Introduction -- Set it up, solve it, graph it. Pre-pre-calculus ; Playing with real numbers ; The building blocks of pre-calc: functions ; Digging out and using roots to graph polynomial functions ; Exponential and logarithmic functions -- The essentials of trigonometry. Circling in on angles ; Simplifying the graphing and transformation of trig functions ; Identifying with trig identities: the basics ; Advanced identities: your keys to pre-calc success ; Taking charge of oblique triangles with the laws of sines and cosines -- Analytic geometry and system solving. Plane thinking: complex numbers and polar coordinates ; Slicing cones or measuring the path of a comet with confidence ; Streamlining systems, managing variables ; Sequences, series, and expanding binomials for the real world ; Scouting the road ahead to calculus -- The part of tens. Ten habits to develop as you prepare for calculus ; Ten habits to quit before calculus -- Index.
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