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Basketball player Elton Brand presents a challenge about the math behind free throw shots.

The teams use different strategies to solve the free throw challenge from Elton Brand.

Jeremy Chernick from J&M Special Effects sets up a challenge about lighting for high-speed effects.

The teams take light readings and use their data to find the relationship between intensity and distance.

In Get the Math 2.0, two teams of teens take on algebra challenges around the math in restaurants, basketball, and special effects, presented by chef Sue Torres, NBA star Elton Brand, and designers from J&M Special Effects.

Get the Math features profiles of professionals working in fashion, videogame development, and music production who present math challenges related to their work to two teams of students.

This promo provides a quick glimpse of Get the Math, a multimedia project about algebra in the real world.