Authoring Online Interactive Materials in Mathematics

Maple Tutorials

Often it is convenient to combine HTML pages and Java applets with a computer algebra system (CAS) worksheet. The CAS we will use in this workshop is Maple.

If you do not have any familiarity with Maple, you should work through a basic tutorial. Use

Maple Tutorial
in the Multivariable Calculus section of the Duke Connected Curriculum Project (CCP). This will cover the basics through plotting graphs and calculating derivatives and integrals.

Each section of CCP has its own tutorial. The initial eight parts of these are the same, but the later parts discuss commands special to the particular area. Here are links to some of these other tutorials with an indication of the special sections.

• Differential Equations Maple Tutorial
  • Part 11: Symbolic solution of differential equations

  • Part 12: Direction fields

• Linear Algebra Maple Tutorial
  • Part 9: Solving systems of linear equations

  • Part 10: Row operations on matrices

  • Part 11: Solving linear programming problems

  • Part 12: The simplex package

• Engineering Mathematics Maple Tutorial
  • Part 13: Basic operations on complex numbers

  • Part 14: Graphical representations of complex functions

The Maple Help screens are very good. In particular, entering ? followed by a command (e.g., ? plot) gives a description of the syntax followed by examples of code. The examples can be copied, pasted in your worksheet, and altered to suit your purposes.

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