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Updating Math Course Materials is Easier with Maple

Using Maple to create your course materials will save you time and effort

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Time to update that math or math-heavy course you inherited from someone else, to make it suit you better? It’s a big job, but you can save time and effort by using Maple to develop your new course materials.
Math and Graphs

Use Maple to easily create the math expressions and graphs you need, whatever course you are teaching and whatever format your course materials are in.

  • Create even complicated math expressions extremely easily using the math editor, and then copy them as LaTeX expressions or images at the click of a button for inclusion in your slides, notes, assignments etc.

  • Create and customize 2-D and 3-D graphs, and export them to PNG, SVG, encapsulated postscript, JPG, and many other formats with a simple click.

    • Build your plots using the interactive Plot Builder or using commands – the choice is yours

    • Choose from over 200 plot types and options, with the ability to create even more

  • Develop full course notes and lecture slides, including explanations, math, calculations, images, graphs, and more using the Maple technical document interface.

    • Use Maple’s Slideshow Mode to turn your document into a class presentation

    • If your students don’t have Maple, share the Maple documents as PDFs, export them to LaTeX, or add them to MapleCloud where your students can read and interact with them through a web browser

Creating Assignment and Exam Questions

If you are responsible for creating assignment and exam questions for your students, you know that it can be difficult to choose good, tractable questions that are reasonable to solve by hand. Maple makes the process faster. You can:

  • Create questions for practise, assignments, and tests faster and more reliably, from simple calculations to large projects

    • Create questions guaranteed to have “nice” answers by starting from the answer and working backwards

    • Start from a basic idea, and quicky try out different variations using Maple to work through the calculations, provide visualizations, and explore different parameter values

  • Use Maple’s Quiz generation tools to create new questions that have similar properties to the starting question

  • Provide accurate answer keys for your teaching assistants easily, without having to work through them yourself or use up TA hours that could be better spent on other things

Maple does the math you need!
Here’s just a few of the courses you can use Maple in:
Differential and Integral Calculus
Graph Theory
Vector Calculus
Linear Algebra
Group Theory
Differential Geometry
Differential Equations
Multivariate Calculus
Combinatorics
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Develop In-Class Demonstration Materials
Many math concepts are easier to grasp if you can see them, and Maple is a great classroom demonstration tool that leads to greater engagement and understanding.
  • Interactive explorations let you see the effect of changing parameter values, with graphs and math expressions updated automatically as you move a slider

  • Built-in visualizations cover important concepts from standard math courses, including topics that are very hard to convey in a static document, such as volumes of revolution, intersecting planes, cycloids, and much more

  • Comprehensive, flexible, and easy to use visualization tools enable you to customize standard graphs and animations, combine them in new ways, and even create your own

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Get Even More Out of Maple
Maple will help save you time when you refresh your course. Here are a few more things you can use Maple for:
  • Motivate students with real-world applications that are too cumbersome to do by hand

  • Help your students focus on the concepts instead of getting lost in the calculations

  • Work through what-if scenarios in class in response to questions

  • Provide an environment that supports projects and investigations, from initial problem statement to final presentation

  • Advance your research with a powerful math tool that can help you understand and solve difficult mathematical problems from virtually any branch of mathematics, easily develop your own algorithms and applications, and solve large-scale problems efficiently.

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