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>:       Greetings to all,
>
>I am teaching at a new math & science magnet school in San Antonio,
>Texas.  We currently have 9th & 10th grades.  Each year we will add an
>additional grade level.  I am finalizing curriculumn offerings for next
>year.  We have the students for 90 min blocks and they attend half day
>sessions for math and science.  I would like to offer a combined
>pre-calculus and physics course.  I first heard of such a class at an AAPT
>conference during the fall of '93.  I am fishing for ideas on which
>textbooks work well together and for someone to provide an inservice for
>the math and science teachers at our academy.  Respond to the list or to
>my e_mail or school address.
>
>
Andrew,  I am using 'Contemporary Precalculus through applications' from
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.  The book deals with
basic functions, polynomials, exponential and logarithmic functions,
trignometry, and matrices, as well as two chapters on data analysis and one
on modeling.  Every chapter has applications that would be appropriate for
a physics/precal integrated approach.
John Van Ackeren
Port Townsend High School
johnva@olympus.net