Professor Laws was not a good professor in my eyes. If you are one who struggles in math, do not take him. Otherwise, you should be fine. I had to drop the class due to there only being 3 tests, and I failed the first one. TONS of homework. TONS of pop quizzes. Dropping this class was the best thing I have ever done. Likes to skip steps in lessons.

Horrible calc tecaher. Do not take under any circumstance

I HATE THIS CLASS WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY ENTIRE BEING, I HAVE CRIED OVER THIS CLASS AND THIS IS THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SEMESTER. PROFESSOR LAWS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST TEACHER I HAVE EVER MET.

Don't EVER take his class! He is a horrible Calc teacher. He does not explain anything. He skips steps in all problems and gets corrected so much!

Professor Laws is a nice guy but is not the best teacher. He gives excessive amounts of homework that take upwards of 5+ hours to complete. You notice he does not vet the homework before posting because the homework is often much harder than than it should be. He gives quizzes weekly that are hard. sometimes they are open note but most the time not

Great guy. Worst teacher ever plain and simple no disrespect do not ever take his class. Goes way to quick doesn't explain the steps of problem and gives exams that Good Will Hunting couldn't even figure out.

This is the absolute worst proffersor I have ever had at KSU. He doesnt know fully teach how to do the problems. He doesnt come prepared with how to properly do the problems. He gave us a review for test 2, but had to do it himself during class, so we could not check if we were doing things wrong. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!!!

Do not take. I have never had an issue with math in my life and Im struggling to keep a B. I have always ended math with over a 95. Again, avoid!!!

This professor is very inexperienced and lacks appropriate teaching methods. I actually had to drop this course because he could not explain the material to someone who is unfamiliar with calculus. He is one of those professors who will completely do a problem without explaining any steps. If you value your gpa, do not take this professor!

The worst. Don't take

Do not take his class. He is a nice guy but he is very stubborn, he wont listen to reason, and he is not a good teacher. Goes through the examples quickly and puts random problems on the test that he has never gone over. Had to speak with the assistant to the dean of the math department just to get him to provide extra credit. Do. Not. Take. Him.

worst experience of my academic career! test questions are weird, kind of mumbles while he lectures blazes through examples WHILE skipping steps. He's a very nice guy and is easily accessible through his office hours, but it wasn't enough. If it is your first time taking calc, or if you're a DE student, he should be your last option. PURE STRUGGLE

He seems confused while going over example problems during lecture. He'll make a mistake and not realize until a couple steps later, which makes it difficult to follow when he tries to go back and fix it. He doesn't allow calculators on exams. The homework is incredibly difficult, and the lectures he gives do not prepare you for it.

Overall, if I could give this professor a 0 rating I would. He is absolutely horrible and I would not recommend taking this professor AT ALL because his homework DOES NOT match up with what he teach in class, therefore it confuses students. He sucks at communicating and teaching. You have a better chance of passing a TRIG class on Marietta campus.

This is one of the worst professors Ive ever had. He is terrible at explaining how to do the math. More than half the homework is on stuff not taught in class. It will take you hours to do it because the book makes no sense. Tests are insanely hard. Gives many group quizzes when he doesnt feel like teaching. He is a very lazy teacher. AVOID!

10/10 would pick another professor. Laws is a really nice person overall but math is just something different in his class. He picks extreme curveballs on every test so if you are stuck with him I would recommend studying on Kahn academy and not even look at the hw questions. I learned this too late in the semester to fix my grade.

Drop his class now, he gets confused when he's solving problems and often solves them incorrectly. His homework is completely different from what we do in class and what is on the tests. Harsh grader and takes points off for simple things. Tests are completely different and more difficult whatever you do save your grade and don't take him

I am typically great at math and enjoy it but I did not have an easy time in this class. He is very nice but is not that willing to work with you if you have messed up or dont understand. He teaches really fast so try to keep up. I dropped this class after the first test. Lots of homework and tests. Very hard grader.

Try to avoid this teacher at all cost. He often solves problems wrong himself which makes it very confusing for us to understand. I never had a problem with math until I took him. He is rude as well and if you come in late for the class he will lock you out. Tests are quite confusing as well. Most likely will end up with a B.

This is the pinnacle of terrible teaching. His test and quizzes are impossible. I had the unfortunate circumstance of taking him during a pandemic. This man is so unorganized its sad. He will tell you he will upload something one day and then make something up about how his personal life interfered. He did not grade our 2nd test for 2 months.

Attendance was for a grade. The entirety of class was done through ALEKS using Respondus LockDown Browser + Respondus Monitor. Lectures never stopped for questions, and 9hrs/wk of HW were for nothing when I dropped the class 2 months in with a 58.

Decent guy but awful professor. Lectures were spent answering like 4 questions from homework that was 30+ questions. Around 60 questions of homework a week. Extremely harsh grader and also takes forever. Took him 2 months to grade our second test. Changes his mind a lot and awful with technology.

This guy doesn't care about his students. Save yourself time and energy. I wouldn't take his class again even if I were paid to.

He just doesn't care about his students. I entered the class late during add-drop and he wasn't understanding at all. I would never step foot in his classroom ever again.

He never even finished the syllabus so he could change things throughout the year. Not a very good teacher. Randomly cancels class without warning. Do not expect him to respond to emails either. It took him a month and a half to grade a test and a quiz. Puts grades in inconsistently, my grade drop 6 points in 1 day. We never used the book.

He wasn't very good at teaching the problems. The online textbook homework taught me way better, but I barely passed the class. Get the app symbolab. Its for math and can help solve math problems, and if you pay (like 2 dollars) you can have a step by step explanation, (this helped me throughout the class)

DO NOT TAKE. He quite literally said in class, "Tests are supposed to be harder than what we do in class." And yet he didn't even teach properly in class and put stuff on the tests that are supposed to be in CALC 2 NOT CALC 1, which I am taking. He doesn't know how to teach. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE.

As a person he is really nice and really tries to interact to students. But, he barely knows what he is teaching... he doesn't explains that well, on my point of view take it if you want to pass with 80 but is hard to get the subject.

Please be ready to have to do lots of work and tests are the main part of this course. I would not recommend taking this class until you are 100% familiar with College Algebra.

It was an unnecessarily difficult learning environment.

No test makeups. Graded inclass homework BEFORE were finish the module of the week. "Prerequisite review" on ALEKS that gives UNRELATED COURSE TOPICS as more work. Randomly makes the "optional" study guides a grade even tho the first one wasn't. REMOVES the explanation button on the ALEKS Study guide. (How else am I supposed to study?)

This professor is a nightmare. He gets angry if you don't take notes, gives graded homework before we've covered the material leaving no room to actually understand it. His tests barely have questions so 70% of what you learn is not covered during exams.

Assigns a lot of homework. First, the problems on the homework are way harder than the problems that he goes over in class. Second, there is some material on the homework that hasn't been covered in class. He removed the explanation button off of the ALEKS study guides which makes it very difficult to study for the tests. ALEKS is a nightmare.

not a good teacher, very difficult to follow is lectures, we basically had to teach ourselves through aleks which was then made impossible when he removed the explanation button.

This professor is the very definition of the professor to avoid. Almost half the class is either borderline failing or failed the course. Achieve the homework system, he makes it so you only get 10 attempts on very difficult and sophisticated problems. Also, Lecture is very non-informative. He vaguely explains and doesn't give time for questions.

I wouldn't recommend this professor if math isn't your strong suit. Expect a lot of homework that isn't even worth a fraction of your grade. He seldom went over the hard problems in the homework, and the tests were harder than the content we learned. All he did was go over notes in class. Barely taught.

Very unhelpful. So much homework every week. Tests are so hard and very few questions that are each weighted heavy. Studied for hours each week in the SMART center and still barely passed the class. Just does practice problems all class everyday. Do not recommend at all. Half our class dropped and the other half barely passed or failed

Avoid taking his class if you can. Most of these reviews are true; he randomly gives pop quizzes. doesn't answer questions clearly, but when it comes to testing, he is a very harsh grader. Tests are not like homework at all. Constantly pushes office hours but is unhelpful during them. Very disorganized and takes a long time to grade tests.

Avoid Professor Laws at all costs! The worst professor by far that I have ever had at KSU! So much homework every week and his tests are extremely hard. He is a tough grader and I bet over half of our class made a D or F! Do not take him or just get ready for a miserable semester!

If you know what's good for you and If you want a nice life, just don't take this professor.

Nice guy but very hard to learn from. He was kind of all over the place at times.

If you want a good life, do not take this man.

I would not suggest this teacher at all. He beats around the bush when teaching, but he does not teach. He really just talks there is no sort of explanation whatsoever. He is kind, but is not a good teacher. He talks kind of quietly or as if he is shy to teach. He does not review anything really before the test. So I would stay away if I were you!

Do not take this professor if you don't want to be stressed tremendously. My mental health got worse after taking him. He is an okay person but is not a good professor at all. He does not teach; he lectures with no explanation. But Hey, if you want to teach yourself, this is the teacher for you!

Terrible professor! He pulled up his rate my professor, in class, and was interrogating us why his class was so bad. He starts his sentences load but ends them super quiet to the point where you can't hear him. Take attendance every class. Homework is ALEX and lots of it. Don't ask him questions because he doesn't have an answer.

He's quite literally the only professor i know to try and make you memorize every formula and the whole unit circle with no help whatsoever