lectures are very clear; excellent notes

Very clear notes!

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gives good notes

very clear notes

very good notes

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Best first year prof I had...funny in non-funny way

Great notes, fairly easy exams,overall nice-guy.

very clear notes... but needs a new wardrobe

very helpful, easy going, great lecture notes, nice person

Very helpful notes, nice professor

Awesome Prof!

best prof i've had in ubc so far

Very studpenndousss....and...im ****

HE's an awesome prof: super clear, and really clever

excellent prof!! very patience =)

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best prof so far..^^

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Excellent notes; hard midterms make final really easy

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He has the BEST notes. They're really clear and he teaches at a good pace. He can be a bit boring, but he takes the time to learn ppl's names!

very good prof..wish he teaches physics, chem, biol, all my math courses afterwards too!

and MATH 101. He teaches well but marks hard. However, I'm also kinda glad he does that. I may not be good at math but I've learned a lot. If he marked easy, I don't think I would've learned as much as I have.

Good and responsible prof. Marks hard and has hard midterms, but it good for you this way.

He's very clear. Marks hard, but has excellent notes for studying. Good prof.

Very very good prof for math 100/101 students. Very helpful and clear. Midterms & Finals are piece of cake if you have Prof. Nagata

Very clear notes! Weekly assignments are hard, but helpful. Again,His notes are PERFECT! many examples, very clear to understand! Thanks, Dr. Nagata!!

Seems really condescending and intimidating at first but it's all part of the process-you get the sh*t scared out of you after nearly failing the mts then end up with A's at the end. Works for us!

EASY EASY EASY! Exams are based on the assignments, and doing assignments for marks gives us the motivation!

Great prof, excellent notes, and assignments are like his exams, so u have nothing to worry about, just do those questions and ur fine.

A very patient prof, explaining every step possible. Clear notes...nice weekly assignments.

Best math prof ever! explains everything clearly, assignments are good reflection of exams, and very approachable!

Great prof! Good lecture notes and assignments. He is very helpful and the course is really interesting.

Good at explaining things clearly. Expectations for assignments could perhaps be a bit clearer, but overall it was a good course with a good prof.

Gives excellent notes!-Very clear and concise. The midterms can be a bit hard; but after finals everything works out pretty well.

Best Math Prof. Period.

His notes rock! His midterms can be a bummer, but if you study and do the homework you can really do well in his class (whereas I did not). Pretty good prof overall

If there's a better Math prof around I'd be shocked. His midterms, especially in Math 100, can be excrutiating, but it pays off come finals time, his midterms make them seem like a cake walk.

Incredibly clear notes. He's probably a robobot sent back in time... Has high expectations on midterms (quite difficult), but prepares you well. Students in his class do much better than other sections on the final.

The Best Prof.

Midterms are harder than some others, but if you do what he tells you to--read the notes, do the suggested problems--this course will be a breeze. His notes and explanation are as good as they get-plus he's a funny man during lecture. Willingly available for help outside class too. Great prof.

He's a great prof. His notes were super clear and gave lots of examples which resembles exam questions. The weekly homework kept you on track. Midterms were usually on the challenging side because they were either long or tricky but he usually scales up so no worries. He makes the text useless.

he's like, the best?!?! dont even think about any other prof. just get him.

midterms - hard, weekly hw - kinda pointless but does keep u ontrack, notes - CLEAR, prepped us quite well for finals. thank goodness for scaling

very very good prof. best prof i had in first year.

He is a funny guy; or atleast he tries to be. Love the fact he wears bedroom slippers to class. Notes are clear and his homework is awesome even if it is pointless. I am studyin hard and I hope his midterm aren't too bad.

An awesome awesome math prof~ Notes are clear and definitely useful for studying. Also has a very neat handwriting!! :D

Notes very clear, very considerate, great example problems, midterm tested on exactly the material he taught and emphasized. Weekly homework is a hellish but for-your-own-good kind of thing, kept me on track. Side note: Nagata has NINJA skills! lol! Love his weird sense of humour.

Awesome course. Even though the midterm was tough, Nagata made sure you got a good mark if you worked hard. As long as you do well on the assignments / finals, the course is not too bad. Lots of examples and lots of applications, a very good course if you like applications of differential equations.

nice prof, he gives clear examples and explnations. final is a bit difficult

Midterms are tough and he grades even tougher. Weekly assignments (and they are LONG assignments) are hellish but they really do keep you on track as the course spans a lot of material. Now to think of it, I appreciate having the homework. Explains materials very clearly and his notes are excellent. Takes time to explain concepts in office hours.

Very good professor as he has good notes (imo) and is clear about them. Tells you what you need to know for all the major tests. That being said, THIS IS NOT AN EASY CLASS. It takes work to succeed in this class as he marks pretty strictly on HW and tests, which I think is a good thing for the final. DOES LIVE NOTES. LIVE NOTES > SLIDES

agreed about the live notes, so much better. if you can't see them, just move up. his notes are very clear with examples and explanations, highlighting important stuff. he's really open to questions, really knows his stuff, and his quizzes are right out of the homework. assignments are much harder but worth it. all in all, a great prof

Great teacher. Mid terms near impossible but final exam was not too bad

Excellent notes that would help you when you do homework questions.. great prof, but just hard course.. second midterm is brutal.

Nagata is an experienced professor and is very good as an instructor. He places great emphasis on homeworks (mostly not assigned), which really are the key to this course. He is funny and he does crack very witty (and usually insulting) jokes every now and then. The 2nd midterm was brutal.

what can i say... HES MIDTERMS ARE BRUTALLY HARD but the final exam was a tiny tiny bit easier. I failed the first midterm and barely passed the second one and I managed to get a B+ in his course. Nagata was the head of Math 100 prof and he wrote the final exam. He's really good but you also have to do the suggested homework to do well in his cours

Has a lot of quizzes and homework, but if you keep on top of your game and work hard you can definitely get a good grade. Bases a lot of the material on the textbook examples. I liked that he used the chalkboard to write out his notes systematically every class. Overall, he was one of my favourite first year profs.

Just do everything he tells you to do and you'll be fine. Did no extra other than the homework he assigned and got A+.

witty, great notes, very thorough,

Very clear in explanations and easy to understand. He gives quizzes every second week and hand-in homework every other which I find helpful since exam questions were similar to these quizzes and assignments. He does a lot of examples in class along with concepts which helps you understand the theories.

He is very experienced at teaching, and is funny. He cares a lot about his student. Of the 10 professors I had had at UBC so far, he is one of the best. If not, the best. Highly recommended. Thank you so much for all the extra help Dr. Nagata!

Great PROF!! Midterms were quite hard but if you followed what he told you to do, getting an A- was not hard. He gave great notes.

You will be in good hands with this prof. His teaching is a bit slow and he writes EVERYTHING on the projector. All in all, he's a good prof.

Notes are ridiculously neat and organized. Overall, he is a solid teacher - does his job. Nothing good/bad to say.

I gotta say Nagata is great at teaching, especially for first year students. His notes are so clear that I can do my revision very efficiently. I guess switching to his section was the best choice I've ever made!!!

Very good teacher, very hard course

Midterms were evil. Were not based on homework/textbook questions at all. He loves giving out twist questions, so it doesn't matter if you study, you'd still fail the midterms. Hmwk assignments are tedious, and takes 5 hours to do each week.

His note is neat and as long as you do all the homework, you will be fine on exams.

Wayne's lectures are organized and clear. He is very approachable and helpful during office hours (almost gives away the answer to assignments... SHHH don't tell anyone!)

He teaches very well and make sure that every body understands what he is saying. Best Prof for a first year course

He is a very fair prof who knows his stuff. His teaching style may not be the most interesting, but I suppose it's effective. Make sure you attend class and take down all the notes, or else you'll be lost. Completing the textbook questions can't hurt either.

He's a good prof. Notes & explanations are clear, although his lectures are not very inspiring. Exams are not exactly cakewalks, but there are no surprises.

Well prepared and does a lot to tailor classes for the engineering sections. Sort of impersonal and not great at answering questions, but his lectures are very in depth, very clear, very structured and helpful, but admittedly pretty boring. He's full of really funny sarcastic one-liners that he mutters to himself under his breath, which are fun.

love him

Lectures are worth going to because Dr. Nagata teaches them effectively. I am not that good at math but he taught the course so well that I was able to follow and understand him in lectures. He is funny and likes to tell us content-related jokes. Exams are not that difficult as well. Gives great advice too for study tips. Best math prof ever.

Lectures were essentially straight out of the textbook, but his teaching style is very effective, clear, and easy to follow, and attending lectures definitely helped me out!! Not an easy course, but Nagata made it manageable. midterms were fair, homeworks were usually pretty tedious, and the final was long but overall fair. textbook super helpful!

Great professor, extremely helpful office hours and good lectures

Fairly straightforward professor IMO, mostly only read the direct examples inside lecture slides outside of class and did pretty well on midterms and final since the questions were roughly the same format.

Overall, he was a good prof for MATH 215, and his deadpan humour made it better. The midterms were very easy and the final was not much harder. The material for the tests was exactly what he covered in class. However, the homework was quite confusing at times, and it was a source of frustration for many students, but his class was enjoyable for me.

Dr. Nagata is a very good prof. I enjoyed his classes even though I wasnt in his section. The course tho is messed up and it's not his fault. Way too many questions in the midterms and you have type in your working along with your answer which ultimately slows you down a lot. However, he is a very good prof. If you have him as an option, choose him

I really enjoyed having the treat of lectures by Dr. Wayne Nagata this semester. Math 101 is often not enjoyable for many people, but Dr. Nagata has a sharp wit and good color commentary. He provides a lot of insights into how to develop your mathematical thinking through his philosophical musings. He is also a very skilled mathematician .

He is pretty funny, I don't know if that is intentional but I really enjoyed his lectures and liked how he explained everything in detail, I would definitely take his class again!