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Bert K. Waits
Dr. Bert Waits earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and is currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics there. Dr. Waits is cofounder of the international Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) professional development program and has been co-director or principal investigator on several large National Science Foundation projects.
He has published articles in over seventy nationally-recognized professional journals. Dr. Waits frequently has given workshops, invited lectures, and minicourses at national meetings of the MAA and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on how to use computer technology to enhance the learning and teaching of mathematics.
Professor Bert is co-recipient of the 1997 Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award presented by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and is the co-founder (with Frank Demana) of the ICTCM. He is also co-recipient of the 1998 Christofferson-Fawcett Mathematics Education Award presented by the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He was one of the six authors of the high school portion of the groundbreaking 1989 NCTM Standards.
Daniel Kennedy
Dr. Dan Kennedy got his BSc from the College of the Holy Cross and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in math from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1973 he has taught mathematics at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he holds the Cartter Lupton Distinguished Professorship. Dan joined the Advanced Placement® (AP) Calculus Test Development Committee in 1986, then in 1990 became the first high school teacher in 35 years to chair that committee.
It was during his tenure as a chair that the program moved to require graphing calculators and laid the early groundwork for the 1998 reform of the AP Calculus curriculum. The author of the 1997 Teacher’s Guide—AP Calculus, Professor Kennedy has conducted over 50 workshops for high school calculus teachers.
Daniel was named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1992 and a Presidential Award winner in 1995.
Franklin D. Demana
Dr. Franklin Demana earned his master’s degree in mathematics and his Ph.D. from
Michigan State University. Currently, Frank is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at The Ohio State University. As an active supporter of the use of technology to teach and learn maths, he is co-founder of the international Teachers Teaching with Technology professional development program. Dr. Demana has published a variety of articles in the areas of calculator- and computer-enhanced mathematics instruction.
He is also co-founder of the annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM). Professor Frank is co-recipient of the 1997 Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award presented by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, and co-recipient of the 1998 Christofferson-Fawcett Mathematics Education Award presented by the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Ross L. Finney
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