<p>hi
do you remember me guys? :)
ok ,for those who do ,I have graduated from high school and now I am gonna apply to Cleveland state university to study Electrical engineering.
anyway,I will have about 5 months before starting classes so I will need to strength my math foundation for calculus.
I bought Precalculus for dummies but I figured out it gives you superficial information so I decided to use another book.
I have found this one:
Precalculus (an investigation of functions) ,it is a free book and here is the website:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.opentextbookstore.com/precalc/%5DPrecalculus%5B/url">http://www.opentextbookstore.com/precalc/]Precalculus[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I would appreciate it if you make a look and tell me what do you think.</p>
<p>I would appreciate it if you have any other recommendations.</p>
<p>one more thing:
is there anything you advice me to do before starting classes? like additional courses or something?</p>
<p>Judging by that book’s table of contents, it has everything I was going to suggest. I think you should use it. Of course, it’s a waste of time IF YOU DON’T DO THE PROBLEMS.</p>
<p>you mean the book’s problem or problem from another source?</p>
<p>You need to understand how math is taught in the US.</p>
<p>In Elbonia, in both HS and college, we were asked to solve pretty hard problems. But not a lot of them. If you had encountered the type of problem in the past, you’re done in 20 min. If not, 20 days would not do you much good. </p>
<p>In the US the tendency is to go for breadth of materials, i.e. lots of practice problems. Way too many till it becomes 2nd nature… The problems are not necessarily difficult, but you only have a few minutes.</p>
<p>That being said I’d start with ‘college algebra’ if you’re now doing precalc. That may set you back a semester (but you can catch up) but with a good teacher you will learn the material.</p>
<p>The table of contents is ok but make sure you do enough book’s problems to be comfortable with every topic. You may review matrices on the internet before you start vectors as they help with vectors. Good luck.</p>
<p>I meant ONLY the book’s problems. And ONLY the prime-numbered ones. On Tuesdays, when it’s not raining. Do any more problems then that and you will fail math.</p>
<p>Do as many problems as you can, from everywhere, until it’s second nature.</p>