Dr. LINDA FURUTO is a mathematics educator professor & Director of the Ethnomathematics Graduate Certificate and M.Ed. Curriculum Studies, Mathematics Education. She taught us about how math is all around us- from angles in spearfishing to trigonometry and navigation, ethnomathematics is used to solve real-world problems, the importance of service learning, the wisdom of the Hawaiian Star Compass, and how we can create tools together to navigate the universe.

She graciously donated her honoraria to the MAUI STRONG FUND, supporting immediate and long-term recovery needs of people and places affected by the Maui fires. https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/strengthening/maui-strong-fund

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-Universe is our greatest textbook, from the heavens to the stars

- Spearfishing & Mathematics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8TBf_LTKI

(Light Refraction & Spear Fishing)
-mathematics is not only taught within the four walls of the classroom

-math is life, math is everywhere

-experiential fish pods

-engineering, preservation, land to sea, marine biology, navigation

Pacific American Foundation Waikalua Loko Fishpond: 

https://www.thepaf.org/waikalua/

-Ethnomathematics Graduate Division: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 

https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/

-Math has existed since the beginning of time, but it takes naming it, ethnomathematics, to be aware of it.

-ethnomathematics is a tool to navigate the world. The pillars of the UHM Ethnomathematics Program include: environment, integrated content, teaching practice, culture, community, values, legacy. https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/vision/

-“Current and Future perspectives of ethnomathematics as a program,” (book), M. Rosa, U. D’Ambrosio , D. C. Orey et al., https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-30120-4

-challenges students to solve real-life problems

-value-based education

-Polynesian Voyaging Society- Hōkūle‘a https://hokulea.com

-navigating around the world on a traditional voyaging canoe.

-learning to care for Island Earth

-to honour the past and raise the next generation

-Papa Mau, the first wayfinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IF8jCLxyAA

-islands have limits, we have to work together to survive and venture beyond the horizon

-Wisdom of the Hawaiian Star Compass

-mental construct of the canoe- 32 star houses, accounting for the winds, angles, degrees, trigonometry.

-being aware of all directions at all times.

-you have to trust your internal compass

https://ksdigitalfiles.ksbe.edu/assets/ohana/hawaiianstarcompass_ohana.pdf

https://hokulea.com/the-star-compass-by-nainoa-thompson/

-we can’t change the wind, but we can change our sails. When we change our sails, we often arrive not necessarily where we think we need to be but exactly where we are supposed to be. You never should scold the winds, the winds are our family.

-Future:  responsibility to talk about the issues like land and water rights and protect what was here before.

-        University of Hawaiʻi News: First-in-the-World UH Ethnomathematics Program Approved by Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/01/11/ethnomathematics-licensure-approved/

-        PBS Hawaiʽi: Home is Here Featuring the UHM Ethnomathematics Program 

https://www.pbshawaii.org/home-is-here-episode-5/

-        TODOS Mathematics for ALL Podcast: Ethnomathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa  

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/todosmath/episodes/2021-05-24T11_03_21-07_00

-        University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Ethnomathematics Curriculum Library (FREE K–12 and Higher Education Resources):

https://coe.hawaii.edu/ethnomath/curricula/

Gratitude to Support from JUAN-CARLOS CHAVEZ and the editing skills of EMIL STARLIGHT of Limelight Multimedia

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