Father Confused By Son's Year 3 Maths Homework Gets Help From A Stranger On Train

For a lot of people (including me) Mathematics is the worst nightmare, just the sight of numbers is enough to scare the bejesus out of them.?

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And for the Math haters who parent their young children, things can get a whole lot trickier, because you are supposed to help your kids with those dreaded Math problems you could never solve.?

That's exactly what this father was going through.?40-year-old Corey Simmons's son who is in grade three, had failed a test on fractions.

Simmons, who himself was horrible at Maths, was not sure how he was going to help his son.?

He was traveling from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to pick up his son, when he noticed?the man sitting next to him and sought his help. “He looked like a professor or something,”

"You look a little confused, maybe I can help,” the man said before explaining to Simmons that he used to be a maths teacher. The exchange was witnessed by a fellow commuter, Denise Wilson, who snapped a photo of the pair and shared it on Facebook.??

Simmons asked the guy to quiz him and everything he got wrong or was confused about he broke it down and corrected him,” the onlooker, Wilson, explained on Facebook.

“By the end of my train ride, the guy in the red [Simmons] had a better understanding [of fractions] and can bring home a new method and teach his child. I really love seeing shit like this.”

In no time, people on social media to notice the heartwarming story and it soon went viral.?

“It felt good that two complete strangers could come together — regardless of skin color — to teach each other,” Wilson told CBS.