Create an interactive Maple application

Create interactive Maple applications that provide a simple point-and-click interface to the full power of Maple, from solving an integral or visualizing a function to computing the dissolved oxygen content in a river or calculating the necessary thickness of foil for a solar panel. These interactive math apps can be used to solve problems, visualize solutions, explore concepts, and assess understanding.

Using Maple's Smart Document interface, you can create Möbius Apps quickly and easily using the Exploration Assistant, or take advantage of Maple's flexible development environment by using drag-and-drop interactive components to create more customized applications. Möbius Apps can contain interactive elements such as sliders, buttons, and math entry boxes, as well as text, mathematics, plots, and images that explain or enhance the application.

Share the application with everyone

Share your applications with everyone through The Möbius Project. You, your colleagues, and your students can use Möbius Apps to enhance lectures, enrich assessment, and support independent learning.

To make your App available to everyone, including non-Maple users, simply post it to the Maple Cloud from inside Maple. Möbius Apps can be used from a computer, tablet, or smart phone from within your browser. MapleNet is available 24/7 to provide the mathematics engine behind your Möbius Apps. If you prefer, you can also download the free Maple Player to run Möbius Apps right on your own computer. Of course, if you do have Maple, you can download these Apps from the Maple Cloud straight into your Maple session.

Grade the application to assess understanding

Möbius Apps are gradable, so you can use them to measure and deepen your students’ understanding. By embedding a Möbius App into a Maple T.A. assignment question, it can be used as a specialized calculator for working out steps of the solution or visualizing the problem, or the Möbius App itself can be the question. To answer the question, students interact with the App directly inside Maple T.A.

Maple T.A. will automatically grade the Möbius App by looking at what the student did with it, such as examining the location of sliders and the contents of math entry boxes. Like other Maple T.A. questions, if there is more than one correct answer, Maple T.A. will analyze the response mathematically to assign an appropriate grade.