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Trigonometry (Cliffs Quick Review)

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This book is good for one thing, a Quick Review. I suppose I can't blame CliffsNotes, since that is given in the title of the book. I bought this book when I was beginning to learn Trigonometry, along with another textbook. I found that a lot of the things the textbook went over was not even mentioned in this Quick Review book. If you have taken Trigonometry in the past and want to refresh some of the basic trigonometry concepts, then this book is for you. However, if you know nothing about Trigonometry and want to learn about it, this book will do nothing but CONFUSE you.

Most people that will look into these books are people who want to learn the subject for their first time, so take my advice: instead of buying this book, save that money towards a better, complete basic trigonometry textbook.

I'm a (returning :P) university Freshman preparing for the College Board CLEP tests. I was already familiar with the material covered in this book, but needed to refresh my memory. This review turned out to be *exactly* what I needed.

The author's ability to explain the material to the student are just shy of enlightening. The discussions & theorem proofs are written in a very concise, clear style.

I'm a big advocate of the Cliff's QuickReview series. Intended as a course supplement, these books are also *GREAT* for students wanting to refine their skills. Most of them are also very accessible to students with less familiarity on the subject; trying to learn it for the first time.

After reading this, I bought the Calculus & Differential Equations QuickReviews & I'm looking forward to reading them!

Trig is something you always have to practice if you want to remain competent. When practicing basic trig problems (identities, equations, vectors, graphs, angles, cmplx.#'s....) this book gives me just enough explanation with the info I need. But like others said, you should already have some trig under your belt before purchasing it.

After several years in a corporate engineering job, I started moonlighting as a math tutor. The Cliff's Quick Review Guides are wonderful to have in my "back pocket" when I need to quickly look something up that is covered in dust in the "archives of my brain."

This book seems to be pretty nice, until you start finding all the super horrible mistakes that are thrown in ever couple of pages. They are all do the this book not being edited, and make it a hassle to read as you have to second guess everything that is written. I got about half way done and the mistakes turned me off so bad I put the book away and don't intend to read from it again. This book could have been a real nice book but the mistakes are just too horrible to look over.