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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Complex Numbers

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers the powers of i, and adding and subtracting complex numbers, as well as how to plot them in the complex plane. Students examine guided notes,...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A collection of resources that explain complex numbers and how to do arithmetic with them.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Polar Form of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Using vectors as a starting point, this site demonstrates how complex numbers can be written in polar form. Several examples are included that require you to write complex numbers in polar and rectangular form and also represent them...
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Handout
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Complex Numbers: Basic Definitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After reviewing the process of solving quadratic and cubic equations, a definition of an imaginary number is given. Also included is a demonstration of simplifying powers of the imaginary number and writing complex numbers. Examples are...
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Basic Operations With Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Add, subtract, multiply and divide complex numbers using these easy-to-follow examples.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is it any wonder that young scholars are suspicious? We lead, sometimes drag, them through Algebra I insisting they must follow the order of operations. We make them learn the "hard way" of doing an assignment one day only to show them...
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Unit Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Complex Distance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This problem is intended to reinforce the geometric interpretation of distance between complex numbers and midpoints as modulus of the difference and average respectively.
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore complex numbers with this easy reference guide. Learn that complex numbers lie on a two-dimensional flat plane and have two components called the real and imaginary parts. Provides definitions and interactive activities that...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Precalculus Concepts 2.0

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Classify Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Classify numbers as real, pure imaginary, or complex.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Parts of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine the real and the imaginary parts of complex numbers.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Add & Subtract Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice addition and subtraction with complex numbers.
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Lesson Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Imaginary Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, you will learn about complex numbers and imaginary numbers. Included are solved examples and interactive questions for review.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 1.5 From Quadratics to Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section introduces imaginary and complex numbers in the context of solutions to quadratic equations that don't have real-number solutions.
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan: Lesson 16: Part 2 Coordinate Geometry; Trigo and Radians; Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
2 OF 2 FOR ADDITIONAL TOPICS IN MATH. Students will use the coordinate plane and equations of lines and circles to describe figures; create the equation of a circle given the figure or use the structure of a given equation to determine a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Angle of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a complex number of the form a+bi, find its angle.
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Math Notes and Math Tests

Pre Calculus Notes: Complex Numbers [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The resource discusses complex numbers. Topics examined are the complex plane, complex conjugates, dividing complex numbers, and complex zeros of functions.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: De Moivre's Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
This MathWorld page states de Moivre's Identity.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

How Can One Show That Imaginary Numbers Really Do Exist?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Contains a brief summary about the theory of imaginary numbers.
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Handout
Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to viewing the complex plane in terms of polar coordinates. Assumes knowledge of the conversion formulas. Includes several examples and pictures.
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Windstream

Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Powers of Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to DeMoivre's Theorem for quickly finding the powers of complex numbers. Assumes knowledge of polar form of complex numbers. Includes several examples and pictures.
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Activity
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."
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Activity
Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Algebra Cheat Sheet [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
An algebra "cheat sheet" to use as a reference when completing algebra homework. Lists basic facts, properties, operations, formulas, and functions, as well as common errors.