For an interactive approach I built this some time ago. [1]
It allows putting complex numbers on the complex plane and doing addition, multiplication and exponentiation via drag and drop. It provides some intuition for addition==translation and multiplication==scale-rotation.
It allows putting complex numbers on the complex plane and doing addition, multiplication and exponentiation via drag and drop. It provides some intuition for addition==translation and multiplication==scale-rotation.
[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/complex-plane/