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Examining continuity/discontinuity of a function by using GeoGebra
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2009-12-01
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Dikovic, L. (2009). Examining continuity/discontinuity of a function by using GeoGebra. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 7(2), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2009.0235
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The possibility to visualize the things with the help of today's dynamic software (GeoGebra being one of them), enables the students to see and explore mathematical relations and concepts that were difficult to be presented in the past, prior to the state-of-the-art technologies. In methodological sense, the contribution of this paper lies in the presentation of a set of visualizations designed to help students better understand and explore the basic calculus concepts such as continuity at a point, to examine discontinuity at a point, to display discontinuities and the relations between continuity and differentiability of single variable functions. In technical sense, this paper presents creative GeoGebra applets which offer new possibilities that could be of a vital importance for the future development of e-learning of College mathematics.