Reviews of professor Ben Wiles

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He uses really confusing language to explain math to a class of non-math majors. He admitted to not having any good connections to the math we are learning to the real world. The class is so boring that I have fallen asleep a lot in class. I regret taking this class so much. Avoid taking him unless math is interesting to you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Is a computer guy and teaches this class "for fun". No one really knows what's going on during lecture, but he puts everything in excel then lets you use it on exams (only a midterm and final). all you have to know is where to plug numbers in his excel formula. only other grades are hawkes' hw and attendance. great guy, really respect him. easy A.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is a headache and Wiles makes it worse. He means well and he is very intelligent, but almost too intelligent to where he has NO idea how to actually teach. Please dont sign up for this class if you are taking 3100

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
3 exams, 1 essay, 10 HWs, and a group project. I never knew what was going on, but thankfully he is an easy grader. The exams were in Hawkes, 15 questions for 15 points. He gave practice exams in hawkes too. Do those. Gave a class excel sheet with things to do the HW with. I made my own from these. Points based grading. Nice man.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Great guy. Don't learn much in this class but good class all around. He talks a lot and you can miss a max of 3 classes but would recommend - easy A.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a great experience with him. Absolutely zero curving on assignments, one exam had an average in the 50s and he did nothing about it. Was snarky to me over email for a perfectly valid question, not particularly helpful if you need help. Lectures were all on chalkboard and were impossible to take notes for based off his style of explaining things