Looking for math advice

algebra and trigonometry from my buddy in college! thats his recommendation

Thanks for the response. Didn't know if it was just Algebra and Trig or if there was anything else. Again thanks

I don't know the American systems and find them utterly bizarre (the fact things are named for the things they teach being the start of all that -- everywhere else I go it is mainly just maths and everything gets woven throughout it all).

Likewise I am not sure what pre calculus would entail. y=mx+c sort of thing? That should take all of maybe 2 hours + whatever time you want to dedicate to hammering it home. I see people on the internet treating calculus as some scary subject where it really should not be. It is a method to measure the rates of change of things and as a bonus can also be used to measure the totals of said things. As rates of change can vary somewhat over the course of things you get to construct more and more elaborate models for them but it all still boils down to the same thing. With that said I am even less sure what pre algebra is... basic arithmetic? John gets 2% of the apples harvested. Write an equation for how many apples John gets; "x/50=a" where x = harvested no, a = apple number", congratulations that is algebra. John got so many apples, how many were harvested? a*50=x Oh wow you actually do get it. I get that some people don't like substituting meaningless characters as a stand in for a number and manipulating things can be tricky.

I am tempted to go look at some syllabuses now.

Anyway trigonometry is not the most useful in most computing, at least until you get to graphs and 2d and 3d graphics, however most courses I have ever read have assumed a knowledge of this sort of thing when it comes to teaching very important concepts within computing (things like recursion and iteration will usually have an exercise given along the lines of "use iteration, recursion or this external library to solve this geometry problem*") and if you are hazy on the problem itself it is not going to make your life easier. Most of said problems will be things most others around you could reasonably be expected to solve on paper/with a calculator in a minute or two but having to program it for any size inputs is a different matter.

*everybody theoretically understands it, it is easily broken down into simple values to feed into a program, checking it is correct is easily done and it is easily expanded into further fields.