Bert Waits
- co-founder of Teachers Teaching with Technology
- co-author of the NCTM’s 1989 Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics
- co-founder of the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM)
- co-founder of the International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT)
- Glenn Gilbert Award
- Christopherson-Fawcett Award
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