MATHLAB is an on-line system providing machine aid for the mechanical symbolic processes encountered in analysis. It is capable of performing, automatically and symbolically, such common procedures as simplification, substitution, differentiation, polynomial factorization, indefinite integration, direct and inverse Laplace transforms, the solution of linear differential equations with constant coefficients, the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and the inverson of matrices. It also supplies fairly elaborate bookkeeping facilities appropriate to its on-line operation.
As students progress from pre-kindergarten to high school they should become proficient in maths. This proficiency would enable them to cope with day to day math challenges and study mathematics beyond school. Unfortunately, this is not the case with many and a great many of them develop an aversion to it once they reach high school. Even many fumble at solving elementary problems.