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Students put math skills to use designing parks, hiking trails

Working in small groups, the students in Mrs. Jennifer Hoefer's fifth-grade class recently studied the adding and subtracting of fractions – a New York State Common Core Standards Unit – by designing parks complete with hiking trails and scales to mark distance.

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