Teacher goes to sixth grade student's home with a whiteboard and teaches her through a glass door after she struggled with math assignment amid the coronavirus school shutdown

A math teacher in South Dakota has been pictured going above and beyond amid the coronavirus pandemic, by going to a student's house and showing her how to solve a math problem through her glass front door.

In a picture posted on social media by Rylee Anderson's father, middle school teacher Chris Waba is seen holding a white board annotated with equations as the child looks on with the transparent door firmly shut.

It followed an earlier distance learning class conducted via Zoom and after exchanging some emails, Waba decided to walk over to 12-year-old Rylee's house.

'My 6th grader emailed her math teacher for some help, so he came over & worked through the problem with her on our front porch,' father Josh Anderson posted on Twitter last Friday.

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Teacher Chris Waba was pictured helping Rylee Anderson solve a math equation in a Twitter post from Friday

The little girl is seen ready to take notes as the dedicated educator keeps his distance and props the teaching materials up against a white fence.

Waba explained that he made the decision to see the girl in-person for a one-on-one lesson because distancing learning wasn't doing the trick.

'We had really tried to work through it digitally, but you can just tell when you need to do something else,' Waba told Good Morning America. 'I had the whiteboard that I brought home, and I just said, "I'll be over in a couple of minutes".'

Waba is a close friend of the girl's family. But Rylee's dad - the head football coach at Dakota State University – said she was shocked the teacher left his house to help her.

'He's just a really good teacher and really good person,' Anderson said. '[Rylee] was shocked he came over, but she was happy to get it done and over with because she was very frustrated to not have the answers or the help that she needed.'

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The 12-year-old's father Josh Anderson - the head football coach at Dakota State University - shared the image on Twitter Friday: 'My 6th grader emailed her math teacher for some help, so he came over & worked through the problem with her on our front porch'

Teachers in South Dakota have been conducting classes online for about three weeks . 

Governor Kristi Noem signed a state of emergency order, requesting public schools to close and ordering non-essential state employees to work from home until at least after spring break. 

Waba said it's a tough adjustment that others have been going out of their way to help students as they adapt to a new way of learning.

'When teachers go into the business, it's because they like to teach and be around the kids,' Waba said. 'For us now to turn into a virtual classroom, probably the biggest love of what our job is about isn't our job anymore. It's not the same as being in the classroom and interacting with class.

'I'm not one on an island. There are thousands and thousands of teachers going the extra mile for their kids.'  

In the US, there were more than 212,000 confirmed cases and deaths surpassed 4,700 on Wednesday.

In South Dakota there have been 129 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths out of Beadle and Pennington counties.