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What is Continuity in Calculus? Visual Explanation with color coded examples, graphs and interactive applet

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Reviewed:: Oct 9, 2024 by Mathematics

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Overview:: This resource includes a brief visual explanation of continuity with color coded examples and graphs.
Type of Material:: Reference Material
Recommended Uses:: Individual review, self-study
Technical Requirements:: Any browser.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The purpose of this site is to provide a brief overview of continuity at a point and over an interval
Target Student Population:: College Lower Division
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: College Algebra, Calculus

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Strengths:: This site provides an overview of continuity through a brief analysis of five different example graphs. The continuity checklist is provided.
Concerns:: The site is full of adds, some of which are distracting as they are video ads. An immovable menu banner appears to overlap some of the content, depending on the size of the window. Hence, users must adjust the window size to view all content.

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When viewed properly, this is a good resource for helping learners to visualize the conditions of the continuity checklist.

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It is difficult to view all of the material without having to adjust the window.

It does not identify prerequisite knowledge.

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Strengths:: The way in which additional information is set to pop up when hovering over relevant text is visually appealing.
Concerns:: Some of the text appears to be hyperlinked. However, hovering over or clicking on some of this text causes additional information to appear on the example graphs. This could be slightly frustrating to users, especially if the window is such that the graph and text are not displayed together.

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