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 isn' t a strong lecturer and attending lectures often left me confused ( same with office hours). You have to rely heavily on TA discussion sections and doing a lot of exercises from the textbook. Fortunately, it's pretty straight forward so you can teach yourself. Exams weren't too bad, but a lot of concepts weren't talked about in depth and just kind of rushed through.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Although at first, his lectures were hard to follow as he went quite fast, in the end, he made sure that everyone understood, and I really liked this professor. Homeworks were given every 2 weeks and his tests were overall very simple and straightforward. If you do your homework and attend lectures, it was easy. He does have an accent that made certain parts of the lecture challenging but it wasn't too bad, and you get used to it too. Overall, I enjoyed this class and its materials, and the professor was lenient with grades (due to the coronavirus).

I took this class when remote instruction was first offered and it was rough at times. Jose talks fast and the audio was not too clear, although he did listen and improved afterwards. The tests were open-notes timed, with midterms being 2 hours and the finals 24 hours, and while difficult, was manageable (although the second midterm was noticeable harder than the first). He was very accommodating for the situation however, curving the class and making the finals more application than conceptual. The homework was on a biweekly schedule and was comparable to math 32 series. My TA Talon was extremely helpful and answered any questions that we had. Overall it was a decent class.

Took this class online during COVID.
Professor Madrid Padilla is a terrible lecturer, moving at a pace that left everyone confused. His explanations of the material were overall poor and despite sending him many emails he never responded to me. The first midterm was reasonable but the second one was the hardest test I have ever taken which is how he intentionally designed it because people were doing too well. Overall I would NOT recommend taking any class with this professor as you will leave more confused than you were when you started.