<p>I'm taking PreCalc online. Come to find out late in the game, it is PreCalc WITHOUT trig. Because of this, will I be adequetly prepared for AP Calc? Should I take an online Trig class online next year compounding AP Calc?</p>
<p>HOLY SHEET. :o</p>
<p>you must have trig in your holster before you duel the book of Ap Calculus!!! (serious. very serious.)</p>
<p>go and study trig as well. I suppose Ap Calculus has LOTS of trigonometry, and there is no time to stop and learn about the basics of derivatives, etc… ;\ </p>
<p>yea. I’d say take trig class asap. ;)</p>
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<p>No, you will not be adequately prepared to tackle the challenges of calculus. You will doing a lot of manipulation of trigonometric function in calculus and if you don’t know the properties of sin, cos, tan, csc, sec, and cot, you will be in a lot of trouble. When I took AP Calculus in high school, a lack of knowledge of trig was probably the most troubling thing for many of my fellow students.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I went from Alg 2 to AP Calculus…but I studied some trigonometry before first by myself about a week before the class started 
I have to say, in AP Calculus, the main part of Precalculus that matters is the trigonometry. It’s not that bad, but it’s crucial. I would take the class ASAP, or self-study it, because it doesn’t realy take that much time. </p>
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<p>Would it work to take a trig class simultaneously as AP Calc? It’s too late to register for the online class through my state, and I can’t afford the other options.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree, you do need trig to be adequately prepared for AP Calc. I am taking a Calc I course at a local college so I can skip to BC in high school, and we are using a decent amount of knowledge about trig identities to solve problems.</p>
<p>It would be tough to take a trig course concurrently with AP Calc. Maybe try to get a PreCalc textbook or something and self-study from there. Atleast some knowledge of trig will help you out in AP Calc.</p>
<p>Any books to suggest?</p>
<p>Latin… is pre-calc w/o calc FLVS?</p>
<p>It’s Precalc without Trig through Idaho Digital Learning Academy. :</p>
<p>Precalc without trig sounds pointless tbh.</p>
<p>If you’re good at algebra, calculus will be fine. Knowing trig is nice, but you’ll be fine as long as you know cos^2 + sin^2 = 1</p>
<p>I assumed it had trig when I registered and began, because it didn’t say otherwise until after the fact. It’s the most pointless class I think I’ve taken now. I should have registered for DC College Algebra, but didn’t want to pay the extra money. I assumed it was generally the same thing.</p>
<p>I hate to do this, but BUMP. Does anyone have any other ideas?</p>
<p>Buy a precalc textbook that includes trig, find a friend who’s good with math, and have that person teach you.</p>
<p>Most of trig is about memorizing things. Much of it can probably be found online. If you know how sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, and arctan work, you’re pretty much set. Learning the identities is standard in class, but they’re not of too much importance when it comes to calc. At best, they make calculations a bit quicker (simpler).</p>
<p>If you’ll look on wikipedia, the article isn’t that long. Trig is vital, but it’s not too difficult.</p>
<p>Basically, trig (to calculus) is about knowing that this is that. If that makes sense.</p>
<p>Buy a copy of some Calculus textbook to study over the summer? idk</p>
<p>Stewart’s a good one I guess. I got an early edition of it for one cent plus shipping.</p>
<p>Well while you need some trig, clearly, I’d say some of what you learn is extraneous to Calculus. In other words, getting a trig book and working through the first few chapters will probably suffice. You don’t need to know about co-terminal angles, advanced trig identity formulas or how to convert radians into degrees, minutes and seconds to name a few things we covered in trig that are not necessary in order to keep up in Calculus.</p>
<h2>Most of trig is about memorizing things.</h2>
<p>Maybe if you don’t understand it? If you understand the derivations of everything and geometrically visualize it in your head, I would hardly call that memorization.</p>
<p>Ok, so I have to work my butt off to survive in any math class. (I’m over exagerating here, but making a point regardless…) </p>
<p>What websites would work best. Does wiki really cover enough?</p>
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<p>That’s true, but as far as AB calc is concerned (and as far as I remember, which isn’t much), learning trig is only useful to either identify a graph or make integration a bit easier. </p>
<p>You’ll need to know how to derive and integrate trig functions (memorization), use right triangles, and understand the Unit Circle. Familiarity with the graphs is helpful, too.</p>
<p>I don’t really remember much, so take this for what it’s worth.</p>
<h2>learning trig is only useful to either identify a graph or make integration a bit easier. </h2>
<p>What about Fourier Analysis (Using an infinite sum of orthogonal sines and cosines to represent ANY periodic function)? Or complex numbers? (Using A<em>exp(theta</em>i) to represent all imaginary numbers instead of A + Bi) Or Euler’s Identity and how it applies to differential equations (coming up with linearly independent solutions)? Trig is very useful is post-Calculus math, just not as useful in lower-level calculus…</p>
<p>EDIT: Oops the parenthetical remark threw me off the sentence structure… yeah, I see you mean as far as AP Calculus is concerned</p>