Bert Waits

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.

• 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