The human mind remembers best the first and last things it encounters. This is why telephone numbers and social security numbers are hyphenated. When studying with your child, sometimes it helps to break the sessions into small sets of information, so there are more beginnings and ends. If you have 20 vocabulary words, for example, study the first five after school, the second set right before dinner, the third set after dinner, and the last before bed. Like this hint? Then you need to check out Memory Training for Students? For those of you that got the program, don't you love it? Write … [Read more...]
Memorization Hint…
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The human mind remembers best the first and last things it encounters. This is why telephone numbers and social security numbers are hyphenated. When studying with your child, sometimes it helps to break the sessions into small sets of information, so there are more beginnings and ends. If you have 20 vocabulary words, for example, study the first five after school, the second set right before dinner, the third set after dinner, and the last before bed. Like this hint? Then you need to check out Memory Training for Students? For those of you that got the program, don't you love it? Write … [Read more...]
Demonic Mnemonics
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Sometimes the small things make all the difference. Like in memorization. My first introduction to the word Mnemonic came with the disclaimer that it was a 'demon' to pronounce. I never forgot that word. Nor will I ever forget the following devices, that I hope will help your child, too. The place values in the metric system: King Henry Doesn't Usually Drink Chocolate Milk or King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk Kilo Hecto Deka Unit (or Base) Deci Centi Milli Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Parentheses (and other symbols of inclusion); Exponents; … [Read more...]
