<p>I am already advanced in math a few years and am beginning highschool next year. After being barely challenged by Geometry, i decided i might want to skip (test through) algebra II and take precalc. Everyone i ask (parents, math teachers, etc) say it isn't important and will make highschool very tough. So for a person that is already advanced, is Precalc (and calc ab/bc) really hard?</p>
<p>hahha no sir.</p>
<p>You could’ve just bumped your last thread instead of starting a new one.</p>
<p>I think Alg II and pre-calc are unnecessary. Alg II is a logical extension of Alg I and pre-calc is all covered in Calc. All you need is a background in trig and you are golden.</p>
<p>for me, cal was easier than precal.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the need for another thread about math, let alone the same topic…</p>
<p>Its easy, mostly review. Some new things with sinusoids,logs, exponents, vectors, and parametrics</p>
<p>I found Algebra 2 to be tougher than AP Chemistry for some reason. Algebra 2 really is just kind of expanding the concepts learned in Algebra 1… It shouldn’t be that hard.</p>
<p>^ Algebra 2 is hard. I’ve been through Honors Algebra 2 AND PreCalc and I still don’t understand anything about logarithms.</p>
<p>anything? Not even the basic ones?</p>
<p>If it pertains to “ln” or “log,” I’m 100% clueless, yep. I recall about a 5/80 on that test last year or something.</p>
<p>I slightly envy all of you who are waltzing your way through Pre-calc and calc right now. </p>
<p>I thought Algebra II was a very difficult class. My transcript agrees with me. Imaginary numbers? No thank you…</p>
<p>I’m not a fan of Algebra II right now, but I’m understanding exponential growth and decay and logs, that seems easy to me compared to other stuff we’ve done.</p>
<p>Imaginary numbers? Is that where you reduce square roots and have “i?” I actually figured that out but it wasn’t easy.</p>
<p>Numerous teachers have tried to explain logarithms to me and they all fail. I’ll never understand them.</p>
<p>The only "easy’ thing in Algebra 2 was the compound interest (Pe=rT) and exponential growth/decay.</p>
<p>And AP Stats is like 34567890 times worse.</p>
<p>Yes! Those are imaginary numbers. Pain in my ass.</p>
<p>I thought AP stat was supposed to be easy! I inherited my mom’s lack of math talent and she said that stat was one of the easiest math classes imaginable.</p>
<p>ap stats…easy, haha, you’re funny</p>
<p>Pre-Calc was alright. I took it in a community college, fell asleep during most of the lectures. Good thing the professor was chill, we’d always talk before and after class.</p>
<p>^ Did you get an A? haha</p>
<p>Both Pre-Calc and Algebra II are breezes if you’re good at math. I wouldn’t worry about skipping at all. The only concepts in Algebra II that need even a remote amount of brainpower to understand are logarithms and statistics. But those shouldn’t be too hard if you spend a day or two trying to understand. If you need help I suggest watching videos on khanacademy. </p>
<p>…How come you created another thread on this?</p>
<p>@hi<em>i’m</em>leila: yeah ahaha it wasn’t a hard class plus the professor was really nice</p>