Video of Math teacher’s short cut method goes viral, just have a look…

January 23: There are several math hacks and tricks available online. But all such tricks do not always gets popularity. Recently, a video which shows a lady teacher teaching students a method to memorise multiplication tables has gone viral in social media. The video has been viewed more than million times in Facebook and Twitter.

This video is a proof that some wonderful teachers can make even the most hated subject somewhat interesting The video shows the teacher demonstrating an interesting trick to calculate the 9 times table without using multiplication. She explains the method simply by counting the fingers in a certain order. It’s unbelievable, and never-heard-before.

In the 2.20-minute clip,the lady is writing on the board, while she has called one child near her to demonstrate her trick on the fingers of the child. On the board, the teacher has written in Hindi, “Hamare hath calculator”, that means, “Our hand is calculator.

Whaaaat? I didn’t know about this clever shortcut. Wish she had been MY math teacher. I probably would have been a lot better at the subject! #whatsappwonderbox pic.twitter.com/MtS2QjhNy3

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) January 22, 2020

The video of the teacher has been shared by none other than business tycoon Anand Mahindra. Mahindra is so impressed with the lesson, he wishes she was his math teacher back in school. “Whaaaat? I didn’t know about this clever shortcut,” he says in his tweet. “Wish she had been MY math teacher. I probably would have been a lot better at the subject!” Mahindra adds.

Can’t tell you how many of my life’s issues this one simple calculation has solved wow! Sending it to #byju to include it in their teaching methods. https://t.co/nC8qIojGVF

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) January 22, 2020

The viral clip not only impressed Mahindra but Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan as well. Retweeting Mahindra’s post, he wrote, “Can’t tell you how many of my life’s issues this one simple calculation has solved wow! Sending it to #byju to include it in their teaching methods.”

Several other Twitter users too commented on Mahindra’s post. Some even shared their ingenous ways to learn Math tables. At the end of the class, the teacher confirms with the students in the video and asks the students, “maja aaya? (Did you have fun?)”