jeri Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I just went to our illustrious Dept of Defense school system web site (Germany) to look at math courses. They list Alg 1, 2, Geom, Discrete Math and Calc. Whatever happened to trig? I remember it being a semester course in high school 35 years ago. But maybe sin/cos/tan don't exist any more? Can anyone enlighten me? jeri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingiguana Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It tends to be covered in Alg 2 or Pre-calc these days. I've also seen it in Geometry books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Any chance it's hiding in the Discrete Math class? Here the advanced math track is Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-calculus (including trig) and Calculus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeacademy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I had been wondering the same thing. I found what looked like some trig (sine, cosine, tangent ratios) in dd's Geometry. I expect the rest will be in Alg II. When I was in school, advanced math included 1 semester of Trig and 1 semester of something called Analytical Geometry. I don't remember what that included (maybe that was the sine ratios instead of trig?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachin'Mine Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It's definitely alive and well in Saxon Advanced Math. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 You typically get a very light introduction to trig in geometry. Many algebra II programs also have a little trig, but some have no trig and others have a full trig course. Most of the time I see trig as half of a precalculus course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiana Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Many schools now don't have a course called trigonometry, but integrate it into geometry and precalculus. Precalculus is sometimes called math analysis or advanced math. I looked here: http://www.dodea.edu/curriculum/math.cfm?cId=courses and they do seem to have math analysis, although they've decided to call trig functions circular functions. (it's just another name). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in MN Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I'm pretty sure trig was in my Algebra II course some 35 years ago. It seems like Alg. II doesn't have that many topics to cover -- depending of course on how far you got in Alg. I. I've also been looking around recently and see trig all over the place. I'm thinking pre-calculus looks like the most solid place to cover it these days (i.e. not a light brush-over)? Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 At our public school, trig is taught in both Algebra II and in Pre-calc. In our homeschool, it was not covered in Algebra II, so I did a separate semester course of it. None of my children have had an official "Pre-calc" course. We stopped after Algebra II/Trig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moni Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Trig is taught here. It could be included in the other "course names" Sin, Cos and Tan are alive and well. :seeya: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeri Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Ok, so it is now different. But we didn't take "pre-calc"--we took something called Analytical Geom, then Calc. Wondering since my dd is following the LoF sequence and just finished Alg 2. Now she's on to Geom and I just bought the Trig book off of the board. But he doesn't list precalc, and his sequence is to go directly to calc after trig. I feel better! Thanks. :) jeri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angjune Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 My son's Trig was covered at the beginning of PreCalc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Trig is taught as a seperate class in my CC, butthe class is taught solely on the material in only 3 chapters of material out of the PreCalculus textbook.... Just wanted to add that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabel Lee Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Agreeing with what others have said, it's included in my dd's Geo-Trig class next year in 10th and covered more in Alg II & PreCalc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 When I was in school, advanced math included 1 semester of Trig and 1 semester of something called Analytical Geometry. I don't remember what that included (maybe that was the sine ratios instead of trig?) This is what I took. The next year, they retitled the class "Pre Calculus" but from what my peers studied -- it was the same class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msjones Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Trig is taught here. It could be included in the other "course names" Sin, Cos and Tan are alive and well. :seeya: Yup. I'm sure it varies from school to school, but it's still there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 We did a little trig. in geometry, have more coming in Algebra 2, more in precalculus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It tends to be covered in Alg 2 or Pre-calc these days. I've also seen it in Geometry books. :iagree: When I was in high school (graduated 1978), I took "Algebra 2 & Trig" in 10th grade, "Advanced Math" in 11th grade, and "College Algebra" in 12th. Advanced Math is now called Algebra 3 or Precalculus in schools around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankcassiesmom Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Yep. When I was in school it was one class called "Algebra 2/Trig". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momofkhm Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 When I was in school, advanced math included 1 semester of Trig and 1 semester of something called Analytical Geometry. This is me too. Graduated 25 years ago. (wow, am I that old already?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlockOfSillies Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 When I was in high school in the late '80s, it was Alg II, a semester of Trig, a semester of Math Analysis, then Calc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBS Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Pre-Calc and Trig are one class in the progression here in Virginia high schools. LBS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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