Microsoft Student
Microsoft’s Student 2006 is interesting. It is supposed to help students “get started” with all sorts of homework situations.
Student includes a virtual graphics calculator, which allows the student to visualise 2D and 3D graphs. The demo of Student seems to suggest that mathematics help will come via working through exercises which allow some exploratory interactivity. I’m wondering whether it will use Flash – the demo looked Flash-like.
It also has
“Online math homework help
Complete sets of questions and answers taken directly from popular math textbooks offer step-by-step help.”
I’m not sure that it offers that much more than is already freely available on the Web – as long as you know where to look. But that graphics calculator has me intrigued…
Check it out at Student 2006.
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