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Home Concept Builders Light Waves and Colors If This, Then That: Color Subtraction

If This, Then That: Color Subtraction

The If This ... Then That: Color Concept Builder consists of 27 questions organized into 12 different Question Groups and spread across three different Difficulty Levels. Each question challenges learners to use the principles of color addition and color subtraction in order to analyze two situations involving incident light shining on a shirt. The appearance of the shirt under each set of incident light is provided. The two situations are sufficient in determining how the shirt interacts with red, green, and blue primary colors of light. Finally, this information is used to predict the color appearance of the shirt when a third light shines on it. Question-specific help is provided for each of the 12 situations. Use of this Concept Builder with our Task Tracker system allows teachers to track student progress.

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Users are encouraged to open the Concept Builder and begin. There is no need for an activity sheet for this Concept Builder.

Learners and Instructors may also be interested in viewing the accompanying Notes page. Technical information, teaching suggestions, and related resources that complement this Interactive are provided on the View Notes.