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Alabama Learning Exchange

Classifying Complex Numbers

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Imaginary numbers are a real thing. Scholars learn about complex numbers, real numbers, and imaginary numbers. They classify given numbers as strictly complex, strictly real, or strictly imaginary in an individual or group activity.
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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
EngageNY

An Appearance of Complex Numbers 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Help the class visualize operations with complex numbers with a lesson that formally introduces complex numbers and reviews the visualization of complex numbers on the complex plane. The fifth installment of a 32-part series reviews the...
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PPT
University of Texas

Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are complex numbers and binomials similar? This stack of slides provides an introduction to complex numbers and shows how to operate with them. The worked examples show a connection between operating with binomials and operating with...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

An Appearance of Complex Numbers 1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Complex solutions are not always simple to find. In the fourth lesson of the unit, the class extends their understanding of complex numbers in order to solve and check the solutions to a rational equation presented in the first lesson....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Computations with Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This quick set of problems provides a brief refresher on the arithmetic of complex numbers. Learners need to multiply, add and subtract, and remember features of i when raised to a power. Included solutions are clear enough that learners...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Don't worry, this resource actually exists. Scholars learn about imaginary numbers and work on problems simplifying square roots of negative numbers. As an extension, they research the history of imaginary numbers.
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Lesson Plan
Ohio Department of Education

The Solution is Complex

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Consider complex numbers, roots, and quadratic equations. Use the discriminate as a way to determine the nature of a quadratic's roots. Then discuss the similarities and differences between quadratics with two, one, or no real roots....
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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
Alabama Learning Exchange

As If Numbers Weren't Complex Enough Already!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The class explores the concept of complex numbers on a website to generate their own Mandelbrot sets. They will practice performing operations with complex numbers and then to get a visual understanding, graph the absolute value of a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Complex Numbers

For Students 10th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve complex numbers using multiplication and division properties. There are 10 questions with an answer key.
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Unit Plan
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Mathematics Vision Project

Quadratic Equations

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Through a variety of physical and theoretical situations, learners are led through the development of some of the deepest concepts in high school mathematics. Complex numbers, the fundamental theorem of algebra and rational exponents...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Complex Numbers Solutions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Complex doesn't have to mean harder! Learners experiment with online software to determine the quadratic equations with complex solutions. They use the quadratic formula to solve equations with both real and complex solutions.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Complex Numbers as Solutions to Equations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Quadratic solutions come in all shapes and sizes, so help your classes find the right one! Learners use the quadratic formula to find solutions for quadratic equations. Solutions vary from one, two, and complex. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Solutions to Polynomial Equations

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Take a step back to Algebra II. The first instructional activity in a series of 23 asks scholars to remember working with quadratic equations with complex solutions. Pupils apply polynomial identities to complex numbers and work examples...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this algebra worksheet, students solve 16 problems involving imaginary numbers. In the first three, students find the square root of 3 negative numbers in terms of i. Nine problems involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and...
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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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Worksheet
Kuta Software

Imaginary Numbers

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a worksheet that takes all aspects of quadratic functions and incorporates imaginary numbers into the problems. The problems range from simplifying to graphing and solving by using a variety of methods with imaginary and complex...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Twenty Equations Involving Imaginary and Complex Numbers

For Students 10th - 12th
In this complex numbers activity, students solve twenty equations involving imaginary and complex numbers.  Four of these problems involve two variables.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Imaginary and complex Numbers

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders simplify expression involving imaginary and complex numbers and determine the quadratic equation that would have the given complex roots.  The on page worksheet contains thirty-four problems. ...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sixty-Eight Solving Equations and Performing Operations With Complex Numbers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this complex numbers worksheet, students classify numbers, perform operations on complex numbers, and find complex solutions to equations, in sixty-eight problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Complex numbers in polar form

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students plot complex numbers in the polar plane. They are asked to list what they believe are the five most famous numbers in mathematics. Students are explained that generally accepted that the five most famous numbers in mathematics...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Algebra II Test covering Radicals, Complex Numbers, and Finding Roots of Quadratics

For Students 10th - 12th
In this algebra two worksheet, students solve twenty-five problems in test format.  The worksheet covers radicals, complex numbers, and finding roots of quadratics.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Math 321 Spring 98. Complex Numbers

For Students Higher Ed
In this complex numbers instructional activity, students find the solutions to polynomials and write them in rectangular and exponential form. This two-page instructional activity contains two problems.