Bottle flipping is being used to teach kids probability in school now

Ever since that infamous bottle flipping video earlier this year, it seems flipping bottles around is all the kids are doing now. 

Year 5 teacher Lauren Hinton admitted annoying at first, when students got into the craze.

"It's noisy, it's distracting and because they use the reusable plastic bottles, they often crack so it becomes messy," she told the ABC.

But then she had a idea: What if she could teach mathematics to her students by disguising it with a viral fad? Delightfully devilish.

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Now the kids are learning about probability, fractions and percentages while bottle flipping, and they're enjoying it too. 

"They were into it. Some of them asked if they could stay in at lunchtime to keep doing it," she told the news outlet.

"I got emails at night from kids who had gone home and done it again and they've sent me their graphs that they've created electronically. 

"I think that's when you know you've hit a good learning experience, when they don't realise they're learning and they want to keep doing it."

See? Even the most flippant of trends has some kind of educational benefit...eventually.