Math is best learned by practicing. I think we would've most effectively learned the material of this course if we had had practice and then been able to immediately check our answers and see if/what we did wrong. This has been proven to be the best way to learn math. But in our lectures all we did was watch him do problems. We did not get any time to try to do them on our own. I wouldn't even say I performed math during my math classes, I just copied down what he put. I didn't even have time to think through it for myself. The homework was very reasonable and effective, but the tests were so much harder than the practice problems he provided for them. There were always little tricks on the tests that we didn't actually learn and go over in class. If you couldn't make it to a lecture he recorded and posted them so you could watch later so that was nice but idk if he'll do that for in-person lectures. I think Mr. Padilla is a great teacher the class is just so hard because it runs so quickly. We're on to a whole new topic each day. I wish we at were at least able to do more practice problems on our own in our discussion section.

This class in itself is extremely difficult for most people. Jose was very nice and often funny, but he didn't teach his lectures in a very concise manner. He would confuse himself a lot of the time in his own teaching, which would then come off really confusing to the class. The tests were also EXTREMELY hard and had no correlation to one another really. I did awful on one midterm, pretty well on the second, and then absolutely failed the final. Probably a lot of my own fault, but I'd say steer clear of him as a professor altogether if you can.

Context: This was his first time teaching a lower division class and was nervous to begin with.
His accent was hard to understand at times and he was not good at explaining concepts in an EXTREMELY conceptual class. I would like to note that sometimes I just didn't go to class because I didn't see the value in attending because I didn't feel I would be able to understand what he was talking about.

Professor Padilla is okay. I think he is new at teaching undergrad. His lectures are just okay. I wrote down everything he said and all of the examples he worked through. His examples are no where near the difficulty of the tests however. He seemed to rush over some concepts and idk what it is but there is something lacking in his teaching. He also speaks very quickly so it can be hard to catch everything. In the beginning he taught a lot of theorems and I just ignored it honestly. I think he caught on that it wasn't too helpful or just ran out of time so he stopped doing that.
The homework is good practice, but still it is not at the level of difficulty of the tests. It is graded on accuracy. I did each homework assignment twice to make sure I understood every problem. I never went to Padilla's office hours but I went to my TA's every week to ask about homework questions I didn't understand and luckily I had an amazing TA. (Michael Johnson's teaching skills are chef's kiss)
The tests were difficult for me. I spent A LOT of time on them, but I did pretty well since there is time to check your work. There is usually 1 or 2 questions on each of the tests that will give you an especially hard time, but they are manageable. A lot of people complained that he did not cover some of the content on the midterms but I definitely don't think that's true. He tends to go over the basics in class and then it's up to you to figure out the rest and apply that to more complicated things.
His grading is fair and I think he is a decent professor. I never took calculus in high school and I consider myself to have a difficult time grasping math concepts but I managed mainly by reaching out to my TA for help.

He's not the BEST professor, but he definitely doesn't deserve as low of a bruinwalk rating as he had when I signed up for this course. I think he is a relatively good lecturer, he knows his stuff, and he explains things well when you ask him directly. The tests are moderately difficult, but he acknowledges it and gives a very fat curve to help you out. You can be successful on his midterms, but you need to really understand how to approach problems that are less intuitive than the homework. Having a good TA really helps. Go with your gut and switch out of a TA that you don't like ASAP because it makes a huge difference.

Professor Padilla is super funny and seems like he genuinely cares. With that being said, maybe I'm just bad at math, but I finished with a C despite trying hard. Found the lectures not to be helpful and had to pretty much teach myself.

I liked this prof and would recommend. He is quite generous with the curve which is nice. The first midterm and final had a 87% median so it was kinda rough because I messed up the first midterm. I didn't follow lecture because I had another summer class I was taking and it overlapped. But he usually just read off his slides and proved the theorems he talked about in his slides.

Class isn't hard - but professor is mediocre at explaining concepts - be prepared to self study. Does have a somewhat strong Spanish accent.

Jose was a good professor but he had trouble explaining concepts well. A textbook is needed but he says to just go online and find the pdf. He is very kind.

Make sure to get a good TA (mine was Talon Stark and he was great) and watch 3blue1 brown videos and you'll be fine

He speeds runs his lectures, so it's way too fast to follow. I didn't get much out of lectures and often left very confused. I basically relied on my TA, 3blue1brown, and Khan Academy to teach me this course. If you go to his office hours with a problem from the book, he will walk you through it step by step through which is quite helpful. If you learn through concrete examples, this professor is not for you. He doesn't do many problems with actual numbers associated with them during lecture.