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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Two Variable Function Pump

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Use a function to operate on two variables. Pupils look at operating with complex numbers as a function of two variables. The interactive squares the input and adds a constant to it. Learners visualize the resulting output and its...
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Assessment
EngageNY

Mid-Module Assessment Task - Precalculus (module 1)

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Individuals show what they know about the geometric representations of complex numbers and linearity. Seventeen questions challenge them to demonstrate their knowledge of moduli and operations with complex numbers. The assessment is the...
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Assessment
EngageNY

End-of-Module Assessment Task — Precalculus (Module 1)

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
A transformational assessment determines how far pupils are advancing toward mastering complex and matrix standards. The assessment checks the learners' understanding of linear transformations, complex numbers and the complex plane,...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Exploiting the Connection to Trigonometry 1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Class members use the powers of multiplication in the 19th installment of the 32-part unit has individuals to utilize what they know about the multiplication of complex numbers to calculate the integral powers of a complex number. Groups...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Geometric Effect of Some Complex Arithmetic 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The 10th lesson in a series of 32, continues with the geometry of arithmetic of complex numbers focusing on multiplication. Class members find the effects of multiplying a complex number by a real number, an imaginary number, and another...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Geometric Effect of Some Complex Arithmetic 1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Translating complex numbers is as simple as adding 1, 2, 3. In the ninth activity in a 32-part series, the class takes a deeper look at the geometric effect of adding and subtracting complex numbers. The resource leads pupils into what...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Exploiting the Connection to Trigonometry 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The class checks to see if the formula for finding powers of a complex number works to find the roots too.  Pupils review the previous day's work and graph on the polar grid. The discussion leads the class to think about how to reverse...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Geometric Effect of Multiplying by a Reciprocal

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Class members perform complex operations on a plane in the 17th segment in the 32-part series. Learners first verify that multiplication by the reciprocal does the same geometrically as it does algebraically. The class then circles back...
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Lesson Plan
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Teach Engineering

Archimedes' Principle, Pascal's Law and Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do Pascal's law, Archimedes' Principle, and Bernoulli's Principle have to do with fluid mechanics? The included PowerPoint presentation provides the basic definitions and equations associated with the three. A set of homework...
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Worksheet
Kuta Software

Simplifying Radicals/Imaginary Numbers

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Looking for straightforward practice on simplifying radicals and imaginary numbers? Here are 20 problems to practice these skills and an answer key for the odd-numbered questions. 
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Project Maths

Complex Number Operations

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What do animated videos have to do with mathematics? Using operations of complex numbers and their representations on the complex plane, high schoolers observe how mathematics could be used to move animations. The lesson provides an...
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Unit Plan
EngageNY

Complex Numbers and Transformations

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Your learners combine their knowledge of real and imaginary numbers and matrices in an activity containing thirty lessons, two assessments (mid-module and end module), and their corresponding rubrics. Centered on complex numbers and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Powers and Roots of Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore a few powers of complex numbers numerically and decide if there is a pattern and use parametric equations to represent a complex number graphically. Use De Moivre's theorem to represent the roots of the complex number...
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Complex Numbers: Plotting and Polar Form

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the concept of, and use the Ti-Nspire to, convert complex numbers into polar form. Then practice graphing complex numbers in the polar coordinate plane.
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Curated OER

Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The class practices, on paper and/or on a TI graphing calculator the concepts of how to add, multiply, divide and subtract complex numbers using the correct property.
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Worksheet
Kuta Software

Properties of Complex Numbers

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
In this learning exercise, students evaluate complex (signed and imaginary) numbers.  In addition, they are asked to graph complex numbers as well as identify a complex number on a presented graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Steady-State Circuit Analysis & Filter Design

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Scholars identify how the TI-89 implements phasors to perform sinusoidal steady-state analysis. The focus is on how to enter and display complex numbers. They also show how a typical steady-state application how to use the Numeric Solver...
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Activity
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Saskatchewan's Department of Mathematics and Statistics provides high school students with an online tutorial on complex numbers. Students can access accompanying examples within the tutorial. After you can also test...
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Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this tutorial to learn what imaginary and complex numbers are, how to write them, and how to perform operations with them. Offers step-by-step examples, video explanations of the examples, and practice questions with answers.
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Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Absolute Value of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial presents the absolute value of complex numbers using formulas, graphs, and examples. There are practice problems and a teacher resource page to assist students in understanding the concept.
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of material to help you plan classroom instruction on complex numbers: several lessons that cover the number i, square roots of negative numbers, and operations involving complex numbers; practice activities, some of which...
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Handout
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Preliminaries: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math tutorial features notes and examples that illustrate complex numbers including standard form, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing them.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Complex Numbers: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website provides an in-depth lesson on complex numbers. You learn about simplifying, adding, and multiplying complex numbers by viewing example problems that are worked through step-by-step. Continue on to pages 2 and 3 which...
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Axonometry: Applying Complex Numbers to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Axonometry is an illumination that has students discover relationships between complex numbers and graphing. Students make connections between algebraic and graphical representations of a complex number.