Making Connections

LEFT TO RIGHT: Joan Burner, a math teacher at Luray Middle School; Chris Riley, a science teacher also from Luray; Jeff Beatty, a science teacher from Skyline Middle School; and Faye Obenschain, a sixth-grade math teacher also from Skyline, count out M&M’s on Thursday at James Madison University’s Memorial Hall. The teachers are participating in a pilot program that combines earth science and math concepts. In this exercise the candy is used to represent different elements. (Photos by Justin Falls / DN-R)

Skyline Middle School sixth-grade math teacher Faye Obenschain counts out M&M’s which represent different elements as teachers from Harrisonburg/Rockingham County and Page County middle and high schools train for a new math pilot program that combines earth science and math concepts in a classroom in James Madison University’s Memorial Hall Thursday.