Should You Take Pre-Calculus Before Trigonometry?

We discuss Pre-Calculus and Trigonometry and how they differ. Which should you take first? Does it matter? Please leave any comments below:)
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[adamkucera]

I don’t think it’s a question of which is first, it a question of which will serve you best in the long run. Like you said, pre-calculus is a lot like algebra. Trigonometry is to a large extent a different beast. So, you already had a gut full of algebra, good for you. Now take a different strand, namely trigonometry. Get trigonometry under your belt before you start pre-calculus. Also, not a bad idea, brush up on exponentials and logarithms, just the basic arithmetic operations associated with them. Ask yourself “can you do problems in different basis: base 2, base 10, base e”. With your basic algebra and now trig and exponentials / logarithms under your belt you are cooking. Then, when you work through pri-calculus and before starting calculus, go back and revise algebra, exponentials, logarithms and trigonometry from the start to the finish. After that CALCULUS A+ guaranteed.

[guitaristxcore]

Ive got maybe a bit of a hot take on this: If someone is really good with algebra and really good with trig then just skip precalculus if thats an option. With the exception of maybe two topics in precalculus its a bit of a waste of time if you're already very comfortable with algebra and trig.

Trig was super easy for me, Algebra was actually harder, but I got A's in both classes. And after taking trig I tested out of precalculus and went straight to Calc 1. Although I suffered a bit in Calc 2 because I didn't get that preview of sequences and series from precalclus, I still pulled A's in both C1 and C2 and now Im teaching myself C3 and ODE's ahead of the fall semester.

[highviewbarbell]

the only trig class i ever took was the second half of PreCalculus and that was plenty to be prepared for Calc

[pikep]

Both were taught in the same class in high school.

[quinmcdonald]

Trig wasnt really geared toward the stem students at my school. I made 112 as an average in trig. Precalc felt about the same difficulty as the later calc classes. Trig before precalc felt like the right order though.

[PhillipRhodes]

I don't understand the premise of this question. Maybe it's just that things have changed since I was in college, but to my way of understanding Pre-Calculus *is* Trigonometry. Or rather, Pre-Calculus is just College Algebra and Trigonometry welded together and "joined at the hip". When I took it, you took Pre-Calc over two semesters, with the classes denoted as "Pre-Calculus I" and "Pre-Calculus II" and the division was roughly "Pre-Calc I = College Algebra" and "Pre-Calc II = Trigonometry".

Maybe it's just a difference in the way different schools structure their classes? But I know for sure I've heard other people, including some math professors, refer to their schools structuring things as described above. This also jibes with what Wikipedia says:

*In mathematics education, precalculus is a course, or a set of courses, that includes algebra and trigonometry at a level which is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus, thus the name precalculus.*

So yeah... to me, the question "should you take pre-calculus before trigonometry" doesn't even make sense. 🙂

[srikanthtupurani]

Trigonometry is interesting. We have things like We need good amount of algebra skills. Pre calculus is not easy. One should understand deep concepts like epsilon delta definition. I feel very sad that no one told me that a function from real numbers to real nukbers is continous if the inverse image of an open set is open . As you told the best teachers can do so much good ti students.

[Beastexa]

At what age you learnt calculus ? Pls answer, I am fascinating to know . I am waiting for your answer.

[SirineMenia]

I have heard one teacher before saying that in pre calculus there are some trig lessons so i thought learning trig first will make pre calculus easier

[asterialumin_]

thank you! please make a video solely on pre calc

[RunstarHomer]

I've never heard of a trig class. All the high schools I've ever tutored at simply teach trig in precalc, and I've never seen a university trig class either

[AutomationDnD]

I got my hands on a good (Old) trig-book, spherical & plane. _I fear trig_ always have. So I am *staring* at the book & it stares back at ME from time to time, _I imagine it will be EXACTLY as you say_ a lotta rote going on. (but that's the whole idea) one-A these *I will just START wrestling thru it* and --- yeah. I will feel like I _Learned_ something
(even if I only know 1/2 of it) ideally I'd have 80 or 90pct of it understood & memorized, *we'll see*
I had also gotten my hands on my old HighSchool pre-calc... _should be "FUN"_

how does that old quote go?:
"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you." (Trig traumatized me back in Junior High)

[joes-jvhk]

Wait I thought trig and pre-calc was the same thing

[Nate-ztrh]

If you are in US. Don't take either. Self study and take clep.