<p>For my pre-calculus class, we go one unit a week, regardless of the difficulty of the unit.
We just did rotating conic sections.
Our teacher worked with the assumption that we all did conic sections last year. I died. Apparently the highest grade on the test was a low C.
This happens pretty often.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as honors precalc (frankly, there’s rarely an honors version of any class at our schools) so if you’re unfortunate enough to get him, you’ll have a much harder time getting an A than if you had a different teacher.</p>
<p>I’ve studied math independently since pre-calculus, but I remember my Algebra II class ended with a review of exponentiation, presumably in preparation for logarithms, and never got anywhere near sequences/series, logarithms, or conic sections.
At my school trig is taught along with pre-calculus and, judging by the final, they don’t even get to conic sections there. (Or polar coordinates or parametric curves, neither of which I fully understand even though I just took the Calculus BC test.)</p>
<p>Painfully slow. I watched every single episode of 24 on my phone in that class without falling behind. Great show, by the way.</p>
<p>We did polar coordinates and parametric curves two weeks ago.</p>
<p>I’m in IB SL Math, and we move fairly quickly, at a pace of completing each section in a day or two, depending on the amount of homework questions. It usually takes about a week and a half to complete each chapter, after which we get a quiz, which either contains recycled questions from old IB exams, or are taken directly out of the review section in our textbook. We’re currently studying Z scores and Z distributions.</p>
<p>We do about 2 lessons per day. I had a really good Alg 2 teacher and we learned about conics/rotating conics and trig functions in there, so really Trig was really redundant. I’m sure Precal will be EXTRA redundant.</p>
<p>We normally about one lesson per day in my PreCalc class. It’s been that way in all of the other math classes I have taken as well.</p>
<p>It really depends on the material. We have block scheduling (meaning math is over an hour), some days we do 2-3 lessons, other days we don’t even get through one.</p>
<p>We go super slow. I basically go on twitter for the whole class period and I don’t fall behind lol(:</p>
<p>Could go much faster. Because we get more classes in the year, but less time for each class, my school goes the slow route–supposedly for the better of other students: 1 year for Algebra 2, 1 for Pre-Calc, 1 for Calc AB, and 1 for Calc BC. They split it up because they don’t want to cram it all in a short period of time. (I would so go accelerated to learn more topics overall (linear algebra, problem solving time, etc) instead of taking the slow “Pre-AP then stick to the AP-curriculum path”)</p>
<p>We do a section a day.</p>
<p>For calc BC we literally go through a chapter every week or two, it’s really fast paced</p>
<p>I’m in IB SL Math, 1st year, and I’m dying. It alternates between super slow at the sections I’ve got in a heartbeat, too warp speed when I start struggling. C’est la vie.
Oh, and next year, I get AP Calc BC, where it’s constantly warp speed. I’m so excited… T.T</p>
<p>It took a year to do 8 chapters in AP Calculus AB so pretty slow.</p>
<p>In Pre-Calc, we go through a section a day, but we learn Calc A in my school’s Pre-Calc class. We already done differentiation and integration along with the other traditional Pre-Calc topics, such as parametrics and matrices. We don’t learn trig though because we learned that last year.</p>