Paul Fishback - Grand Valley State University

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Paul Fishback - Grand Valley State University

Professor: Paul Fishback

Department: Mathematics

College: Grand Valley State University

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: MATH203
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback is so helpful and really matches his students effort... he wants you to succeed! Very accessible for help, enters grades fast, and answers emails promptly. His lectures make the material easy to understand which is very helpful when taking a class like Calc III.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: MTH304
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback is the funniest Professor you will ever have. Also if you want extra credit in his class, keep track of the Pitocin going into to your wifes body after she is induced. If you dont, he will volunteer to do so. After all, I thought it was kind of strange that he held his Office Hours at the OB triage at Spectrum Hospital!

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: MTH203
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Fishback was amazing for calc 3. His lectures were very easy to follow, and his preview videos before each topic were really helpful and the quizzes about them were a nice grade booster. The exams were straightforward and not made overly difficult, and the amount of outside homework was reasonable. Highly recommend!

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: CALC203
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback is a pretty good professor, I had to retake this class though he was not my first time taking it. He taught the material fairly nice, however sometimes he gotten a bit agitated when we didn't know what to say, other than that he's a pretty good choice, attend his OH at all times when needed. He helps a lot more during those!

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: MTH304
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He must have told us 10 times how the initial value determines whether we just drop the absolute values or switch the sign of what's inside. I guess I needed to hear it an 11th time? Also, I should probably brush up on my integration by parts before our skills test.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: MTH304
Grade Received: C-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

My friends and I are going to write him a five-page letter sharing our opinions about how this course was taught. We'll write it on engineering grid-paper (double sided of course), using our worst handwriting, list our names in random order, paper clip (not staple) the pages together and slide the whole thing under his office door.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: MTH304
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Wish I could have submitted this rating earlier, but I've been waiting since September for Mathematica to download to my computer.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback is very helpful whenever you ask a question in class or go to his office hours for help. He is hilarious and keeps the lectures fun while still teaching the material. He will make you put in an effort for the A though. His exams are pretty straight forward and easy to study for considering he gives you a list of what to review.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The worst professor I have ever had. He is rude and condescending. DO NOT take him.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback is a legend. Although at first he seems terrifying, hes actually an angel sent from above. As long as you actually put in effort in class, youll pass. Definitely go to his office hours too! If you have any sense of humor at all, youll love this man. Just think of him as Dwight from the office mixed with a math genius

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: MATH210
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Zero is a natural number.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: MTH210MTH300
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I think Professor Fishback is great. He helps you out when you ask as long as you have some sense of what you're talking about. Once you catch on to his teaching method/patterns, you'll be fine. Some people think he can be rude, but I never had any problems. And hi, Professor Fishback. I know you read these.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I was walking through MAK Hall after my MTH 097 class (we just learned how to use rulers that day--cool!) when this professor yelled at me from his classroom and asked what we do with the hypothesis when we're negating a conditional statement. How the heck should I know? I still don't know how to add fractions! Found out it was Fishback. Scary!

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: MTH203
Grade Received: C
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Amazing how I got to Calc III and still don't know trig values of angles on the unit circle. Because of that, the robot I built for EGR 107 exploded and the entire Kennedy Engineering Lab burned to the ground. My life is ruined.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: MTH203
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Dr Fishback was a great professor. Not necessarily an easy professor, but he does a really good job of explaining concepts in a way that's easy for the class to understand, and all of the homework is very helpful. Don't take him if you're not ready to put some effort into it, but by the end you'll really know the material.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: MTH300
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Easiest Professor at Grand Valley. Take Fishback if you don't like going to class but like getting A's. Nice guy too, terrible sense of humor though.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Fishback was great! He is very sarcastic and funny which made the class material more interesting. Overall the class was difficult, but he gives great feedback and helps A TON in office hours. I would definitely take Prof F again for any math class.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: MTH210
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Loved taking 210 with Dr. Fishback. He is funny and makes learning the material interesting. Would definitely take again for any math class. Class is difficult at times, but on the whole I found it pretty easy. I always find math classes easy though, so it could be harder for someone less comfortable with math.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: MTH304
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Would not take again unless I absolutely had to.

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: MTH202
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He told us we had to know the exact wording of what it means for a sequence s_n to converge to L for our third exam. I was too lazy to memorize the definition, so I failed the exam, failed the course, and had to drop out of college. Now I live in a van down by the river.

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