Improve Your Grade
A good PreCalculus quiz performance has been shown to correlate with a good grade in Calculus and good grades in Calculus correlate with good grades at Rensselaer.You will have a chance to improve your score on the Precalculus quiz on September 14th or 15th. Now is your opportunity to learhn how to do all the problems that you missed on the first attempt.
The good folks from the Advising and Learning Assistance Center that brought you the Sunday review session stand ready, willing and able to help:
PreCalculus Review Workshop Schedule
Please stop by this week and let us help you start the semester off right to get on a path to a better grade point average.Ready... Set... Calculus
"Ready.. Set.. Calculus" is a book that has been designed to help guide incoming Science and Engineering majors in assessing and practicing their "initial" mathematical skills. The problems involve arithmetic, algebra, inequalities, trigonometry, logarithms, exponentials and graph recognition and do not require the use of a calculator. The book has problems, examples and links to web pages with further help.
Click here for "Ready... Set... Calculus"
Precalculus Quiz
This Fall semester, there will be a quiz on precalculus on the first or second day of the Calculus I and Calculus II classes for Science and Engineering majors. A copy of the quiz given in the Fall 2008 semester is linked below, note that calculators are NOT allowed on the quiz. Please keep in mind that the quiz questions may change considerably and make certain to study all of the problems in "Ready... Set... Calculus".
Click here for the "Precalculus Quiz Sample"
PreCalculus Review Power Point Slides from Sunday, August 30th
Last Minute Study Tips The Precalculus sample quiz it refers to is linked above...
The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems is recommended for detailed solutions of PreCalculus and Calculus problems.
Some of the inks above are in PDF format. Visit this site to download a PDF reader.