Developed and maintained by Microsoft, it is primarily targeted at students as a learning tool.

For version 4.0, it was released as a free downloadable product[4] and was called Microsoft Mathematics 4.0.

[3][6] Microsoft Math received the 2008 Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning Magazine.

[7] Microsoft Math contains features that are designed to assist in solving mathematics, science, and tech-related problems, as well as to educate the user.

The application features such tools as a graphing calculator and a unit converter.