<p>Since I'm a science major and math bores me, I was thinking about taking Math 16A. The problem is that it requiers trigonometry and it totally screwed me because they did'nt even offer that class in high school. I took pre-cal, but the teacher was very incompetant so I switched into AP Statistics, which totally rocked and I learned so much about stat that I can actually use it in my daily life. So my question is since I never took trig does that mean I have to take Math 1A or could I take Math 32 and then MATH 16A? The reason I dropped pre-cal was because I hated the teacher and I looked at his syllabus and I was like ***, I could learn the whole year in like 2 weeks of self-study over the summer. Dam trig it really came back to bite me in the ass!!!!</p>
<p>self study trig and take 16A</p>
<p>I'm thinking of doing that. When you sign up for classes in the math department do they really care if you have meet the prerequisets or is it just a recommendation. I doubt they would kick me out of a class because I did'nt take an official math class :)</p>
<p>All I can say is you won't enjoy doing analytical geometry or calculus if you aren't solid with trig. But good luck anyways if you decide to try it.</p>
<p>only like 10% of math 1a students have not taken AP calculus. you are at a big disadvantage in 1a if you have not taken calculus at all.</p>
<p>Math 16, not IA and I'm thinking about self-studying trigonometry with my older brother who will be taking a summer class in trig at college. I'll sign up for Math 16 and if I'm slightly confused in the first couple of days I will drop the class and switch in Math 32. Seems like a good plan and I doubt Math 32 will fill up (It starts at 8 am).</p>
<p>thanks all for the input.</p>