Professor: Hugh Montgomery
Department: Mathematics
College: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Hugh really loves probability but he really doesn't love to teach it. He gives long and hard to understand lectures and forgoes the use of simple examples to explain the material. He also doesn't respond to email which is cool I guess
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This professor is a skillful mathematician, and his main interest is number theory. He was once the chair of Putnam problem committee, so he is very familiar with difficult problems, including the International Mathematics Olympiad. You will get much more than the course material if you are interested and often talk about the problems with him.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Really smart professor, but he has no idea how to teach. His grading rubric was unclear, his answers to simple questions left the class more confused, and the pop quizzes in lecture were impossible. The only way to learn was reading the textbook.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He is terrible. I don't care what he's teaching it'll be bad. He's unorganized, never tells you what section from the book he's teaching from, and when he's teaching he stares at the board doing examples. Even when he's doing examples he writes really fast and is talking the entire time and doesn't write what he's talking about. STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Plz dont take his class. You will regret if you take. Nothing is good although he is smart.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
As a graduate student, it is NO exaggeration to say that I have never encountered such terrible professor before. He ignored students, and taught blackboard in the class. Textbook is already poorly organized w/o highlight def and thm. His lectures are even worse. Beside, you need to memorize all formulas and def for quits and exams.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Easily the worst professor in the math department. He chooses to skip the majority of the material when giving out exams and instead focuses on the most obscure subjects in class. He is not engaging and refuses to answers questions in lecture, mumbling to the blackboard for an hour and often confusing himself as much as his students
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Please DON'T CHOOSE THIS PROFESSOR. Math 425 is originally an easy class, but he gives pop quizzes that you can't miss, also he makes the materials a lot harder than it should be. He tests on concepts and the handouts he gives, can seldom have basic probability calculations in the test.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He's definitely smart, and even nice, but he's an awful professor. Makes the material way more difficult than it is and gives pop quizzes and tests on the most obscure material in the lectures, which are frequently confusing and non-engaging. If you need to take this class, avoid him!
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Hugh assigned us a homework 7 days ago (announced during our exam). He emailed us today telling us he gave us the wrong page number for the assignment. The homework is still due in 2 days.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Hugh is an absolutely terrible teacher. He is a smart man, but he does a terrible job of teaching what he knows. He lectures at the board all lecture and continues and continues to talk although everyone is lost and still stuck on the first thing he wrote down. You can't follow the lectures, and you will have to teach yourself everything.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: MATH475
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof Montgomery is clear a brilliant guy, but in many ways not a good instructor. As an expert in Number Theory he sometimes can have the assumption that we, his undergraduate students, are as smart as he is--which is clearly not true. However he does realize this after the first midterm and started being quite reasonable--did apply a good curve
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Let me preface this by saying he's a genius. With that out of the way, Hugh is the worst professor I've had (at both U of M and MSU). Never once has he asked if anyone have questions, let alone turned from the chalkboard. If you like prof's who give you prac exams that in no way exemplify the difficulty/problemset of the exam, then he's the prof4u
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Frequently rambles in class and goes on tangents unrelated to the actual material then gives quizzes about those tangents. Completely disconnected from his students and often spends time in class confusing himself. One could learn more about probability by reading a textbook for half an hour than listening to his lectures for a week.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: MATH 425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hugh's very approachable and quite smart (he even has his own Wikipedia page!), but he's not a great fit for this class, in my opinion. His homework/quiz schedule is inconsistent and confusing, and the way he talks to the chalkboard often makes the material harder than it should be.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: MATH116
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Montgomery teaches high level math(he's very knowledgeable), and having him for calc 2 was not a good fit. He spent lecture speaking to the black board and not the class. I learned most of the material on my own. Professor Montgomery is very friendly and approachable, just not someone I would choose for a calc 2 professor.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: MATH475
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Montgomery is without a doubt a brilliant man. His lectures, however, leave much to be desired. As he's been working with Number Theory for probably 30-40 some years, he is very well-versed and often assumes students are, too. His lectures were confusing at best and tests were very difficult. Office hours were better but not by much.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: 11919
- Grade Received: B+
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He does not speak to the class during lectures instead he talks facing the chalk board and when doing math makes leaps in his thinking that are intuitive for him but not anyone else. Most classes you just can stare out the window but there is the occasional thing he says that is helpful for the exam and if you aren't there you miss it and fail. Meh
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: MATH425
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Lectures were hard to follow and he didn't apply concepts to examples. It was mostly proving and deriving. Overall I feel like I didn't learn anything. I like him as person, but he didn't teach in way that was helpful for my learning.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: MATH375
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures and coursepack and homework are incomprehensible. Coursepack gives you theorems, and homework that has you prove theorems without any useful examples. Exams are easier than homework, because it is of a completely different topic that the student has not studied for
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