. Professor Kazlow doesn't offer much help. You either get it or you don't.
Need to study a lot on your own. If you're good at math he's a very easy grader. If this is your first time taking calculus I don't recommend him.
Brilliant man. Makes the class easy and gives extra credit options. You have to do some studying on your own but he's really coopertive if you need extra help. Great teacher
Why Pace U. would hire him is beyond me. If you're not good at math, don't register for his classes. You have been warned.
Very bad teacher. He gives hard tests and very uncooperative. He cannot teach at all. You have to study the whole course on your own, because he does not explain anything
You cannot fail this class. He makes it so easy for you and you really learn all of the material. Online quizzes, sample tests. You can't have a better calculus teacher. He also is very helpful during office hours and gives good administrative advice
whoever says this man is hard should quit school and start workin-there s no way to get easier than this
There is no attendance policy, and the quizzes are given online, and the lessons that he gives in class are posted online too. However, you do have to show up for the mid-term and final, and class itself is 2hrs of non-stop talking. Grades curve alot here
Dont be stupid like me and refuse to buy the book, go to class,&forget to do online quizzes...cause you might get a C!!!! C'mon a 68 is an A...just dont overestimate how hard and meaningless stats really is!!!
The worst! expects a lot from students and you'd better be ready to work hard for that grade
Easy class u never have to show up everything is posted online for u, lectures and quizzes are on blackboard. Take the quizzes every week, show up for midterm and final and ull do fine.He is a little eccentric and class can get boring.
his online classs is the worst
horrible. and i don't know what you're thinking if you think you'll do well in his online course.
Don't even have to go to class, but buy the textbook! Everything is posted on the web for you, do 9 take home quizes, show up for the midterm and the final, and you'll do fine. Have to do work for an A, but he is not as horrible as some people say!
extremely unorganized and unclear, he is in his own little world when he teaches you. grades homework! Goes very fast and doesn't really care if you get it or not. Avoid him! He will drag you down in this class. Terrible teacher!
class sucks, but he has an amazing curve system, dont even have to come to class, treats it all like an online class.
pathetic . . waste of time and money . . please avoid him
He is extremely hard. Is a waste of time and money. You don't have to go to the classroom even if it isn't an online class. He bores you do death. He is too fast and don't care if you understand or not. His tests are very hard but he lowers the grade scale but don't even count on that. I don't even know how Pace won't get rid of him. He sucks..!!
This professor is sooo AWFUL!!! He seriously should not be teaching because he is ruining people's careers and wasting their money. He is most def. the WORST Professor I have ever encountered. He is also extremely rude to students. Pace's ranking will continue to drop as long as Kazlow is teach there. Avoid at alll cost. DO NOT TAKE HIM.
Well, what should I say? I can't beleive Pace ever hired him. This is why I took loans out???
On-line class requires certain basic knowledge in math, and a lot of time, much more than I ever expected. Sample exams and actual tests (exept the first one) are different, and full of surprizes. If you like challenge, take his class. I've got an "A", probably the hardes one earned in Pace.
don't do it. i thought taking it on line was a brilliant idea. as it turns out, not so much. class would be tremendously improved if there were some kind of weekly quiz just to make sure we kept up with the work. if i wanted to learn everything on my own i would, school is about assignments, quizzes, etc. so that i actually keep up with my work.
DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!! This man has no business teaching!! The class avg on tests was a 40!!! Very disorganized. Not helpful at all! Teaching urself would be better. Hands down the worst teacher I've ever had and I've had A LOT of profs!!! RUN FOR UR LIFE!!!
THE WORST PROFESSOR EVER!!!Don't ever take him...EVER!!!He will give u a C- for no reason and his tests r insane hard!!!
very bad, try to avoid this class with this professor
he is okay, his tests are hard but if u go to his office hours and ask for help then he will but u must show effort and not b like oo this is boring and not do anything His class is REaLLY BORING all he does is read a powerpoint its like if i dont understand it reading it myelf u reading it to me wont help STUDY class avg=42
WORST PROFESSOR EVER!
This is the worst prof i have had in my entire life. Disrespectful not helpful at all and didnt learn a thing in his class. It was online and he just sets up the class in the first week and then just leaves you with nothing but "I found it best if you work with the other students to get the answers not for me to give them to you. I HATE HIM
He is the worst one, I've taken. Online course, do nothing, learn nothing, waste time and money. He even refused to post the answers for the practice final. Bad.
I had a 50 in the class..13 points higher than the class average--WORST PROFESSOR I'VE EVER HAD
avoid avoid avoid. attendance is not mandatory watsoever, bc all lectures are posted online. basically teach urself stats. really unhelpful & unclear. thinks everyone is a stats major. tests are ridiculously difficult, nothing like rev. sheets. HUGE curve (minimum of 72 guaranteed an A-) but still no one gets As. gluck if he's your only choice...
avoid avoid avoid. attendance is not mandatory watsoever, bc all lectures are posted online. basically teach urself stats. really unhelpful & unclear. thinks everyone is a stats major. tests are ridiculously difficult, nothing like rev. sheets. HUGE curve (minimum of 72 guaranteed an A-) but still no one gets As. gluck if he's your only choice...
DONT TAKE ONLINE
AVOID AT ALL COSTS Dr. Kazlow is a nice man, however his teaching is incomprehensible to the average student. Even the math majors have a hard time understanding him. He is really smart, however IT DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO HIS TEACHING. I have A's and a 4.0 and this class will singlehandedly ruin my GPA.
HORRIBLE TEACHER. NEVER EVER EVER TAKE THIS MAN. He will ruin your GPA if you do, AVOID AVOID AVOID.
I took him 3 times and failed because I needed the class for my program which I ended up failing out of because of this man. Unhelpful,dosent answer email or questions. Gives take home tests to study from but then the actual test he makes up from foreign text books.Online he is even worse never posts to blackboard,refuses to answer any questions
This man ruined my life and there is nothing I can do about it.
He doesn't care about students. Always insists we get help from our "peers". If that is so, we could use some student teachers rather than a real professor. Many people failed the course. I was LUCKY to even get a C. Fair grader but he needs to rethink his teaching style.
Poor and unprepared for class
Bad Professor. Doesn't teach what he tests you on and doesn't usually reply to emails (only replied to 1 of 5). Doesn't make an effort to help students outside of class and doesn't seem like he cares how they do
WORST professor I ever took. He single handedly ruined my life. I cant graduate and he doesnt even care.. he has no caring bone in his body. he has a black cold heart. does not care about students and demands too much from students which is fine for professors that are good and teaches well but this professor didnt teach at all, what did he expect?
HE will not care about you, and he loves to fail students. This was basic statistics and he made it so much harder than it had to be. I learned statistics from statistics for dummies! his notes are a joke,he makes it look like rocket science, and his tests are very HARD and nothing like the quizzes. its like hes setting you to fail!
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS, ESPECIALLY ONLINE. it will ruin your life. 30+ hours a week on work, it is impossible. First test, no one got above a 78!!! Trust me, I read all these horrible reviews and still decided to take it. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!
He is absolutely the worst I have ever encountered. Went to the Math lab for help and their advice was Drop and Drop him fast. I did and will take it at another school. He enjoys the fact that he makes it more difficult than it needs to be.
ruining people's lives. one F at a time.
run. run and never look back. im.dead.serious.
This man ruined my life. completely misleading, I literally don't know one person that passed. You will fail if you take him, trust me, no matter how much work you do. Never responds to emails, doesn't care about students.
take him and you will fail. I repeat. YOU WILL FAIL! no one can pass his class. i repeat. NO ONE.
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIFE. EVERYONE IN MY CLASS FAILED HE WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE, AND HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HIS STUDENTS AT ALL!!!!!
If you like Math, like to challenge yourself, take him. Really gave students hard work to do, not like all the other professors. Very smart guy. If you suck and don't study hard, don't blame him!
He's my dad. But i'm in highschool and i can't learn a blessed thing from him lol
no matter how much i study, review, do the homework.. i still FAIL HIS TESTS.even if you do great on the quizzes they only count like homework and isn't ANYTHING like the test. unless u took math in ASIA or some other country or amazing school where they teach highly advanced math.. then your on the SAME BOAT as all of us "raters"
his mat117 class is so so so boring and so so so hard. don't take his class, unless you want to challenge urself!
Very Challenging, Prof grades are very strict, Just writes on the board for the entire class and moves very fast. Exams are very different then hw. will mark a question wrong for something as simple as a bracket. More then Half of the class failed exams.
STAY AWAY. You will not learn a single thing from him. You better be ready to teach yourself everything. The textbook he requires is just as useless as he is. He requires you to buy or rent a program that he prefers to use. The take home quizzes aren't easy either.
This is the one professor that people will always warn you to stay away from. Although his classes are challenging and he treats you like a mathematician, he is very willing to help you out if you attend his office hours. If you want to do well write neatly and visit him frequently. If you do not do the work expect to fail.
Overall pretty good teacher. His tests are hard, but if you do your homework and study from the textbook you'll be fine. He can curve some tests and that will help your grade overall so take advantage. Go to office hours if your doing bad in the class he is sometimes very helpful and gives you insight to whats going to be on a test.
If you are not good at math, then this class will be ridiculously hard for you. I study so much, and still fail most of his quizzes and tests. He's not very helpful and he teaches everything as if we are mathematicians. Plus, he doesn't give out extra credit. He marks you wrong on quizzes/tests for the dumbest things.
Do not take a class with this professor. He makes sitting in class unbearable. He does not explain anything clearly and the material is difficult to begin with. You will end up completely teaching yourself the entire semester. I devoted a lot of time for his class and it did not pay off. He ruined my GPA so if you care about your grades stay away!
Unless you are a good math student with experience in statistics, don't take his class. Explanations are muddled and confusing and often presents unnecessary information during his lectures like the history of an equation. Homeworks are drastically different from the exams that he gives and as a result you're often left. unprepared
This is the worst class ever. He uses statlab way too much, then on the exam you're left wondering what to do. Formula sheet is made for himself and completely useless. He also says you don't need to remember the formula because it's on the formula sheet which leaves you confused. His exams are all cumulative so make sure you drop the class.
This is a challenging course. You have to be willing to put in a lot of hours and ask for help. If he sees you care about his class he'll help you out.
This guy is an absolute joke. Makes the course 10x more difficult than it needs to be, and does a horrible job of getting his point across. Just puts random, useless problems on the board in no order, and gives no review sheets/prep for exams. Grades are the lowest I've ever received, and this is a course I already took in high school!
didn't learn a thing, he makes everything much more complicated than it is
Attending class does not help & in fact confuses you more. Must read the book although he tests more than the book teaches. Often wastes class time teaching things he later tells us are useless. Tests are impossible. Started out with a class of 40 students and by the end had only 16 bc most people dropped. Gives 8 hrs of hw a week. Unhelpful &yells
Worst professor ever. He will fail you and doesn't care.
I PROMISE YOU WILL REGRET TAKING THIS CLASS! OUR TEST AVERAGES ARE LIKE A 40! No extra credit, nothing, our whole class is failing. Seriously, unless you are a math genius that needs no help, DO NOT TAKE THIS!!!! Worst decision of my academic career was to take this class.
Worst human being in the world. He doesn't care if you are learning he only cares if he is doing a good job at failing the class. If your class average is a 50 should't that show you something about your teaching style? I would recommend taking another Professor who actually cares about teaching you statistics. Kazlow is NOT one of them.
In this class you will realize that the devil is in fact not a lie and working overtime. He makes everything 10 times more difficult than it actually is. He will also spend more than half the class time on material that won't be tested rather than more significant material.
I really don't understand how this man is still teaching? He made my GPA go down tremendously. Also, if you want to learn information that you don't ever need to know during your college career, yes, go and take him. He makes this course harder than it should be. I do not recommend to ever set foot in his class.
Ordinarily I wouldn't go by RMP. But Kazlow's classes are just... yikes. He's pretty good at explaining concepts and is available outside of class to help you. But he's the most difficult grader I've ever had by a long shot. I was one of the better students in the class, and I didn't do very well. Many failed despite working hard. Avoid if you can.
This is a hard class. Avoid if possible. Does not give good guidance on finals. Does not curve. Very confusing. Not good at teaching math but great at teaching theorem. I did not pass and giving this to all to avoid him.
Kazlow is a really tough professor. He uses MegaStatExcel for everything and during exams, he just thinks we know magically what to do . He's nice but he's so unclear on what he wants. He made Stats so confusing to me, I failed. Doesn't show how to use the calculator for anything unless you ask him. You WILL be living in the tutoring center.
Drop out before you take him... Opening line first day of class was "you probably know more about stats than I do." The absolute worst. Does not teach, spends lecture time babbling about nothing and expects you to teach yourself a subject he and I quote "Has never taken or learned before." STAY AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
This is beginners Stats so it is not really a hard course. Most already took this in highschool. The problems is Kazlow love making this class 100x harder than it needs to be. Tutoring center is not much help at all b/c sometimes even the tutors don't know how to approach his problems. Test are drastically different from the textbook.
Don't take this course. Even attending every class, numerous 8AM office hours, tutoring center, extra HW and peer one on one groups, I still failed. Professor does not help students and moves onto new material regardless. Teacher doesn't mind if you are failing. 90% of my class failed this course. BEWARE!
I will reccommend not to take this course if you don't have to. If you have to however, I'll suggest you learn the material by yourself beforehand like in the summer or winter before the semester starts cause you will need all the head start you can get.
Kazlow seems to think that we need to spend 8 hours a week on his class, regardless of all the other classes we are taking, jobs, e. He has no problem failing his entire class. I've had five friends drop out of the class this semester. He cares more about being a "good teacher"" then about his students actually passing and getting through his class
Avoid if u can. He is a hard grader & poor teacher w a hi fail/drop rate. U MUST do ALL hw probs, NOT just graded ones, on time & dont fall behind. Watch YouTube Calc videos. You still might only get a C. He doesn't give quizzes; only 2 tests & a final on too much material at once & he doesn't prepare you well for tricky Qs he puts on them.
Don't do it to yourself. Doesn't care about failing the whole class. Nothing makes sense. Nice guy, though.
Lectures are based in theory not in what will be on test. Homework isn't graded, first time you are graded on your work is on quizzes and tests. Heavy grader in this area. Four years at this school and I've never felt so cheated by a course. Hard material, unnecessarily hard class. Unstable office hours. If you get in, usually critical of semantics
Talks kind of softly and is a bit monotone. Lulls to sleep because of that. Ceiling fan does not help. Should have tried asking him to speak up. Quizzes are crucial to doing well on test and on course. Nice jokes, but the things taught took a long time to sink in. Asking questions if totally lost. Helped me, but was too late. Tests are crucial: 75%
The worst professor at pace. Don't risk it. Take stats in pleasantville. The commute is worth it in order to avoid this bad professor.
Avoid this man for Statistics and Probability, the course isn't designed for you to pass. He failed the entire class, no one got above a 45 on his exams, even when people spend everyday in his office hours. The only reason I graduated was because the CS dept made an alternate course with a instructor who could teach and grade fairly.
Professor Kazlow isnt here to teach. Hes here to listen to himself speak and then feel superior to the students when he fails as many as possible. You can look back at these reviews and see hes been teaching this way for a decade and the school doesnt care as long as they get their money.
Dont do this to yourself. There are even math majors that withdraw this class. If you decide to take this anyway, bring a sleeping bag and prepare to make the tutoring center your new home.
Class Info
Attendance Mandatory
24%
Textbook Required
92%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
D
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.93 avg changeRatings by Course
MATH104
5.0
(1)MAT236
4.7
(3)MAT132
4.0
(1)MATH137
4.0
(1)MAT131
3.0
(13)Difficulty by Course
117
5.0
137
5.0
70049
5.0
MAT234
5.0
MAT134WWW
5.0