<p>Can you combine the 2 into one course? Like, are there topics in Precal that are covered in Algebra II, etc.?</p>
<p>Alg II/Trig is the exact same stuff learned in Pre-cal (at least at my school).</p>
<p>If you skipped Algebra II and took PreCal, then that would essentially be combining the two courses into one. In my case, the whole first semester in PreCal was a review of Algebra II.</p>
<p>really? could any of you recommend a book (to fill in the blank from geometry to intro calc.. e.g., alg ii/trig/precal)? i'm about to buy a bunch of books on amazon.com for my summer studying... this will be self-study, and while i'm not inept, math is not my "best subject" -- history and english are. i whizzed through geometry but alg 1 was a bit frustrating at times.</p>
<p>any ideas? i want to make sure i'm prepared for a challenging intro calc class next year.</p>
<p>Precal isn't all that different than Alg. II at my school. You go over a few concepts more in depth, but you can go straight from Alg II to Calculus if you wanted.</p>
<p>The only thing I remember about my old precalc book was that it had a rock on it....</p>
<p>at my school you can't do that because we do precalc for 2/3 the year and start bc calc for the other 1/3</p>
<p>Yes, the two courses cover much of the same material. My school actually has a class called Algebra II/Precalc in which both courses are covered in the same one year class.</p>
<p>I recommend [url=<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pre-Calculus-Demystified-Rhonda-Huettenmueller/dp/0071439277/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4681242-1628651?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182433736&sr=8-1%5Dthis%5B/url">http://www.amazon.com/Pre-Calculus-Demystified-Rhonda-Huettenmueller/dp/0071439277/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4681242-1628651?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182433736&sr=8-1]this[/url</a>], blair. It's a PreCalculus book, so it will cover both Trigonometry\Polar Coordinates\Parametric Equations\Basic Limits and Algebra II concepts. It's very thorough and relatively very cheap.</p>
<p>^Lol, I was expecting to see our math textbook >_<</p>
<p>But all Precalc covers is a few more in depth common sense algebraic topics (essentially not even worth studying because you could probably figure them out during a test or whatever) and trig.</p>
<p>Wow...polar and parametric? I didn't learn that until Calculus. </p>
<p>For me Pre-Cal was mixture of review from Alg II with some more in depth study of some concepts. It's like Alg III :D...for me Alg II was a review of Alg I just with a more depth but Calculus was nothing like Alg I,II or Pre-Cal.</p>
<p>Pre-calc is a review of Algebra 2 the first half of the year. Then you go into trig. </p>
<p>You could skip precalc, but make sure you learn trig well before you go into calc.</p>
<p>Actually, at my school precalc and algebra II are very different. Pre-calc starts off with zero review.</p>
<p>My school doesn't use the Alg 1-Geometry-Alg 2 system. We do AGS (algeostat) 1, AGS 2, AGS 3. Our Pre-Calc goes way beyond AGS 3 and into AP Calc AB, but AP Stat has a lot of overlap with both.</p>
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<p>We started those in AGS 3 and AGS 2, respectively.</p>
<p>so... i thought trig was with and after alg ii and then precal, but sometimes it's precal and then trig??? anyway, this is self-study, so i don't actually have to prepare for tests or do homework.. i just need to know the stuff so that i'm prepared for a calculus class in sept. (one at a very challenging and competitive, grade-deflated school nonetheless).. so is alg 2 really a review of alg 1 with harder probelms? that's what i thought.. when i would do alg 2 probs w/o any training i noticed that i had the basic algebra tools i needed to solve the problem, it was just harder because i had never seen a problem like that before, so i would have to think a bit more at how to solve it, instead of just knowing exactly how to solve it... so, </p>
<p>can i go from geo to trig to precal? or geo to precal to trig? or can i buy the 2 below books and sort of lightly cover what i "sorta" know? and then do the precal?</p>
<p>and what can i skip? what topics are useless for calculus that you covered in alg 2/trig/precal? ones that are sometimes even harder than calc?</p>
<p>7th ed hardcover is $14 used
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Trigonometry-Student-Solutions-Manual/dp/0131430793/ref=ed_oe_p/002-7714621-8286446%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Trigonometry-Student-Solutions-Manual/dp/0131430793/ref=ed_oe_p/002-7714621-8286446</a></p>
<p>precal.. 7th ed hardcover is $20 used, 6th ed hard is $6.... idk is the version diff. is worth it.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-7th-Michael-Sullivan/dp/013143120X/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-7714621-8286446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182709155&sr=1-2%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-7th-Michael-Sullivan/dp/013143120X/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-7714621-8286446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182709155&sr=1-2</a></p>
<p>btw one day in the library i did the first chapter of the above precal book and it was easy review stuff (like alg 1).. but that was the very first chapter. i like the above author.. it's straightforward, uncomplicated yet it gets the message through and there are tons of problems and examples.. perfect for self study.</p>
<p>so.. do i really have to do every lesson, every chapter, etc.? or can i really "review" it, and cover what i don't yet have the ability to solve? any tips? because i don't know this material, i don't know what's not important and what i won't need later on... you know? i will be studying other things as well and i would really like to not do intense math for 3 hours a day to get my mission accomplished...</p>
<p>I dont think they said you do precalc then trig, i think they said in the precalc curriculum, the first half of the year is alg2 review and the second half is trig. Thus, trig is a major part component of precalc, and it wouldnt be taken after precalc, thatd make no sense.</p>
<p>At my school Pre-Calc is essentially a review of most of Algebra II (but with extensions to some topics) + trig/polar and parametric + intro to Calculus at the end of the year (basic limits and derivatives).</p>
<p>btw, swim2daend, we used that same book in my Pre-Calc class...it seems to be widely used, including in some easy college math courses...</p>