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WATERLOO , Canada----Maplesoft(TM),
the leading provider of high-performance software tools for
engineering , science and mathematics, today announced Maple 10, a
major release of the company's flagship product that reinvents modern
technical research and education. This
greatly enhances speed and ease of use. Its standards-compliant algorithms are renowned for
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From complex computations to basic math concepts, Maple 10
opens the door to easier understanding and better productivity and
results for researchers, professors and students.00.
Problems in the test pool have been developed and reviewed by university
researchers, curriculum and assessment experts and teachers for content
quality and validity.

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The students
then use Maple worksheets to make the calculations associated with
each lecture.

-- Numerous other improvements and additions, including numerical
differentiation , fractional and abstract order derivatives,
polynomial ideas, and hardware computations using complex
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About Maplesoft

Maplesoft is a leading developer and provider of interactive
mathematical software. Additionally,
virtually every major university and research institute in the world,
including MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Waterloo, has adopted Maplesoft
products to enhance their education and research activities.

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By shifting the emphasis from
creating math to making it more accessible and easy to use, Maple 10
increases researchers' productivity, provides teachers a better
environment for developing customized curriculum and lowers the
learning curve for students .

Create Maplets using the drag-and-drop interface of the Maplet
Builder or enhance worksheets with embedded GUI components.

Availability

Single user academic licenses of Maple 10 are available for US
$995. Department of
Education in its 2005 National Education Technology Plan, as well as by First
Lady Laura Bush during a speech at the National School Boards Association 64th
Annual Conference.
Founded in 1888, the Corporation has more than 280 offices in 37 countries .

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In addition to being a premier research tool, Maple 10 enables
educators to deliver dynamic course content and illustrate even the
most difficult concepts.
"Maple is an invaluable tool for teaching and learning math," said
Jim Herod, Professor Emeritus, who teaches remotely for Georgia
Institute of Technology's School of Mathematics. It includes expression templates, a handwriting
palette , over a thousand mathematical symbols, and automatic
equation numbering.

Knowledge Capture

-- Full presentation control enables users to write and layout
textbook-style content , which include live calculations while
hiding the computation details.

-- An integrated, extensible dictionary provides definitions of
over 5000 engineering and mathematical terms, enhancing the
ability to document, communicate and share detailed technical
information.

-- Units and/or tolerance (error ranges) support that applies to
any variable or constant. Its suite of products includes Maple, the most
powerful and intuitive tool for solving complex mathematical problems
and creating rich, executable technical documents; MapleNet, a
Web-based platform for sharing Maple content for collaboration and
e-learning; and Maple T. In addition, the program includes nearly 900 tutorial
exercises that can be prescribed automatically to meet each student's
individual learning needs .

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The product seamlessly combines numeric
and symbolic calculations, explorations, mathematical notation ,
documentation, buttons and sliders, and graphics and animations that
can be shared and reused .maplesoft.
Nationally, the need for technology-based data systems to track and
improve student performance has been highlighted by the U.mheducation.

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Over two million users at thousands of organizations
benefit from advanced Maple technology. NCSPM promotes awareness of progress
monitoring and provides technical assistance to states and districts seeking
to implement progress-monitoring systems.
Yearly ProgressPro(TM) was one of only two programs rated as
"demonstrating sufficient evidence " in all seven categories identified by
NCSPM, which included:

* Number of alternative forms
* Rates of improvement specified
* Benchmarks for adequate end-of-year performance or goal setting
specified
* Improved student learning or teacher planning
* Sensitivity to student improvement
* Reliability
* Validity

"The NCSPM evaluation provides a strong endorsement of Yearly
ProgressPro(TM) and the research behind the program ," said McGraw-Hill Digital
Learning editorial director Steve Majchrzak.mhdigitallearning.

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They also use Maple to ask questions about the lectures
and to complete assignments. Volume, upgrade, and student discounts apply. Maple 10 is
available directly from the Maplesoft Web Store at
http://webstore .S.

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Moreover, since companies and institutions around the world rely on
Maplesoft to solve engineering and scientific problems, using Maple 10
in their studies is a terrific way for students to get a head start in
their careers.

Ease of Use

A sophisticated Math Equation Editor lets users create
textbook-quality equations in natural mathematical notation,
interactively .

Major plotting and animation enhancements, such as an
automated point-and-click Plot Builder, gridlines, axes
properties, and glossiness of surfaces make it fast and easy
to visualize and present results in intuitive, high-quality
2-D and 3-D graphics.

NCSPM is a
national nonprofit organization funded by the U. Yearly ProgressPro(TM) Math, recently named
a finalist in the distinguished Software + Information Industry Association's
Codie Awards program, is available for Grades 1-8, Algebra and Geometry. For more information, visit
http://www . It is a unit of McGraw-Hill
Education, a leading global provider of electronic and print products that
enhance teaching and learning in the pre-K through 12th grade, higher
education and professional markets.

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Maple 10 enables users to convey information
in a familiar way, such as the look and feel of a textbook or
technical paper, and also as executable documents that provide the
final answer .
Maple 10 will make it even easier for students to solve and analyze
complex problems that were not accessible thirty years ago, and
generally are not presented in textbooks even now."

About the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
The U.

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Key Features and Benefits of Maple 10

Maple 10 offers users numerous new features designed to enhance
usability, encourage knowledge capture and add to Maple's hallmark
mathematical power.

A point-and-click ODE (Ordinary Differential Equations)
Analyzer allows detailed and sophisticated investigation and
analysis of ODE systems.

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-- Enhanced code generation capability that ensures any math
model can automatically generate the user's choice of C,
Fortran, Java(TM), MATLAB (R) or Visual Basic(R) software code
for embedded applications.

-- State-of-the-art differential equation solvers that use new
sophisticated special functions to represent solutions to many
formerly unsolvable families of linear and nonlinear
differential equations.

McGraw-Hill's Yearly ProgressPro (TM) Meets All Criteria of National Center on Student Progress Monitoring

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"
Maple 10 delivers the most advanced, complete and error-free set
of math capabilities on the market, developed and tested over 25 years
and supported by a host of new tools that make it faster and easier to
put complex math into action.

Task templates and interactive task assistants enable
fill-in-the-blank problem solving for over 200 different
tasks.

-- A new statistics package includes a collection of functions
and interactive tools for mathematical statistics and data
analysis.

-- Compiled function option for dramatic speed increases in
numerical computation time.A.S.
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The product enables users to eliminate algebraic,
derivation and unit errors; expand the scope of research; and quickly
and easily validate results and derivations. Units and tolerance are carried
through all calculations , allowing engineers to check both the
final units (dimensional analysis) and tolerance or degree of
uncertainty of the final result. A list of partners is
available online at
http://www. Department of Education's
Office of Special Education Programs.
Yearly ProgressPro(TM) helps administrators and teachers track progress
towards districts' Adequate Yearly Progress goals, a key component of No Child
Left Behind.

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Maple 10 is the ideal analytical companion for academic
researchers.

This provides full content and
presentation control to the user.

Clickable calculus that allows the user to define problems,
compute, integrate, differentiate, plot, animate , and explore
parameters all in a point-and-click, easy-to-use interface. Outside of the US + Canada, Maple 10 is
available from Maplesoft reseller partners. "Its stamp of approval
demonstrates that Yearly ProgressPro(TM) is not simply another technology-
based assessment engine, but truly a research-based assessment methodology
that works. Additional information is available at
http: //www.

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A Graphing Calculator allowing access to the full power of
Maple via a familiar, intuitive interface.

-- Support for integer linear programming, choice of solver
methods, automatic plotting of objective function and
constraints in the Optimization Assistant."
Both Yearly ProgressPro(TM) Math and Yearly ProgressPro(TM) Reading fully
meet NCSPM's criteria in all categories.
Yearly ProgressPro(TM) for Reading/Language Arts is in the final stages of
beta testing and will be available for sale in the summer of 2005.

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"For over two decades, Maplesoft has provided academic
institutions around the world with fundamental and critical technology
for research and teaching in technical fields," said Jim Cooper, CEO
of Maplesoft. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs
funds the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring to meet the
challenges of implementing effective progress monitoring .

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com/contact/international/index. For more
information, visit www. Through weekly 15-minute tests ,
Yearly ProgressPro(TM) is able to evaluate student progress and prescribe
specific instruction for individual students. For more information, visit http://www. 4424.

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I have been teaching with Maple for more
than 15 years and Maple is so different from what it was years ago. For example,
right clicking an expression provides a menu of commands that
are only meaningful to that particular expression.com. In addition, Maplesoft leads
the market with innovations that make the management of technical
knowledge - whether in industry, or in a classroom - more effective
and efficient. By combining ongoing progress monitoring with
individualized instruction, Yearly ProgressPro (TM) gives teachers important
tools to help every child succeed.

About McGraw-Hill Digital Learning
McGraw-Hill Digital Learning provides research-based, standards-aligned
solutions that integrate diagnostics, prescriptive content, and reporting to
improve instruction and raise student performance.

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Math, engineering and science instructors can
engage students like never before by using Maple 10 to offer
interactive demonstrations and explorations, as well as to prepare
lecture material, handouts, and exercises.
Furthermore, Maple 10 improves student comprehension levels and
scholastic performance by providing the ability to illustrate
mathematical concepts, visualize problems and illuminate theory. NEW YORK, McGraw-Hill Digital Learning's
innovative online student progress monitoring system, Yearly ProgressPro(TM),
has been identified as meeting all criteria for effective progress monitoring
by the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring (NCSPM).

About Yearly ProgressPro(TM)
Launched in 2003 by McGraw-Hill Digital Learning, Yearly ProgressPro(TM)
is an online progress monitoring system built on 25 years of research in the
scientific methodology of Curriculum-Based Measurement, which has been proven
to be a highly effective method for improving student learning outcomes.com and
click "Product Tour" or call 1-800-848-1567, ext .

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S. Housed at the
American Institutes for Research, NCSPM is a national technical assistance and
dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically based
student progress monitoring.
Sales in 2004 were $5.

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"Since the students
in my Partial Differential Equations class are scattered all over the
country, Georgia Tech sends the lectures to them on CDs. They can now track a child's progress from their first day
of school to their last.studentprogress.org .

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This capability allows
knowledge to be captured and shared, providing not only the
answer but the thinking behind the analysis. The package supports a wide range of common
statistical tasks such as quantitative and graphical data
analysis, symbolic manipulation of random variables,
simulation, and curve fitting.maplesoft.maplesoft .

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The Maplesoft commercial
customer base includes Boeing, Bosch, Canon and NASA. Teachers can monitor progress
through a series of scientifically designed weekly assessments or they create
their own tests using an item bank with 37,000 problems.

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Components, such as sliders and buttons can be embedded within
Maple worksheets or deployed to the Web via MapleNet. Teachers at Stansbury Elementary in Utah
are using [Yearly ProgressPro(TM)] to routinely check student progress on the
year's curriculum.

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"With Maple 10, we are raising the bar by delivering the
most powerful and intuitive tool for mathematical research and
education.

Context sensitive menus provide only applicable operations
depending on the context, such as math operations, adjusting
plots, applying units, and changing palettes., a Web-based system for creating tests,
assignments and exercises, automatically assessing student responses
and performance. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies (NYSE: MHP), a global information services provider meeting
worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information
markets through leading brands such as Standard + Poor's and BusinessWeek.3 billion.