Talk:Precalculus

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Contents 1 Pre-calculus or precalculus? 2 Proposed link 3 Lacks global perspective 4 Topics 5 introduction to analysis?

[edit] Pre-calculus or precalculus?

The article seems inconsistent in its spelling. Is there a dash or not? 65.35.11.66 04:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed link

My students have had great success with my Precalculus course notes, particularly with the units on graphing trig functions. Would anyone be interested in posting an external link to them? http://www.kkuniyuk.com/Notes Thanks! (New user) Ken Kuniyuki 20:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Your notes have the problem of referencing Larson's text, and are somewhat course specific (i.e., to courses at Mesa College). If it was completely independent of another text and not institution-specific, I'd like it more, and would be more inclined to be in favor of a link. (Speaking aesthetically/personally, I think the site could use a smaller font, and some cleanup could be done to the layout (also note junk at bottom of page).) Cheers, Doctormatt 02:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the input! A long-term project of mine is to make my notes independent of textbook and course; in fact, the problem text in my notes is already colored blue so that readers are aware of that and so that I may more readily delete those pieces in the future. Ken Kuniyuki 04:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lacks global perspective

I'm taking it from the content that the notion of precalculus is largely a US one, given the references to honors courses and so forth (I'm certainly not aware of an equivalent label in the UK or Australian systems). That doesn't invalidate including the entry, of course, but it would be good if someone more knowledgeable on the topic could edit it to reflect this fact (or alternatively to note where in the world the term is used; I claim no particular expertise in mathematics education so I'm wary of doing so myself, though I might have a go if no-one else steps up!). Obviously, it would also be good for the list of topics to be converted into prose. Gusworld (talk) 06:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Topics

I don't think the list mentions systems of equations or limits, which are both included in many texts and courses in precalculus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.205.34.127 (talk) 13:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] introduction to analysis?

Is Introduction to Analysis really an equivalent college-level course? Where I come from, "Intro To Analysis" typically refers to upper division undergrad math courses covering the foundations of real analysis - metric spaces, delta-epsilon limit stuff, etc. Perhaps the article should be changed to reflect this. See, for example, "Introduction to Analysis" (Rosenlicht, 1985) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.149.245 (talk) 04:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I must agree with this user. Anyone disagree? Cheers, Doctormatt (talk) 18:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)