Microsoft released Microsoft Math 3.0, so students can learn to solve equations step-by-step, while gaining more understanding of concepts in pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry and calculus. It’s a one-stop shop for help with math and math in other lessons.
… Microsoft Math offers a wide range of additional tools to help students with complex mathematics , including dynamic and 3-D visualizations.
Developers were first math informed, then engineers and teachers.
Tools include a graphing calculator, step-by-step equation solver, formulas and equations library, triangle solver, unit conversion tool, and (new) ink handwriting support.
Ink works with Tablet and Ultra-Mobile PCs. Students can write out problems by hand, so Microsoft Math will recognize them.
Kudos, engineers and educators. You have made learning mathematics more direct and available on-demand, thus easier.
Teachers of all K12 grades and subjects: this is a “must review” program. Whatever your interests, priorities, and specialties, whatever you teach, however you instruct, with or without a mobile PC, having reviewed this program provides one more tool in your toolbox to help prepare your students for the math and science they will need in a global economy.
(And for those of us who have forgotten something about formal math, this program provides a private refresher reference to avoid conversation mistakes during the next party with an engineer or science guest, you know, the spouse/partner of that teacher in the other building.)
You may download an authorized free 30 day trial.
Microsoft math is a really an inferior piece of software, and ads are very misleading. “Step-by-step” solutions are only given for very restricted classes of problems. The software doesn’t know what to do with simple expressions such as (x^4-y^4)/(x^2-y^2), and frequently gives incorrect solutions (i.e. in (x^2-1)/(x-1)=0, it proclaims “1″ to be a valid solution!.If you need a true step-by-step solver for up to College Algebra / Linear Algebra level take a look at Algebrator at http://www.softmath.comIf you need help with calculus and above the only real alternatives are serious systems such as Maple and Mathematica.