<p>Is college algebra necessary before taking trig or can they be taken with each other? What is trigonometry mostly about? Is it like geometry?</p>
<p>Im asking because I'm thinking of taking both in the summer. I know that I'm really good with geometry for some reason and was wondering if I would have an easy time with trig as well.</p>
<p>At my school everyone in those classes always takes College Algebra first semester then College Trig second semester. I don't think that they necessarily have to be in that order though, it's just the way it has always been done.</p>
<p>If you look at the trig chapters in a precalc book, that's all it is. In fact, the College Trig class uses a precalc book but only does the trig chapters. Basically, well, read [url=<a href="http://aleph0.clarku.edu/%7Edjoyce/java/trig/what.html%5Dthis%5B/url">http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/trig/what.html]this[/url</a>].</p>
<p>"All you have to do is enter the numbers and push a few buttons to get the answer."</p>
<p>Do you still understand how the problem actually works?</p>
<p>^ Of couse you have to understand how the problem works - that's what math is about!!</p>
<p>Well, there is some math that you can just do step by step without actually learning the math underneath.</p>
<p>It takes me a while to learn math sometimes, since I like to learn why something works the way it does. I kind of want to know how pi was found. I know it had something to do with triangles in a circle..</p>
<p>pi is the ratio of circumference of a circle to diameter of the same circle.</p>
<p>... that's about all I know.</p>
<p>"pi is the ratio of circumference of a circle to diameter of the same circle."</p>
<p>That makes no sense :(.</p>
<p>eh why are you taking these classes in college? is math your major?</p>
<p>I'm a physics major and I want to get to at least calculus 2 by the time I transfer</p>
<p>physics is hard but math is so easy lol</p>
<p>physics is super hard for me....math is super easy...haha</p>
<p>"pi is the ratio of circumference of a circle to diameter of the same circle."</p>
<p>"That makes no sense ."</p>
<p>2<em>Pi</em>r / 2 * r = Pi </p>
<p>works but strange way of putting it</p>
<p>pi = pi times d / d, yeah it is</p>
<p>jeez, my college didn't even offer algebra. They expect everyone to take at least Calculus or Statistics.</p>
<p>"jeez, my college didn't even offer algebra. They expect everyone to take at least Calculus or Statistics." </p>
<p>Are you sure about that? Maybe you don't have to take those classes because you took more advanced ones in high school.</p>
<p>Either way, I found out that I don't have to take the classes in the same day. Most of the classes are 6 weeks long so I can take trig after algebra.</p>
<p>For distribution requirements, Calculus or Statistics count.</p>
<p>Algebra does not.</p>
<p>Well algebra is just a prereq to calculus for to me.It wont apply towards my degree but I still have to take it :(.</p>
<p>is it even possible to grad w/ a physics major and have taken only calc ii by the end of their 4 yrs?</p>
<p>he's a transfer student.</p>
<p>Haha, I can take calculus 1 and 2 in the summer in just 12 weeks. Damn I love summer school :). I'll be taking calculus 3 after all.</p>