Features:

For students from 7th grade to 12th grade

Boost your confidence in the classroom with Microsoft Student. This program combines Microsoft Encarta Premium 2009 multimedia encyclopedia, Microsoft Math, Microsoft Learning Essentials, and foreign language tools to help you succeed in a variety of subjects.

Microsoft Student includes:

• A full version of Encarta Premium 2009, with thousands of research articles.
• Microsoft Math to help you step up your math and science performance.
• Learning Essentials, which offers step-by-step writing tips, preformatted presentation templates, and organizational tools for college applications.
• Detailed assistance with foreign language learning for Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
• More than 1,000 book summaries for literary help.

Microsoft Math

Tackle the toughest math and science problems with ease, from basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Math helps you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. It gives you step-by-step instruction, while providing you with a better understanding of fundamental concepts.

Microsoft Math includes:

• Step-by-step instruction to help solve difficult math problems with the Step-by-Step Equation Solver.
• A full-featured graphing calculator with large 2-D and enhanced 3-D color graphs to better illustrate problems and concepts
• The Formulas and Equations Library—a resource with more than 100 commonly used equations and formulas to help you identify and apply the right one for your problem
• The Triangle Solver—a graphing tool that helps you explore and better understand triangles and their parts
• The Unit Conversion Tool—a handy tool that quickly and easily converts units of measure including length, area, volume, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, power, velocity, and time.
• Ink Handwriting Support that works with Tablet PCs and Ultra-Mobile PCs and recognizes handwritten problems.

Step–by–step Equation Solver

This tool provides students with step–by–step solutions to many math problems encountered in both middle– and high–school, including:

• Pre–algebra
• Algebra I
• Algebra II
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Common Arithmetic

Online Math Homework Help

This tool provides more than 100 textbooks via instant and free access to Hotmath—a subscription worth up to $49 per year. Students get help solving a specific problem from their textbook by selecting the:

• Subject Publisher
• Chapter
• Page
• Specific problem number

A full–featured 2D and 3D graphing calculator

This powerful tool functions more efficiently than many stand–alone calculators costing up to $100. Work can be saved to finish later, added to Word or PowerPoint documents, or shared with study groups.

The graphing calculator also provides:

Tools for graphing scientific formulas and math equations from simple math to Calculus

Enhanced 3D technology

Changeable skins

Triangle Solver

This tool develops Geometry skills. Now students can easily input their own values.

The calculator:

Determines the missing information

Draws the triangle to scale

Provides the math rules it used to compute the missing values

Equation Library

Equation Library contains more than 125 interactive common math equations and formulas. Students can type in live inputs and the Library will provide the missing variable–and in some cases even graph the equation!

Unit Conversion Tool

This tool is extremely useful in both math and sciences by making it easy for students to quickly convert units of measure such as:

• Length
• Area
• Volume
• Weight
• Temperature
• Pressure
• Energy
• Power
• Velocity
• Consumption

Your student will have a world of reliable, up–to–date information with the full version of Encarta Premium 2008 found in Microsoft Student:

• 66,000+ articles written by experts in virtually every field
• 26,000+ editorially approved photos and illustrations
• 1.8 million map locations
• 3,000+ sound and music clips
• 29,000+ links to Web sites pre–selected by Encarta editors
• 200+ interactive learning activities in Encarta Kids
• 300+ videos and animations
• 20 (on CD)/32 (on DVD) videos from the Discovery Channel

It also comes with Web Companion, which helps students sort through the clutter of internet searches and makes it easier to find pertinent information.

Other features of Encarta Premium 2009 include:

2D and 3D virtual tours that make history come alive!

Encarta Kids with content for younger learners

32 high–quality videos from the Discovery Channel

Interactive World Atlas

It’s information you can trust!

Foreign Language Help

This tool, plus Microsoft Word, means that your student will have access to translation dictionaries that go from English to French and French to English

It also supports:

• French
• German
• Spanish
• Italian

Verb conjugations are available for:  

• French
• German
• Spanish

Learning Essentials

Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint work together with Learning Essentials to provide templates and tutorials that will help your student create top–quality reports and presentations.

Learning Essentials includes:

Templates for different types of compositions, from Social Studies reports to informative essays

Organizational tools for applying to college

Tutorials on:

• How to use Excel
• Chart and graph basics
• Literary analysis tool

Hotmath.com Details

View the hints and steps for actual math homework problems from textbooks. Proven to improve math scores. Select subject at left to find your textbook.

Hotmath, Inc. was founded in 2000 and today serves over a million students with instant explanations for odd–numbered homework problems for over 150 math textbooks. We have partnerships with Microsoft (Encarta), Texas Instruments, and leading math textbook publishers.

Independent scientific research shows that tutorial help with homework improves math learning. Math scores have improved when Hotmath is used. We have been the topic of an education journal article and a teacher article. Math teachers support the use of Hotmath. Please review our awards and testimonials.

In addition to helping with math homework, Hotmath.com offers resources for graphing calculators, math workbooks, remediation, math games, personal tutoring, and review lessons.

System Requirements:

To use Microsoft® Student with Encarta® Premium 2008, you need:

• A personal computer with a Pentium 600–MHz processor or faster (1 GHz or higher recommended)
• Windows XP SP2 or later
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
• 1.5 GB of available hard–disk space
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 requires between 210 and 620 MB of hard–disk space (included on disc).
• DVD–ROM drive
• High Color capable or better video card with a minimum 800x600 resolution (1024x768 recommended)
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse® or compatible pointing device
• 16–bit sound card and headphones or speakers
• Additional items or services required to use certain features:
• Encarta Kids requires an additional 430 MB of hard–disk space.
• Copy to Hard Drive requires an additional 1.8 GB of available hard–disk space.
• Learning Essentials Templates and Toolbars require Office XP or Office 2003, available separately.
• Access to sounds and videos require Windows Media Player 8.