Eduardo Gonzalez, Bryan Albert Tamisen, & Dr. Ivona Grzegorczyk
We are exploring the concept of teaching limits in calculus. Currently, test results show that many students have problems with this topic and since the limits are a prerequisite knowledge for understanding differentiation, integration, sequences, we aim to improve student learning and the related assessment of their performance. Such that we will be exploring the concept of limits in calculus by demonstrating through examples on how limits bring forward the knowledge for understanding differentiation, integration, and sequences. We also will be explaining the importance of why teachers introduce a very difficult topic such as limits in calculus before introducing any other topic like differentiation, integration, and sequences. Where ultimately we want to show that limits are the backbone of calculus such that if students fail to master the concepts of limits, then they will find it hard to go forward to the next calculus topics. Such that our main goal is to design activities helping students to understand these concepts better.