A school teacher from Bihar has recently gone viral on social media after her video of teaching mathematics tables to children through a very innovative way has been shared on the social media platforms. This unique video has gained attention of a few famous personalities as well. Industrialist Anand Mahindra and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan have shared this video with their own sarcastic captions. The video shows Ruby Kumari, a teacher at the upgraded middle school in Bounci block of Banka district, teaching table of nine with the help of 10 fingers. The children in the video seemed to thoroughly enjoy their new lesson due to the teacher’s unique technique. The video was initially posted on the ‘Teachers of Bihar’ Facebook page of the Bihar education project council (BEPC) and later shared on twitter. Anand Mahindra in a reply to this video twitted, “Whaaat? I didn’t know about the clever shortcut. Wish she had been my teacher. I probably would have been a lot better at the subject”. This tweet by Mahindra was liked by 42k users and saw 11.7k re-tweets. Shah Rukh Khan tweeted, “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”. The teacher, Ruby Kumari whose video went viral, wrote on twitter, “I thank superstar Shahrukh Khan and Anand Mahindraji for liking my video and retweeting it. I am very happy my innovation is being watched by people across the India. I am thankful to the ‘Teachers of Bihar-the Changemakers’ for giving me the opportunity by sharing my video on their platform”. The video has been watched by over 3.5-lakh people so far and it has been shared nearly 1.5-lakh times.
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