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Description:

The easy, all-in-one homework assistant that helps students excel in school.

Here's some help with getting started.

Sometimes the hardest part about completing a project is getting started. To help solve this problem, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 includes the latest version of Microsoft Learning Essentials. Learning Essentials provides step-by-step writing tips and pre-formatted report and presentation templates. This helps students get a head-start in creating great looking reports and presentations for achieving better grades. Learning Essentials works with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel in either Microsoft Office XP, 2003, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system (sold separately).

Get past the blank page

Easy-to-use tools, templates, and tutorials help get students past formatting questions and get to the core learning in their assignments. Learning Essentials includes tips and tutorials for managing projects and creating high-quality reports, presentations, science projects, and other assignments.

Includes:

• Templates for book reports, creative projects, and oral presentations.
• Organizational tools for applying to college.
• Tutorials on how to conduct research, charting and graphing basics, and literary analysis.
• Brainstorming tools such as the gathering grid, the know-wonder-learn chart, and Venn diagrams.

It's like having a personal math tutor.

Microsoft Math features a large collection of tools, tutorials, and instructions designed to help students learn mathematical concepts while quickly solving math problems. In an instant, students will see how to solve problems - step by step! Works for all grade levels - from basic math, pre-algebra, algebra (including logarithms and exponents) to trigonometry!

Equation Solver. Enter a problem into the Equation Solver and get step-by-step help on how to solve it. Need advanced help? A full-featured graphing calculator that's simple to learn and use (equal to those costing more than $100!) helps students visualize and solve math and science problems.

Triangle Solver and Equation Library. Interact with a library of over 100 equations and the relationships of triangles and their parts while viewing associated rules or graphs.

Unit Conversion Tool. This tool is extremely useful in both math and science by making it easy for students to quickly convert units of measure such as Length, Area, Volume, Weight, Temperature and Pressure.

Information You can Trust

A full version of Encarta Premium 2008 comes with Microsoft Student. With trusted content that is accurate and up-to-date, students can find the information they're looking for - quickly and easily with Encarta Premium 2008.You will be amazed to see the time that students spend researching, compelled by sights and sounds of one fascinating presentation after another. Students can easily-and quickly-access trusted information provided by world experts. And since they can automatically download updates from the Encarta Web site, they'll have up-to-date and accurate reference software when they need it. Encarta Premium 2008 comes complete with a wide range of reference tools, including a dynamic atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, and language translation dictionaries. Encarta Premium 2008 comes complete with a wide range of reference tools, including:

• Thousands of trust-worthy Encarta Premium articles, photographs, videos, and sound clips that make learning more fun.
• A Dictionary, Thesaurus, Worldwide Maps, and an Interactive Atlas.
• 2D and 3D virtual tours that make history come alive!
• Encarta Kids - a separate encyclopedia geared to young learners ages 7 to 12!