Memorizing

1. Memorizing

2. Different Memorizing Techniques: Acronyms 2. Acrostics 3. Chaining

3. Acronyms • An invented combination of letters • each letter is used as a cue to an item you need to remember ROY G. BIV? HOMES? PEMDAS? Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

4. Acrostics • an invented sentence or poem with a first letter cue • first letter of each word is a cue to an idea you need to remember My Mercury Very Venus Excellent Earth Mother Mars Just Jupiter Served Saturn Us Uranus Nachos Neptune 4(7+9/10) + 13 Please Parenthesis Excuse Exponents My Multiply Dear Divide Aunt Addition Sally Subtraction Never North Eat East Sour South Wheat West

5. Chaining • create a story where each word or idea you have to remember cues the next idea you need to recall Milk, Bread, Eggs, Cheese, Orange Juice -A carton of milk pouring into a loaf of bread -A sandwich (the bread) with raw eggs in it -Eggs stuck in the holes of Swiss cheese -Pieces of cheese hanging from an orange tree

6. One example to use all three: You’re grocery list of bananas, milk, bread, apples, green beans, eggs Acronym: BAM BEG Bananas Apples Milk Bread Eggs Green Beans Chaining: -going into grocery store with a monkey who wants a banana -but he wants the banana in a sandwich -oh, with a side of milk -you watch the monkey while you munch on an apple -there happen to be singing green beans in the background -but oh, your image is crushed when someone breaks a raw egg over your head Acrostic: Grandma Green Beans Bakes Bananas Monkey Milk Bread Bread At Apples Easter Eggs

7. References http://www.ehow.com/info_8659101_chaining-pegging-memory-techniques.html http://www.studycram.com/better-memory.html http://www.studygs.net/memory/ http://zacharymemory.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/memory-improvement-chain- method/