3Ms for Instruction: Reviews of Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab

Most CiSE readers have probably used Maple, Mathematica, or Matlab for several years. With this review series, our goal is to help you now decide whether one of the others is better suited to your temperament and current practice than your original choice. For those of you new to integrative computing packages, our goal is to enable you to make an informed first choice. In this installment, we begin to examine how these tool packages serve the professional work of undergraduate education.