MATH 1300 Precalculus
Contact Information and Resources for Instructors
- Contact the coordinator: Erik Boczko
Outcomes, GNU Public License Textbooks and other Written Resources
- Precalculus text by Stitz and Zeager
- Precalculus textbook by Collingwood, Prince and Conroy
- OpenStax Precalculus textbook
- The Wiki Math Page: Wikipedia
- An Excellent Wiki-Like Math Resource: The Math Page
Learning Resources
- Academic Achievement Center
- Geogebra
- Wolfram Alpha
- An excellent resource for video tutorials: College Algebra Video Series
- Yet another resource for video tutorials: Khan Academy
Video Tutorials Customized for Math 1300 FAQS
- Tutorial on Fractions: Godzilla ate my Integers and spit out a fraction.
- Tutorial covering Interval Notation: What's with all the bracket?
- Tutorial covering Coordinates and the Distance Formula: There is nothing funny about coordinates.
- Tutorial on the Absolute Value function: It's what happens when a line goes two pieces.
- Tutorial on how to Add or Combine Absolute Value functions: Double your fun!
- Tutorial on how to Complete the Square: If Jerry McGuire can do it, so can you.
- Tutorial for Synthetic Division: It's legal in most states.
- Tutorial on the Rational Roots Theorem for Factoring Polynomials with Integer or Rational Coefficients
- How to Calculate the Cauchy Bound on the Roots of a Polynomial
- Tutorial on Graphing the Composition of two Functions: Composition is the Turducken of functions.
- Tutorial on How to use the Intermediate Value Theorem
- Tutorial on how to Solve Inequalities: Hire a Lawyer.
Interactive Figures Arranged by Chapter
Interactive Figures to Help you Explore Precalculus Concepts, Organized by Chapter in Stitz and Zeager
Chapter 1
- Interval Notation
- The Distance Formula
- Cartesian Coordinates
- Standard Form of a Circle
- Examples of Functions and Graphing
- Horizontal and Vertical Line Tests
- Identification of Functions and their Transformations Graphically
- Explloring Transformation of Functions
- Composition of Functions
Chapter 2
- Lines function Quiz
- Lines and Slope
- Points, Lines and Slope
- Lines, Slope and Fractions
- Linear Inequalities
- Equations with Absolute Value
- Solving Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
- Completeting the Square
- Transformations of a Quadratic Polynomial
- How the Coefficients of a Quadratic are Related to its Graph
Chapter 3
- Polynomial Shape and Coefficients
- Zero's (Roots) of Polynomials
- End Behavior of Polynomials
- Polynomial Long Division
- Synthetic Division
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
- Trigonometry of the Unit Circle
- The Graphs of the Basic six Trigonometric Functions
- Transformations of Sine and Cosine
- Cofunction Identities
- Visualizing The Angle Addition Formula's
- Angle Addition Formula for Sin(x+y)
- Angle difference Formula for Cos(x-y)
- Double Angle Formula's