Precalculus Course Outline
Larson, Ron and Robert Hostetler, Precalculus, 5th Edition, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN: 0-618-05285-2.
Note: this is the 5th edition.
| Unit 1A | Chapter P | Expressions, Linear Equations and Inequalities, Coordinate System |
| Unit 1B | Sections P.5, 1.1, 1.2, 2.4 | Graphs, Graphing Calculator, Lines, Quadratic Equations, Complex Numbers |
| Unit 2 | Chapter 1 | Functions: Graphs, Transformations, and Inverses |
| Unit 3 | Chapter 3 | Exponential and Logarithmic Functions |
| Unit 4 | Chapter 4.1–4.4 | Coordinate Trigonometry |
| Unit 5 | Chapter 4.5–4.8 | Graphs of Trigonometric Functions |
| Unit 6A | Chapter 5 | Analytic Trigonometry |
| Unit 6B | Chapter 6 | Additional Topics in Trigonometry |
| Unit 7A | Chapter 7 | Systems of Equations and Inequalities |
| Unit 7B | Chapter 8 | Matrices and Determinants |
| Unit 8A | Chapter 2 | Polynomial and Rational Functions |
| Unit 8B | Additional topics | Limits and Elementary Calculus |
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| Unit 9 | Chapter 9 | Sequences, Series, and Probability |
| Unit 10 | Chapter 10 | Topics in Analytic Geometry |