He does not teach a lesson at all. You must be able to understand it from reading the book or you are in some serious trouble

he's a nice guy but useless when it comes to calc. on tests he expects you to answer 20+ calc problems in 50min, the homework load is extreme, and he's not helpful at all. He makes stupid algebra mistakes on the examples, then expects us to be perfect on tests?! this guy is the worst prof I've ever had.

He is the most difficult professor I've ever had. He is a nice guy. which makes it hard to stay angry at him; however, this class is ridiculous, and the work is so much. He does not teach at all (and I mean at all). Good luck. He's the only one that teaches this course!

Coolest guy but worst Calculus teacher ever.spends most the time going over home work and last few minute teaching. No one finishes his test on time. Take him if you have a tone of time to waste doing Homework and going to tutors 24/7.

Cool guy but worst Calculus teacher ever.spends most the time going over home work and last few minute teaching. No one finishes his test on time. Take him if you have a tone of time to waste doing Homework and going to tutors 24/7.

I understand how he expected us to finish those tests on time I was jut barely halfway done when he called time.its awful please dont take him

HE IS A NICE GUY BUT HE FAILED OVER HALF OF MY CLASS. A GENIUS MAN BUT A HORRIBLE PROFESSOR. HE CANNOT CONVEY ANY OF THE INFORMATION HE IS TRYING TO TEACH, AND HIS EXAMS ARE HORRIBLE.

Putney is a nice guy and will often offer hw extensions to the class as a whole but when it comes to actual teaching he is awful. He is frequently completing a problem and is called out by a student for making a mistake which he then has to spend time fixing. Yea it happens but it shouldn't happen every class.

He is a nice guy but he is very unclear with what he teaches. I I didnt learn a thing in his class because he doenst teach anything and expects us to know everything.I had to learn from youtube. DONT TAKE HIM.

Literally the worst! I would never recommend him to anyone. He's a really nice guy but definitely not teacher material! STAY AWAY!

Very unclear about what is going to be on tests. And when students asked if he could slow down and explain the again he laughed and said that it "wasn't possible for him to go any slower" He's a nice guy, but I wouldn't take his class again. If you're not very good at math DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS.

Professor Putney made multiple mistakes in the grading process. I'm not just talking missing a question here or there, I'm talking the difference between a letter grade in the class.

He has not helped me in any way, and the work load is way too much. Do not recommend him as a teacher.

Tries to explain math topics simply but makes them more confusing; goes on tangents that don't even add to the understanding of topics but adds to confusion. Not consistent in collecting the homework the syllabus says is due on a certain day,and will "surprise" you by taking it one day but not the other. Does not specify what he wants from students

Dr. Putney is extremely confusing in his teaching style. He does not teach but runs through math problems as if the class already understands them. If a student has a question, he answers it in a way that makes the concept in question all the more confusing.

Dr. Putney is a nice guy, however he can not teach at all. He assigns homework before we go over the material in class and spends most of the class going over it, which leaves little time to actually go over the content for class we need to know. This is a self-taught class. If you are not great at math, I would take this class online!!

I have never had a teacher make a class so unnecessarily difficult. I had to withdraw from the class because I was afraid I would not pass it. I am now taking the exact same class here at Liberty with a different professor and I think I will finish the class with an A.

He barely teaches his students anything. All he does in class is go over homework from the last lesson that he didn't teach us. He always gets on his students for not reading the book; however, I think I would rather read nutrition labels or phonebooks than the textbook we use for that class.

Dr. Putney gives an unnecessary amount of homework. He is the only Stats professor at LU to give written homework in addition to online homework. He refuses to acknowledge how outdated written homework is with excel formulas accessible to students in the real world. Also all his tests are written and no multiple choice. At least hes funny!

When you come into class, Dr. Putney does not go over how to complete an equation with detail. He never goes through a step by step process and rarely explains how to finish one. He talks too fast to keep up with in class and tends to come off a little bit condescending. He doesn't give enough material to review before the exams.

If you are able to teach yourself then you will do great in this class. Dr. Putney not only makes countless mistakes while completing problems, he doesn't explain to his students how to complete them. I've learned more from YouTube than I've learned from his class. He also assigns both online and written homework and tests are not multiple choice.

Dr. Putney seems like a great guy, but his teaching style is not the most effective. He assigns an unnecessary amount of written homework along with the online homework and takes off points for missing even one class. The biggest issue was the number of errors on his tests requiring regrading after students pointed out mistakes on his answer key.

Dr. Putney's teaching was not that effective to me, so I'd teach myself. You could easily skip this class, because the content is not hard, but don't do it because points will be deducted from attendance from missing only one class. Tests had inconsistencies and would then have to be regraded because of his miscalculations while making the test.

NOT a good teacher at all!! If you take him you will be having to do more homework than any other class and will also be teaching yourself how to do the work.

Dr. Putney is one of the worst professors I've had. I'm not a math person but I have to take MATH126 for my major. The only "teaching" he did during class was doing sample problems but he would never really explain how to do them. You are required to do both written and online homework which is very time consuming. More than half the class withdrew

The worst professor I have had; he is the only one at Liberty that did not exceed my expectations though. Gave no helpful feedback even during office hours and students constantly had to correct his calculations during lecture. Did not show concern for student grades and over half the class withdrew by the midterm.

Do not take this professor. I have seen too many students who have been striped of a good GPA because of this one professor. Do not take him. There are plenty of other options or even take this class online. But do not take this professor.

Putney is the WORST math teacher. Do NOT take his class. Though he is a nice christian man, his teaching is confusing and frustrating. I had to get tutored four times a week and still couldn't keep up with the work load and insanely hard concepts. Things that weren't even taught were on the tests. Never again will I suffer the pain of his class.

Unless you have 12-15 spare hours per week that you would like to spend plowing through the plethora of busy work this professor gives, do not take this class. After taking pre-calc and calc with an A in high school, this gen-ed still consumed more time than my 200 and 300 level courses. Do not take this abhorrent and ignorant professor's course.

This professor barely taught his course work. There was about 15-20 hours of homework each week leaving no room for other courses. Some of the homework he did not even go over in class so we are left stranded to figure out these complex problems on our own. This is coming from a guy who got As in Algebra all throughout highschool.

One of the worst professors I have ever had. You are expected to do 60-90 algebra problems every night. There is only three tests, which make it hard to keep a good grade. He is not very understanding of extending circumstances.

This teacher was awful. The course itself wasn't hard. However, this teacher assigned unnecessary amounts of homework in one week (we had over two hundred problems plus tests). His grading was wack and feedback was non-existent. We, students, corrected his classwork many times and he could not stay on topic during class.

Professor Putney seems like he would be a great guy to hang around outside of class, but he cannot teach mathematics to save his life. He is the only college algebra teacher to enforce homework from the textbook and a lot of the questions on tests weren't taught in class. Expect a lot of homework and the dumb TopHat participation questions.

Doesn't necessarily teach more than we have to teach ourselves and he just grades us on how much we know.

One of the worst professors at Liberty. Sweet man, students get stripped of their good GPA because of the workload. You do more work than what is graded. Work isn't hard, but the exams cover material that is not covered in class. Class size at the beginning of the semester filled the room, and ended with 9. Avoid taking a class with this professor.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS I DONT CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO! Dr. Putney is the most difficult teacher/class I've had my entire life. He often made snide comments/was not the least bit encouraging towards students. He does not give enough time to finish exams, which made up a lot of the grade. gives out SO much hw (he collects it) you will be working 24/7.

Mr. Putney would often make fun of students who didn't get the answer right. On top of that this teacher gave WAY TOO MUCH homework only for him to only grade a few and not actually check if it was correct. With Tests they're 3-5 pages, quizzes and HW not graded correctly, and doesn't like when people try to correct him for his wrongs. like grades!

Ridiculously unclear grading criteria. I taught myself every concept and did hours upon hours of online homework and book work, only to have the tests look nothing like the homework. I had a 68/69 all semester, and I told him I was struggling getting my grade up and I'm pretty sure he bumped it up so I could pass. So be nice to him

Terrible professor, does not teach you anything. You have to do all the work on your own and teach yourself all the concepts. He gives a TON of homework problems and does not explain how to do anything. Would NOT recommend this professor. When you ask him a question he belittles you and does not offer help.

Nice guy. Terrible Prof. The most homework I've ever had in my life, and you'll have to teach yourself the majority of the content. Requires online and written homework to be done weekly. Never tells you when he's going to collect papers. He's pretty nice when it comes to grading tests, but will make fun of groups who don't do well in his class.

TAKE THE ONLINE VERSION. Everyone told me not to take his class but I thought I didn’t have any other options besides his in person class. As soon as a switched to online everything became so much easier. He is a very rude man and he still teaches online but you have little interaction this way. I have an A now, and I am very bad at math

Dr. Putney is one of the worst math professors I have ever had. He gives hours of online and paper hw from the textbook which he never states which one's he is going to collect and actually grade so you end up doing half of it for nothing. His exams are also pretty difficult and the hw doesn't really prepare you for them. Doesn't know how to teach!

He gives a lot of weekly homework, and is hard to follow his lectures

This professor definitely knew what he was talking about, but he is terrible at teaching the materials. This course can easily be taken online, and I definitely recommend it. He expected you to work on the online problems as well as the multiples of five in each section. Way too much work is expected for his class. Tests were very difficult.

Worst professor I have taken in four years of college Pros: gracious with partial credit, appreciates students going to office hours, and is knowledgeable Cons: would lecture for 5 min every class and go over previous hwk the rest, impossible tests (HIGHEST grade for one exam was 30%), and made fun of students in his lower math class Do not take

He does not teach well and needs to give out less homework!

I'm sure that you've spent enough time reading the poor reviews for this professor. Everyone here is correct. The large majority of the class never finishes the full test. You will be teaching yourself, which isn't the worst thing, but you'll have to waste a ton time on worthless homework problems. Very nice guy, but just bad professor.

He does not teach all the material that is on your homework and quizzes. The amount of work that is expected to be due by each class, personally to me, was outrageous. He is a good guy, but I do not recommend taking this course if you don't want to be spending hours a night working on math homework.

gave so much homework and surprise collected one of the homeworks so I dropped the class in the first week because I didn't have enough time to finish all my other more important class work. I suggest taking college algebra on sofia instead because this class is not it.

I'll be totally honest, I dropped his class after the first day. I struggle with math already and signed up for his class because of my mom, but the first day he not only gave us a pop quiz but also assigned 76 problems to do by the next class (Tues/Thurs) which sent me into a panic attack. Just take the courses online if you need to.

This professor speaks down to people and indirectly calls out students during class and proceeds to make unfunny jokes about how they should not have a high school diploma because they do not know a certain topic. And even though his office hours are helpful, they're only helpful when he shows up on time. Great guy, just not a good professor.

Dr. Putney, though very knowledgable, is not a good professor. He constantly makes discouraging, unnecessary comments about students throughout the class times. If you read the sections before class and do not take any other classes, you might be able to get some of the homework done.

I took this class my first semester of college. He gave out so much homework but only collected some (it was all graded for accuracy), and he only ever got through 2 practice problems in a 50 minute period. This class should not have been as hard as it was, it was an algebra class. I have been scared to take math at Liberty since.

Professor Putney gave way too much homework and I couldn't keep up with it. I'm talking multiple hours each day of hard math, while having other classes to study for as well. He is also very rude with students and does not care for them like other professors. He messes up his teaching and has to be corrected by students multiple times a class.

There is a lot of Homework!! Get behind on homework you won't catch back up. If you miss a class you won't pass! You must read the section before each class and also do boatloads of homework that may or may not be picked up. Just don't take this class

He has lot's of homework and he's class is not well organized at all

Be ready to teach yourself the material

One of the worst professors you could possibly take. Got an A because I already understood the topics, that wasn't the case for most of the people in class. If you're good a math and can easily understand it then you should be fine in the class, if not then do not take Putney at all. Also close to 200 problems of homework each week

He has been teaching for way too long. Does not teach you but expects you to have an understanding of the sections prior to lecture then only does practice problems in class. He goes over the problems so fast you don't have time to understand what he is doing. He is a sweet guy but might be time to give up teaching.

Took this my first semester in college, first class I ever failed. Never been a math person but I've never had this hard of a time in algebra. Went over maybe 2 problems every class end expected us to complete roughly 50 problems in the textbook for homework, and would get upset when people weren't grasping the concept. Nice guy, horrible teacher.

Mr. Putney often makes fun of students who don't get the answer right, creating a humiliating and intimidating environment for them. Mr. Putney frequently shames students with disabilities in front of the class, which as myself experienced that. Mr. Putney often deducts points from students' grades without justification. Physical & Digital homework

Never liniment.

so confused

Please don't take him he is really hard.

Worst professor at Liberty. AT LEAST 200 math problems every day. Expected us to teach all the material to ourselves and didn't teach us anything during class. Harsh grader. He was rude and made rude comments to/about a deaf girl and her interpreter during class. Do not take his class if you want to have time for any other classes you are taking.