Albert Marden - University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Professor: Albert Marden

Department: Mathematics

College: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

A terrible professor. Not very good at actually doing the math. Taught the chain rule wrong during lecture. If you didn't already take calc in high school, it will be very hard to understand what is going on, and you will have to rely heavily on your TA. Take a different professor, this was awful.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

If you are an unassuming freshman... beware. Marden's lectures are essentially pointless. He doesn't really cover actual homework problems or questions that would be on an exam. They are more theoretical, theorem based examples. Midterms are impossibly difficult. In listening to other students, there are far better professors for this class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Albert is an extremely nice man but he has no business teaching. He mumbles very badly, can't understand anything at all. Also his hand writing is horrific, you need to try and piece together his handwriting and lecture to try understand anything. Tests are way harder than the material he covers in class. The TA is probably a much better teacher.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

While Prof Marden is an adorable character, he is a little past his prime as an instructor. I discontinued attending all lectures after multiple frustrating incidents in which he completely bungled his own problems in class and had to be corrected by students. He suffers from obvious memory loss and struggles to connect with students.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Marden is one of those professors who makes you hope you have an awesome TA. I found attending lecture was pointless. He is constantly making mistakes in his work, yet is unable to identify them. For my section, the only grades were the 3 exams and the final. Exams are ridiculously difficult. Avoid this guy if you can. If not, pray for a good TA.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CALC1272
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Makes all the midterms EXTREMELY difficult, doesn't care about his students and is the worst professor or teacher I've ever had. The only good thing is the final will be very easy because it is written by a different calc professor. If you want an A you will have to study for countless hours.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This professor does not know how to teach at all. I am telling you, he is a smart man but he messes up a lot in class. He makes many mistakes while explaining a problem then decides not to finish explaining and he just skips it. Super hard tests, really bad professor. Would not recommend not even to my worst enemy.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Unless you already have an incredibly strong background in clac and also have an amazing TA I recommend against taking this class with Albert. He doesn't seem to know what he's ever talking about. Most students stop attending lectures and rightfully so. He doesn't explain what he's doing and mistakes are unusually common.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

AVOID Professor Marden like the plague! Makes mistakes when solving problems, mumbles, can't explain concepts, gets lost trying to figure out his own problems, and clearly just can't teach. Tests ("midterms") were ridiculously hard and he didn't even tell us the right things to study. I had already taken Calc 1 in high school and still struggled.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst Professor in my life! makes mistakes on the board, he uses old material on exams and not on current subjects, Cannot teach, students go to other professors lectures to learn. USELESS, curves are so big that a 37% is in the C range, average on every exam is an F. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Marden is a very sweet man, however he is not an effective teacher by any means. It came to the point where I stopped going to his lectures because I was learning nothing and instead found a different teacher. His tests are ridiculously hard, even if you understand the material very well. He often cannot solve his own problems in lecture.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He doesn't even teach. Marden simply does textbook problems on the board and expects everyone to follow along, even when he skips steps and makes several mistakes. Numerous times he has been dumbfounded by his own problems and forced to stare at his work for minutes trying to understand his mistake. Seems like a nice guy, but he shouldn't teach.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This guy honestly needs to retire, I went to a review session yesterday and he couldn't figure out a pretty basic problem. He does this all the time during class and he stands up at the board not knowing what to do, then he puts unreasonable hard problems on the midterms. There is no way he could solve some of these without an answer key.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Al is possibly the worst professor I've had. He messes up examples consistently in lectures, so his lectures make no sense. His tests are nothing like what he lectures or what the homework is, and he makes the tests nearly impossible. Would not recommend his professor, take LITERALLY anyone else.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst professor I've had, my high school calc teacher was better than this - midterms are extremely difficult, lectures are pointless, you can learn more by going online.. avoid marden at all costs

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Worst professor I've ever had. I just took the second midterm and started crying because the questions were nothing like the homework or like anything else. Better yet, he couldn't even solve one of these problems by himself because within every lecture he always makes mistakes, and we spend the whole time trying to correct him. Avoid Avoid AVOID!!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

His handwriting is barley legible and he often gets confused and has to have students come up to the board to fix his mistakes. He gets confused in the middle of his problems and asks the class how exactly he got to that point in the problem. I recommend using online resources like khan academy to teach you everything.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst teacher/professor I have ever had. If you haven't taken calc. 1 in high school you will likely have to learn everything on your own. He just writes things on the board and expects everyone to understand what he is doing without explanation. He usually doesn't answer people's questions and assumes everyone can read his mind on what he is doing

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH1271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He doesn't really like to work with students . If you go to his office hours, he will try to make you leave in less than 3 minutes. His exams are hard but some HW questions are even harder.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CALC1271
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst teacher I have ever had in my entire life. Stopped showing up because he confused me more than he taught me. Writes illegibly and doesn't know how to solve his own problems. I took calc 1 last year and all he did was confuse me. Taking my fist midterm tomorrow, pray 4 me. I will update on how it goes assuming that I am still alive