%0 Journal Article %T Ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias con Maxima %A Ortigoza Capetillo %A Gerardo Mario %J Educaci¨Žn matem¨˘tica %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this work we present solutions of ordinary differencial equations by using the open source package maxima. the basic commands of solutions of this package are explained by a set of selected examples taken from trraditional courses in ordinary differential equations. here, some of the strengths and the weakenesses of maxima as a teaching tool in an ode's course exposed. we hope that this work can be used by the reader as a practical introduction to initiate the study of odes by using maxima, and in this way to obtener a benefit of the use of this open source computational package. %K open source packages %K teaching %K ordinary differential equations %K maxima. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-58262009000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en