{"id":89412,"date":"2019-01-11T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89412"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:23:06","slug":"ethnomathematics-licensure-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/11\/ethnomathematics-licensure-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"First-in-the-world <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> ethnomathematics program approved by Hawai\u02bbi Teacher Standards Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_11702\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sgpBOkGcHCg?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"First-in-the-world Â鶹´«Ã½ethnomathematics for licensure approved by Hawaii Teacher Standards Board\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>In 2018, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Education<\/a> began offering the first ethnomathematics graduate certificate and became the first academic program in <a href=\"https:\/\/outreach.hawaii.edu\/ethnomathematics\/\">ethnomathematics<\/a> in the world. Later that year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiteacherstandardsboard.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Teacher Standards Board<\/a> approved ethnomathematics as a field of licensure.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it\u2019s fantastic that the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Teachers Standards Board has added ethnomathematics as a field, because it just validates everything that we\u2019re doing,&rdquo; said Jaqueline Vallejo-San Agustin, a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Technology Academy teacher. &ldquo;It emphasizes the importance of integrating culture in our school curricula, especially in math, which is a subject that culture isn\u2019t really seen in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89537\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-ethnomath-group-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people preparing to gather algae\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-ethnomath-group-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-ethnomath-group-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/manoa-ethnomath-group.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethnomathematics participants gather algae around Coconut Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more than a decade, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> had been developing dynamic mathematics educators through ethnomathematics training, which provides hands-on experiences such as sailing aboard the the Polynesian Voyaging Society\u2019s double-hulled canoes Hikianalia and <span aria-label=\"HokUlea\">H&#333;k&#363;le&#699;a<\/span> and traveling to the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology on Moku o <span aria-label=\"Loe\">Lo&#699;e<\/span>, also known as Coconut Island, in <span aria-label=\"Kaneohe\">K&#257;ne&#699;ohe<\/span> Bay to study snapping shrimp and other creatures in the algae participants collect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/ethnomathematics\/\">Read more about <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s ethnomathematics program.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ethnomathematics is a way to prepare high-quality primary and secondary teachers as leaders through real-world application of teaching and learning mathematics that bridges indigenous wisdom and 21st century skills to classrooms and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Vallejo-San Agustin says, &ldquo;Ethnomathematics is just the way we should be teaching mathematics. By using culture, by going into our physical environments and just by doing instead of just listening and lecturing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Being first in the world means <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is leading the way for math education. Ferdinando Arzarello, former president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction says, &ldquo;[<abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s] program is very important because it\u2019s opening new ways for research in math education, for research in science, for research that is looked at from a fresher standpoint.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> biology Instructor <strong>Michelle Phillips<\/strong> says she\u2019s seen ethnomathematics change students. &ldquo;It\u2019s made a huge difference. I\u2019ve been involved in this program since 2015, so I\u2019ve seen students go from listening to lectures to actually getting involved to wanting to make a difference in their community,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The ethnomathematics program at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s College of Education is the culmination of more than 10 years of building the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Ethnomathematics and <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> Institute, under the direction of Professor of Mathematics Education <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/directory\/?person=lfuruto\"><strong>Linda Furuto<\/strong><\/a>, with support from state and federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>Furuto said, &ldquo;The future vision of the ethnomathematics program is to strive to be a model for how we learn and teach mathematics that honors all people and places, and to be a catalyst for positive change in the communities we\u2019re endeavoring to serve in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and around the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa College of Education\u2019s Ethnomathematics Program or to apply go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/outreach.hawaii.edu\/ethnomathematics\/\">program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ethnomathematics program at the College of Education is the culmination of more than 10 years of building the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Ethnomathematics and <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[95,1357,554,313,9,56],"class_list":["post-89412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-college-of-education","tag-ethnomathematics","tag-mathematics","tag-stem","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412","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=89412"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124636,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89412\/revisions\/124636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}