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Manu is a genius
Manu visited Comfort Middle School today and surprised the students with a game of math. Check out the video and photo gallery.
http://www.nba.com/spurs/community/m...th_090106.html
Manu is a genius
That's Cool Stuff Man!!!!
" Hey kids, how many points can I score in a minute vs Phoenix? "
I'm sure he got that from Adrian Paenza (an Argie journalist that has a cool show here about "mathematic things") I heard Manu mentioning him a lot in his forum.
excellent video
thank you
can anyone upload the video to youtube? I can't watch it on the spurs.com
he is super nice !
Just like most Spurs, look like super assholes when they play the Suns because of my bias, but are actually extremely nice people.
We have a youtube channel, I just posted it there as well.
http://www.youtube.com/user/saspursvideos
did he teach them about .4?
http://dailytimes.com/story.lasso?ewcd=64e6b52a5e142245
Math with Manu
Alex Byington
The Daily Times
Published January 7, 2009
COMFORT — San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili enjoys coming off the bench and contributing on the basketball court.
On Tuesday, though, he made his impact on a whiteboard, surprising 32 sixth-graders from Comfort Middle School.
“Oh, my gosh,” gushed 12-year-old Michaela Marquart upon seeing Ginobili at her school. “Wow.”
Honors math students of sixth-grade math and theater teacher Melissa Preuss were astounded by a visit from the Spurs’ multi-talented sixth man as grand prize winners of Manu’s Math Minutes, a math-oriented program sponsored by Eyemasters.
“They didn’t know until he walked in the door, we kept it a secret,” said Preuss, who is in her 10th year teaching at Comfort Middle School. “They were stunned. They had no clue.”
Roaring at the first site of Ginobili’s 6-foot, 6-inch, 205-pound frame, the 32 Comfort middle-schoolers were ecstatic to see someone they usually watch on television standing right next to them.
“I didn’t think they saw me, but as soon as I walked in the door, they started yelling,” Ginobili said. “It kind of shows how important the Spurs are in the region and how followed we are — we are role models to them, so it’s good to share parts of your life with them.”
In the second year of his program, Ginobili played game show host in a game of “Around the World,” where two students tried to answer various math questions as fast as they could to stay in the game.
But since they couldn’t miss the school bus, not all 32 students were able to participate.
Marquart, who said she likes watching the Spurs with her grandparents, enjoyed the visit from one of her two favorite Spurs players; the other is fan-favorite Tim Duncan.
But it was the program that she got the most out of.
“It helped me understand some of the math that I’ll be doing when I get into seventh and eighth grade, and it showed me how difficult some of the stuff I’m doing now is,” Marquart said. “It was just kind of cool.”
Growing up in Argentina, Ginobili said math had a big impact on his life throughout school.
“I loved it. It was always my favorite subject in school, and I was pretty good at it,” Ginobili said. “As I was telling the kids, sometimes its not only the results, but the thinking and the process of arriving to an answer. It’s fun, too, and you should enjoy it.”
For Ginobili, math is an essential part of his life, and he wants to share that with others.
“We have math all the time in basketball with percentages, probabilities and record standings, its something that we use very often,” Ginobili said. “But even outside sports, its something that you live with every day — when you go to a store, when you walk, when you think ‘how far did I walk or how long’ — it’s something that it’s good to be good at.”
Given confounding math riddles and questions regarding variables and equations where the students must solve for X, kids and adults alike were often stumped by the math problems.
But it was Ginobili’s presence that seemed to have the biggest positive effect.
“It’s made them realize that you can be a professional athlete and still use math,” Preuss said. “I really liked the word problem he posed at the start of the game — it got the kids thinking, and these kids are really bright.”
Paging all photoshoppers....
That is pretty darn cool.
It is cool. I love the league reaching to kids.
You cool man..?
Like how?
-rolling eyes as he walks away-
OK.
Just so long as they don't reach out to kids like Anthony Mason or Karl Malone did.
I loved when he was shaking hands with some of them as he walked in and replied "you're awesome, too."
Nah, we atheist don't do that. Religious fanatics do that. We just live our live and don't mess with others as long as they don't mess with us.
thanks a lot, Manu looked a little nervous at the begining
Easy now. Manu is a very nice guy, atheist or not, and many theists are very nice people too. No need to turn this into one of those kinds of arguments. I'm hoping both you and the guy you are responding to are just joking.
BL
hahaha
I play for the Spurs but I am a Mathlete first and foremost!
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