which class is harder?

Question

is trig/pre-cal more difficult thn statistics. or is statistics easier. and why? winner gets best answer

Answer 1

Having taken both, one in highschool and the other in college, I'd have to say it's more a frame of mind than which course is harder. I remember in my senior year in highschool, in a school highly placed nationally for decades in academics, we who got into the trig/pre-cal class felt we were a part of an "elite", if you will, and therefore we were "up" for challenge. Maybe we were a bit snobby, but it helped keep our energies up to do the work, and we loved it. When I went to college, graduate school in particular, which is where we took some really good research and statistics courses, a lot of students whined and moaned and groaned about how tough it was and how they didn't see how it fit too well within the coursework for our graduate degree, and so we all developed a negative, whiney attitude about it, and a whole lot of us had a very hard time with it. But, let me advise you, years after having taken the coursework in research and statistics, that it is no harder, or easier, than trig/pre-cal, whether in highschool or college. It was our attitude that made it so dang hard. And I can't begin to tell you how many times, once I got out into the professional world, that research and statistics information that I gleaned from my college graduate work has come up, and as I got to put "my two cents worth" in the discussion, and drew on my statistics and research knowledge, I was truly amazed at how easy it was to fully understand years later when I was out of college. It was all in the attitude of the students taking the course, and when I got out in the professional world, some people were very impressed with my grasp of the knowledge, and I'm not even a nerd! Or, I don't think I am anyways. Don't let the attitude get ya. They both make incredibly easy sense, and work wonders out in the "real world", so go after it, and people will be admiring you too. And you won't have to be a nerd either. lololol. God Bless you.

Answer 2

It depends at what level the Statistics is being taught. A lot of Statistics requires Calculus, but not the type of statistics typically taken by undergraduates in non math-science fields, high school students, or community college students.

I would recommend you take trig/pre-calc, not because it's necessarily easier than Statistics (they're considerably "different" and some people are better than one or the other, as they kind of use different types of thinking), but if you don't take trig/pre-calc, you'll start to forget the Algebra II (also known as College Algebra in community colleges) background for it, and it's possible that it will become much harder if you have to take it later (which I imagine it will).

Generally it's best to take math up to Calculus without "break years" so you don't forget all the foundation, whereas you can take elementary statistics pretty much anytime after you've done Algebra II/College Algebra. I personally took my first Statistics class in the same year I took my first Calculus class, but I'm sure I could have managed it before taking trig/pre-calc, the main idea is that I didn't take a break from Algebra/Trig/Calculus, which are all very inter-related at the high school/lower division levels.

Answer 3

I've never heard of anybody taking Statistics before trig/pre-cal, It's normally taken after a year or two of Calculus. Trig/Precal is loads easier.

Answer 4

Well, you seem to know the answer already. The way you phrased your question gives me the impression that Trig/pre-cal is harder. Especially since stats is easier.

Good luck with either, or both.

Answer 5

Personally Trig/ cal CAME ALOT easier than Statistics.. I dont know if its just me.. im only 16.. yeah.. mini genius...
but Truly Cal came alot easier to me.

Answer 6

It depends on the level of statistics that you are taking, because you will need some calculus concepts,
But i would say statistics is easier, as it is a bunch of formulas you memorize and apply.

Answer 7

the only math you use in stats is basic algebra
So if you have taken your algebra then stats would be easier.
If not then trig and pre calc.
I dont know what order you have taken your math courses.
Because where i went to school we took an integrated math every year, which included trig, geo, alg and then we lastly took pre calc and calc.
If its a basic stats course, i dont think it could be nearly as hard as precalc is.

Answer 8

I took statistics, got an A. Dunno whatthehell pre cal might look like, but I did once see a blackboard full of BS in a calc class.