What's the deal with Trig?

<p>I'm curious how it corresponds to calculus. Is it a completely different course or does it correspond with calculus? I'm curious because D completed Calculus in her Sophmore year and is currently taking Trig at her new school (junior/senior year) and I thought they were basically the same thing? TIA</p>

<p>It should be the course before precalculus if I'm not mistaken...so that's kind of weird.</p>

<p>Well that explains it. Everything about D's education this year is weird. She is taking her Junior/Senior year concurrently. English 3b and 4b together. We live in CA and she is in school in TX. She also has to take an IBC class? speech class and a government class on free enterprise to graduate in TX. Although we may have odd requirements here in CA, I just am not familiar with them. Math is her best subject so it's not stressing her, just me.</p>

<p>it usually goes trig/precalc then calc. if she's already taken calc trig shouldn't be a problem.</p>

<p>Thanks fender, she's having an easy time of Trig. too easy and we wondered what the significance of it was. Apparantly a difference from TX and CA HS's requirements.</p>

<p>Calc and trig aren't the same, but getting through calc requires picking up some trig if you've never had it before, so she probably learned a lot of the trig last year anyway.</p>