James A Mingo - Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, ON

Professor: James A Mingo

Department: Mathematics

College: Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: 120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Really sweet old man who clearly cares about his students. Very helpful. Quirky as hell. Sometimes rambles on for ten minutes in class about something completely unrelated, but it's always really interesting.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Mingo is a prof who is great if you have a good grasp of the material to begin with or are just naturally good at math. I think he caters to the smarter students and is helpful for them. If you're not one of these students, it's very easy to get lost and confused since he taught a calc 1 class essentially all through proofs. Nice guy for sure tho.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH120
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Mingo did an excellent job of conveying his love of mathematics to our class and often went on amusing math related tangents throughout the lecture. All in all he's an excellent professor and is always willing to help students out with problems in tutorial or after lecture. As an earlier poster said: Mingo's the man!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

You can tell he has enthusiasm when he teaches, it gets the students excited to learn as well. On top of that he really understands you have to prove mathematics when teaching back to the basic concepts.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Fantastic prof overall, really started to appreciate him around week 3 after a lot of people switched to 121. Knows the content inside out and backwards, and can help with any question you bring to him. I'd take a class of his again, he's a friendly guy and great to talk to (and not just about math!)

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MTHE225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Awesome prof. Really easy to understand and easy to stay awake during his lectures. Mingo's the man!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MTHE225
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The Man

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH891
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Mingo excels when given the opportunity to teach higher level classes. It's hard for anyone to teach MATH 121 effectively, as almost all of the students are non-math students who just want their hands held. I've had Mingo for both MATH 280 and MATH 891, and the quality increase from the first to the second was large -- he excels at higher levels.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great Prof.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Excellent professor. He genuinely loves what he teaches and has lots of enthusiasm to boot. Made for a great class.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH281
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Those of you in math 121, quite frankly, are unqualified to rate this professor. You can't expect a professor to enjoy teaching a bird course, and you can't expect a bunch of students who are incompetent in math to enjoy his teaching. He has made math 281 (real analysis) extremely interesting and always proves any result.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

go to ablesons section if you can

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• 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: N/A

Comment:

Pretty terrible teacher but most of the fault lies with the curriculum. It's far too simple especially if you took calculus in high school. With material this dull and repetitive, Churchill would have difficulty keeping the attention of this class.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Most of this course was taught to me by my engineer roomate, whom made a much better teacher than mingo

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Come on, don't be so hard on the guy... Genuinely nice guy, but the class can be a snooze. The only thing I don't like about his teaching is when he wastes time because he's running out of notes to teach.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's a really nice guy, and tries hard to be funny and helpful, but he's still very confusing and when you come out of that class the only thing on your mind is WTF? He's a great guy, but a BAD teacher...

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Even if you've already covered in previous years what he stands up in his pink shirt trying to teach you, you will still have no idea what he is talking about. Teach yourself using the textbook and other year's notes.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not so hot at all...very confusing and off topic...who cares about Galileo and Aristotle in Calculus...you're better off to just read the textbook because lectures are just plain confusing! Good luck!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

bad...