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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by ivan_ah on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:48PM (#12749625)
You should also consider SymPy, available as a webapp http://live.sympy.org/ or in jupyter notebook form.

Plotting function graphs is a bit harder (matplotlib) but overall I find SymPy to be much more logical and easy to grok than Maple's weird syntax. Here is a short tutorial on how to do basic math using SymPy: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...

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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by euroclydon on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:16AM (#12752327)
I love Jupyter. I set up pydot in a notebook, and made high level functions to create and print trees and graphs. My 10 yr old picked it up quickly while we killed time at his brother's swim meet.

But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine. I appreciated, in college, being able to quickly factor a polynomial, solve an equation, and find derivatives.

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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by ivan_ah on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:12PM (#12753609)
> But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine

SymPy is the best CAS I know of. You can use the methods like expand, factor, collect, and solve on any expression.

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