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How do I implement Maple and Scientific WorkPlace in teaching and research?

  1. I use SWP as a wordprocessor and a computational tool. I save the documents in LaTeX files and post them as *.tex, *.msg, or *.dvi files in the WWW so interested people can view or download them.
  2. I use Maple

    1. to generate animations and computer programs.
    2. to make educational mathematical conjectures. For example, one can use the plot for a finite sum of functions to predict the behavior of the plot for an infinite sum of functions.
    3. to write programs in experimenting quadratures in numerical integration and use it as a conjecture before I run traditional programing, which saves me lots of time.

Preferably one should have access to both Scientific WorkPlace and Maple. However,