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As part of today's BETT announcement, Microsoft stated that the Windows Calculator app will be able to graph functions before the back-to-school season this year, providing students with a new way to visualize equations on their computers. This feature seems to offer deeper insights into how equations work, and although it will certainly be useful for learning, teachers will be able to disable the app on school computers.
Right now, Windows Insiders in the Fast ring can already test this feature in the latest version of the Calculator app, and it will be available in more rings before reaching general availability.
Microsoft made several other announcements at BETT, including adding equation tools to OneNote in Windows 10, allowing users to create a variety of equations with necessary symbols. Furthermore, the Math Assistant in OneNote is soon getting an app version for iPad, with the ability to solve equations and view detailed solution steps. In the future, it will also potentially feature graphing capabilities. Finally, students in school will be able to connect OneNote with Microsoft Translator to receive subtitles and direct translations into OneNote with note-taking capabilities simultaneously.
There are even more additions to OneNote Class Notebooks. In OneNote for the web, you'll soon be able to save a copy of an entire notebook, starting with users within the same organization using Office 365. Teachers can now also distribute pages from notebooks to students in a class.
Many other features have been developed for Microsoft's education suite of products, including improvements to Whiteboard and many more features. You can find all the BETT news on Microsoft's Education Blog.
