Reviews of professor Omer Mermelstein

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the worst professors I have ever had. Lectures are not only incomprehensible and incredibly boring, the prof barely covers any actual material that is covered on the test. He relies extremely heavily on his TAs to pick up the work he did not do in lecture. I do not recommend taking this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you did not take calc in high school then you are going to struggle. I took calc in high school and I can tell you he did an EXTREMELY poor job of explaining everything. He spent one 50 minute lecture on derivatives which should take at least two. If you have no experience then you better get ready to spend HOURS teaching yourself.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I think the main problem isn't Omer himself, but the class structure of Math 211. If you are in the b-school or looking to apply to the b-school I recommend taking Math 221 because it is way closer to an actual calc 1 class. This class covers mainly topics from Calc 1 but had Calc 2 and 3 topics in it, making the class very difficult at times.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Omer is definitely a smart person, but not great at explaining things. The class is definitely structured and taught under the assumption that you took Calc in high school, which I unfortunately did not. But if you do the readings from the textbook and the homework consistently, the class itself is not actually as hard as it seems!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a pretty nice professor. I had his asynchronous class. Sometimes he does interesting tricks in his recorded videos. Well if you watch every video and take notes, you will do fine in his class:)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This course has 4 exams that are worth enough to fail you but not enough to save your grade. You are pretty much required to do the homework to pass the course. Besides that you also have to read the textbook. He knows the material well but has no idea how to teach. Get ready to learn from the TAs(if you are lucky) and the textbook.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hes definitely an intelligent guy.  It would be great to talk to him if I understood what hes saying and enjoyed mathematics. Unfortunately he doesnt explain things very well to us mortals in an introductory calculus class. He might be better at teaching high level math courses, but if youre taking a gen ed class Id avoid this professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A lot of people kind of dog him for doing badly but I went to every lecture. He always encouraged questions. In high school, I only got up to pre-calculus and almost failed it. I hadn't taken calculus since junior year of high school upon entering this class and if you just put work in you'll do fine. It's not easy but he doesn't do a bad job.