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TOP TEACHERS HAVE IT FIGURED OUT: The two local finalists for the state's top teaching award combine personal attention with hands-on activities to help their students learn.

The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS)

| February 02, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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…

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