Maple V is a mathematical software package.
In addition to doing numerical and graphical computations, it does symbolic manipulation. In other words, Maple understands variables and other symbols without giving them actual values. This makes it much more powerful than a graphing calculator. This document will introduce you to the basic commands in Maple and show you some trouble-shooting techniques for helping students use the program in their calculus classes. This year, we have upgraded to Maple V Release 5 .