<p>Hate to use this forum for advice, but hopefully you understand why I'm asking.</p>
<p>So this year, my sophomore year, I will be taking two math classes. This is because I'm taking the standard math class and the honors class so next year I will be all honors.</p>
<p>Anyways, today someone told me that Geometry and Algebra II will be really conflicting. I'm usually one to take risks, but they kept going in depth about how I probably wont get a good grade in the class.</p>
<p>Should I be worried? Will it be a bad idea to go into Algebra II without Geometry already taken?</p>
<p>Anyways, thanks for reading, as stupid as this post may be. I know I'm only a sophomore, but this is what CC does to people!</p>
<p>That’s not true that you’ll do horribly. I know a girl who did the same thing (and she’s not a genius or great at math) and she did fine. Geo’s math is basic and has some algebra. But not algebra 2. I think that taking alg 2 simultaneously will actually help you in geo.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. This really gave me a nice confidence push, I was feeling really nervous about this.</p>
<p>Esthetique, that’s what I was thinking. I’ve heard that basic Geometry isn’t that difficult, so I would have more time to focus on Alg II without getting too stressed.</p>
<p>You can literally learn geometry in like 2 weeks. Algebra 2 has a much more diverse range of material to learn. It’s like a less in-depth version of pre-calc.</p>
<p>I’m just going to iterate what everyone else said. Both classes are easy math class. I took Geometry as a year-long class, and it was definitely an easy A. I took Algebra 2 in an accelerated capacity, covering it in about six weeks. It wasn’t that much of a problem. </p>
<p>The only concepts that overlap will be when you cover conic sections in Algebra 2 and use the distance and midpoints formulas. You tend to learn these in Geometry. However, both of these formulas “make sense” i.e. you’ve probably used them before having discovered them yourself. Other than those two formulas, there is really no overlap. You do study trigonometry in Geometry a little but it’s extremely basic. It will depend on your school where you do Trig in Algebra 2. I personally didn’t.</p>
<p>I say go for skipping Geometry if you have the opportunity too! It’s a really boring class and a waste of time. All of the proofs you “learn” are basic ideas that you can logically figure out.</p>
<p>My science teacher last year told me that Geometry was pretty useless. I may decide to skip Geometry. Though, my school is pretty strict on thing like that. </p>
<p>It’d be a good way to get some of those stupid required classes out of the way. </p>
<p>At my school Geometry was a graduation requirement. You could test out of it but you couldn’t skip it all together. I figured every school would require at least 2 years of math, and that’s the 2nd year of a standard high school math.</p>
<p>Iwould say that it would be no problem for you taking both Geometry and Alg 2. The only time they ever overlap is when you get to conics. Depends on how hard the two classes are. I doubt that it will be a problem. You seem smart enough to handle it! </p>
<p>THat reminds me, some people just like to convince other people how they made mistakes doing this and that. Most of the time, I would just say to ignore them :D</p>
<p>There really isn’t much overlap. You’ll be fine. If you’re really worried about it, get a geometry book and look through it before you start [geometry is way easier than algebra 2 though].</p>