Stage 36 · Limits, Derivatives & Their Applications

36.1.5 Continuity: Never Lifting the Pen

36.1 The Art of Approaching: The Idea of a Limit

Point 5 of 5

36.1.5 Continuity: Never Lifting the Pen

Core idea

If your pen never jumps off the paper as you draw, the function's value lands exactly on its limit, and we say f is continuous there.

Module goal. Build the gut feeling of "getting infinitely close," turning the vague "closer and closer" into a precise, workable language of limits that sets the stage for rates of change.
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