Discover Microsoft Mathematics 4.0: A Free Tool for High School Students

[ZapperZ]

Is anyone here familiar with Microsoft Mathematics? I'm reading the announcement of the release of version 4, and I'm wondering if it might be something I can recommend to, say, high school students. It appears to be free, but with Microsoft, who knows...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Mathematics-4-0-Available-for-Download-178201.shtml

Zz.

 

[petergreat]

I downloaded and had a try. Look at my attached screenshot of graphing a hyperbolic surface, and you'll know why it's a joke compared to professional math software.

 

[petergreat]

Zero amount of adaptive sampling / graph smoothing. (Running Gnuplot from Unix command line is way better.) This shows that probably it's just a cheap piece of software engineering putting all sorts of "educational" functionalities together, and the software engineers can't write hard-core numerical algorithm.