Stepping up my math education

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Okay, so I've completed what constitutes a ''normal'' 11th grade American math class, Algebra II is what it was called. In my school, the next step is Advanced Algebra/Trigonometry, and I wanted to know if there are any online, free resources that I can use to get a good education on that subject. Or should I just go up to the one who teaches that in my school and ask her to tutor me through the textbook, despite me not being in the class and she having no reason to teach me an entire year's curriculum?

I have my reasons for wanting to advance my mathematics education speedily. May or may not include a lovely female. In any case, is there anywhere online where I can get this curriculum and run through it?

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Learn baby, learn!

I used www.math.com when I had to brush up on my math recently. They're good with laying things out step by step which is how I require my math education.

Thank you very much, TM! That may help a lot. I'm checking it out now.

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try out kahn academy

Khana Academcy (or however it's spelled) is very nice. Five minute youtube refreshers on pretty much everything, so it's nice. I personally use Wolfram MathWorld, but only because I like it's comprehensive yet concise nature--which might be a little too comprehensive for what you're doing (in the sense the second half of any given article is pretty much non-applicable). Still, it's worth mentioning, since it *can* be a very useful source.

Other than that, be prepared that this is not a class that sinks in quickly, and really, it wasn't until I took calculus I understood where precalculus (my rough analog to your class) was headed. Chiefly, going in, be familiar with logarithms/exponents, power/roots, and at least a geometric grasp over trig identities (trig is the least importance since most of it will be learned in this class). That's probably the best thing you can do to prepare, since aside from new concepts, that's more or less the heart of the course: learning the ins and outs of functions using algebra.