Students' perceptions of the completeness property of the set of real numbers

• Autores: Analía Bergé
• Localización: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology, ISSN 0020-739X, Vol. 41, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 217-227
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/00207390903399638
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• Resumen

  • This article presents an exploratory study that gives account of some students' perceptions of the completeness property of the set of real numbers. Students taking three undergraduate correlative courses in Calculus and Analysis answered a written questionnaire; their scripts are analysed trying to understand how operational is the notion of completeness for them and to what extent they take this notion for granted.