Welcome to Our Precalculus Homeschool Math Course

Course Sample for Our Precalculus Homeschool Math Course

Introduction:

This course mainly follows the topics of College Algebra by Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager, which is available on the precalculus lesson plan page. Don’t be intimidated by the lengthy words in this textbook. Here are some suggestions for working through the book:

1. Read through the concept and proceed to the examples even you don’t grasp it 100%. The authors always provide a detailed example for each new concept. As you follow through the explanation in the example, you might want to get a pencil and do the math yourself. You should get a better picture or understanding than you did from the first reading.
2. After you work through the examples, go back and read the previous concept paragraphs again. This is to enhance your understanding. You might still need to refer back to the examples as you read it.
3. Complete the examples without looking at the steps in the book to see if you are truly understanding the concepts. (You can skip this step if you are being asked to prove equations or theorems).

I’m hoping this guideline will help you to discover the “gold nuggets” in the book. In fact, you might find it interesting as the authors can be quite witty.

Occasionally, I have used some notes from Precalculus published by OpenStax College or added some of my own notes which, I hope, will help you to have a better understanding of the concept.

Each day’s lesson will take approximately one hour. The chapter review exercises will take more time than the daily lesson, and the final test will probably take around three hours—the questions within these have been pulled from Precalculus. The solutions are provided in a separate download. The optional exercises in some of the daily lessons are mostly self-exploration or brainstorming kind of questions. So, answers are not provided for all of them. I’d encourage you to correct all your mistakes in the exercises before you proceed to the next lesson.

You need a graphing calculator for this course. However, the textbook does not provide instruction on how to use it for the exercises. Instructions are easily accessible on the Internet. (Exercise caution when searching the Internet.)

To view a full sample of this course, click here.