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Re: Just what is equality in mathematics, anyway?
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Apr 17, 2012 10:52 AM
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>My point at the beginning of all this was that when complex numbers are introduced to high school students they don't (and can't) fathom that C is a field, let alone an extension of the R field.
They don't need to be introduced to all the AA lingo - just the operations and identities and work some problems. And I certainly wasn't think "all algebra students". I was think more like "Honors Trig." or "Precalc" or whatever the local instantiation may be. My son attends a decent H.S. where the kids are sometimes well equipped by 10th grade for something like real complex numbers.
Joe N
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