These worksheets will teach your students how to represent complex numbers on a coordinate grid.

Complex numbers are a mixture of a real number and an imaginary number. All number is just about any number you can think of. When an imaginary number is squared in will result in a negative value. How do you graph complex numbers? There are real numbers, whole numbers, fractions, integers, and then there are complex numbers. Complex numbers are a combination of a real number and an imaginary number. An imaginary number is written with 'iota.' The rule general for them is given by; a ± bi. Here a is the real part and b is the imaginary part. You can graph complex numbers on a graph, what you need to know that these numbers can be plotted on a complex plane and not on a cartesian plane. A complex plane has two axes, the vertical is the imaginary axis and the horizontal one is the real axis.

While many students will often think this is never used in real life, electrical engineers rely on complex numbers to understand electromagnetic waves. This collection of worksheets will show you how to represent complex numbers on graph. These worksheets explain how to graph complex numbers. Your students will use these activity sheets to practice converting complex numbers into points on a coordinate grid. In some cases, students will also be required to add and subtract complex numbers.



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Graphing Complex Numbers Lesson

This worksheet explains where the x-axis (real axis) with real numbers and the y-axis (imaginary axis) with imaginary numbers is located. You will be given a completely worked through problem and asked to complete two of your own problems.

Practice Worksheet

Students will represent the complex number graphically and learn to do graphic addition. You will jump through a couple of hoops with these problems, ten exercises are provided.

Practice Worksheets

Students will practice representing complex numbers and making differences and sums graphically. Ten problems are provided.

Review and Practice

Represent the value graphically: -6 + 7i. Six practice problems are provided.

Skill Quiz

Students will display how these values look by graphing them. Ten problems are provided.

Class Check

What do these values look like graphically? Three problems are provided, and space is included for students to copy the correct answer when given.