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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is it any wonder that students 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 the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Roots of Negative Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rewrite square roots of negative numbers as imaginary numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Complejos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this unit you can practice interactively the concept of complex numbers in binomial and polar forms.
Handout
Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: What Is a Number?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Casual and clear but definitely upper-level discussion of rational, real, imaginary, and several other types of numbers. Links to related sites.
Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Number Systems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of Real Numbers. Other number systems are also defined such as: Natural, Integer, Rational, Irrational and Complex Numbers.
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Math Aids

Math Aids: Algebra 2 Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to Algebra 2. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
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New York Times

New York Times: Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math Series the New York Times

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] On this site, Cornell University mathematics professor, Steven Strogatz, shares his 15-part series of columns on the elements of math. He investigates topics ranging from negative numbers to subtraction...
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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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Find Imaginary Solutions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students are finding complex roots of polynomials and applications of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Students examine guided notes, review...
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Numeros Complejos

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice how to represent complex numbers graphically, operations with complex numbers and geometric transformations.
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University of Utah

University of Utah: The Number System

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The University of Utah provides a definition of commonly used numbers including rational numbers, natural numbers, integers, real and complex numbers and more.
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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."
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Writing Expressions Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice writing slightly more complex algebraic expressions to model real-world situations. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Order of Operations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] By the end of the lesson, students will apply the order of operations (PEMDAS) to help simplify complex expressions. Students will work together as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Properties of Logarithms

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use properties of logarithms to rewrite and expand/condense. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Powers of the Imaginary Unit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Simplify expressions with base i (the imaginary unit) raised to a positive exponent. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.