Dougherty Valley High School Reviews
10550 Albion Road, San Ramon, California 94582, United States
Take notes! You will need those notes to study for the tests! Do your homework, it will count for your grade. Find good partners to work with, as your group quiz grade might depend on them. Make sure to ask questions! She will help you.
As far as Precalculus/Trig goes, you will mainly have to take charge of your learning. The lectures are mainly in the form of a packet for each unit and you go over the packet in class which has practice problems, warmups, and even some text for you to learn the material. You can always ask him for help, he even goes above and beyond to having Access sessions just for Precalc review. I would recommend you to utilize these sessions. Low memorization in the class and if you have a strong Algebra 2 foundation, you will be fine in this class. You will even be fine if you did not take Algebra 2 because the class goes slower then Pre Calc/Trig Honors and there is less content to review. Make sure to review the packet everytime before a test, because the questions come from the packet. Webassigns are graded on completion as long as you get 75% or above on them. Homework/Classwork is a really small portion of the class. Quizzes are "okay" and they mainly cover three sections of the unit. I think there are unit tests typically every month. You go from Precalculus Algebra 1st semester then Trigonometry 2nd the semester. Pop quizzes happen often, but they are somewhat based off of the packet. Tests are good too, and I think they are straightforward too. Consider building good habits in this class in order to do well in Calc or AP Calc or even AP Stats. If you want to take AP Calc, challenge yourself with a time limit and harder problems.