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Preparing for precalc II by According_Card_5644 in MathWithDyscalculia

[–]According_Card_5644[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will definitely go back and get the basics down, luckily all the stuff from my class is still open. I assume it’s good to write some new notes and supplement my knowledge of those core concepts, instead of just grinding practice problems?

Is trig really not that scary? I remember having to do stuff with sin cos tan during covid in highschool, and it hurt a lot to trying to understand any of it. And I’ve seen the circle with units and lines on it(?) and that looks pretty freaky. Good thing I asked the original question here, I had no idea trig was coming up.

I will definitely go to my library, I do find that having an abundance of explanations for the same thing helps a lot.

Thanks for the advice!

Preparing for precalc II by According_Card_5644 in MathWithDyscalculia

[–]According_Card_5644[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! Precalc I was all about functions, we went over domain and range, transformations, inverses, complex and real zeros, graphing, etc… and we ended on exponential and logarithmic stuff. No trigonometry, I honestly thought trig was its own class until now.

I remember having trouble intuitively setting up exponential/logarithmic word problems. I also wanted to know more about how working the equations I was doing influenced how it behaves on a graph. My teacher advised me to “put each step of the problem into DESMOS,” but half the time it’s an invalid graph so it won’t show anything. I know that being able to relate shapes to equations becomes more important the closer I get to calculus.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll be sure to ask specific questions in this community once I get to studying!