User Guide

DescriptionResource

The Maple Student Center contains tutorials and applica-

tions that help students learn how to use Maple, explore

mathematical concepts, and solve problems. Available

resources include:

• Study guides - Complete lessons with examples for

academic courses, including precalculus and calculus.

For example, the Interactive Precalculus Study Guide

contains worked problems, each solved as in a stand-

ard textbook, using Maple commands and custom

Maplet graphical interfaces.

• Free course lessons for many subjects including pre-

calculus to vector calculus; high school, abstract, and

linear algebra; engineering; physics; differential

equations; cryptography; and classical mechanics.

(http://www.maplesoft.com/academic/students)

Maple Student Center

Student Packages and Tutors

The Student package is a collection of subpackages for teaching and learning

mathematics and related subjects. The Student package contains packages

for a variety of subjects, including precalculus, calculus, and linear algebra.

Instructors can:

• Teach concepts without being distracted by the mechanics of the compu-

tations.

• Create examples and quickly update them during a lesson to demonstrate

different cases or show the effect of the variation of a parameter.

• Create plots and animations to visually explain concepts, for example,

the geometric relationship between a mathematical function and its de-

rivatives (Tools>Tutors>Calculus - Single Variable>Derivatives). See

Figure 4.10.

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