{"id":99436,"date":"2020-02-28T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99436"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:03:28","slug":"govt-teacher-uses-creative-methods-to-teach-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/28\/govt-teacher-uses-creative-methods-to-teach-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. teacher uses creative methods to teach mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A video of a government teacher, who teaches mathematics to his students with some creative methods has gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher named Kosala Galagedara has posted a video of his teaching sessions of a classroom on his Facebook, where he is seen playing a drum to the tune of a popular children\u2019s song replacing suitable words in the lyrics as necessary to make the students understand and learn basic mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has said on his Facebook that he had received many messages and telephone calls to which he could not reply as he is a Government teacher with only four years\u2019 experience in the teaching profession .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Govt. teacher uses creative methods to teach mathematics\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJGYHve3Cgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror A video of a government teacher, who teaches mathematics to his students with some creative methods has gone viral on social media. The teacher named Kosala Galagedara has posted a video of his teaching sessions of a classroom on his Facebook, where he is seen playing a drum to the tune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}