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= **What's new...Tuesday, May 26th** =

Please look over the Final Exam page of this web site. It contains information regarding the time and location of your final exam. Also, there is information about the scope of the exam.
 * Special note to seniors:**

As we move through the latter portion of Chapter 7 we will be using many of the skills developed in Algebra II. You would be well advised to try proving for yourself some of the basic identities as well as the double-angle and half-angle identities. If you cannot manage that, you should at least memorize them (Flash cards are good for this!). These identities will be incredibly useful at the end of the chapter as well as in any Calculus course you take.
 * To everyone else:**

-Mr. H

Note to new visitors: See my welcome letter below.

**Class Calendar**
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=Welcome to Mr. Horton's PreCalculus Honors wiki!=

This wiki is intended primarily for the use of my PreCalculus Honors students, though others are welcome to join. Here you will find all sorts of information about our class as well as resources (both internal and external) that might help you better learn the plethora of topics we will explore in PreCalculus Honors. For an overview of the course, download and look through the syllabus posted below.

There are a few things you should note.
 * 1) **My wiki, my rules.** As the organizer of the wiki, I have awesome powers. Among these is the power to banish those miscreants who misuse or abuse the wiki. Abide by the appropriate use rules of WRHS and you should be okay.
 * 2) **Use the Discussions freely**, but please //**do not edit the content of the various chapter pages**//. See Item 5 below.
 * 3) **Before you create a new thread** in one of the Discussion forums, check out those that are already present and see if your question or comment belongs there.
 * 4) **Discussions will not last forever.** As a discussion winds down (who wants to read about Homework 1.1 in December?) I will likely do some pruning so the wiki doesn't go over the storage budget.
 * 5) **New material is good.** I am always looking for new resources for my students. If you find a particularly nifty web site or web app about matrix inversion, or synthetic division, or trigonometric identities, or a cool program for the TI-83/84, or a clever way of determining the zeros of a sixth-order polynomial, or...you get the idea..., I want to hear about it. If it advances our goals of learning math, I'll post it in the wiki.


 * The Discussion feature can be perhaps the most useful feature of this wiki.** You students are welcome to weigh in on homework assignments, computer-aided algebra tools like GeoGebra, quiz and test prep, SAT prep, or anything that bears on the topics of PreCalculus. Got a question about a Chapter Five homework problem? Go post it in the Chapter Five discussion forum; someone might have an answer for you. Or maybe YOU have an answer to someone else's question. Let's turn our on-line forums into the "go-to" place for answers.

Have at it!

Jerry Horton Mathematics Teacher Wachusett Regional High School jerry_horton@wrsd.net