Originally Posted by jtwilson 
Art Gautesen for Math 166 (Calc II)
After a full 2/3 of his class FAIL (yes FAIL) the first exam, he said "you guys are a bunch of idiots, your algebra skills are worse than pathetic, I'm not curving the class"
I went and complained about him to the math department, where I proceeded to learn 2 things.
1) The math department sucks and does not care that their students don't understand math
2) It's nearly impossible to fire a professor with tenure...
And he rarely ever taught, just complained about how much he hated working and wished he could be in FL with his girlfriend.
If you see this guy your first day of math class promptly leave and see if you can get into another section he is not teaching:
Ananda Weerasinghe
I have yet to hear 1 good story about someone that had him for a class. I and several others were completely lost in his class because you couldn't understand him plus his teaching methods are all over the board. It's sad when even his TA's would tell you in recitation to ignore what he said and do it another way which they'd then teach you. Sadly I failed his class and re-took it the next semester (I don't see him on the staff list now but his last name was Hummer which got some chuckles) but the way that guy taught the same material I was lost on the first try was soooo much easier to comprehend and I got a solid B/B+ I believe to replace the F with.
Nearly had the exact same thing happen with another prof when I took calc but dropped the class after bombing the second exam and took it at DMACC over the summer where a HS math teacher was way better at teaching the exact same material that I was confused and lost on when I dropped the class. Funny how especially in math that different teaching styles can make such a big difference. Had the same thing happen to me in HS to a lesser extent. HS math teacher retired after my sophomore year and up to that point I had been doing fine. New guy comes in who ironically claimed to have tutored the
ISU men's basketball team around the same time Kenny Pratt was academically ineligible and concidentally math grades in our class also dropped with the teacher change and parent complaints went up.
