Color Addition

by: Michael Horton

This activity is inquiry in that students do not know how colors are combined. They likely think that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. In fact, there are two sets of primary colors: red, green, and blue for additive colors of light, and cyan, magenta, and yellow for subtractive colors of pigments.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/30/2009Stock # PB240X_46

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