What Is Pre-Calculus?
Pre-calculus can mean a few different things, depending on where it is studied. Typically though pre-calculus is a study of all the skills required to do differential, integral, vector, and advanced calculus. Pre-calculus is usually studied in high school, but many university courses go through the material as review. There are two major chapters to pre-calculus studies; Function and Limits; The functions chapter covers all of the essential function properties from previous algebra courses. Functions can be represented in many different ways, this includes verbally, visually, algebraically, and numerically. In calculus we typically express them algebraically or numerically. The formal definition of a function says that ‘a function assigns each element in set 1 to an element in set 2’. This basically means that one variable in a function cannot be mapped to more than one values. In pre calculus the major functions we examine are; Linear, polynomials, power, exponential, logarithmic, and
