Preparing for Precalculus: What to Know Beforehand

[amenon]

I am going to be taking Precalculus next year and I was wondering if there was anything specific that I should now about. What kind of things do you learn in Precalculus?

 

[HallsofIvy]

Precalculus is more algebra practice (you can never have enough!) on topics that are specifically used in calculus.

Here's a link to Harvard's precalculus webstite:
http://users.rcn.com/econnally/math/courses/e10/
that should be good enough!

 

[amenon]

Thanks HallsofIvy!
The site helped a lot

 

[Math Is Hard]

When I took pre-calc, the students who went in with some prior knowledge of trig fared much better than those who had no exposure to it.

 

[Astronuc]

In addition to algebra and trignometry, our HS calculus program consisted of one trimester of analytical geometry.

Here is another site, which gives an overview -
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~marx/precalculus.html