The programs establish a so-called Word-CAS interface, i.e., an interface
between Microsoft Word and a computer algebra system (CAS) such as DE-
RIVE, Maple V, MuPAD, etc. according to the user choice. The Word-CAS
interface is better than the original CAS interfaces because Microsoft Word pro-
vides more tools for the text editing, viewing, and printing than the original
CAS interfaces.
The Word-CAS interface can be easily customized. This is important in
teaching, where all unnecessary menu items must be hidden because they divert
the attention of students or even frighten them with unknown mathematical
terms.
Obeying a student command, the Word-CAS interface takes a selected for-
mula from the Word document and activates the CAS, sending the formula to
the CAS for the required mathematical operations with the selected formula.
Then the Word-CAS interface inserts the CAS result in the Word document.
All mathematical formulas can be treated in this way. It is important that only
standard mathematical notation is used in the dialog between the student and
computer.
THE SOLVER.HM hypertext book is a collection of Microsoft Word doc-
uments with a navigation tool. The documents are almost identical to those
in the book. The navigation tool enables the students to quickly find a tem-
plate for the mathematical problem they have to solve. Context-sensitive help
is available.
The Word documents are used as templates for correct and comprehensive
solutions of basic mathematical problems. Having a problem to solve, a student
can easily find an analogous problem in the Word documents, study the plan of
its solution, study the solution example, change the document, use the Word-
CAS interface for doing the required mathematical operations, save the results
of the work, and present the file to the professor.
THE SOLVER.HM helps a student to concentrate on the new and essential
while the computer does all the operations that are already known to the stu-
dent. The package size is about 500 kilobytes. It is sold at a low price. Every
student can and should have it.
THE SOLVER "Higher Mathematics" is the first tutorial complex of new
type.
Analogous tutorial complexes are in preparation for teaching special chap-
ters of higher mathematics: functions of a complex variable, operational cal-
culus,
Fourier series, equations in partial derivatives, probabiUty theory and
statistics, and financial mathematics.
THE SOLVERs "Mechanics", "Physics", "Electricity", etc. for colleges and
universities as well as appropriate packages for high schools will be created by
the project EduXXI.
Information about THE SOLVER "Higher Mathematics" can be found on
the Internet site www.AcademiaXXI.ru.