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The TikTok Professor

How a 70-year-old goes viral on TikTok

Teacher Nikolay Milovanov knows how to help his students understand maths and physics. He comes up with short and cheerful rhymes that have made him TikTok famous! Nikolay’s viral videos attract thousands of views and comments. His followers wish they’d had a teacher like Nikolay at school.

The TikTok teacher is convinced that boring lessons don’t produce results and that teaching means thinking ‘outside the box’, and abandoning academic stereotypes. At 70, Nikolay enjoys making TikTok videos. ‘It gives me a kind of energy boost’ and ‘add flavour to my life’.

Watch Nikolay’s fascinating story about his vocation as a teacher. One of his rhymes is sure to get stuck in your head!

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Published: 06 December 2021 12:00

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