Genuinely helpful mnemonics

[6Foot2]

Never Eat Shredded Wheat. For some reason I have to think a bit to work out which was is east and which is west, and that one is what runs through my head. North & south and left & right I have no problems with!

Misleading cushions!

 

 

[6Foot2]

Expanding binomials: FOIL

 

FOIL = First Outer Inner Last

 

 

I never used this myself, but it looks like it would have helped some of my classmates.

 

[6Foot2]

How to spell unnecessary (I always get this wrong)

 

Link:

[Text Tweet]

 

 

NOTE: This tweet is a reply to a NSFW tweet (Expletive)

[Katy]

How to spell unnecessary (I always get this wrong)

 

Link:

[Text Tweet]

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]51918[/ATTACH]

 

NOTE: This tweet is a reply to a NSFW tweet (Expletive)

We were told necessary was "never eat chips, eat salad sandwiches and remain young"

[6Foot2]

We were told necessary was "never eat chips, eat salad sandwiches and remain young"

Variations on this are just below in the same thread.

[Katy]

Variations on this are just below in the same thread.

Aha. Didn't click it as you said NSFW

[6Foot2]

Aha. Didn't click it as you said NSFW

No problem.

 

As an aside: I was never taught these little helpful spelling assists. Could be why my spelling is so terrible these days?

 

[hardtailstar]

Never Eat Shredded Wheat. For some reason I have to think a bit to work out which was is east and which is west, and that one is what runs through my head. North & south and left & right I have no problems with!

Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.

[jmak]

 

SOHCAHTOA stays with me for trigonometry calculations in maths decades after I last used it in anger (which was after I left school... my sister was making a three legged stool... )

 

Silly Old Harry Caught A Haddock Trawling Off Algeria

 

(My maths teacher was a former submarine commander - although we were all convinced he was ex MI6.

[elsiegee40]

Silly Old Harry Caught A Haddock Trawling Off Algeria

 

(My maths teacher was a former submarine commander - although we were all convinced he was ex MI6.

 

SOHCAHTOA was what I was taught

[benjie]

SOHCAHTOA

Spanish Onions Have Cause Ancient Hindu's To Obtain Aspirin

 

Because

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

 

Calculating circumference/area of a circle

 

So if you draw a Pi symbol and then around it, write the first letter of each word on each side)

 

 

Cats And Dog Runto(R^2) Pi

 

Effectively this, best attempt, digitally

 

C

R^2 Pi A

D

 

Circumference=Diameter*Pi (C=D Pi)

Area=(Radius^2)*Pi (A=(R^2) Pi)

Edited December 25, 2019 by benjie

[elsiegee40]

^^^ Joke??

 

If not, Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time constrained

 

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Realistic

Time constrained

[elsiegee40]

SOHCAHTOA

 

Because

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

 

One of my kids learned that one and the other

 

Big Elephants Can Add Up Sums Easily

 

 

They both learned:

 

People

People Eat Oranges People Like Eggs

[witch]

I learned SOHCAHTOA as well but have no real understanding of what it means. I can just about remember what it stands for but that is about all.

 

Big Elephants Cant Always Use Small Entrances

[NotSoFast]

Our version of SOHCAHTOA was Two Old Aunts Sat On High Chairs And Howled. I think it's more memorable if it paints a single picture.

[Katy]

Our version of SOHCAHTOA was Two Old Aunts Sat On High Chairs And Howled. I think it's more memorable if it paints a single picture.

 

SOHCAHTOA was enough for us to remember it, "Sock a tower", S = Sin, C = Cos, T = Tangent... no idea what the OH/AH/OA means though! Something to do with angles

[6Foot2]

SOHCAHTOA was enough for us to remember it, "Sock a tower", S = Sin, C = Cos, T = Tangent... no idea what the OH/AH/OA means though! Something to do with angles

 

SOHCAHTOA is helpful when trying to determine an unknown quantity of a right-angled triangle View it not as one long string, but as three groups of three characters:

 

[sOH][CAH][TOA]

 

 

Link: SohCahToa Explained

[mikeprice]

I wish we had had a mnemonic for that when I was at school

 

we were just expect to remember

[Arbor-Maggie]

I was tutoring a boy who had his own version... Silliness On Holiday Causes A Headache, Take One Aspirin

 

Let's just say the word he used wasn't actually 'Silliness' and, as his science tutor, we spent some time discussing how Aspirin was NOT a substitute for adequate contraception!

 

Our version of SOHCAHTOA was Two Old Aunts Sat On High Chairs And Howled. I think it's more memorable if it paints a single picture.

[witch]

SOHCAHTOA is helpful when trying to determine an unknown quantity of a right-angled triangle View it not as one long string, but as three groups of three characters:

 

[sOH][CAH][TOA]

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]56188[/ATTACH]

 

Link: SohCahToa Explained

 

Absolutely no clue as to what that means - "SohCahToa Explained" my..£$%£^

[Jawloms]

Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.

 

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

[6Foot2]

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

 

Why is that?

 

[DJ-1701]

Every Good Boy Deserves Food (names of notes found on the lines of a treble clef stave)

 

There's also "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" which I find easier to remember given that it's also the title of a Moody Blues album.

 

Wait a moment... I thought that was the bass cleft stave? Nope, I am confusing the names while doing other things.

 

I remember it as Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge... but I rarely get given any. ...

Or remember the spaces which is FACE (which is easy to remember).

 

I believe the trebleThe bass clef stave is GBDFA (Good Boys Deserve Fudge ALWAYS)... still no fudge here. Or ACEG (ACE Girl!) for the spaces. At least that's how I remember them.

Edited January 9, 2020 by DJ-1701

[howartp]

Wait a moment... I thought that was the bass cleft stave?

I remember it as Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge... but I rarely get given any. ...

Or remember the spaces which is FACE (which is easy to remember).

 

I believe the treble clef stave is GBDFA (Good Boys Deserve Fudge ALWAYS)... still no fudge here. Or ACEG (ACE Girl!) for the spaces. At least that's how I remember them.

 

Nah, treble clef is EGBDF going upwards.

 

Bass clef is AFDBG going down, which would then be GBDFA (Good Boys... )as you say, going upwards.

[jthompson]

Some of these rely on you remembering them correctly, and therefore aren't inherently robust. For instance, I'm so useless at music that I've remembered from some early piano lessons "Every Good Boy Deserves Apples", which I think is wrong. If it's wrong, that hasn't prevented it from sticking in my mind.