If you're heading for high school, you may be curious to know whether you're really ready for high school-level work, or if you've absorbed all the information your new teachers will expect you to know. These pages will help you identify the things you're expected to know when you start high school.
Some students are caught off guard when it comes to math requirements in high school. Most schools require three or four years of math, which means students should be prepared for algebra (not pre-algebra) when they start high school.
Do yourself a favor and purchase a used pre-algebra book and practice, practice, practice in the summer before you start high school. Know how to use a graphing calculator, know how to interpret a graph, and know how to calculate interest.
Terms to Know
- absolute value
- cosine
- exponents
- integers
- order of operations
- powers
- rational numbers
- roots
- sine
- square root
- variables
