For students from ages 11 to 18 |  |
With Microsoft® Student with Encarta® Reference Library 2007, your teenager will find easy-to-access information and tools to help with the toughest aspects of Maths, English, Literature, Geography, Science, Art and Music. There is also a section with safe, age-appropriate information for 7-to-12 year olds called Children’s Encarta.
Find out more about these top features:
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Microsoft Maths
This collection of maths tools, tutorials and instructions helps your student solve those tough maths and science problems.
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Encarta Reference Library 2007
The full version of the number-one best-selling encyclopedia software brand* — Encarta 2007 — comes with Microsoft Student. It's information you can trust.
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Learning Essentials
Students can create high-quality reports and presentations with Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® (sold separately).
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Microsoft Maths | |
Is your arithmetic a little rusty? Don’t worry. Your children will have all the help they need to confidently tackle the most difficult problems in trigonometry, calculus, chemistry and physics using Microsoft Maths. These tools include:
Step-by-step Equation Solver
This tool provides students with step-by-step solutions to many maths problems encountered in secondary school, including:
A full-featured 2-D and 3-D graphical calculator
This powerful tool functions more efficiently than many stand-alone calculators. Work can be saved to finish later, added to Word or PowerPoint documents, or shared with study groups.
The graphical calculator also provides:
| Tools for graphing scientific formulas and maths equations from simple maths to Calculus |
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 maths rules it used to compute the missing values |
Formulae and Equations
Formulae and Equations contain more than 125 interactive common maths 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 maths and sciences by making it easy for students to quickly convert units of measure such as:
Encarta Reference Library 2007 | |
Your student will have a world of reliable, up-to-date information with the full version of Encarta Reference Library 2007 found in Microsoft Student:
| 42,000+ 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 |
| More than 300 interactive learning activities in Children’s Encarta |
| 275 videos and animations |
| 23 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 Reference Library 2007 include:
| 2-D and 3-D virtual tours that make history come alive! |
| Children’s Encarta with content for younger learners |
| 23 high-quality videos from the Discovery Channel |
It's information you can trust!
Foreign Language Help | |
This tool, plus Microsoft Word, means that your student will have access to bilingual dictionaries that go from English to French and French to English
It also supports:
Verb conjugations are available for:
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 essays and presentations.
Learning Essentials includes:
| Templates for different types of compositions, from Social Studies reports to informative essays |
| Organisational tools for helping students |
| - How to conduct research
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