Gabriel Nagy
School: | Kansas State University |
Department: | Mathematics |
Location: | Manhattan, KS |
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School: | Kansas State University |
Department: | Mathematics |
Location: | Manhattan, KS |
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Easiness |
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-Willing to work with students
-Curves class
Cons: -HORRIBLE lecturer
-Way to much homework
Be prepared for this class when you take it. It will be tough.
^To the guy who says it was easy, I wish everyone was as naturally gifted as you. I have not yet met a single person who has said that lass was anything but hard.
Cons: Nagy is not a very good teacher.
Lecture style math classes are stupid in my opinion. I could never learn in his class. I went to class the first day and never showed up again. I got a 3.5 by teaching myself from his notes and the book. Take the later recitation section so you can talk to people who had it earlier. The quizzes and tests are the same in every section.
Expect to work at the very least 6-8 hours a week on material outside of class, because you will not learn everything in lecture. The lecture consists of reading from the lecture slides, which are very brief. He often writes out notes with the slides, but rarely uploads them to the class page.Everything graded is done online which gives no partial credit, even on exams.
The tutors at MLC are helpful.
You can drop an exam.
Cons: Lectures are not helpful.
Nagy reads off slides.
Nagy makes every attempt to make differential equations understandable, but fails.
He does get 3 stars for being receptive to student's performance in class.
Do the webwork and go to the MLC instead, only then will you understand the material.
Whatever you do, don't fail the final! It is worth 30-43 percent of your entire grade depending on your test performance.
The class is set up so a 4.0 is easily attainable without having to go to class.
Quizzes are very easy
TAs usually go over quiz material before quiz.
Exams are very easy.
Final is a breeze
Material is extremely important to almost every field in science, and will teach you a lot.
Cons: Didn't go into much depth. For example we didn't cover Fuchs's rule of repeated roots. Didn't cover as much of the theory. This course is for beginners. If you want a real math class, take the 300 level ODE course, and don't waste your money on this class.
I have no idea how so many people tend to do so bad in this class, the class is extremely easy if you are mathematically literate in any way.
How to succeed in this course: Don't go to class, read his lecture notes online the night before the quizzes, know how to do all of the problems on the lecture notes. Do the practice exams, you'll get a 4.0 on every quiz and exam.
I did the homework up until Laplace Transforms, and I find that doing the homework doesn't really help, I mean it's nice practice, but the lecture slides are all you need.
The professor is extremely well organized and will always reply to your emails promptly. His accent is not hard to deal with, and he is very understandable. Power-points + Math lecture usually don't go well together, but his power-points are set up so that you can see all of the steps performed one after another. Very nice. Then again, the class is just as easy to teach to yourself if you have a computer and can access the internet to his power-point slides.
Very smart
Accent isn't that bad, really
Cons: Accent is kind of meh but again, not really that bad
Kind of a boring lecture
In general I liked Nagy. He was a decent teacher and very smart, knows what he's talking about. His notes are superb. He puts them online, so if you miss.skip lectures you can just go online and pretty much everything you need to know will be there. Although, if you aren't at all familiar with some standard mathematical notation (elements, sets, etc.) I would go on wikipedia and learn these basics, since he writes like that a lot. It's not hard to get, though
My only complaint is that this class was rather boring for the first few units, and the lectures were terrible. I could not stay awake to save my life, so I just stopped going, but again, thanks to his awesome notes, I was able to 4.0. I won't recommend him with the same gusto I might recommend someone like Zeidan, but if you get him, he's a good prof so dw. And his tests aren't that bad either.
Really nice guy
Cons: I have a rough time paying attention in class.
Only thing good about Nagy is that he posts EVERYTHING online so you dont have to go to class. Sucks as a lecturer. you can barely understand him and he just points to his slides. Exams are do-able but the Final is what MAKES or BREAKS you.
Cons: You almost need a prereq of art to be able to draw some of the shapes.
Not as hard as Calc 2. Never went to class and just did the assigned problems from the book for practice. There was a quiz every week which was quite easy and helped prepare for the exam.
I learned the material on my own because I found reading the textbook helps me a lot. Some other students I talked to say that his lecture notes help them to understand the material. His lecture slides repeat a lot, and it is hard to understand.
Naggy's quiz and exam are very easy. As long as you understand the material and know how to the easy questions, you will be ok.
Cons: His accent is the only thing that keeps me from rating him 5 stars
Make sure you do the homework and go to recitation because he gives 10 quizzes and you can drop the lowest one.
MLC helps a lot!! My TA is very nice too. I think his name is Chung Liu. He is very good at explaining stuff even better than Nagy himself!