Should I take Precalc before taking Calc I?

CalDud
Fri, 03 May 2013 05:11:00 +0000

I took a pre-calc course before I took Calc I (with Analytic Geometry). I’d say it was a waste of time if you were already strong at algebra II but considering you’re weak at math…

If you had to take Calc II, trig will be extremely useful. I think a bare minimum of knowledge of what this derivative of this trig function or that trig function and knowing the formulas is pretty good for Calc I. I didn’t need it really. I knew my trig very well at the time. You should know how to graph functions. It doesn’t take a genius to learn how to do that.