Hi! This summer I plan on taking Pre-Calculus online. What is the best online course out there? Please give me recommendations! Thanks!
Art of Problem Solving has a very good Pre-Calc course but I think it is longer than two to three months. You could probably start it in March/April and finish by end of Summer…
Okay I’m not trying to discourage you at all, and my experience may be an outlier, but here’s my story of online precalc:
About a week into fall semester I dropped my school’s precalc class because it was full of lazy unmotivated seniors, and signed up for Johns Hopkins CTY honors precalc class. It was all videos for lectures and then online homework, pretty much what I expected. That said, it was impossible for me to learn anything from the videos. I’m a solid math student, but I just wasn’t really retaining any information. I made it through the first semester until the midterm with a 100, mostly due to open note tests.
Then the midterm happened. I studied like hell for a week and still only got a 61. Now I’m totally screwed because the best I can do is an 87.
Moral of the story: I think it’s really hard to learn math in an online class. That’s my experience at least. However, you may be totally fine in it, so take my advice for what you will. Good luck in whatever you choose to do!