Saturday, April 27, 2013

Extra Credit Math Mistake (Adding Complex Numbers)


http://mathmistakes.org/?p=261

What did they do wrong?

  • The student student seemed to only add together the ones in in parenthesis first  and then added then added them resulting in 14i.
What they should have done instead?
  • The student should have instead seen this as any regular adding equation, with the exception of the presence of a complex number. 
  • If he should have seen this as a regular addition equation then the numbers would have canceled and it should have only been 14. 

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