Selfish Thread--> mnemonics

[Lilith]

Some of you put the mnemonics, little sayings and clues, you learned to remember things, like NEWS for the map directions. I know I have sayings for the typical order of the planets, the temperature scale for stars etc. I know people use them for math ( please excuse my dear aunt sally)too.

I was wondering if you would list the ones you learned. I sure would love to make a list to use in the classroom. If it helped you, it will definitely help someone else.

[nikki1979]

for map directions i learned Never Eat Shredded Wheat! dont know why my teach taught us that lol im sure there were bunches of others but i cant rememebr them

~nikki

[FallenAngel5]

I would offer help, but I used Never Eat Shredded Wheat too. :) So that one obviously works. All the rest of mine are for higher levels of math, and I don't think you need those. :)

[Lilith]

I'd love to hear them FallenAngel5

[jay-t]

Spelling was never my thing my dad taught me these
geography(george elliots old grandfather rode a pig home yesterday)
Mississippi(M,I, crooked letter,crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback, humpback, I )
there were a couple more that i cant think of now one for Mo. its been to long

[rockintime]

Every Good Boy Does Fine (the notes corresponding to the LINES on a treble clef on written music) and the word "FINE" (the notes corresponding to the SPACES on that same treble clef)

[Lilith]

Good ones Rockintime! I was taught FACE and ACEG all cows eat grass

[osuche]

Roy G. Biv ~ colors of the rainbow

Planets: My Very Energetic Mother Just Sold Us Nine Pizzas

[Kendall]

Oliver had a half of apple. SCT


sin (theta) = opposite / hypotneuse

cosine (theta) = adjacent / hypotnuse

tangent (theta) = opposite / adjacent

[rockintime]

Hey, Kendall...I like that one...hadn't heard or used it before.

[fzzy]

The only one I can think of at the moment

TANSTAFL There aint no such thing as free lunch. (from my economics class years ago)

[maddy]

From some class I had don't recall he class... NIMBY, Not in my back yard.

SOH-CAH-TOA as if it were a Native American saying for who knows what
Sin = opposite/hypotnuse
Cosin = adjacent/hypotnuse
tangent = opposite/adjacent

My geometry teacher had quite the creative story that went with this about the Native Indian SOH-CAH-TOA thingee too, but alas I don't recall it.

[scotzoidman]

Every Good Boy Does Fine (the notes corresponding to the LINES on a treble clef on written music) and the word "FINE" (the notes corresponding to the SPACES on that same treble clef)


Good ones Rockintime! I was taught FACE and ACEG all cows eat grass
Actually it is FACE for the spaces on the treble clef, & the Brit version of the lines is Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, used as an album title by the Moody Blues; the bass clef (my domain ;) ) is Good Boys Do Fine Always for the lines & All Cows Eat Grass (or All Cars Eat Gas) for the spaces.

Back when I started to learn electronics, when the microchip was a newly emerging technology, all resistors' & many other components' values were designated by a color code; you've seen them if you ever looked into a radio, tv, amp, or other gadgets. little cylindrical objects with rainbow color stripes; 1st two stripes represent a number, 3rd stripe tells the # of zeros to put after them, or something like that...anyway the color code is
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white

& the mnemonic for the color sequence is

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly

yeh, I know, electrical engineers are a sexist lot, always going on about male & female connectors & stuff ;)

[scotzoidman]

Oh, and in computer graphics, the word is WYSIWYG...What You See Is What You Get (don't laugh, it took many years & tears to make what the screen showed match what came out of the printer)

[thereIam]

In junior high, some of us used "Kathy poured cream over fresh grown strawberries" to remember that kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species are the taxonimic groups in biology.

[Scarecrow]

An other for computers is GIGO - garbage in - garbage out.

[Oldfart]

Probably not for Lil's classroom, but saw in a Brit TV series NORWICH.

Nickers off ready when I come home.

DDTRSPV, but I can't remember what it stands for.

I must be suffering from the Mnemonic plague.

[dicksbro]

For typing there was always ...

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country," and, "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog" (latter one contains all the letters of the alphabet).

Not sure if that's what you were looking for, but my dad taught me those to learn typing even before I took a class on it in high school ... and we used them in that class, too. :)

[wyndhy]

these are neat!
how about ROY G. BIV for the colors of the rainbow. learned that one way, way back.

[BamaKyttn]

the sine oh, ah! the cosine dance the tango 'a

sine= o/h
A/H=cos
tan+o/a

[Aqua]

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly

I think Violet just had rape fantasies.. :p

[fzzy]

DB ... here's me being anal .... I think that second sentence needs to be "...over the lazy dogs" otherwise I don't see an "s" in the sentence .... ok, somebody hit me now that's way too much editing/proofreading!!!!! :)

[Oldfart]

fzzy, "jumps"