[nabs-l] Scheduling

[Katie Wang]

Hi Lillie,

I agree with Suzanne - It really depends on what you would like to
major in college. Trig is a pre-requisite for the first year of
college-level calculus, which is required by almost all math and
science-related majors. Overall, I found math courses to be much more
accessible in high school than in college given the availaibility of
braille materials, so I would actually suggest for you to take trig
now if you are at all interested in a science-related field, including
biology. I also suspect that prestigious universities expect potential
applicants to have taken trig/pre-calc in high school - Almost all of
my friends in college, even those who majored in humanities, came in
having taken this course. Just my two cents!

Katie

On 2/28/14, Suzanne Germano <sgermano at asu.edu> wrote:
> It depends on what career you want if you want anything that will require
> even one semester of Calculus then you need those classes and you do not
> want to waste time taking them in college.
>
> If you want to do anything with engineering or computer science you will
> need 3 semesters of college calculus, biology requires calculus for life
> sciences.
>
> So the answer really depends on your career goals.
>
> Suzanne
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:18 PM, justin williams
> <justin.williams2 at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> No, you re not.  I have not used trigonometry in my lafe at all, and have
>> not done so even in grad school.  I don't even no what it is.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lillie
>> Pennington
>> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 3:16 PM
>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Scheduling
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone
>> I am scheduling classes for next year. I am in algebra 2 now. The powers
>> that be want us to take precalc or trig, which is just essentially a
>> watered
>> down version of precalc. I have extremely no desire to take either of
>> these
>> courses, and want to take ap stats instead. I have the prerequisites for
>> this class. I asked my math teacher if I could do this and she said
>> technically I could she did not recomend it. My parents are okay with my
>> decision. I filled out a form overriding her recomendation and although
>> she
>> signed it, she told me that there would be trig in stats and I would need
>> it
>> later in life. I am wondering if anyone who who has taken stats knows if
>> I
>> am missing anything catostrophic by not taking trig? Thanks
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