 Due Date- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 So now that we're no longer desperate housewives and we're drop dead gorgeous, let's help one another get brilliant! Share some of your own little tricks for remembering things.  Mnemonic for spelling words like "Receipt" and "Receive" = I before E; except after C Mnemonic for spelling the word "Arithmetic" = A Rat In Tom's House May Eat Tom's Ice Cream Mnemonic for remembering the order of the planets: "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranius, Neptune, and Pluto" = My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies Mnemonic for remembering how to spell the word "Convenient" = Every third letter is an "n" (C - o - N - v - e - N - i - e - N - t) Mneumonic for spelling the word Mississippi: (singing) Mmmmmmm - Iiiiiiii - crooked letter - crooked letter - I crooked letter - crooked letter - I - humped back - humped back - I (You'd really need to hear it, but it's a catchy toon and easy to remember. Simply replace the crooked letter for "S" and the humped back for "P") Mnemonic for remembering the Order of Operations: "Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction" = Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Mnemonic for remerbing the order of colors in the rainbow or visual spectrum: "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet" = Roy G. Biv Mnemonic for remembering the left hand = You can make an "L" with your left hand. Close up the "L" slightly and it becomes the "Less than" symbol (<). *My favorite!* Mnemonic for remembering which months have 31 days = First you make a fist (tuck your thumb underneath the fingers). Go across the knuckles, and the spaces between each knuckle, saying the months of the year. For example, the first knuckle will be January, the space between the knuckles will be February, the next knuckle will March, the next space is April, etc. Once you get to the last knuckle, begin at the first knuckle again. Each month that lands on a knuckle has 31 days. The months that land on the spaces between the knuckles have 30 days(except for Feburary, of course). So it would look like this: January (knuckle), February (space), March (knuckle), April (space), May (knuckle), June (space), July (knuckle), August (knuckle), September (space), October (knuckle), November (space), December (knuckle)   Thanks, Connie! |