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Throughout the UK, learners have been exclaiming the expression ““six-seven” during classes in the newest viral craze to sweep across educational institutions.

Whereas some educators have decided to patiently overlook the craze, some have embraced it. A group of instructors explain how they’re managing.

‘I believed I’d made an inappropriate comment’

Back in September, I had been addressing my year 11 class about studying for their qualification tests in June. I don’t recall precisely what it was in relation to, but I said something like “ … if you’re targeting results six, seven …” and the complete classroom started chuckling. It caught me entirely unexpectedly.

My first thought was that I had created an hint at an inappropriate topic, or that they’d heard an element of my speech pattern that sounded funny. Slightly exasperated – but genuinely curious and mindful that they had no intention of being mean – I got them to elaborate. Frankly speaking, the explanation they then gave failed to create significant clarification – I still had little comprehension.

What could have rendered it extra funny was the evaluating gesture I had executed while speaking. Subsequently I found out that this typically pairs with ““sixseven”: I had intended it to aid in demonstrating the process of me thinking aloud.

To end the trend I attempt to bring it up as much as I can. No approach diminishes a craze like this more effectively than an adult trying to participate.

‘Providing attention fuels the fire’

Understanding it aids so that you can steer clear of just accidentally making remarks like “indeed, there were 6, 7 hundred unemployed people in Germany in 1933”. If the numerical sequence is unpreventable, having a firm classroom conduct rules and standards on pupil behavior proves beneficial, as you can address it as you would any other interruption, but I’ve not really had to do that. Guidelines are one thing, but if learners buy into what the educational institution is implementing, they will become better concentrated by the online trends (particularly in instructional hours).

Regarding six-seven, I haven’t lost any teaching periods, other than for an occasional quizzical look and stating ““indeed, those are numerals, excellent”. Should you offer oxygen to it, then it becomes an inferno. I handle it in the equivalent fashion I would treat any different interruption.

Earlier occurred the mathematical meme phenomenon a few years ago, and undoubtedly there will emerge a different trend after this. That’s children’s behavior. During my own youth, it was imitating television personalities mimicry (admittedly out of the school environment).

Children are spontaneous, and I think it’s an adult’s job to respond in a way that redirects them in the direction of the path that will get them toward their academic objectives, which, fingers crossed, is completing their studies with qualifications instead of a behaviour list a mile long for the use of random numbers.

‘They want to feel a part of a group’

Young learners employ it like a connecting expression in the schoolyard: a student calls it and the others respond to show they are the equivalent circle. It’s like a interactive chant or a football chant – an shared vocabulary they possess. I don’t think it has any specific meaning to them; they simply understand it’s a trend to say. Regardless of what the current trend is, they seek to be included in it.

It’s forbidden in my teaching space, though – it results in a caution if they shout it out – similar to any different verbal interruption is. It’s particularly tricky in mathematics classes. But my class at year 5 are nine to 10-year-olds, so they’re relatively accepting of the rules, while I appreciate that at high school it might be a different matter.

I’ve been a instructor for fifteen years, and such trends continue for a month or so. This trend will diminish shortly – this consistently happens, particularly once their little brothers and sisters start saying it and it stops being cool. Subsequently they will be on to the subsequent trend.

‘You just have to laugh with them’

I started noticing it in August, while teaching English at a international school. It was primarily male students repeating it. I instructed ages 12 to 18 and it was prevalent with the junior students. I was unaware its meaning at the time, but being twenty-four and I understood it was merely a viral phenomenon comparable to when I was a student.

These trends are constantly changing. “Skibidi toilet” was a familiar phenomenon at the time when I was at my educational institute, but it didn’t particularly appear as frequently in the educational setting. In contrast to ““sixseven”, “skibidi toilet” was never written on the chalkboard in instruction, so students were less able to adopt it.

I typically overlook it, or occasionally I will chuckle alongside them if I unintentionally utter it, striving to understand them and recognize that it’s simply youth culture. I believe they just want to enjoy that sensation of community and camaraderie.

‘Humorous repetition has reduced its frequency’

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