Book reviews - Kutzler, Bernhard, Improving Mathematics Teaching with DERIVE, 185 pp., £14.50 Hill, Robert J. and Thomas A. Keagy, Elementary Linear Algebra with DERIVE / Rade, Lennart and Bertil Westergren, Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering / Backstrom, Gunnar, Practical Mathematics Using MATLAB / Rich, Nelson, Judith Rose and Lawrence Gilligan, Mastering the I-92: Explorations from Algebra through Calculus

DERIVE is a symbolic algebra and graphing package that will run on virtually any PC, has a large literature for school and university users, and is available to students almost for the price of a textbook (Murphy (1996)). Bernhard Kutz ler is the author of an introduction to DERIVE which is a model of how to write a self-study guide to mathematical software (Murphy (1995)). In this new book, Kutzler, an expert on DERIVE teaching in the Austrian school curriculum, presents a linked series of 7 chapters on the design and implementation of mathematics courses using DERIVE. As was to be expected, the exposition is a model of clarity, and the book will be of interest to all teachers and lecturers who use or are thinking of using DERIVE with their students.