An Activity for Development of the Understanding of the Concept of Limit
(2007)Abstract
This study examines how college calculus students develop and accommodate their conceptual understanding of the limit of a sequence. The ε−strip activity was specially designed to examine students’ understanding of the formal definition of the limit of a
sequence. This study focuses on a student’s conception of limit and her understanding of the relation between error bounds and indices in the formal definition of limit. The results show that the student improved her understanding of the concept of limit as well as her understanding of the formal definition of the limit of a sequence since engaging in the ε−strip activity.