General memory aides thread )Presidents in order, etc.)

[ANewCreature]

I thought this would be the best place to put this and any other memory devices anyone else wants to add to help homeschoolers.

My great grandma learned this mnemonic for the Presidents in order, and as I was telling some kids at AWANA last night, I realize I should probably post it here - I developed it into a hand-clapping rhyming thingy. (We need a word for one of those, if anyone goes to the "new word" thread and wants to make one. A teen told me there was none once.)

Anyway, the last part will need changed soon - Reagan can Bring something - but this Presiential picnic includes what I remember my great-grandma telling me - she only recalled Washington-Jackson and Lincoln-Arthur (and only went up to Taft, anyway - I knew them in order in 3rd grade just from reading almanacs al lthe time):

Washington And Jefferson Made Many A Joke.
Van Buren Had To Pay, Taylor's Frying Pan Broke.
Lincoln Just Got Home Greatly Astonished;
Cleveland Had Copied McKinley's Relish. (as in, of course, the recipe.)
Taft Was Here Cooling His Red Tomatoes.
Eisenhower Kindly Joined Nixon For Cocoa.
Reagain's Bananas Comveniently Bring
our list of Presidents to an end.

[lisaann]

This is one for the Great Lakes:
HOMES:
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior

And this one is for remembering the order of long division:
Does (divide)
McDonalds (multiply)
Sell (subtract)
Burgers (bring down)

[DebJo]

For north, east, south, west.
Never- north
Eat - east
Shredded - south
Wheat - west
The directions start at the top and go clockwise around.
I learned this in 6th grade. I still use it.

[felixthecat]

How about

Please Parenthesis

Excuse Exp.

My Dear Mult. Div. (if both present left to right)

Aunt Sally Add. Subtraction (if both present left to right)


for order of precedence.

[lyngraphics]

I was horrible at math, and our Algebra teacher helped us by singing a quadratic equation song= to the ryhm of "Pop Goes the Wesael"

I have a horrible memory and remember this after 13 years...

x is equal to negative b
plus or minus the square root
of b squared minus 4ac
all over 2 a!

http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/product_images/C4743r.jpg

[lyngraphics]

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[lyngraphics]

This is a good thread- surely there are more people here who remember some kind of memory aide from school!

[lisaann]

I just got this in an email:

Memorizing with Mnemonics
By Wendy Toy
Even if you haven’t heard of the word mnemonics (pronounced ni-mä-niks),
you have probably used this sometime in your school career. Mnemonic devices can help us remember quantities of information or just a bit of information that is not familiar and may be difficult to remember. Anytime you use one thing to help you remember something else, you are using mnemonics.

Did you learn the “order of operations” for math? Instead of trying to memorize “Parentheses, exponent, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction,” many of us (or our children) have used the mnemonic phrase “Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.” This sentence makes sense to most people, and is relatively easy to remember. Once learned, your children can remember the order of operations by simply saying the phrase they learned to remind them of the correct order.

In art class, the phrase “Roy G. Biv”, is used to remind students of the colors in the spectrum – Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

Mnemonic devices are used in music. The names for the notes on the lines of the treble clef can be learned by using the phrase, “Every good boy deserves fudge,” or “Every good bird does fly”. Maybe you learned the names of the spaces by spelling out “F A C E” or you learned “All cows eat grass” or “All cars eat gas” for the notes in the bass clef.
How about classification in biology? One mnemonic sentence for classification could be “King Phillip came over for great spaghetti” which would help the student to remember the classification of “Kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species.” Your student can name the planets in order by creating a sentence such as “My very educated mother just served us nachos” which is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
During the study of maps, if you want your student to learn some of the countries on a continent, creating a nonsensical word with some of the first letters of the countries can help your student to remember these in order. If you look across the top of Europe and down the right side near Russia, you can see “INSFELLBURB” which stands for “Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria.” Right in the middle of Europe, is the Czech Republic and below it is Austria. The first letters spell CRA. Right beside Czech Republic is Slovakia, and below Slovakia is Hungary. (SH) If you put the letters together you get the word CRASH – a mnemonic device to remember those four countries.

Your student can have fun creating a sentence, word or nonsensical word to help with memorizing facts that will help him or her to remember something in order. And the more they practice creating mnemonics, the better they will get, and the more they will be able to remember.

Don’t let your student get discouraged over memorizing information. Mnemonic devices can help both young students and older students when coming up against facts that must be memorized.

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[lyngraphics]

WOW! I had forgotten about some of those! Thanks!