{"id":189010,"date":"2023-12-19T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=189010"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T01:14:02","slug":"math-on-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/19\/math-on-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"Math on Maui: UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa faculty, students spread knowledge and cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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The UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team with Jack Johnson at N\u0101pili Park. (Left to right: Chuang Xu, Sam Glickman, Yuriy Mileyko, Jack Johnson, Monique Chyba and Alan Tong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Giving back to Maui keiki was at the heart of an educational trip to the Valley Isle by University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Department of Mathematics<\/a> faculty members and graduate students.<\/p>\n

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Jack Johnson playing a game with a young participant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Monique Chyba, Associate Professor Yuriy Mileyko and Assistant Professor Chuang Xu, with graduate students Alan Tong and Sam Glickman, visited N\u0101pili Noho, a community based emergency distribution hub at N\u0101pili Park that is helping those affected by the devastating Lahaina wildfire. They conducted math activities during a Christmas carnival-style event held on December 16. Singer-songwriter and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> native Jack Johnson performed and also participated in math games with the keiki. Johnson was actually a math major before switching to film.<\/p>\n

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Ninth and 10th graders learning about graph theory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to their visit to West Maui, the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team interacted with about 40 high school students (grades 9–11) at UH<\/abbr> Maui College. The students are part of TRiO<\/abbr> Upward Bound<\/a>, an engaging educational program that prepares low-income, first-generation high school students for college. The Maui students learned about graph theory, which is the study of graphs, that has cutting-edge applications such as social and traffic networks, optimal routing for emergency response, and molecular epidemiology.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Professor Chuang Xu teaching Upward Bound students about the Fleury\u2019s algorithm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The opportunity provided me valuable experience working with traditionally underserved populations which require intentional support to meet their unique needs,” Glickman said. “It was very inspiring to see smiles on these young people’s faces despite the traumatic experiences they have endured, and seeing the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> community come together to support the youth of Maui.”<\/p>\n

This effort is part of a RAPID<\/abbr> grant from the National Science Foundation on trauma-informed STEM<\/abbr> education<\/a>. Chyba and Mileyko are co-principal investigators on the grant.<\/p>\n

“It is a privilege to work with the Maui community and provide some educational support for their students, the resilience and engagement that we have seen is really inspiring,” Chyba said. “The high school students have displayed remarkable interest and focus during our lesson on graph theory, and the younger ones in N\u0101pili Park brought joy and excitement to our math activities. This work, in collaboration with Professor Tara O\u2019Neill (UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Education, principal investigator) and Professor Tom Blamey (UH<\/abbr> Maui College, co-principal investigator), is to help build STEM<\/abbr> learning environments where the focus is processing and healing. While there is a long journey ahead, we are humbled to be part of this effort.”<\/p>\n

The Department of Mathematics is housed in UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Natural Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa team worked with keiki from Maui high schools and at N\u0101pili Noho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[308,1466,554,568,9,60],"class_list":["post-189010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-mathematics","tag-natural-science","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189056,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189010\/revisions\/189056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}