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Maple 12 is the Mathematical Tool of Choice for Education |
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Maple 12 responds to the most common complaint of faculty who integrate software into the classroom – time is spent teaching the tool, not the concepts. With Maple 12, educators get a better way of engaging students so that they fully understand the materials they are being taught.
The response we’ve received following last month’s release of Maple 12 has been amazing! “As always with Maple, this is a substantial and worthwhile advance with plenty to justify upgrade by any type of user.”
Felix Grant, Scientific Computing World
“Once again, Maplesoft delivers an outstanding product. With Maple 12, a simple click of the mouse allows you to solve problems, demonstrate your work, create presentations, and produce live math documents.”
Mario Lemelin, Science Teacher
If you’ve not yet had an opportunity to explore what’s new in Maple 12, take the Maple 12 tour and see the many ways that Maple 12 can enhance your teaching and research. To see Maple 12 in action, view a demonstration at the Maplesoft Demo Center .
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| Maplesoft Webinar Series |
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Featured Webinar from the Maplesoft e-Symposium Series
Now That Machines Do Math, What Do Teachers Teach?
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 pm EDT. Register here.
More and more the manipulation in mathematics is done by a machine and users are forced into using their energy in design and interpretation vs. past energy that was spent on “working the problem” How does that change teaching? You have to create grey box experiences that prepare students to work in a black box world.
For example, in finance, students need to construct and see loan payments in action (a grey box experience) to better understand the black box results of PMT keys. In Science, playing with the recursive derivations of solutions (a grey box experience) best instills understanding estimates and prepares one for a career built upon using the “SOLVE” key. Faculty mistakenly think that the laborious derivation of formulas (a white box experience) prepares one for a computer based world. The heart of this seminar is defining grey box experiences. Dr. John Kenelly, Alumni Distinguished Professor at Clemson University and Treasurer of the Mathematical Association of America, argues that classroom grey box experiences are the new challenge.
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Introduction to Maple 12 for Academics
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:00 pm EDT. Register here.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:00 pm EDT. Register here.
Maple 12’s unique blend of computational power and ease-of-use makes it an essential tool for mathematics and modeling. Its smart document environment provides revolutionary Clickable Calculus™ and Clickable Engineering™ techniques for solving problems from any technical discipline, ensuring that students are instantly productive and engaged. The results can be incorporated in rich, interactive, live documents that are as professional-looking as a textbook.
In this one-hour demonstration and Q&A forum, you will learn how Maple 12 is redefining math education and opening new horizons in technical research. By taking advantage of such features as interactive tutors, context-sensitive menus, expanded mathematical capabilities, and the new Exploration Assistant, see how teachers can bring complex problems to life, students can focus on concepts rather than the mechanics of solutions, and researchers can develop more sophisticated algorithms or models.
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Introduction to Maple 12 for Control Engineers
Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:00 pm EDT. Register here.
As well as presenting a general introduction to Maple 12, this webinar will, by the use of introductory and more complex examples, demonstrate Maple’s ability to work with Controls Engineering problems. Maple 12’s new Dynamic Systems package offers a large selection of analytic and graphing tools for linear time-invariant systems, which are essential in control systems development. This session is designed for both those in industry and academia.
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Clickable Engineering Math: Part 2 – Interactive Engineering Problem Solving
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:00 pm EDT. Register here.
Maplesoft’s “Clickable Calculus” has introduced an exciting new dimension in calculus education. The idea of powerful mathematics, delivered through very visual, interactive, point and click methods, is spawning a new generation of teaching and learning techniques in mathematics. “Clickable Engineering Math” continues this philosophy into the applied sciences.
In Part 2 of this two-part Webinar, Dr. Robert Lopez explores exact and approximate solutions of a damped oscillator driven by a saw-tooth input; convolution; the Lagrange multiplier technique; temperatures in the exterior wall of a house; and the root locus. He will show how the discursive treatments of these calculations taken from his Advanced Engineering Mathematics ebook can be adapted to the new interface tools in Maple.
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Introduction to Maple 12 – In German!
17.06.08 um 14 Uhr
18.06.08 um 14 Uhr
Scientific Computers bietet zum erfolgreichen Launch von Maple 12 mehrere Webinare zur Anwendung von Maple, sowie zu speziellen Themen und Toolboxen an.
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For further details or to enroll in a Webinar please click here.
Missed a Webinar? Check out our recorded Webinar section where you can browse and view recordings of past Webinars.
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| Maplesoft In The Press |
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Here are some highlights of this past month press coverage.
Math & Modeling Made Simpler
Automotive Design and Production, May 30, 2008
Maple's direct connectivity to CAD is a popular feature in this latest edition |
Mathematics, Simulation and Modeling - Maple 12
Scientific Computing World, May 23, 2008
Scientific Computing World takes a close look at Maple 12. Felix Grant, the reviewer, says Maple 12 is continuing the direction of “developing intuitive usability as well as power” |
Groundbreaking Analysis Tool Now with CAD Connectivity
ConnectPress – Inventor Connections, May 7, 2008
The CAD community has much to explore with Maple's new feature that enables direct connectivity with CAD systems |
In addition to these articles, check out the Media Center for all the latest coverage on Maplesoft. |
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