Re: maple or derive -Reply

Mike Mallen (MALLEN@GATE1.SBCC.CC.CA.US)
Mon, 20 May 1996 15:47:18 -0800

Any chance of getting the students a bunch of Ti92's they could take
home? Then they are not limited by the need to have a computer at
home. You might compare their price versus the price of putting a
computer program on your machines. Symbolic calculators such as the
'92 and the HP(48?) are making computers less necessary - at least at
the beginning calculus level and lower.
Mike Mallen
>>> Howard L. Hansen <mfhlh@UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU> 05/20/96 01:39pm
>>>
Steve Kraisler wrote:
>
> I plan to augment my calculus class (inner city high school) with a
> computer calculus program. Any suggestions on which on I should
use?

Steve,

Personally, I'd choose neither and instead consider MathCad 6.0.
Reason--easy to use powerful (Maple engine) without all the specialized
codes necessary for Maple. Instead of Int etc. you enter and integral just
as it would appear in print or the way in which you would wrtie it.

H?2

--
Howard L. Hansen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455 http://www.ECNet.Net/users/mfhlh/wiu/index.htm
"Good mathematics is not how many answers you know, but how you
behave when you don't know the answer."