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Byline: Amanda O'Toole
Feb. 2--At 10 in the morning, candy is always appreciated by middle-schoolers, especially when it's their classwork. Lori Gunzelman ought to know. She uses candy all the time to show kids how math works.
Last week, she used Skittles and M&Ms to help her eighth-graders at Andover Central Middle School solve word problems.
Such sweet teaching techniques helped make Gunzelman a finalist in the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
She and Audrey Smalley, a math teacher at Derby High School, are in the running with four other Kansas teachers for the award.
Three math and three…