Math degreed people! Need rec

[sheryl]

DD finished A1 (9th), A2 (10th), Geometry (11th) and currently in 12 is not taking a math.  It's a long story but she'll be a year behind and she'll graduate June 2018 instead of 2017. 

 

The man who administers her annual homeschool test knows the above scenario and recommended a pre-calc book to study up and review math concepts to keep fresh.  She just finished Geometry.  She earned A's in A1 and A2 and I have yet to grade Geom but I'm sure she'll earn an A or B. 

 

Do you have any recommendations for a pre-calc book?  We'll register her at our CC for a Pre-Calc class this coming fall.

 

Thanks!!!

[regentrude]

I am not a math degreed person, but I found Margaret Lial's books a good resource. Old editions can be obtained very inexpensively

https://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-4th-Margaret-L-Lial/dp/0321528840

 don't get the newest one, the math has not changed.

 

If she needs to review algebra 2, I found the precalc text to have an extensive review.

Edited March 29, 2017 by regentrude

[Lanny]

I agree with the man who suggested that she keep reviewing the Math she has already has.  Use it or lose it, like any other subject. GL

[Jann in TX]

I'm not sure she would be ready to 'review' using a Pre-Calc text.

Review with an Algebra 2 text would be more appropriate-- since she is already over a year removed from that level and Geometry does not contain or review Algebra 1 concepts.

 

 

 

[Arcadia]

What is your community college using? Might be easier to get the same book to study up.

 

E.g.

"Representative Text(s) -

Wilson, Adamson, Cox, and O'Bryan, Precalculus: A Make It Real Approach, 1st Edition, Cengage Learning, 2013.

Stewart, Redlin, and Watson, Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 6th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2012. "

 

"Precalculus: Functions and Graphs, 4th ed., Dugopolski, Pearson Publishing, 2015

Hardback ISBN: 978-0321789433

 

Ch. 1 Section 1 - 8 (1.5 optional), Chapter 2 - 6, Ch. 8.1 - 8.3, Ch. 9, Ch. 10.1 - 10.3 (10.4 optional), Ch. 11.1 - 11.3, Suggested: Review B.2 and B.4"

[G5052]

I'm a community college professor in computer science and information technology.

 

Depending on the college, your daughter will have to take a placement test for math or present recent college scores (SAT or ACT) at a certain level. So I would focus on preparing for that. Not doing math for a year and then hoping to place into pre-calc is perhaps optimistic. Both community colleges I've worked for had study materials on their websites for the placement test.

 

My daughter is graduating in June has Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II as her high school math credits. She REALLY has struggled in math but has kept at it and has an "A" in an outside Algebra II class right now. Thankfully she did well enough on the ACT this last round to place into college math at the community college, but she's a liberal arts major and will not need pre-calc. So thankfully no placement test for her, and I can use the ACT for our annual testing. She's already been admitted there.

[bethben]

I agree about the college level placement of pre-calc. My ds took a semester of college algebra and now is taking pre-calc after completing pre-calc with Saxon. College classes go fast! His semester started first week of January and is ending in mid May. A full year of high school Pre-Calc in a short semester. Maybe start with college Algebra. You can do both in a year.

 

 

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Edited March 29, 2017 by bethben

[EKS]

If you're just looking for review, you might want to have her try ALEKS.