Look to see if the school you are attending has a 'dummy math' course.
These are generally made to help engineering students who messed up on
the math enterance exams --- like I did years ago. The course went
over algebra, geometry and trig in one semester and kind of puts it all
together into one nice lump.

I had to take it because I was hung over on the day of the enterance
exam. All my buddies flunked first semester calculus and I was in
class with them second semester -- and aced the course. Ultimately I
wound up with a degree in math.

Check for a survey course. Algebra, Trig and Geometry all work
together form a great real world tool. Usually it's not the complex
stuff that you need -- what you really need is just enough
understanding to know where to look for the answers.

Rye



mj wrote:
I need to take a college level math course for a Bachelors degree that
I am working on. The school does not care what it is as long as it is
college level. So...what should I take that would be useful for my
little hobby machine shop? Geometry? Trigonometry? I was going to take
a Algebra class since I sort of know that already, but I thought I
would get opinions from the group first. I've never worked with
geometry or trig before (or at least that I know of), so give me an
idea what I would need them for.

BTW, my machine shop is a mini-lathe and a mini-mill. I build 1/8 scale
military models. I am working on my first one. I am hoping to get it
done in the next couple of months. I am building a fairly simple
trailer for my first model, but I want to get more detailed models as
my skills improve.

Thanks

Mike