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"The Santa Cruz Warriors are hosting the NBA Development League Showcase basketball tournament this week.The four-day event allows players to show off their skills to NBA scouts looking for rising athletes. And it also allows local students to showcase their math skills.VIDEO: Warriors make math fun for local studentsThe Math Warriors program uses basketball as a fun way to interest children in math by combining live games with school lesson plans.\"We work with 3,500 kids across eight schools. To be able to invite them in the showcase and have them come out here is a great way to blend the two things together and show math is exciting,\" said Chris Murphy, Santa Cruz Warriors president.Gault School is part of the Math Warriors program and its students charted graphs to determine how tall each player was.\"It adds some relevance to what students are studying in math. We do math equations.\u00A0 We do geometry. It's kind of a real world experience,\" said Kay Scowcroft, a teacher at Gault School."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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