Betsy Farber (USA)

BETSY FARBER received her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Penn State University and her Master’s degree in mathematics from the College of New Jersey. Beginning in 1976, she taught all levels of mathematics at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania, where she held the rank of professor. She was particularly interested in developing new ways to make statistics relevant and interesting to her students and taught statistics in many different modes—with the TI-83 Plus, with Minitab, and by distance learning as well as in the traditional classroom. A member of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), she authored The Student Edition of MINITAB and A Guide to MINITAB. She served as consulting editor for Statistics, A First Course and wrote computer tutorials for the CD-ROM correlating to the texts in the Streeter Series in mathematics. Sadly, Betsy passed away during the production of book Elementary Statistics after battling an extended illness.