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Abstract: The most diversified and efficient computer support of subject teaching can be carried out by environment that provides all the stages of teaching process, types of learning activities and its organization forms including students' independent work. Such an environment should have a high degree of interactivity and therefore be based on mathematical and computer modeling technologies. This concept was implemented in relation to the school and university Physics course in the software «Inter@ctive physics», elaborated by Innovative Technologies Institute (Perm, Russia). Its main components are content (mostly interactive models and tasks), tool for selecting environment objects to support the course, tool for students' knowledge systematization, system of Internet monitoring of their learning activity results. The practice of using the product shows that multifunctional computer environment in Physics teaching has a considerable potential in the formation of students' engineering thinking. The most useful are learning objects, suggesting a systemic analysis of situations and the formalization of their description, the study of multiparameter models, designing systems and finding optimal configurations, interaction with computer models of real devices.