Reviews of professor Mark Pengitore

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly one of the worst professors that I have ever had. He stopped in the middle of class one time and said he was doing the whole thing wrong and told us to go home. Stinks because he actually seems like a humble, nice guy, just not a great professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I stopped going to lecture after it became clear that he was not prepared to teach live at all. Jim Talamo's recorded lectures were a life saver - they literally taught me all of the material in this class. Mark was unhelpful and ill-equipped to teach this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I survived this class due to my TA and a couple of smart friends to do team tests with. He is... not the best prof to say the least.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Pengitore has good intentions but is better suited for a desk job. He doesn't teach very clearly and assumes that all of his students have innate knowledge of math before they come into the class. Calc 1 is already really hard at OSU and is made harder by his complex and way-too-fast-paced lectures. Be ready to work incredibly hard.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr pengitore never explains any of the material clearly. He would always sit on his phone for about 5 minutes after class was supposed to start and he consistently screwed up simple derivatives and students always corrected him. My best advice... get out while you still can

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Pengitore made this class far more confusing than it had to be. At one point he said, Raise your hand if you actually understand what a probability density means. Two people raised their hands. The homework was impossible and the book didnt help at all. If you go to office hours, he shows how to do the homework without explaining any steps.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His lectures are way too fast paced and he skips so many steps without even mentioning it, so your notes are pretty much impossible to follow after class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Pengitore was a great Calc 1 lecturer. He wasnt in control of any of the assignments and tests the math department created, but he was very willing to help us prepare for them. The course is very fast-passed, so as long as you take good notes and ask questions when needed, you will pass.