Reddit reviews Algebra and Trigonometry: Functions and Applications (Prentice Hall Classics)

Go to piratebay and get The Teaching Company's course on High School Chemistry. It will explain the math that you're having trouble with in Chemistry.

Also, try the Foerster Algebra books (Prentice hall Classics Editions) from Amazon. You won't get anywhere without Algebra, and the Foerster books are very clear and good.

Algebra I

Algebra II

Start with Algebra I: Expressions, Equations, and Applications


I do a bit of tutoring on the side, and quite often I get a parent who wants me to rehash Algebra 1 with their child over the summer. They ask me to suggest a book, and this is the one I use. Specifically, I suggest it because it is written in a way that is highly suited to self study.

It has a real sense of authorship that you will not get from these committee-written, spiral learning monstrosities that get put out today. The progression of material in this book is also very logical. It has a nice sequel that I highly recommend as well.

That really depends on you, but my high school taught them as a single one-year course (if you were on the accelerated track), so doing it in a year should be possible with enough motivation on your part. It will of course be easier if you take a lighter courseload. Maybe take a study hall period and use it to work on math. (In my experience, though, study hall was a hard place to get anything done because other students just went there to screw around.)

A lot of people studying at that level use Khan Academy. It's supposed to be pretty good. Other people can probably suggest other online resources.

As for books, Algebra 2 and Precalculus are often taught out of the same book. Books that are titled "precalculus" usually include a section on limits that you might not need to cover (ask about this) because it's part of Calculus I.

You can get free textbooks here:

• https://openstax.org/details/algebra-and-trigonometry
  
• http://www.stitz-zeager.com/
  
  These are some suggested dead tree books:
  
  
• Axler, Precalculus (sorry, this used to be cheaper but it looks like the fall semester started and the students bought up all the cheap copies)
  
• Foerster, Algebra and Trigonometry
  
  Or just see if your school will let you borrow a copy of the textbook that they use.
  
  Whatever you choose to use, I suggest that you use multiple resources to get some different points of view and a wider variety of problems to work on. This is especially important since you won't be going to class.
  

I've definitely read book that used their convention, even if they've backed off from it.

arcsin(x) was a multi-valued function defined on [-1, 1] and Arcsin(x) was the restriction of that to a specific range. IIRC [-pi/2, pi/2], just like they say.

I think this was my highschool trig book. Which is holy, and whose conventions you shall not disparage. Amazon. I think I'm remembering the convention being associated with the right book.

This is pretty analogous to the (afaik quite common) convention in complex analysis for the logarithm, log being multivalued and Log being the standard branch.

Man that was a good text book. I should see if I can't find that and double check; it'd be fun to reread parts of it.