I’m an older student, I started college with a clean slate this year. I took the placements and signed up for the hardest math I could (elementary math/intro algebra). I’m now taking college algebra. The engineering advisor recommended precalc next, not trig, or other ‘lighter’ math courses. Precalc.
I meet all the requisites and generally get A’s but it feels like I’m skipping a step? Would I do well to read as much Trigonometry as I can before Precalc in Fall semester?
I’m studying electronics but not sure how far I’ll go beyond an Associates. If anything I’m more interested in a double major since full EE would probably take me a decade. And they need “all the math” :}
Precalc covers trig in details. HS students usually don’t need to take a seperate trig class. They go from Algebra II (college algebra equivalent) to precal.
You are fine if you are doing well in math.
Example:
https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus
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Thanks for writing, coolweather.
I was surprised how many of those topics in the Precalc I’ve already worked with or at least heard of.
I’ll go for it. I also forgot to mention precalc will be my first “real” college math course, everything else has been compressed semester, or a double course, or online. So ideally that will help.
^ Yes. Half of precal is to review algebra II and the other half is trig.
Usually the two are more or less interchangeable, from my experience. Redundancy sometimes exists because algebra is pretty tough to learn.