Thank god we had a textbook.

Must download his course notes

boring, messy notes, makes easy things complicated

nice guy...but won't understand his notes at all. Easy exams though!

Way too much work on what could have been an easy course, tests marked too hard

Horrible lectures, very unclear, easy midterms/finals, helps students

Let him make every math exam plz

Lectures are confusing cuz he is so fine!!!

His lecture is very confusing. In fact, the textbook explains his notes.

His lectures are very confusing. And he seems to not quite know the material himself for this course. Once, he was doing a problem on the board and he had to save it for next time because he wasn't sure if he did it right...

Class was boring..ZzZz... he talked to the chalkboard more than he talked to the students. When he explains, its like he himself doesn't know what he's saying. I'll never take a class with him EVER again. :(

The most boring Math prof at UBC. Lectures are boring beyond all recognition. Exams and homeworks are very hard. Don't take 316 with him unless you have taken 215 with him before, and there is no better option available.

notes and homework have nothing in common

The most boring prof ever! Seems like he doesn't care if anybody in class is still awake. Don't recommend him to anybody 'cause he will make you lose interest in math.

Nice man, but sorry excuse for a teacher. Cannot answer questions effectively, teaches from examples in another professor's notes, and assigns lots of difficult homework. Watch out for the second midterm! Mumbles and can't control class behavior.

oi oi oi...boring, mumbly, writing resembles a heart monitor, HARD second midterm...if you have problems sleeping, here's a cure

huh? this guy teaches math? what would u say to a prof who explains how to "complete the square" when we alrdy know it? if i didn't fall asleep in class so much i'd tell him a thing or two

try to avoid this guy, u have to spend couple hours on the hw and the mt is not easy. O shot, final is even more worst

boring. boring. boring. can't explain or keep u awake. take it only if u are an insomniac

I took this class with an interest in Linear programming, Israel killed it for me.

You can't hear him he mumbles!!! he said in class that 99% of the lecture is in the notes that you can get online! WTF! if you take this course with him you are basically self-learning it

Very boring. Might as well learn the material at home and watch a movie during class. It'd be more productive that way.

OMG... I have him in math 103 again.. im thinking to drop... I liked math when i was in high school.. but now..my worst subject

If you're going to take his class, make sure you know your stuff. You'll only do well in his class if you did well in grade 12 calculus and have good notes to fall back on because his notes are pretty much useless.

He gave out really easy mid-terms and easy pratice finals which give a false sense. On the final, it's where your ability got tested. Lecture is pretty useless, since it's the same as the notes, but read aloud. When ask for help by mail, always says so and so is not your concern, just do your work.

OMG his sentences were so fragmented that I forgot what he was talking about after he finished his sentence. Impossible to stay awake during lectures. Hope his midterms and final are fair!

If you took highschool calc, you don't even need to study to get a decent mark in his class, otherwise, it will be hard

Hard to stay focused in class because he mumbles a lot and seems to be talking only to himself. Reads completely off the course notes. Found him to be somewhat approachable outside of class, however. Try to avoid if possible. Midterms were fair but harder final.

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His lectures often made me more confused than clear and his teaching style is not very interesting. But, he seems to know his material well but just didn't present it in an easy to understand way. However, all his class notes can be purchased or printed off from online pdf files so at least you don't have to worry about copying down notes in-class!

In Math 210 Dr. Israel pushed the envelope with 4th Year and Graduate Concepts. Very Hard material to grasp and initially the grades were very low. After the final and Scaling the Grades reflected the amount of effort you put into the course. Very Smart teacher, difficult teaching style.

Going to this lecture made me depressed. He was a very nice guy but read the online notes word for word and spoke in monotone the whole time. Everyone pretty much ignored him and just talked amongst themselves. Quite helpful through email.

HORRID teacher! he just stood at the front of the room and mumbled under his breath while writing on the board and definitely lost track of his own thoughts numerous times per lecture! He seems nice, but hes just not a goood teacher, try to avoid him. tests were hard!

He just reads the online notes... tests are hard

He's a nice guy, however his teaching style is ridiculous. His lectures are useless. He does half proofs, useless examples, and basically reads off the textbook. Homework is ok, midterms were ok as well. Final was very long, and hard.

Nice Guy. Horrible teaching, just rewrites all the online notes on the board again. I didn't go to any classes after the midterm and still found the final pretty easy.

Professor Israel is a very smart teacher, however, he doesn't really interact with his students. He just teaches and talks to the board most of the time. And because most of the time he doesn't throughout explains step by step how he arrived to an answer, students do not know how to question him when he expects us to. Midterms were hard as well.

if i hadn't taken calc in highschool, i would've failed this class. i don't like israel, his notes are bad, he doesn't explain things properly, he goes off on a tangent, and when i asked him why i got 60% on a lab because i didn't write one of the equations for one of the curves, he replied "well, that's not my problem".

I walked into his first lecture and he said admitted that he was not a good lecturer and the only things students will get out of his lectures are clarifications on homework problem. He was right, lectures are not at all helpful and he has no confidence in his teaching abilities (and rightly so). He is extremely boring and teaches to himself.

vey useless lectures. in a world of his own most of the time. go to the labs every time but truthfully no point in going to lectures.

OK all in all, this guy can't really teach, mumbles and stuff. I think he really knows his stuff but like I said, CAN'T TEACH. I feel so bad for him, he's obviously not comfortable lecturing, and students just leave class in the middle of lectures. Poor guy, not a mean teacher, just needs to work on oral skills.

math 303 is hard course itself and he made things even HARDER. He gives homework even if we have a midterm the same week. final was BRUTAL...A KILLER....it was unfair cuz he never taugh it in class and the questions were NOTHING like homework/practice that we did

Midterms are easy but his lecture can be extremely confusing at times. Take his section for the midterms and go to another section for lecture.

If you want to have a class to sleep in, this is the one. Actually, just hand in homework and go home to sleep. Boring lecture, doesn't help much

While Mr. Israel was nice, I could not understand any concepts in his class. I ended up just re-reading Dr. Keshet's notes to learn. I do believe he is smart and knows his subject, I just don't think that he can teach very well.

nice guy but not a great lecturer. course contains extremely difficult concept, yet exmas (2midterms+final) was not that bad. assignments are annoying though.

if you are a math major student, you will have him one day. be aware. but he's a nice man.

most useless lectures ever. talks to the board so that you can't hear him. Takes forever to explain very basic concepts, and even then, doesn't really make sense or help you understand. To make things worse, he gives assignments every week, which can be challenging because you don't learn anything from his lectures.

Absolutely useless lectures...Did not understand him AT ALL, even if you try your absolute best.. you'd be going home with ??? everytime