Thursday, May 2, 2013

Extra Credit Math Mistakes: Adding and Subtracting Complex Numbers


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What did the student do wrong?

  • I believe the student complicated the problem more than what he was supposed to do. I think what he did was to take each number and distribute the negative (only to the second side) and subtract that to the first numbers, but individually.
What should have the student done?
  • The student should had just viewed as a regular subtraction equation and solved the it (as depicted in the picture)

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