Topic: The mathematics of ocean navigation and mapping from the traditional cultures of the Marshall Islands and other South Pacific navigators, including navigation by ocean swells and stars, mapping the south Pacific with stick and shell maps
Group: Alexa, Jennifer, and myself
Format: We will be attempting to recreate a stick chart
References
Ascher, M. (1995). Models and Maps from the Marshall Islands: A Case in Ethnomathematics.
Historia Mathematica, 22, 347-370.
Knighton, H. (2020, April). Navigating the Waters with Micronesian Stick Charts. Ocean find
your blue. https://ocean.si.edu/human-connections/history-cultures/navigating-waters-
Lyons, H. (1928). The Sailings Charts of the Marshall Islanders. The Geographic Journal, 72(4),
325-327. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1782371
Patowary, K. (2016, February). The Stick Chart Navigation of Marshall Islands. Amusing Planet.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/02/the-stick-chart-navigation-of-marshall.html
Traditional ways of Knowing Polynasian Stick Chart. (n.d.). Exploring our Fluid Earth Teaching
Science as an Inquiry. https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/node/34
Well done! We should talk about how you could make a stick chart of something other than the ocean (unless you have a lot of sailing experience on a small boat!) There are other kinds of 'terrain' you can map this way.
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