Stage 31 · Complex Numbers

31.3.1 Addition and Subtraction: Joining Arrows Tip to Tail

31.3 The Four Operations on Complex Numbers

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31.3.1 Addition and Subtraction: Joining Arrows Tip to Tail

Core idea

Picture this: just like with vectors, add real part to real part and imaginary to imaginary; geometrically you're sliding arrows together, (a+bi)±(c+di)

Module goal. We build the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing — learning both to grind through them algebraically and to see what addition and subtraction mean geometrically
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