> And because I've heard these calculators are programmable,... I'm happy to suggest that a student get himself a programmable calculator and use it like this:

> And because I've heard these calculators are programmable,... I'm happy to suggest that a student get himself a programmable calculator and use it like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/jl9gz/evaluate_the_limit_without_lhopital/c2d2u26 http://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/jl9gz/evaluate_th... Notice though that I'm assuming that the student is completely on top of place value and arithmetic. I assume that they can look at 0.17157, 0.16713, 0.16671, 0.16667, and recognise 1/6 emerging from the murk.