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Direct linkBerge, Analia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
Burn (2005) proposes a "genetic approach" to teaching limits of numerical sequences. The article includes an explanation of the Method of Exhaustion, a generalization of this method, and a description of how this method was used for obtaining areas and lengths in the seventeenth century. The author uses these historical and mathematical analyses…
Descriptors: Criticism, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Educational History
