Derive offers an easy to use, powerful CAS teaching tool with maximum computational power and 3-D graphing capability. As a teaching tool, it provides the freedom and ease-of-use necessary to explore and document different approaches to solving problems. As a research tool, it provides an efficient and reliable environment for symbolically solving a wide range of mathematical problems.

Derive is a trusted mathematical assistant relied upon by students, educators, engineers and scientists around the world. It does for algebra, trigonometry, calculus and linear algebra what the scientific calculator does for arithmetic. It eliminates the drudgery of performing long and tedious computations. Derive can solve both symbolic and numeric problems, and then plot the results as 2D graphs or 3D surfaces.