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Spilyay Tyrooo, Warrn Springs, Oregon Page 2 November- 8, 2007 Spooky way to teach math By L eslie M itts S p ily a y Tym oo Halloween proved to be a litde spookier for students in ode teacher’s math class this year. Lüanne Foltz, a tribal mem ber and m ath teacher at Jefferso n C ounty Middle School, created her annual “haunted classroom” for stu dents in her seventh grade level math classes. Foltz said she started the haunted classroom in the late 1990s. “Halloween is my favorite holiday,” she explained. “I like to see students being surprised or scared. All the faces with smiles are fun to watch.” Plus, she said, “I w ant my students to enjoy math and to see that they can Still have fun while they are doing math.” Seventh grade student Inez Jones, 12, said, “It’s like all math stuff. We look for different things like how many eyes are in spaghetti.” Fellow stu d e n t C olton S te v e n s,'12, said the event helped break up the monotony o f his day. “It’s way different,” Stevens explained. “All my other classes all I did was just work.” In addition, Stevens said it shows students that “School, is not always boring.” Twelve-year-old Chance Davies said, “I thought it was pretty cool.”. “Even though you’re suppose to go around getting the ques tions, you still get scared,” . Davies said. A ccording, to B rittany j Stevens, 13, “It was awesome: Ms. Foltz is always awesome, but today wasawesome.” Mario Medrano, 13, said the '■ eUperieneppjo'ffiMMs. f F o ltz |. haunted classroom was unfor gettable. “I think it was cool because you could feel the excitement,” M edrano said; “W hen you walked in there you lived an experience that you’ll never for get” . During the class period, Foltz said, each student was asked to complete 20 questions dealing with areas like estimation, mea- surement, adding, subtractions, fractions, geography and a few that were just for fun. But Foltz definitely doesn’t want to take all the credit fojt spooking her students. “I have been very lucky in the past,” Foltz said. “I have a few great volunteers—Jabbar Davis and Butch David— that have'come in to help scare the students and supervise the class room so that everything would run smoothly and the students have more fun.” Plus, Foltz said, she has eighth grade students that come in to help because they know w hat happens from being in class the year before. This year’s volunteers all agreed that the best part is scar- 2 n d Ann ual... .. CL)ay öfter cThûnksgtving. 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