<p>I'm going to be taking trig as a sophomore this year since I took algebra II in the summer and I was wondering what the harder topics were and any tips you might have for me.</p>
<p>trig is really easy if you are a math person and it should come naturally. and to tell you the truth, I really didn't think there were any hard topics. If you did well and understood everything in algebra II, you'll be fine in trig.</p>
<p>I loved Trig.</p>
<p>Easy; besides, you won't need more than 2/3 of the subject for onward continuation in calculus.</p>
<p>I also loved calc.</p>
<p>What do you take now, differential equations?</p>
<p>Calc II, single variable.</p>
<p>(last year was Calc AB)</p>
<p>As hard as you want to make it. :)</p>
<p>analytic trig sux, calc was so much better. but then again im an english person</p>
<p>compared to other math in high school trig is fairly easy conceltually...the most important thing IMO is to stay on top of things because you need to have a good foundation on the basics so that when stuff gets added on you arent confused</p>
<p>everything but the proofs were really easy, and those still werent that bad</p>
<p>i always looked forward to doing trig..it made me smile and it is my anti-drug.</p>
<p>Oh then I guess it'll be okay. Is it a lot of algebra II as well?</p>
<p>Math always builds on itself, especially in higher level courses. </p>
<p>As for the difficulty level of trig.... it's very easy.</p>
<p>Not very much alg. II at all...just something new entirely. It's not especially difficult, but the knowledge is very cumulative so make sure you know what you're doing early on...also, memorize the unit circle as soon as you can, look for relationships on your own, etc.</p>
<p>I also loved trig, esp. proofs just because things fell together so nicely :)</p>
<p>Hard to stay awake in class.</p>
<p>I hate trig, even though I'm a math person. I don't get the proof in trig. Proving all this stuff is equal to this...</p>
<p>How to learn trig:
memorize the sin, cos, tan of 30/60/90 and 45/45/90 triangles</p>
<p>Construct the unit circle ( a circle whit a radius of 1 and centered at the origin) Learn that the x value is the cos for a given angle and the y value is the sin
Learn All student take calculus or
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T l C
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Which means by quadrants the first all are positive, the second only the sin is positive, the third only the tangent is positive, the forth only the cos is positive</p>
<p>Learn that the tanget is sin/cos
Learn the trig identities
Learn vectors</p>
<p>thats pretty much trig in a nutshell</p>
<p>All Silver Tea Cups!</p>
<p>Make a C, the same way you would count the quadrants. Like cuatro.</p>
<p>cuarto is a quadrant; cuatro is four.
I just memorized it by square roots:
sin 0 = sqrt(0)/2 = cos 90
sin 30 = sqrt(1)/2 = cos 60
sin 45 = sqrt (2)/2 = cos 45
sin 60 = sqrt(3)/2 = cos 30
sin 90 = sqrt (4)/2 = cos 0</p>