Area students headed to state math competition

Smitha Milli looked around Franklin Middle School and felt something was lacking.

So the eighth-grader did something about it. She wrote an e-mail to her principal, asking for something extra students can do with math. Soon afterward, the Champaign school's math team was formed, coached by two sixth-grade math teachers, Lisa Krause and Tracey Jones.

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