<p>Nope, I won't be taking that at all. I'm in Honors Algebra II/Trig right now, and then it's AP Calc junior year. :-)</p>
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how can all of these precalc classes be so different? aren't they supposed to be sort of... standardized? it is math, after all.
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<p>I know! You'd think so; maybe my teacher just makes it easy (or was it because my Alg. II teacher was super strict and forced us to pay attention to every lesson?). We use a new textbook put out by UChicago. IDK about you guys but to my class the book's content seems very basic. 90% of the class has an A. </p>
<p>Then again, I hear pre-calc at my school does nothing to prepare you for calc, so maybe the easiness this year is a negative thing.</p>
<p>Yeah, I learned everything I needed to know for Calc in Alg II/Trig because I had an awesome teacher.
My theory is that Pre-Calc is just supposed to be a catch-all for things that you should have been taught about math before, but your educators failed to teach you. If you had good teachers all the way through, you shouldn't need it. [This may only hold true at my school. Heh.]</p>
<p>Precalc is a thoroughly useless class, it's essentially Alg 2 rehash...</p>
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Precalc is a thoroughly useless class, it's essentially Alg 2 rehash...
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I agree with this...entirely.</p>
<p>I completely agree. I am almost done with AP Calculus AB (the semester ends at the beginning of January), and I feel as if I could have skipped pre-calculus. I had a terrible pre-calculus teacher who spoke English very poorly and the material was all rehash. Ridiculous. Algebra I & II and Geometry are enough for Calculus.</p>
<p>I think a person's perception of a precalc class depends a lot less on the class and more on the person, : ).</p>
<p>Precalc (at my school) is mostly memorization. I absolutely loathe memorization and can not do it if I don't know the reason behind what I'm memorizing. Some people find memorizing to be really really simple. I got a C + in precal and now have an A in AP Calc BC, because Calc isn't memorizing, it's proving theorums. We didn't prove anything in my precal class, we were just expected to take things at face value.</p>
<p>Our school only offers math analysis after alg2/trig.</p>
<p>Wonder if its the same thing. After math analysis its Calc ab/bc or ap stats.</p>