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    Can anyone recommend a good textbook for precalculus?

    I want to try to test into a calculus class to take over the summer, and I'd like to start studying precalc pretty soon.
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    This would help me, too.

    I haven't had math yet at all my highschool career, and I'm taking pre calc next year, then IB Higher Level math (advanced calculus) the year after that.

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    Well it would be kind of a waste to buy one book to study, and then have to buy another one for your over the summer class :/. See if you can find out which book your potential summer class will use, and buy that one. Most math books are all the same 'quality' to me, but I'm no HUGE expert.

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    Well for me, we don't have to buy books.. We just borrow them from the library. And I love studying, so this would be something I'd do while bored, and so entertainment would be worth the cost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YoHoJo View Post
    Well it would be kind of a waste to buy one book to study, and then have to buy another one for your over the summer class :/. See if you can find out which book your potential summer class will use, and buy that one. Most math books are all the same 'quality' to me, but I'm no HUGE expert.
    I really don't think I could find out what book it would be, as there are multiple teachers and they probably use different books.

    and I'm not sure it would even be the same type of book, as one would be precalc and one would be calc, idk.

    Anyway, I just don't want to take a whole class on precalc because I think I can get the gist of it myself in less time with a book.
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    http://www.khanacademy.org/

    Study the trig and precalculus lessons and you'll be good to gogogogo!
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