................... Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 I know this has been discussed before 🙂 I remember it being either four or six chapters, but can't recall...maybe someone used it recently and remembers 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjand6more Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 I asked this  TT even offered the lessons to us free. But, as I recall, they were not like the 1st few chapters. They were mid book after other concepts had been introduced. So, we could not use them because he did not understand the terminology and the review problems in the lessons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 1 hour ago, rjand6more said: I asked this  TT even offered the lessons to us free. But, as I recall, they were not like the 1st few chapters. They were mid book after other concepts had been introduced. So, we could not use them because he did not understand the terminology and the review problems in the lessons. I wonder if it was the chapters on trigonometry? It seems like trig is now often included in algebra 2 but I don’t see any in TT alg 2.  If so, Khan Academy has lessons on trigonometry if you wanted to cover that material. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjand6more Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Mom0012 said: I wonder if it was the chapters on trigonometry? It seems like trig is now often included in algebra 2 but I don’t see any in TT alg 2.  If so, Khan Academy has lessons on trigonometry if you wanted to cover that material. I don't remember. It was a LONG time ago! We ended up supplementing with Lial's to finish out Alg 2. Khan is a great option. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 2 minutes ago, rjand6more said: I don't remember. It was a LONG time ago! We ended up supplementing with Lial's to finish out Alg 2. Khan is a great option. Lial’s is what I used with my ds for algebra 2 and I was very happy with it, but it doesn’t have any trig in it either.  🙂 That was fine for us, though. He covered trig in precalculus. Sorry, OP. Hopefully, someone else has the answer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Uh oh. What Algebra 2 concepts aren't covered in TT? I knew it didn't include Trig, but I thought that would be fine since we planned on doing the pre-Cal which includes it. Four to six chapters is a lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 That's odd, because the last three chapters of TT Geometry include a lot of basic Trig.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjand6more Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Calming Tea said: That's odd, because the last three chapters of TT Geometry include a lot of basic Trig.... Just contact TT. They were SO accommodating! It just didn't work for us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Why should trig be included in Algebra 2? That’s usually covered in precalculus. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSprout Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Are you using TT for Precalculus? Chapters 4 and 5 stand out to me as topics we're doing in Algebra 2 this year. Chapters 1-3 are often in both Algebra 2 and Precalc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyhock2 Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 3 hours ago, MamaSprout said: Are you using TT for Precalculus? Chapters 4 and 5 stand out to me as topics we're doing in Algebra 2 this year. Chapters 1-3 are often in both Algebra 2 and Precalc. The Chapter 4 stuff is in TT Algebra 2, at least to some degree, but I'm not sure about 5. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 8 hours ago, Roadrunner said: Why should trig be included in Algebra 2? That’s usually covered in precalculus. My kids covered a decent amount of trig in Holt Algebra 2, I don't know how common that is. OP, you could also do something like ALEKS online, $20/month. It will start you with the course assessment and then have you cover only what you haven't mastered yet. It can be a quicker way to assess and fill holes than going through another text would be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 1 hour ago, katilac said: My kids covered a decent amount of trig in Holt Algebra 2, I don't know how common that is. OP, you could also do something like ALEKS online, $20/month. It will start you with the course assessment and then have you cover only what you haven't mastered yet. It can be a quicker way to assess and fill holes than going through another text would be.  We are AOPS family and the only trig we covered before precalculus was one chapter in geometry. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 IMO, there are a few topics in Alg 2 that are also covered in PreCalc. It makes sense to do an introduction in Alg 2, review, and go deeper in PreCalc. (For the record, DD covered trig (as in sohcahtoa) for the first time in Alg 1. She saw it again in geometry, then covered it deeper in Alg 2 (unit circle, graphing of functions) and used it in PreCalc.) As for TT, I've always seen that to be sure you cover Alg 2 content to do pretty much all of TT PreCalc. However, I've never used it myself so I don't know how accurate that is, especially if they have newer editions of Alg 2 than what my IRL friends used many years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 10 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:  We are AOPS family and the only trig we covered before precalculus was one chapter in geometry. AOPS is a different beast entirely, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSprout Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Trig isn't on our state's standards for Algebra 2 at all. I think it was bumped in favor of statistics. There isn't a standard scope and sequence for Algebra 2 to Precalculus. We're using Derek Owens next year and there are some topics in his Algebra 2 that weren't in the the Algebra 2 we just finished. I had dd take his Algebra 2 midterm, do the 2-3 topics she didn't know for the first semester, and now is working through a couple of chapters in the second semester. I second the ALEKS suggestion if your Dd doesn't mind the format. I think it's probably the closest thing to "standard". I too have heard of families using TT through Precalculus and then going into another Precalculus (or College Algebra) course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 I read on here somewhere that in order to call it a complete Alg. 2 class, the first 5 chapters of TT Pre-Calc needs to be completed. I believe it was a recommendation from someone's cover school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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