Matheass

MatheAss is a computer program for the numerical solution of many problems of school mathematics. It takes place in Germany -wide use in the secondary school mathematics teaching, for schools in the state of Hesse is a state license, which allows all secondary schools the use of MatheAss.

Its functionality is limited compared to professional Numerikprogrammen, for example MatheAss has no scripting language and no way for the symbolic arithmetic. In turn, it is easy to use and provides users with fully worked solution methods, in which only the required sizes must be entered.

After a precursor for the usual around 1980 MatheAss home computer released in 1983 as shareware version for the PC, so it was one of the first shareware programs on the German market. The program is (as of March 2010) available on the manufacturer's website to download for different versions of the Windows operating system.

As of version 8.2 ( released in February 2011) provides MatheAss again context-sensitive help, which was supplemented in many areas by applying mathematical examples and background information.

MatheAss is suitable in the areas of algebra, geometry, analysis, stochastics and Linear Algebra for tasks.

Except for the longer charging period, the unregistered shareware is identical to the full version.

Reception

According to an article in the c't issue 14/ 2001 MatheAss understood as " meek ​​assistant students often unloved mathematics " and offers on all topics covered in the program " explanatory text " and a help function in tasks. According to software testing on Freenet.de is at MatheAss a " very good program that can be solved with a variety of mathematical tasks. "