{"id":5763,"date":"2016-10-17T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2016-10-17T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:57:31","slug":"making-math-relevant-maritime-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/making-math-relevant-maritime-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Math Relevant, Maritime-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_LBSfromwater.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5765 size-full\" title=\"Lowell's Boat Shop along the Merrimack River, Amesbury\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_LBSfromwater.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_lbsfromwater\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_LBSfromwater.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_LBSfromwater-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day, we stopped by  <a href=\"http:\/\/lowellsboatshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell&#8217;s Boat Shop<\/a> which is situated along the banks of the Merrimack River in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The establishment dates back to 1793 and is credited with being the birthplace of the seaworthy fishing dory, once the mainstay of the fishing industry in New England.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5787 size-full\" title=\"Interpretive signage at Lowell's Boat Shop\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sign.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_sign\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sign.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sign-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first floor of the rambling clapboard building houses exhibits on the shop&#8217;s storied history and the vital role that dories and skiffs have played throughout time. Sawdust still clouds the air on the second floor where skilled craftspeople build and restore dories and skiffs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_working-on-dory.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5784 size-full\" title=\"Staff working on a boat\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_working-on-dory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_working-on-dory.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_working-on-dory-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staff and dedicated volunteers pass their maritime skills onto the next generation. Graham McKay, master boat builder and executive director, gave us a brief tour of the buildings and docks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Graham-in-shop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5785 size-full\" title=\"Graham McKay in shop\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Graham-in-shop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Graham-in-shop.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Graham-in-shop-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our way through the shop we observed an older volunteer (retired electrician) working with small group of young people with developmental disabilities \u2013 one was carrying a toolbox he had just completed. In addition to simple wood working projects, they do general shop chores.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dock-and-river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5774 size-full\" title=\"Lowell's Boat Shop dock and boats on Merrimack River, Amesbury\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dock-and-river.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_dock-and-river\" width=\"400\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dock-and-river.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dock-and-river-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LBS does a good deal in educational programming for grades K-12 including boatbuilding apprenticeships and internships. A group from the local high school had already been by at 8:30 that morning. As we finished up talking about MCC grants available to cultural organizations, a big yellow school bus pulled up and dropped off 12 Amesbury high school students.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5773\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_bus.jpg\" alt=\"Bus\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_bus.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_bus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were invited to shadow them as they learned to use navigational  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sextant\" target=\"_blank\">sextants<\/a> (modern plastic ones) to measure the distance between any two visible objects, for example, a dock and a flagpole further down the shore. The students each had their own sextant, took sightings, and then wrote down figures in their composition notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>This is the way Lowell&#8217;s Boat Shop describes their &#8220;Math on the River&#8221; activity: <strong>&#8220;<\/strong>In response to the age-old question &#8216;When will we ever use this?,&#8217; LBS formed a partnership with Amesbury High School to develop and implement the Math on the River Program. In this innovative high school math program, students experience practical, hands-on applications of math beyond the classroom. Students first learn to row as a team and to use sextants and other navigational tools; they then apply their knowledge of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to determine the Merrimack River\u2019s velocity, depth, distances, or tidal variations. In doing so, these hands-on, place-based activities further develop skills such as data gathering, variability analysis, and teamwork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sexton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5776\" title=\"maritime sexton\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sexton.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_sexton\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sexton.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sexton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_sexton-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 85vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_kidswith_sextants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5778\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_kidswith_sextants.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_kidswith_sextants\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dories-and-dock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5777 size-full\" title=\"Lowell's Boat Shop dory\/skiffs at dockside\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dories-and-dock.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_dories-and-dock\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dories-and-dock.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_dories-and-dock-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then it was time to get into the water. While the students, four to a dory, rowed across the Merrimack River to the opposite shore, we joined Graham in the motorized dory\/skiff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Grahaminboat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5781 size-full\" title=\"Graham McKay in a dory\/skiff on the Merrimack River\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Grahaminboat.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_grahaminboat\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Grahaminboat.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_Grahaminboat-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once &#8220;docked&#8221; in the reeds, the students were instructed to do another exercise with the sextants. Then they rowed back to the shop&#8217;s dock, some miscalculating the strength of the current. Not a bad way to spend a few hours outside of school learning about the practical side of geometry and calculus!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_skiff-with-outboard-motor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5789 size-full\" title=\"Skiff with outboard motor on Merrimack River\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_skiff-with-outboard-motor.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_skiff-with-outboard-motor\" width=\"450\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_skiff-with-outboard-motor.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_skiff-with-outboard-motor-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_planter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5779 size-full\" title=\"A planter fashioned in the shape of a dory\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_planter.jpg\" alt=\"lbs_planter\" width=\"450\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_planter.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LBS_planter-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, we stopped by Lowell&#8217;s Boat Shop which is situated along the banks of the Merrimack River in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The establishment dates back to 1793 and is credited with being the birthplace of the seaworthy fishing dory, once the mainstay of the fishing industry in New England. The first floor of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/making-math-relevant-maritime-style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Math Relevant, Maritime-Style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[860,208,863,761,862,861],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","tag-boat-building","tag-education","tag-lowells-boat-shop","tag-making-things-by-hand","tag-sextant","tag-sextent"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making Math Relevant, Maritime-Style - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/making-math-relevant-maritime-style\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making Math Relevant, Maritime-Style - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The other day, we stopped by Lowell&#8217;s Boat Shop which is situated along the banks of the Merrimack River in Amesbury, Massachusetts. 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