Maple is a comprehensive computer system for beginning to advanced mathematics. Its amazing power and versatility can give students additional help, motivation, and insight into theory and applications, in classes, labs, homework, and/or projects.

Maple includes facilities for interactive algebra, numerical calculations (calculations with numbers), symbolic calculations (calculations with formulas involving letters and other symbols, e.g., +,-,=,etc.), calculus, discrete mathematics, graphing (plotting curves and surfaces, etc.), numerical computation and many other areas of mathematics. Maple is also capable of differentiation and integration, solution of differential equations, matrix and vector calculus, complex analysis, numerical methods, and much more

Maple is a very effective tool in acquiring a better grasp of mathematics and will certainly give a student valuable computer experience. Maple does come with exceptional 'help' material to help you become more familiar with its use.

This site is designed to give you some guidance in learning how to use Maple effectively. Each section begins with an overview which will show you the concepts and functions to be used. Then the functions are broken into small individual lesson plans. Each function is giving a description and then followed by an example.

The maple text can be copied and pasted directly into Maple by highlighting the red text in your browser, pressing control-c (copy), then going into maple and pressing control-v (paste). You can have your browser and Maple open simultaneously to help you as you are using the software.