Bert Waits
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Bert Waits | |
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Born | Bert Kerr Waits II 21 December 1940 |
Died | 27 July 2014 Orlando, Florida, USA | (aged 73)
Resting place | Gahanna, Ohio |
Education | BS (1962), MS (1964), Ph.D. (1969), all from The Ohio State University |
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Spouse | Barbara Jean Finley |
Children | 5 |
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Fields | Mathematics Education |
Institutions | Ohio State University |
Bert Kerr "Hank" Waits II was an American mathematician and professor at The Ohio State University where he taught in the Mathematics Department from 1961 to 1991.[1] He was also a consultant to Texas Instruments, Education Technology Division, and a mathematics textbook author.
In 1986 Bert Waits and Franklin Demana founded the international network Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³),[2] followed by the annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), and in 1993 the European biennial International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT) [3]
His mantra was ’’The power of visualization’’ [4] which he shared in over 200 invitation lectures worldwide from 1988 to 2006.
Publications (selection)
- Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, Pearson, 2010, ISBN 978-0321656933
- Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, Prentice Hall, 2021, ISBN 978-0133178579
- Geometry, Holt McDougal, 2011, ISBN 978-0547646992