How does boatbuilding hone math skills and help students to see the connection between learning by doing and a future career? Guests: Joe Youcha, Director of Building to Teach (a train-the-trainer program for hands-on math instructors) and Matt Cupples, a Technology Education Teacher at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, VA, discuss how building boats and other hands-on projects – from skateboards to cigar box guitars – deepen students’ understanding and attitude toward math and how it relates to the world around them. Building Bevin’s Skiff, a small boat designed primarily for education programs, has proven to be especially successful for at-risk students to help them change the direction of their lives as early as fifth grade.
