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• Proof without words: limit of a recursive sequence

  121-122

  Pilar Abreu

  Esther Guerra

  Ángel Plaza

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  2

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• The study of sequences defined by a first order recursion by means of a pocket calculator

  231-240

  Zoltán Tuzson

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  29

  This paper will present the way we can use a simple pocket calculator to teach mathematics. Namely, a pocket calculator can be very useful to study the properties of sequences defined by first order recursion (e.g. monotonicity, boundedness and convergence) and to gain a deeper understanding.

• Über die sogenannte Regel von de l’Hospital im Mathematikunterricht

  193-208

  Sándor Kovács

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  7

  The aim of this paper is to provide an insight into the problems of the socalled indeterminate expressions, in order to make the students understand them better. The paper deals with the conditions and the proof of the theorem about the limit of a quotient of certain functions of one variable, usually named after l'Hospital. The question is of some interest, since the formulation of the result in several textbooks often appears redundant and the proof is more complex than necessary. First, the historical background is briefly sketched. Second, the theorem is formulated and justified, where three different, simple proof techniques are presented. Finally, possible applications are suggested for teaching, which are usually not treated in this problem area.

• A geometric application to the third-order recurrence relations for sequences

  287-302

  Calin M. Agut

  Ioana E. Agut

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  31

  Using a third-order linear homogeneous recurrence relation with constant coefficients, it is found a limit-point of a sequence of affixes in plane. Starting from a classic geometric problem, an application is so created and few more nice properties are found and described.

• From Newton’s fluxions to virtual microscopes

  377-384

  Jacques Bair

  Valerie Henry

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  35

  The method of fluxions was originally given by Newton among others in order to determine the tangent to a curve. In this note, we will formulate this method by the light of some modern mathematical tools: using the concept of limit, but also with hyperreal numbers and their standard parts and with dual numbers; another way is the use of virtual microscopes both in the contexts of classical and non standard analysis.

• Das Konzept des Analysisunterrichts von Professor Igor Kluvánek – einige Ergebnisse der qualitativen Forschung

  349-361

  Ján Gunčaga

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  30

  A renowned Slovak mathematician Professor Igor Kluvanek (1931-1993) during his affiliation with the University of Adelaide in Australia (1968-1990) has worked out a unique course of mathematical analysis for future high school teachers of mathematics. The course has been tested in its conceptual form but, as a whole, it still awaits its publication in the form of a monograph. Along these lines, our aim is to present the way he has introduced some key notions of differential calculus and to discuss its advantages. Central is the continuity of a function via which the limit and the derivative of a function at a point is defined.