Honest to god, not the greatest professor. I've had him for 2 quarters.
Lectures: Are often not clear, the notes themselves are ok, but when he explains concepts he is all over the place. And explains how to solve problems as if you've already taken this class, basically not thorough. He does try to answer questions people have in class to the best of his ability.

HW: There's physical hw from a mathbook. Plus online hw. The physical HW is usually 6-10 questions-- which sounds doable right? WRONG these questions were created for you to struggle(All of them are word problems). Several assigned questions were so difficult both the TAs and the prof himself had difficulties solving. I'm all for a challenge, but this is ridiculous. Don't assign a problem you can't even solve yourself. The online homework is a lot more doable.

Exams/studyguide : Most midterms had about 4-6 questions, some with several parts. I don't know if he will change his style of exams but 3A had many word problems (almost all of it was ) and for 3B, the 2 midterms had no word problems, but the final had many. You never know what you're going to get on an exam with Pietro. Studyguide consists of the topics he has gone over and a sentence describing what you should know about it. No practice problems of what might be there, he says to "do book problems, and problems fromthe online HW"---SO vague

Helpfulness: Gone to his office hours several times, somewhat barely helpful. He should go over the problems on the board so that eveyone can benefit, but he has his own style. He goes around the room answering questions individually. And when he does explain, he is never that thorough he'll ask "didn't you go to lecture, I went over that extensively"

Take this class if you have a good grasp on Calc already or if you love word problems. I got an A in Math 1 but could only get a B from taking his classes.

Had him for both math 3A and 3B. I know some students thought he was just down right terrible but I didn't think so. Then again he was my professor for two quarters so maybe I just got used to his style of teaching. He was very conceptual and tried to apply everything to real world examples. The most annoying thing about him to me was the fact that he would show up and lecture off the top of his head and he'd pause a lot and backtrack. Not saying he didn't know the material, he obviously did. I thought his exams were fair, mainly based on homework problems and examples given in class. The averages for both midterms and the finals for both classes were pretty low so my advice would be to obviously try to be above the average. He was often funny and he has an accent that isn't hard to understand.

The online component to the class was a hassle and so time consuming. Damn ALEKS, it was so much work and it wasn't even worth much of our grade. I know it's out of his ability, but the curve for the class sucked and the distribution of grades did too, thus so many people received C's. My TA sucked and did not even know what was going on half the time. And they awfully made so many mistakes on grading midterms , He did not make lecture engaging and entertaining, lecture was pointless because he was not able to teach simple concepts. He would go off tangent and would make easy material very difficult. Once, instead of having a review during lecture in preparation for an exam he decided to give us a useless lecture about the math of tinder. Don't get me started with his office hours, he is no help and instead makes you feel stupid. His exams were also very difficult in comparison to his lectures. Try to avoid taking him if given the opportunity. Maybe he just wasn't the right professor for my preference of teaching style and is the reason for the bad grade I received , but there are better professors out there!!!

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Seeing that Pietro had no reviews on BruinWalk, I had no idea what to expect when I enrolled in his class. However, I'm able to say that he was not a bad professor. He was somewhat fair--his homework assignments were not entirely unbearable (a few problems due before lecture every Friday graded for completion mostly, but occasionally correctness.)
There are two midterms, which were extremely difficult for me. They weren't typical "derive this" types of problem. They were problems that Pietro made up and were very difficult. The average for both midterms fell in the 50% range. Our final's average was a high 50, so Pietro emailed us all after and congratulated all of us for doing so well. The standards were pretty low, to say the least.
Even though I did below average on every exam, I managed to come out with a B-. Not too shabby, considering I hardly studied until the night before the exams and never went to discussion, which were optional unless you wanted to pick up your homework and exams.
Study hard, go to both your TA's and Pietro's office hours, do WileyPLUS (easy points!), and you should be fine.

This class was very engaging especially when you make friends that are also in the class. It amazed me all the topics I missed in high school pre-cal that placed me into this course. My favorite part of the class was the free online textbook. My least favorite part was ALEKS which was so annoying because you had to get to a certain level of correctness and if you miss the third question out of /3 then you would need to do 2 more to complete the level which was time consuming not to mention the times you would exhaust your tries and have to wait to try it again. My TA was terrible because he was going over short hand math that was not related to lectures and he wouldn't do review sessions but Pietro couldn't do anything. Pietro was very helpful during office hours and had extended his hours during finals week which was so thoughtful and helpful because what we covered then was what was on the final. If there is one thing I recommend, it is to go to his office hours. You will learn in depth the topics from lecture and he will help you with the homework by guiding you in the thought process. Plus you make new friends in that class that are just as bright as you. It did sorta suck that he wouldn't do review sessions he lecture before a midterm but at least you weren't learning new material the class before. His grading scheme was very helpful in that they chose the scheme benefitting you instead of making you choose. I also liked that we were able to see all of our grades on myucla and not guess our final grades. He also graded midterms fast so you were able to see your grade within a day or so (sometimes by the end of the day). Pietro is very approachable don't be afraid to ask him questions during lecture or at any other time.