[Maths-Education] PME27

[Peter Gates]

Thanks to all those who replied – some pointing out I looked in the wrong place for the PME27 proceedings (2003). Lovely to hear from people  I have known since PME10. And to be reminded that I actually had a Discussion Group in PME27 with Steve Lerman, Robyn Jorgensen and Mike Askew. Something about social justice or other.

Sadly all that is in the proceedings is his name…but …..

It was Nainoa Thompson. John Mason remembered after 20 years!! And lots of people came up with proceedings ….

Find him on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainoa_Thompson


“Charles Nainoa Thompson (born March 11, 1953, in Oahu<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahu>, Hawaii[1]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainoa_Thompson#cite_note-howe-1>) is a Native Hawaiian<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Hawaiian> navigator<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigator> and the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_Voyaging_Society>. He is best known as the first Hawaiian to practice the ancient Polynesian art of navigation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation> since the 14th century, having navigated two double-hulled canoes (the Hōkūleʻa<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dk%C5%ABle%CA%BBa> and the Hawaiʻiloa<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiiloa>) from Hawaiʻi<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawai%CA%BBi> to other island nations in Polynesia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia> without the aid of western instruments.”

John tells me it was a  “Terrific talk about learning from experience not instruction” so here is something interesting….


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation


Best Wishes, in what is a rather sobering year for people who have been in Maths ed for a long time…

Peter


From: Peter Gates
Sent: 19 February 2024 18:23
To: maths-education at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: PME27

A bit of a long shot, but at the opening session of PME27 in Hawai’i, there was a talk by a local navigator. I cant find the proceedings on line and I gave mine away to Loughborough years go. Does anyone remember him and have any info on his talk. I recall it was in a white church, and John Mason was particularly moved by it!

Best Wishes,

Peter

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Recent Publications
Gates, Peter and Noyes, Andrew (2020) “School Mathematics as Social Classification” in Ireson, Gwen and Povey, Hilary (Eds) Debates in Mathematics Teaching (2nd Edition), Routledge.
Yong, S.-T., Karjanto, N., Gates, P., Chan, T.-Y. A., & Khin, T.-M. (2020). Let us rethink how to teach mathematics using gaming principles, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. doi:10.1080/0020739X.2020.1744754
Gates, Peter (2019) “Why the (social) class you are in still matters”, in Constantinos Xenofontos (Ed.) Equity in Mathematics Education. Addressing a Changing World. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, pps 41-64.