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Calculus: Making Limits Exist

by Texas Instruments

Overview

In this activity, students will graph piecewise functions and evaluate numerically and graphically the left hand limit and the right hand limit of the function as x approaches a given number, c.

Key Steps

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    Before changing the value of a, students will graphically estimate the limit of f(x) as x approaches 1 from the left and the right.

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    Before changing the value of a, students will graphically estimate the limit of g(x) as x approaches 1 from the left and the right.

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    Before changing the value of a, students will graphically estimate the limit of h(x) as x approaches 1 from the left and the right.