Bert Waits
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Comment: What's necessary is to show a/ that these are standard and influential textbooks. b/that his role in T3 was significant. The author of the article has a coi--from his deWP user page, he works for TI. the major firm producing graphing calculators, which Waits popularized in mathematics education. But from his user contributions there, he seems to be an expert on the subject , and should be able to write a fuller article. DGG ( talk ) 18:04, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: Not sure this meets WP:NPROF, but I'll leave that up to @DGG: Bkissin (talk) 16:50, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Bert Waits | |
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| Born | Bert Kerr Waits II 21 December 1940 |
| Died | 27 July 2014 (aged 73) Orlando, Florida, USA |
| 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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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Education |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
Bert “Hank” Waits was an emeritus professor of mathematics at The Ohio State University where he taught in the Mathematics Department from 1961 to 1991..[1]. He also was a retired consultant for Texas Instruments, Education Technology Division, and a mathematics textbook author.
In 1986 Bert Waits and Franklin Demana found the international Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³)[2] network, followed by the annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM), and in 1993 the European biannual International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT) [3]
His mantra was ’’The power of visualization’’ [4] which he shared in over 200 invited lectures worldwide from 1988 to 2006. By this he directly or indirectly touched the lives of tens of thousands of students, teachers and colleagues worldwide.
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
References
Category:1940 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Ohio State University alumni Category:Mathematics_educators