The study of the limit of a function
what did the students say?
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https://doi.org/10.26512/lc.v25.2019.21852Keywords:
Limit, Perception of the university professor, Difficulty, LearningAbstract
This article presents part of the results obtained in a doctoral research that had as objective to bring new reflections related to the concept of limit of a function. There are a large number of research works with different approaches and methodologies that seek to discover the reasons for the widespread failure of students in the discipline of Differential and Integral Calculus. But there are still few who work on the college student's look at this difficulty. We will present in this text, specifically, the data of the students regarding the concept of limit with the hope that they can sensitize the teachers who teach this discipline.
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