http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About- en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:21:35 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:21:35 GMT The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About- http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6623 <p>Hi Tom,</p> <p>Don't you thing that the ability to show step-by-step the calculation of limits, integrals etc should be in your top-10 list? Espacially for highschool teachers and students?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6623 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:34:00 Z Dr. Markos Psarros Dr. Markos Psarros http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6626 <p><br /> How about Maple TA? the tool for online testing and assessment.</p> <p>As far as I know it is the only tool out there which really gives teachers (and their students) a Mathematical (or technical) system for doing online testing. I think that teaching has changed and will change further because of this&nbsp;still new tool!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6626 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:00 Z Gose Fischer Gose Fischer http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6627 <p>Really slick 3-D graphics got me hooked, particularly as a classroom teacher.&nbsp; I am stinking ancient, and remember vividly the days of painstaingly finding and sketching (by hand...) traces of 3-variable equations, and knowing that the resultant visualization was still woefully inadequate.&nbsp;&nbsp; The inuitive, and quite deep, understanding we can now communicate to students about higher dimensional objects (remembering that we in fact LIVE in 3-D) is a huge step forward.</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6627 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:35:00 Z http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6630 <div class="quoteLink"><a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/blog/view.aspx?sid=6571&c=6623#comment6623">Dr. Markos Psarros wrote:</a></div><blockquote qc="6623"> <p>Hi Tom,</p> <p>Don't you thing that the ability to show step-by-step the calculation of limits, integrals etc should be in your top-10 list? Espacially for highschool teachers and students?</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </blockquote> <p><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_viewer"><span><span><span class="commentBody">There are countless amazing things and it's virtually impossible to narrow down to a list of 10 that everyone can agree on. I chose the 10 things about Maple that I &quot;fell in love with&quot; -- so the list reflects my circumstances and moods at the time that I was introduced to the feature. If a particular tool was critical for an important project that I was doing at some point in time, it likely would stay in my memory. So it's not an accurate reflection of the 10 most important things for the rest of the world.</span></span></span></span></p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6630 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:05:00 Z Dr. Tom Lee Dr. Tom Lee http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6633 <div class="quoteLink"><a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/blog/view.aspx?sid=6571&c=6626#comment6626">Gose Fischer wrote:</a></div><blockquote qc="6626"> <p><br /> How about Maple TA? the tool for online testing and assessment.</p> <p>As far as I know it is the only tool out there which really gives teachers (and their students) a Mathematical (or technical) system for doing online testing. I think that teaching has changed and will change further because of this&nbsp;still new tool!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </blockquote> <p>TA is a wonderful tool and my top 10 list is not indendened to imply that it's not ... I guess the engineer in me heavily influenced my first list :-)</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6633 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:10:00 Z Dr. Tom Lee Dr. Tom Lee http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/6571-Top-10-Things-To-Evangelize-About-?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Top 10 things to evangelize about …:Comments#comment6637 <div class="quoteLink"><a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/blog/view.aspx?sid=6571&c=6627#comment6627">Dr. Joanna Ellis-Monaghan wrote:</a></div><blockquote qc="6627"> <p>Really slick 3-D graphics got me hooked, particularly as a classroom teacher.&nbsp; I am stinking ancient, and remember vividly the days of painstaingly finding and sketching (by hand...) traces of 3-variable equations, and knowing that the resultant visualization was still woefully inadequate.&nbsp;&nbsp; The inuitive, and quite deep, understanding we can now communicate to students about higher dimensional objects (remembering that we in fact LIVE in 3-D) is a huge step forward.</p> </blockquote> <p>I have to admit that 3D graphics has huge appeal ... having said that, I too am ancient and when I was an undergrad as an engineer, our worldview was either 2D or what we call 2.5D -- flat engineering drawings of 3D objects. So when I first encountered 3D Maple graphics, it was unclear to me what it would be good for ... remember I had already gone through the math sequence which at the time tried its best to hide the existence of the third dimension ... so it took a while for my heart to warm up.</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Top 10 things to evangelize about … 6637 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:17:00 Z Dr. Tom Lee Dr. Tom Lee