In this article, the authors share activities designed to help students make a connection between the complex roots of X[superscript 2] - 2x + 5 = 0 and the graph of y = X[superscript 2] - 2x + 5. We piloted these activities in three precalculus classes. The activities involved both concrete and technological representations of the mathematical situation. Students manipulated the concrete representation, whereas one of the authors manipulated a GeoGebra representation. In so doing, the authoss believe that students were using these two representations to model and interpret a mathematical phenomenon, as suggested in "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (NCTM 2000), as well as making connections between the two representations.