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NBA, Discovery Education Give Students Mathematics-Based Virtual Field Trip

As part of a multi-year partnership, the NBA and Discovery Education are giving students a virtual field trip geared towards leveraging basketball to teach subjects around STEM but more specifically, mathematics.

On Thursday, both organizations will showcase “Careers That Count: A Virtual Field Trip with the NBA,” a STEM initiative hosted by Jr. NBA Ambassador and star of ABC’s Black-ish, Miles Brown.

At 1 p.m. ET, Brooklyn Nets forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson along with NBA and team executives in analytics and data strategy will join a Twitter chat to discuss mathematics and its intersection with basketball.