Timeline for Teaching limits of sequences before limits of functions in Calculus?
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 7:42 | comment | added | user797 | If I were to introduce alternate notation, I think I would use $a_\infty$. It's convenient and compact notation that is actually used by mathematicians, and it might help drive home the point that students often miss that the limit is just a number, not some ephemeral, varying thing (and related misconceptions about $\infty$). It also seed the ideas of continuous extension and of extended real numbers. The main drawback I can see is that teachers in future classes might be uncomfortable with the notation. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:46 | history | edited | Xander Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:36 | comment | added | user5402 | +1. Simple things first. Sequences -> continuity -> limits -> derivatives... | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 1:00 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
A few typo fixes
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 22:29 | history | answered | Xander Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |