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Direct linkBarnes, Julie – PRIMUS, 2011
Several years ago, the author noticed that her students were having trouble understanding the formal definitions for convergence of sequences, continuity of functions, and uniform convergence of functions. To her students, these definitions were just a bunch of symbols with little to no meaning. She drew diagrams, but students had trouble seeing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Manipulative Materials
Barnes, Julie – PRIMUS, 2007
This paper is essentially a story that can be used to help students understand some of the definitions found in a standard introductory real analysis course.
Descriptors: Definitions, Fairy Tales, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction
