Richard Penn - United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Professor: Richard Penn

Department: Mathematics

College: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: SM221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Penn is horrible... Get your schedule changed. He is like the Ben Stein playing the teacher from Ferris Bueller when it comes to teaching...Not very approachable.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: SM122
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Spends lots of time going over homework, tests, and quizzes.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: SM221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Spends as much time going over homework as needed. Gives periodic quizzes, but if you do homework, you should be fine. Do as many old tests as possible and go to him for EI for the problems you can't get and you'll do fine on the tests. I went from a low C in calc 2 to almost getting an A in his class.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: SM221
• 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:

THIS GUY SUCKS!!! I wish I could make this font bigger. He is incredibly boring, too technical, and a terrible person. He yells at students for going to the bathroom. Very weaslel like. Gives old exams to review, but no answers because "you won't get answers on the real test so you shouldn't have it for copies of old ones." I hope he gets fired.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: SM221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very fair. Tests direct variations from his past tests which he emails out. Collects Hmwk... :(

Rating # 6

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

hes a frickin genius

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CALC3
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Not bad. Not very undertanding, but knows his stuff. Been here longer than weve been alive...

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ALLMATH
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

HORRIBLE HANDWRITING!! He's ridiculously smart, but he teaches like you're as smart as he is.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: SM121
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Give homework everyday. Pop quizes. Does a good job at explaining things but sometimes he is too smart for his own good.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: SM122
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

very hard, lots of pop quizzes, thinks math is easiest thing on earth

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: SM121
• 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:

run...

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: SM122
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Genius

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: SM221
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

One of those guys who gets off on math for its own sake. He's very smart, but should probably be teaching something more advanced, since he doesn't understand the problems students who have difficulty with math can have.

Rating # 14

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Clear, but had trouble understanding probelms students have. He seems to be too well versed in mathmatics to relate to an normal person in terms they will understand. He once told a student: "I don't understand why you don't understand."