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Addressing difficulty in calculus limits using geogebra

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Starr Clyde L. Sebial School of Teacher Education, J.H. Cerilles State College Mati, San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur 7029, Philippines
Villa Althea C. Yap School of Teacher Education, J.H. Cerilles State College Mati, San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur 7029, Philippines
Juvie B. Sebial School of Teacher Education, J.H. Cerilles State College Mati, San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur 7029, Philippines
Abstract
This paper aims to address the difficulties of high school students in bridging their computational understanding with their visualization skills in understanding the notion of the limits in their calculus class. This research used a pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design research on 62 grade 10 students enrolled in the Science, Technology, and Engineering Program (STEP) in one of the public high schools in Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. A series of remedial sessions were given to help them understand the function values, one-sided limits, limits of a function, and its discontinuities with the aid of the GeoGebra. Results revealed that there is a significant improvement in their mathematics performance before and after the remediation, t(61) = -19.99, p<.05. The real-time feedback provided by the drawing interface of GeoGebra has provided the students the insights into how objects behave in geometrical space, bridging their understanding in locating the values shown by the computational algebraic processes. Additionally, the significant difference in the achievement reveals a large effect size (Cohen's =2.54) which could be accounted for by the remediation using interactive activities in the GeoGebra.
Publication Details
Page(s) 427-430
DOI DOI not available
Published Journal: Science International, Volume: 34, Issue: 5, Year: 2022

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Keywords
mathematics performance, GeoGebra limits in calculus, pre-experimental design
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