Pre-Calculus • Series
Fundamentals of Precalculus and Trigonometry
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Hemali G
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Series Details
About
Are you taking Precalculus next year? Are you wanting to get ahead? If so, this 5-week series of sessions is for you! I'm Hemali - an economics and math tutor here at schoolhouse world and I want to help you understand trig and precalc concepts! This series is designed for students entering a Precalculus course during the 2021-2022 school year, and is based the Khan Academy precalculus and trigonometry material. We will first go over the entire Trigonometry curriculum and cover most precalculus concepts (excluding Matrices and Probability & combinatorics). You can preview the material here - https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry and https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus . A knowledge of Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry concepts is required to attend this course.
- We will meet at 4pm EST for 1 hour on Monday and Wednesday for 5 weeks.
- There will be an optional catchup session each Saturday of the course at 3pm EST intended for people who missed a session or have questions.
- There will be optional homework after every session in which learners will do problems from the Khan Academy precalculus and trigonometry pages.
- You should have a pencil and paper handy to take notes and work out problems. You should also bring a calculator.
- I will put the notes and optional homework onto this document - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t3KSLDp2IxOWtxQ_AxEf7_aFcgE08M2AQibnyG-31_g/edit?usp=sharing - as the series progresses.
I look forward to seeing you guys so that we can learn about precalculus together!
✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY
It is expected that the learner will attend every session in this series. If the learner has to miss a session, they should message the tutor before and attend appropriate Saturday office hours session. Learners who don't inform the tutor and miss the session more than two times will be withdrawn from the course because the sessions build upon each other.
Dates
July 9 - August 15
Learners
14 / 15
Total Sessions
21
About the Tutor
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Hi! I am a high school student in the United States. I love to tutor others (and learn more myself) in a variety of topics mostly centralized to math and science. I hope that I can help you learn more and would appreciate any feedback you can give me!
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Upcoming Sessions
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Past Sessions
21
9
Jul
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Session 1
Orientation
Hi! Welcome to the course. Contents of this session:
1. Completing a quick survey so I can see what you'd like to learn from this course
2. Sharing with you my rough outline of the course so you can get an idea of what we will be covering
3. Explaining my expectations for this series/each session in the course
4. Demonstration and explanation of how to use the different features of a series that are not normally there in regular sessions.
5. Discussing the *possible* time change to accommodate learners schedules. Note that this is highly unlikely unless the majority of learners express their approval! See you there!
12
Jul
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Session 2
Other Topics
We will go over the trigonometric functions (all 6) and learn how to apply them to problems. Be sure to have completed this form - https://forms.gle/kxAJbL8vyQb9KNFF8 - otherwise you will be withdrawn from this series.
14
Jul
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Session 3
Other Topics
We will learn about radians and degrees and how to convert between them. Then, we'll learn about the unit circle and its' use in mathematics. Here is the link to refer or print - https://drive.google.com/file/d/17-D2Ln-e8kJ1G2Ni9kSYD9GwZ7OgGsk7/view?usp=sharing .
18
Jul
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Session 4
Catchup
*OPTIONAL* This is a catchup session for anyone who missed a session (excused) this week, has questions, or wants to review.
19
Jul
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Session 5
Other Topics
We will go over the graphs of the three main trigonometric functions. Then, we will learn about the amplitude, midline, and period of trig graphs.
21
Jul
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Session 6
Other Topics
We will go over the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines and learn how to implement them.
25
Jul
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Session 7
Catchup
*OPTIONAL* This is a catchup session for anyone who missed a session (excused) this week, has questions, or wants to review.
OT
Session 8
Other Topics
*OPTIONAL* Fast-Track - intended for people who want to complete the curriculum in July.
We will go through Polynomials & Composite Functions and vectors.
26
Jul
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Session 9
Other Topics
We will go over trig identities. Here is the link to the paper to reference/print - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yT9q4Dsuws6epkRPEBGA6SoAldt3G2_0/view?usp=sharing . This will be our last session in trigonometry!
28
Jul
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Session 10
Other Topics
We will go over Complex Numbers.
1
Aug
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Session 11
Catchup
*OPTIONAL* This is a catchup session for anyone who missed a session (excused) this week, has questions, or wants to review.
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Session 12
Other Topics
*OPTIONAL* Fast-Track - intended for people who want to complete the curriculum in July.
We will go through arithmetic & geometric series and conics sections.
2
Aug
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Session 13
Other Topics
We will go over Polynomials and Composite Functions.
4
Aug
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Session 14
Other Topics
We will go over vectors!
6
Aug
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Session 15
Other Topics
*OPTIONAL* Vectors Session Repeat (If you weren't able to come to the last one)
8
Aug
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Session 16
Catchup
*OPTIONAL* This is a catchup session for anyone who wants to review any topic that has happened in this series.
9
Aug
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Session 17
Other Topics
We will go over arithmetic and geometric series!
11
Aug
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Session 18
Other Topics
We will go over Conics Sections.
12
Aug
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Session 19
Other Topics
We will go over Conics Sections *optional repeat.*
15
Aug
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Session 20
Catchup
*OPTIONAL* This is a catchup session for anyone who missed a session (excused) this week or has questions.
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Session 21
Review
This will be an informal review of all the content we covered! Bring any other precalculus questions you may have and I will answer them. You all will also have the opportunity to give me feedback and suggestions for future sessions/series!