<p>Hopefully someone can help me here with some advice.
Currently a junior in HS. Anyone know of its is possible for me to jump from Algebra II to calculus at the beginning of next year? I am not hoping to just jump in it,I want study Pre cal, Trig & College Algebra during the summer so that i can be prepared if i am able to take calculus next year. I have already done this with algebra II and a fraction of my Precal textbook, self teaching myself doing all the work checking it with student manual, taking section tests.
I know that i will have to spend every moment of the self teaching studying and reviewing, but i know that i can do it i just need to know if its even possible. I know about the accuplacer but i am do not know if i will be able to take it the beginning of next year to get into the class or if i can just asked to be put in it. </p>
<p>Any advice or information regarding this would be helpful. Not sure if it matter but currently live in Utah, and may move to Nevada.</p>
<p>I vote for finding something more interesting to do with your summer than study all the time! Moving to Nevada? Check out admissions at UNR and UNLV–not too tough! You could easily get in with just pre-calc.</p>
<p>Someone from my school did this over the summer in 3 months and said that he was constantly studying as if he was still going to 6 hr school days.</p>
<p>I suggest you blow through these topics:
Polynomial functions/composite functions/rational functions
Logarithmic/Exponential functions</p>
<p>And focus on this:
Trigonometry/Trigonometric functions/Trigonometric identities <= VERY IMPORTANT
If you have time, study Conics/Matrices.</p>
<p>My daughter doing Algebra II honors in 9th grade. We moved from a small town to a big city and she is somewhat finding Math difficlut. She works hard. Math is certainly out of our league. Can anyone give us suggestions on any books, website, tutoring methods on how to master Algebra II?</p>
<p>I Understand that i can get in with just pre calculus but I want to become a civil engineer, which i would need calculus to even compete with those in my grade. I understand it will be difficult and tedious, but i feel that this is very important for me to do to.
And yeah there are areas that i will be prioritizing, but hopefully will be able to understand every concept in the book, I’am sure you I don’t need to but better to be over prepared then under prepared. I will be doing all 3 and i will make sure that a understand that concept, but i am curious as to which ones of these is more important in order, and if i should change from the traditional order of the subject to something like studying trig, precal and then college algebra. Any advice well appreciated</p>
<p>oncmom if you need help i would see if the school has any tutoring program for after school. A website that I occasional go to is khan academy, it has a variety of subjects and the instructor is great, it also has a test section that will advance her into the next section. Another one would be Cosmo Learning, I Haven’t really checked this one out much but its free and seems to have some topics, check it out online education is spreading and should be used more widely.</p>
<p>Just depends on how good at math you are. If you’re good at math, you’ll manage. If not, you might struggle. The main thing to be worried about in trigonometry, sin/cos/tan kind of stuff. You should learn about csc/sec/cot beforehand, just know what they are and stuff. I am sure there are plenty of websites that explain.</p>
<p>Paddlewaffle, if you start right now you could get by real easily. One thing you should know by heart is the Unit Circle. By the end of the summer you should be able to find out every angle in radians/degress. </p>
<p>For example: If I say what is cotangent of (2pi)/3; you should immediately know that it is 120* and the coordinates are (-1/2, root(3)/2). And then you should know instantly that cotangent is (cos)/(sin) so (-1/2)/(root(3)/2) = and (-1/root(3)) is the answer. </p>
<p>Not trying to discourage you or anything I just think that if you start now you’ll be ahead of the game and will be able to exceed beyond your teacher’s expectations.</p>
<p>Use the search feature before asking questions, there are a ton of threads asking this exact question. But anyway, I did this last year and the transition from Alg II sraight to Calc wasn’t hard at all. It wasn’t because of an easy teacher or anything; the class was actually very rigorous. It actually felt natural. I got a 98 average for the whole year. Calculus is basically algebra 3. I’m studying Calc II right now, am doing great, and still haven’t taken Trig/Pre-Calc :)</p>
<p>I was in the same position as you and was really nervous about doing well because of the jump, but it was really easy. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Ha, this summer I will be teaching myself trig, calc I, calc II, predicate logic, adn the fundamentals of programming and computation, while reviewing my intro economics and statistics texts. Don’t worry about me though, I read and learn VERY fast and learning is like a hobby to me (almost like a drug).</p>