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Hard PreCalculus Problems
My AP PreCalc students are ready to tackle problems a bit harder than the usual fare in textbooks and AP Calc practice books. Are there any books, materials, or websites which have harder PreCalc ...
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Sources on inequity in precalculus sequence
I'm trying to put together some thoughts on the importance of a strong college precalculus sequence (mainly I'm thinking College Algebra, where much of my experience is) for addressing socioeconomic ...
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Is Trigonometry done differently in the US?
I'm Italian and I've watched some videos from Americans and noticed a weird thing. Let's talk about a linear trigonometric equation like this:
$$\sin x+\cos x+\sqrt3=0.$$
I've seen Americans solving ...
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Matriculation exams like in Europe
I just looked at matriculation exams from Finland. They have both basic and advanced level exams. Most US high school seniors could not pass the basic exam. If each US state were to create its own ...
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When are students taught implicit and parametric representations of curves?
Do students learn implicit equations (such as $x^2+y^2-r^2 = 0$)
and parametric equations (e.g., $x=a t^2,\;y= 2 a t$)
in a first course in algebra,
which in the US would be early high school, maybe ...
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