Which schools require pre-calculus?

[ucbalumnus]

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@morkatmom

Back in the Stone Age when I grunted through high school we didn’t have pre-calc. The progression (at least in my school) was 9th grade-Algebra, 10th grade-Geometry, 11th grade-Algebra 2/Trig, 12th grade-Calc. This was California in the early 80’s though where we had to do our homework on the cave walls, so I’m not even sure what pre-calc is to be honest, other than a huge source of anxiety. I wonder if anyone else from that time and place (late 70’s early 80’s- state of CA) has the same recollection.

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<p>Perhaps your school distributed the precalculus stuff (including trigonometry) into your algebra 2 and calculus courses? When I went to school slightly later than that in CA, the usual progression was:</p>

<p>algebra 1
geometry
algebra 2
trigonometry/precalculus
calculus (BC)</p>

<p>Normal track was to start algebra 1 in 9th grade and get to trigonometry/precalculus in 12th grade. Advanced students started algebra 1 in 8th grade and got to calculus in 12th grade. Once every few years, there was a student who started algebra 1 in 7th grade and got to calculus in 11th grade.</p>