does anyone know what geometry I should cover before I take trig in the spring? I have a highschool geometry book someone gave meI am taking trig but haven't taken geometry, I hear there is geometryin in trig. An advice on how to prepare?
Thinking spacially and knowing your algebra is what is most important. Make sure you know about angles in degrees and radians would be a good idea as well. Knowing about graphing circles and the primary quadrents (0, 90, 180, 270, 360 degrees) are also important. I am taking trig but haven't taken geometry, I hear there is geometryin in trig. An advice on how to prepare?
Not quite sure how you managed to bye-pass geometry, but they do things differently now. Get a high school geometry text from the library and work your way through it. Call your local board of education and find out if they have on line tutorials for this subject. You will need to invest at least an hour a day and really push yourself to come up to speed for trig but I'm sure you can do it. If there are different levels for geometry texts take the university level one. I always pushed my kids to shoot for the stars and see where they settled.
familiarize yourself with sin, cosine, and tangent
also you should learn about the Pythagorean theorem:
a^(2) +b^(2)=c^(2)
those are what i've used most of the time and haven't used much more from geometry. in geometry you basically go more in depth with shapes and finding area
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