<p>Will trig and precalculus help me suceed in college calc? </p>
<p>How hard is calc if you don't know anything about vectors, z axis, discrete mathematics, logs, statistics, and hate geometry?</p>
<p>Is it weird to hate regular geometry but like trig and parts of analytical geometry?</p>
<p>I know about vectors and scalars from physics but the calc version is uknown to me.</p>
<p>You will absolutely need geometry, but there is no expectation that you know anything about vectors or discrete math or any of that before college.</p>
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<p>What do you consider “regular” geometry? If you’re worried about having to prove two angles are equal using the SAS theorem then you have nothing to worry about, that stuff won’t come up again. You will need to know trigonometry though, so its good that you like it I guess. </p>
<p>For college calculus, the most important things you need to come in knowing:</p>
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<li> Limits</li>
<li> Trig</li>
<li> Sigma sums</li>
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<p>They’ll probably review a little bit of this stuff, but it would be helpful for you to at least know what this stuff is, especially limits.</p>
<p>Sigma Sums? I never even heard of it, but I think I have an idea of what it is. Is it that weard symbol you see in Statistics that means sum?</p>
<p>Trig is pretty easy and applying it to some situations is not difficult at at all, but graphing is ****ing me up badly. I wish it were in actual numbers rather than Radians even though I understand why radians is easier. </p>
<p>Limits I don’t understand at all, the graphs are annoying, and all that Infinite stuff is crazy.</p>
<p>I hope the math classes in college aren’t super big, so I can ask the professor questions without feeling stupid about them.</p>
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<p>My calc classes were pretty big, well over 100 people, but discussion sections are small and this is this is where most of the question asking is done anyways.</p>
<p>Precalc is the best preperation for calc. I took it in highschool, but my college had me take it again. Being good at algebra is pretty important.</p>
<p>I’d say for most of calculus the algebra is the hardest part. You learn a basic set of rules (calculus), then you generally need to apply algebra to get whatever you have looking like one of those rules.</p>
<p>I agree with Reaver.</p>
<p>The calculus was easy. It was the algebra that was hard. Part of it was the fact it was presented different than high school, the other part that the alegbra was just really hard. (I breezed through high school alegbra with hardly a problem.)</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>Vectors and Z-Axis are taught in calculus III</p>
<p>Discrete Mathematics and statistics you don’t really need to know for calc.</p>
<p>You need to know logs, but there is not a lot too them. Just the basic definitions and properties.</p>
<p>You should be good at geometry.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what you consider regular geometry. If you are good at trig and analytical geometry you should be okay.</p>
<p>Well, to me regular geometry is stuff find the Area of a square or find the volume of a cylinder. </p>
<p>The foci and hyperbola stuff are stuff I just started learning a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>Thing is everyone I know claims geomtry is easy and all you need to know is the formulas but when it hit cylinders, cones, and pyramids(sp?) I wanted to go to sleep.</p>