ALEKS Precalc before Algebra?

[cookderosa]

Thanks Cookderosa, I think you are right! On her ACT, she got all the difficult questions, but the ones she missed were the easier ones towards the beginning she hadn't worked with for years. Glad to find that last year on a test we used as a baseline!

I not so fondly remember the heated discussions my brother ( who did Trig in 7th grade, now an engineer) and I had when my parents made him explain to me how to solve for X. "How could you possibly solve for something nobody knows.?" I'd retort. I told him it was like telling me he was right, never really being able to prove it, (since it was an unknown) just because he was older didn't make him right! He could have been a more patient teacher.

As I was not born with the math gene, luckily my husband was. But who really takes Calc in college as an elective? I tell him all the time that he should have disclosed that tidbit to me before I said yes-as it may have influenced my decision!

Daughter does have to do college Pre Calc for her nursing program. I suspect it is used as a weeding out class. Also, her dual enrolled Physics II and Organic Chemistry next year both have Calculus as either Pre-reqs or co-requisites. The same dual enrolled calculus she's getting ready for for this year. She elected to do Anatomy and Physiology this year while she beefs up her math.

Are you sure she can get into A&P without biology? You should check. Also, is she aiming higher than RN? Those sciences are in the pre-med sequence, not nursing. Just curious.

Is there any harm in bumping over to ALEKS Pre Calc and brushing up and getting 70+% then going to do College Algebra? How will most schools allow for transfer "out of order" ? It seems the account will only allow her to do one at a time. She will be doing the College Math CLEP next week.

She may not get any credit for ALEKS since they are not currently ACE-evaluated. That doesn't mean they won't be, but as of now they are not (which means COSC won't accept them). That said, COSC will accept math out of order.