Mathematical Formula in a document.

Is it possible to write attractive mathematical formula in Pages? I have a trial version of Pages 09 but I can't figure out how to write formula easily, I need to write loads for my coursework hand-ins. I don't mean spreadsheet type formula that do stuff, just descriptive formulae of the type you'd write if you were doing algebra by hand. One solution is to write the equation in Grapher and paste it into pages as an image, but Grapher doesn't allow you to type subscripts, so it's not ideal. The latest version of Word has an equation writing tool apparently but iWork is cheaper than office for mac. Though I do find excel more powerful for the sort of scientific analysis I do so perhaps office is the better package anyway. Any ideas?

If you havnet already purchased MathType6.
Then you can use Grapher, the app you have pre-installed, for making the equations.
The only downside is that once you have copy/pasted the equation from Grapher in to your Pages dokument is that you need to change it in Grapher, then copy/paste again in order to change something in the first equation.

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