Walter Koetke
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Introduction
Quoting from http://www.realmathematics.com/:
- Walter Koetke's forty-year career of teaching middle school and high school students and teachers continues to inspire him with new ideas and challenging problems - ideas and problems that comprise the REAL Mathematics™ series.
- Among his many recognitions for outstanding teaching is the Distinguished Teacher award he received from the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
- Mr. Koetke has written many mathematics and technology related articles and several textbooks and is a popular speaker at state and national meetings. He believes his degrees from MIT and Harvard provided a good background, but that most of his real learning resulted from interactions with students working on interesting problems and problem solving techniques like those in the REAL Mathematics™ series.
- Mr. Koetke lives and writes in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Books and Articles by Koetke
Walter Koetke is author of many books. A few are listed below.
Classic Thinking Games with Java. Book 3 of the series: Real Mathematics. 2007.
Geometric Delight. Book 2 of the series: Real Mathematics. 2005.
Number Wonder. Book 1 of the series: Real Mathematics. 2003.
Scholastic computers & math: Problem solving with Basic. 1986.
Computers in the classroom: Teachers resource manual for algebra. 1968.
Walter Koetke is author of many articles.
Woetke, Walter (1977). Creative Chess, The Best of Cretive Computing Volume 2.
Author or Authors
The stub for this page was developed by David Moursund, who has known Walter for many years.
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Quoting from http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=67954850:
- 1. Electronic School: Learning Online
www.electronicschool.com/19990 - [Cached] Published on: 5/21/2006 Last Visited: 4/2/2007
- "I was reading how textbooks were going to disappear in the '60s and how book publishing was going to disappear, and I see [book publishing] is as healthy today as it's ever been," says Walter J. Koetke, director of The Learning Odyssey, a nonprofit group that creates interactive, Internet-based software for elementary and middle school classrooms.
- 2. About K12: Senior Management
www.k-12.com/about/senior.html - [Cached] Published on: 6/30/2001 Last Visited: 6/30/2001
- Senior Management Ron Packard Mary Catherine ( M.C. ) Desrosiers Ted Eischeid John Holdren Bror Saxberg Ken Stickevers Jason Bertsch Walter Koetke David Niemi Virginia Rice Lee Woodman Gregg Vanourek
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- Walter Koetke Walter Koetke is vice president of instructional design for K12. He came to K12 from The Learning Odyssey , where he directed the design and all aspects of implementation of an interactive educational program that provides an online curriculum for grades one through eight. He also served for seven years as the director of the Math , Science , and Technology Center in Lexington , Kentucky , which designed and implemented all aspects of a four-year high school program for gifted students interested in science , math , and technology. Mr. Koetke previously was director of Technology for Scholastic , Inc. and an award-winning mathematics teacher in the Lexington , Massachusetts public school system. He holds a B.S. in Literature and Mathematics from MIT and an M.A. in Teaching from Harvard University.
- 3. K12 > Get to Know Us > Senior Management
www.k12.net/get_to_know_us/sen - [Cached] Published on: 4/23/2001 Last Visited: 4/23/2001
- Walter Koetke comes to K12 as vice president of instructional design from The Learning Odyssey , where he directed the design and all aspects of implementation of an interactive educational program that provides an online curriculum for grades one through eight. He also served for seven years during the early 1990s as the director of the Math , Science , and Technology Center in Lexington , Kentucky , which designed and implemented all aspects of a four-year high school program for gifted students interested in science , math , and technology. Mr. Koetke previously was director of Technology for Scholastic , Inc. and an award-winning mathematics teacher in Lexington , Massachusetts , public schools. He holds a B.S. from MIT and an M.A. from Harvard University.
- 4. TECHNOS.NET
www.technos.net/../tq_07/2koet - [Cached] Published on: 6/28/2003 Last Visited: 11/4/2005
By Walter Koetke ...
- Walter Koetke is director of The Learning Odyssey, AIT's new Internet-based curriculum. Koetke was previously director of the Math, Science, and Technology Center for the Lexington/Fayette Public Schools and director of technology for Scholastic, Inc. He is a widely published author and frequent speaker on education, computing, and technology.
- 5. Electronic School: Learning Online
www.electronic-school.com/1999 - [Cached] Published on: 6/1/1999 Last Visited: 7/15/2001
- I was reading how textbooks were going to disappear in the '60s and how book publishing was going to disappear , and I see [ book publishing ] is as healthy today as it's ever been , says Walter J. Koetke , director of The Learning Odyssey , a nonprofit group that creates interactive , Internet based software for elementary and middle school classrooms.
Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math,_Science,_and_Technology_Center:
- The Math, Science, and Technology Center, also known as MSTC (Lexington, KY), is a prestigious magnet program housed in Lexington, Kentucky's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. It draws students from throughout the Fayette County Public Schools district. Since the program's establishment in 1991, it has produced 61 National Merit Finalists. It has an average ACT score of 31 and an average SAT score of 1400. 14 MSTC students have scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT, and one MSTC student has scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. MSTC graduates are offered an average of five scholarships from different schools, and have attended 20 of the top 30 universities and colleges in the country, as ranked by US News and World Report.
The director of MSTC is at the same level within the school district as a high school principal, and therefore does not answer to the principal of PLD. The founding director of the MSTC was Walter Koetke. The current director is Beverly Smith. The center's teachers generally divide their time between teaching for MSTC and teaching upper-level courses for Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.
