![]() “Small Mice Grow Corn” could be a silly phrase we could The best way to create a mnemonic device from these sentences is to use the first letter of each sentence to form an acronym with which a new phrase can be formed: SMGC. For example, the four steps to solving an equation are: Sometimes you need help to learn something that would easier to remember if you had a mnemonic device. “Two Old Angels Skipped Over Heaven Carrying Ancient Harps.” How to Make Your Own Silly Phrases In that case, SOH CAH TOA can be remembered with, Sine = Opposite Cosine = Adjacent Tangent = Opposite We use SOH CAH TOA to find the angles or sides of right triangles, but it can be difficult to remember that In FOIL, distributing binomials should be in order of the “First, Outer, Inner, and Last.” KCF is easy to remember as “Kentucky Chicken Fried,” but it might make you hungry.įor our older students, there are just a few things to remember, and FOIL is one of the best. ![]() ![]() When dividing fractions, please keep KCF in mind: keep the first fraction the same, change the sign from divide to multiply, and flip the last fraction. The best ones can help them practice some more challenging math concepts. Middle and high school students get a lot of practice with mnemonic devices and other silly phrases at both school and after school learning centers. This gave them such prefixes kilo, hecta, deca, units, deci, centi, and milli: KHDUDCM.Ĭan’t remember KHDUDCM? Try: “King Henry Danced Until Dawn Counting Money.” Educational Phrases for Middle and High School Just as our kids began to learn more about decimals, they were introduced to the metric system. PEMDAS can be learned as “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.” In that case, they learn such devices as PEMDAS (parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, and subtract). Sometimes kids need help with tough topics such as calculating with multiple operations. “Don’t Make Sally Break Dance!” will help you remember DMSB. A silly little phrase helps our kids remember this long division method. Numerator/Denominator can be learned as North Dakota or Nice Dog.Īt school or in an after school enrichment program, we learn long division with many methods but with the divide, multiply, subtract, and bring down method, we use the acronym DMSB. If kids have difficulty remembering the difference between the top and the bottom part, the numerator and the denominator, of a fraction, we can help them remember more easily with this mnemonic device, which will help them remember the parts of a fraction. ![]() This type of device can be used for any subject, In math, it is especially helpful for memorizing potentially obscure ideas as relatable ideas. Mnemonic Devices for 2 nd to 6 th GradeĪ mnemonic device is a phrase that helps us memorize different facts. With the help of this rhyme, numbering the days in each of the months will not be difficult to grasp. For instance, instead of “nine, ten, begin again,” the rhyme can end with “nine, ten, a big fat hen.” It is easy to add variety to, which can make it more fun for early learners. This is a funny, little counting sound, which is easy to remember. We learn them early, but we use them forever. ![]() Near rhymes work great for songwriting, often giving a more interesting feel than perfect rhymes.Two of the best silly phrases we first hear about are learned in kindergarten. To see our full selection of genre-specific rhymes, triggers that get your creativity flowing, and next line suggestions from our incredible A.I. ![]()
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