I actually ended up not reading the pre-calc book, and I did fine in AP Calc without pre-calc knowledge. However, the way calculus is taught at your school may be different, so I advise you to discuss it with your teacher. Try to see if you can try to do the problems near the end of the sections -- they're typically the hardest. Doing pretty well, but I was self-studying a lot, including and exceeding standard pre-calc trigonometry.
I also was self-studying Calculus a little bit before class. If your school doesn't have its own summer program, do a google search. A lot of boarding schools and colleges have them.
But really, you should talk to the head of the math department and your guidance counselor first. They will know the best path for you. This could work if the curriculum includes the geometry necessary for:.
New Haven Unified honors students can skip 6th grade math. Honors students go straight to prealgebra in the 6th grade. Unfortunately, most schools do not give students the choice to skip elementary math classes. Disadvantages of Skipping Precalculus. Disadvantages of Skipping Precalculus Generally, I do not advise students to take full summer courses in the summer, especially precalculus. Some disadvantages of skipping precalculus at school: Many precalculus concepts are very important for calculus.
Too often, the precalculus portion of a problem stumps calculus students. Generally, these exams are taken in the junior year. This is the Logan honors path. They both took the ACT in the spring of their sophomore year. Usually, sophomores do not take the ACT. The ACT is critical reading, English and an essay. Learning precalculus in a summer is very difficult. Precalculus is hard with 9 months to learn it. It is extremely difficult to learn in 6 weeks.
If you are lost at any point, it will compound very quickly. In fact, PreCalc kinda has college algebra embedded in it. Statistics the AP course in my opinion is a slightly less challenging class than pre-calc. I am enrolled in both of these classes right now at the high school level. But as a single-year math course, pre-calculus is bit more challenging. No calculus needed, but algebra will be used of course. Most science programs and social science programs will require you to take statistics because it is a fundamental part of research.
The statistics they teach you is different from the stuff that would need calculus though. Most of it is pretty basic. Calculus is more useful for students pursuing majors in science or engineering. Statistics, on the other hand, is not only necessary for being an informed citizen, but is useful for almost every major and career. Calculus simply lacks this universal applicability.
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