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A trigonometry lesson goes viral when professor steps into video battle

By Maureen Downey
April 14, 2015

Biola University professor Matthew Weathers has a B.S. in math and computer science  and a master's in computer science. Before becoming an assistant professor in math and computer science at the private Christian university in Southern California, Weathers worked as a computer programmer.

On April Fool's this year, his students saw his computer skills in action. The entertaining and clever video went viral in a hurry.

Watch below and see why.

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Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.

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