Anand Mahindra shares innovative math trick on Twitter, SRK responds

Team Udayavani, Jan 23, 2020, 3:10 PM IST

Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra shared a video of an innovative math hack on his Twitter account. This video went viral and the multiplication trick impressed Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan as well.

The video shared by Anand Mahindra shows a teacher trying to explain to her students the multiplication table of 9 in a simple way. The teacher can be seen teaching students the table without any calculations and only involves the use of our fingers.

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

In response to this, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan tweeted that this simple calculation has solved many of his life issues and also informed that he would send the video to Byjus to add it to their teaching method.

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

Many Netizens also responded to Anand Mahindra for sharing this fun trick.

Wow sir amazing. 🤗I never thought this can also be a fun trick for multiplication.😀🙏 More School teachers needs to adopt such fun methods to teach kids, so that they learn without any stress and can enjoy as well. By this as school attendance can also be increased. 🙏

— Dr.Deepa Sharma (@deepadoc) January 22, 2020

Couldn’t agree more with u @anandmahindra. simple way of teaching such a complicated subject.

— neeraj sharma (@i_mneeraj) January 22, 2020

#childcraft from #WorldBook encyclopedia teaches this technique.Amazing that this is been taught in our schools too !

— Kalyani Sharma (@KalyaniMuktevi) January 22, 2020