<p>you are the only person who enjoys pre-calc</p>
<p>High school math is barely the basics.</p>
<p>Oops, forgot to add in Pre-Algebra. I especially hated that with a passion. Then Geometry because it uses so many words, and my teacher makes us do homework in our notebooks specifically. Each assignment is at least 3 pages long (and he assigns insane amounts of problems like 1-67) and we get homework every night. I’m almost halfway done with my notebook after only a month.</p>
<p>6th grade math was okay, but that’s when we first learned how to do equations by using inverse operations and I was absent for those few days and completely lost when I came back. Then in Pre-Algebra I was absent the day they learned how to do slope and graph slope-intercept form.</p>
<p>Calculus BC seems to be going well for me, but the first test of the school year is tomorrow and I can’t stop worrying about it. Probably my favorite though.</p>
<p>Pre-Algebra was my go-to sleep class in seventh and eighth grades as the teacher talked more about his kids than the subject. Algebra 1 wasn’t hard except for the graphing parts; geometry was wayyyyyyy too many proofs and angles and whatnot. And precalc I’m a test and quiz away from flunking 
:’(</p>
<p>At my high school for my freshman and sophomore year, freshman Honors Alegbra 1 was combined with the first two chapters of the geometry textbook (which we spent the last month or so of school on) and then sophomore Honors Geometry/Algebra 2/Trig covered three-ish years of math in one; geometry went through March so Algebra 2 and trig got crammed into the rest of the year before rushing kids into Honors Precalc or repeating Algebra 2 and Trig.</p>
<p>Thankfully, Honors Algebra 1 and Honors Geometry are totally separate, and there’s now an Honors Algebra 2 and Trig course so if I struggle too much in precalc I can still get an honors-weighted junior year math class. :)</p>
<p>Anyway! Favorite overall has been algebra (both 1 and 2) and I liked trig; yes, trig involves shapes, but at least it’s only triangles and it seems to be more formula-based (but having had only a few weeks of it I wouldn’t know) :P</p>
<p>shapes</p>
<p>@nickchan1 Be more descriptive? 
That’s like just saying equations :P</p>
<p>Well I’m further in Pre-Calculus now and it’s pretty boring so I’d say Algebra II.</p>
<p>you guys do realize that calculus is almost entirely based on and proven through geometry.If you’re saying you love calculus and hate geometry, you might want to look a little bit deeper into what calculus really is.</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 You mean geometry is proven with calculus…</p>
<p>Statistics, so psyched of taking it for my senior year concurrently with Calculus. </p>
<p>Arithmetic - I love the most and that’s my strongest portion of my math yet, too bad it’s not a class rather than years of study.</p>
<p>So far, Trig and Alg 2, but I’m only taking Pre-calc, so I can’t judge for all the “fields.”</p>
<p>@elefish92, everything is based off of arithmetic. The only thing that you can do in math, no matter the level, is add, subtract, multiply, or divide.</p>
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You might like number theory.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who thought Pre-Calculus was harder than actual Calculus?</p>
<p>@tacoperson123 Actually, that applies only for dealing with numbers. Something something peano axioms. And, precalc was harder for me than calc. </p>
<p>@tacoperson123
That’s because precalculus gives you sampling from every field of calculus: trig, polar, vector, series, limits, derivatives, and integrals. It makes the subject very disorganized and simplified.</p>
<p>As a math/CS major, here are my opinions:</p>
<p>Algebra is much more broad than standard high-school algebra. You learn about things like fields, symmetry groups, Galois theory, why you can’t solve quintics in general, etc…</p>
<p>Geometry: most high school curricula teach geometry horribly, and usually restrict proofs to only geometry problems, which is a mistake IMO.</p>
<p>Calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations are pretty interesting and useful (sometimes in unexpected ways).</p>
<p>Number theory and combinatorics are also fun subjects.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken topology, so I can’t really say.</p>
<p>Algebra II>Statistics>Calculus>Algebra I>Pre Calc>Trig>Geometry. </p>
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<p>Yeah, I never understood why we did proofs in geometry but not in any other class. It should be done in Algebra 1, it would help less-able math students to more easily understand what they’re doing.</p>
<p>I’m in Pre-Calculus right now and I sort of like it. We’re doing sequences, series, summations, etc. As of now, this material isn’t very hard, but deriving the equations is fun and I can see its applications. I have a feeling this will be a good year. </p>
<p>Of what I’ve taken so far, definitely Algebra 1. I loved first learning how to do all the algebra stuff. For some reason I find solving systems of equations so darn fun. There’s this cool feeling I get when I substitute or eliminate.</p>