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Many students have difficulties with understanding the fundamental concept of real sequence limit. Game-based learning can offer effective tools even for university students to help in learning calculus concepts. Even though they grew up playing digital games, the students of today are also keen on playing traditional ones. Taking advantage of this, we have developed a card game that can be played in many ways according to the needs of the students and with the help of which the calculation of limits can be practised. In this article, we report on the applicability of the game in the online education and present some versions of the original game which can be used as tools of differentiated teaching.
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Szilágyi, S., Körei, A. (2022). Using a Math Card Game in Several Ways for Teaching the Concept of Limit. In: Auer, M.E., Hortsch, H., Michler, O., Köhler, T. (eds) Mobility for Smart Cities and Regional Development - Challenges for Higher Education. ICL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93904-5_85
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