<p>In my honors precal class, we had a HUGE trig review test last week which was semi-difficult because she taught us some new things that we hadn't already learned in algebra II and yesterday we started "polar coordinates" or something and today we started graphing them and they make all these funky shapes and whatnot. But yea, I'm starting to fall a little behind because she's terrible at explaining things and I was just wondering if anyone thought that precal's actually kinda difficult</p>
<p>Lol trig.</p>
<p>Easy stuff.</p>
<p>Polars? Meh. Easy as well. I don’t use them much in Calculus… I like parametrics more.</p>
<p>All in all, my Precal class is really easy, then again I have a great Teacher.</p>
<p>I’m taking a class which involves a lot of calc and i’m smiling my way through it.
although the stuff that you just said I can’t even remember.
I never took pre-calc so maybe that is why.</p>
<p>jspeed… I can’t stress enough how important it is to read sections in the book before class. Math is probably the worst subject to fall behind in… Spend time catching up, even if it means neglecting your other work to a certain degree. Don’t just sit through class and memorize the steps to solving problems, but rather take the time to learn the theory behind what your doing, and you will be set not only for pre-calc, but also further math. </p>
<p>MIT’s right though… In the math I’ve done so far, polar equations are rarely used. Parametric is much more efficient. Pre-calc sets the base for most of Calc; you do well in Pre-calc, your virtually guaranteed to do well in Calc. Oh… And make sure you memorize your trig identities… They are super important</p>
<p>polar graphs suck but aren’t as intimidating as they look… thankfully my precalc/trig class taught all the trig + partial fraction decomp. the first two quarters (ch.6-11), so now we’re going back and doing the easy stuff like functions, graphs, and logs. Basic alg II stuff w/ a slight twist. It’s still not “easy” per se, but I’m glad all that polar stuff is done with.</p>
<p>When I pay attention in class, I always fail the tests.
Hmm.</p>
<p>We’re still on sine graphs. Easy.</p>
<p>Lol… IB doesn’t test polars… AP does. Luckily… I get them.</p>
<p>I hate balancing my AP Calculus BC online class with my IB Math HL 1 precalc class.</p>
<p>:) MIT, I’m in HL too! What topics are you guys doing? Are you IB testing this year? I have to take the AP BC test the morning of the HL Paper 2 test, and can’t take the alternate cause of bio.</p>
<p>I have to show that |sin nx| =< n|sin x| for n = 0, 1, 2, …</p>
<p>Precalc was the easiest math class I ever took and I suck at math lol.</p>
<p>lol… not this year… but next year.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking my SL Computer Science exam which is the easiest IB exam.</p>
<p>Our option for HL math is Series and Diff Eqs… I can convince my school to let me take Further Mathematics next year.</p>
<p>I enjoyed polar coordinates. Vectors, on the other hand, were a living nightmare for me.</p>
<p>Now we’re doing statistics, which is moderately fun.</p>
<p>Polars are fun. We played around with the coefficients to see how they affect the graph. Hardest part of pre calc for me was trig. I never really learned trig…</p>
<p>You can make some really pretty graphs with polar coordinates and trig functions.</p>
<p>My teacher has written an entire book on Vectors. </p>
<p>I looked at it, and then thought, holy ****.</p>
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AMG, YOU’RE SO WEIRD!1!i</p>
<p>I’m in AP Calc BC right now. It is ten times easier than pre-calc, so don’t lose hope.</p>
<p>Maybe Grisam’s learning about MGF’s, MLE’s, and Cramer Rao. That **** really is kinda fun.</p>
<p>^Pft, I wish.</p>
<p>We pretty much covered fifth grade stuff, ranging from box and whisker plots to the Bell curve to various forms of sampling.</p>
<p>^^Ahahaha, Calc BC is supposed to be insanely difficult at my school, which is why I’m considering not taking it.</p>