<p>I'm a sophomore, and I'm in Alg. 2/Trig right now and will be taking Precal. next year as a junior. The thing is that I want to take the precal. class at a local community college and take Calculus next year. I know that people on this forum have done this, so I'm asking if you guys recommend it. I've talked with a teacher who teaches Calculus, and he says to not do it because I'll understand it better if I do it over a full year instead of 3 months. The thing is that math comes really easy to me (I pull off 100% on almost every test without putting much effort in), and I figure that if I actually put real effort in learning it over the 3 months during the summer, I might even have a better understanding of the subject matter than if I did it during the school year where math is less of a priority. Again, I'm asking to those who have done this; do you recommend it? Do you feel that you went at a very fast pace and feel that you would've grasped the material better at a slower pace? Did you have any trouble in Calculus after this? Any feedback would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Precalc is just trig plus a rehash of Algebra 2. If you are a strong math student, you do NOT need to spend an entire year on it in order to do well in calculus.</p>
<p>Grayslake? As in the one in Illinois? If so, I jsut want to say that CLC sucks. If you plan on taking it over the summer, you will just be learning everything on your own.</p>
<p>I encourage you to skip. Take me for example. In freshman year i was doing geometry. I took a whole crapload of courses and then the year after i did calc bc. Even if your teacher is right, and you don't really learn the material at the commutity college, i'm sure you could pick it up by osmosis, you sound smart enough. In fact, why even take the class? Just jump right ahead if you feel that you are up to it.</p>
<p>I took pre-calc over the summer - didn't do my "homework" (teacher assigns them bt doesn't look at them) and played Runescape all day - still got 99% and now thriving in my calc class. Still, I should have done something more productive.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to have to take it because our math department says that they need proof that I completed a class, and that I couldn't self-study it and skip a year. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is our school's policy. </p>
<p>tufnut2crack, did you ever take classes at CLC? It can't be worse than high school courses... plus, as for independent studying, I could use the structure provided by a class. During the summer, I'm a mess.</p>
<p>do you want to take it thru distance learning? Try Stanford EPGY, or this one:
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cee/%5B/url%5D">http://www.utexas.edu/cee/</a></p>
<p>I took precalc at my local college during the summer between my junior and senior year. I inquired about just skipping precalc but they were firm on requiring it. I'm in AP Calc and I'm doing fine... actually better then those that took precalc at my school. I agree with others that most of it is just review of alg II and adv. trig... if you are a decent math student you can do it... I'm not a super math student and I did it.</p>
<p>if math comes easily to you, you would probably be extremely bored in precalc if you took it for a whole year. I would definitely recommend taking it over the summer.</p>
<p>I would heed your math teachers call as he knows the best. Precal covers A LOT i would say the most important part of high school math is in precal. I think you are really getting into these forums with skipping math courses and all, seriously 1 year of math is better than a semester course. It will help you in your sat, caluclus, and other subjects in math. I don't see what the rush is, if precal us the norm for juniors at your school it shows you are takign a challenging course, and you can keep a pretty fine gpa as well</p>
<p>Oh yeah Taegukgi I DID take precal over the summer, the amount of work you do will definately take a year. I think the additional benefit is your performance on the SAT II C, i had a hardcore math teacher and I ended up with a 760 NO PRACTICE WHATSOEVER. </p>
<p>PS Taegukgi is the best movie ever made, although I stopped watching korean movies...... so sadd :(</p>
<p>Dude, I talked about this exact thing in another thread. I was going to get to go right to Calculus at my old school but this school is making me do Precal so I wanted to take it at community college.</p>
<p>if u know ur polar and paremetirc equations then go rite ahead. One of my buddies didn't learn polar equations, so he had a tough time integrating polar equations.
But then again, this definately don't apply to u if u plan to take AB.</p>
<p>My school has this weird thing. It's not AB or BC, it's AB then BC.</p>
<p>Taeguki thats so weird, im in the exact same situation as you are. I was going to skip algebra 2 and go onto precalc this year but i didnt have time over the summer. So i decided to skip precalc. Im not sure if im gonna go to any class but instead im gonna just take the precalc book home. My school from what i know makes you take the final of that class. If you get like a 85 or above you can move on. Good luck with it</p>
<p>i retook alg2 over summer. i got a's in precal the following semester and have a's in ap calc now. i don't suggest taking alg2 over the summer unless you are already very strong in math and know some alg2 material already. there's no reason to be that ambitious. Although i'm doing fine in math now, i still regret it a tad bit. i lost a lot of the math experience by taking alg2 over the summer. It's your choice.</p>