While you may still need to hang on to your graphing calculator for exams, when you're doing your homework, exploring data, or even just messing around, Python plots look better and are also free.

Windows Calculator has a Graphing feature. We show all its features in Windows 11/10 that you can use to make mathematics more insightful.

The app also has premade examples of a wide variety of graphs ranging from standard lines and parabolas, to linear regressions, to integrals and derivatives.

Microsoft has chosen "graphing mode" as the first feature to be added to the Windows 10 Calculator app after open-sourcing the project on GitHub.

Learn how to read and plot quadratic graphs with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.