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Mnemonic devices lisa com
1. You were Born to Learn!!!
How’s your memory?
Your brain was born to learn, loves to learn, and
knows how to learn.
You learn what you practice.
Practice is making mistakes, correcting mistakes,
learning from them and trying over, again and again.
Making and learning from mistakes is a natural and
necessary part of learning.
2. What is learning?
Learning (skill) = memory + understanding
Ability to recognize, recall,
retain and storeinformation. Enablesapplication
of knowledge.
3. Fibers in my head?
You learn what you practice
because when you are
practicing, your brain is
growing new fibers (dendrites)
and connecting them at
synapses.
This is what learning is.
5. Mnemonics / Memory Devices
Acrostic Sentences
Work best if the sentence is silly, ridiculous creative
and fun.
For example: The order of the planets
away from the sun?
My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine
Pizzas.
6. Example from Chemistry (an acrostic):
Holly Harrington Likes Beer But
Cannot Now Obtain Food.
The elements 1-9 of the periodic table —
Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron,
Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine).
7. Use Acronyms for example:
PEMDAS in math class helpsusremember theorder
of operationsfor Algebra:
Parentheses first,
then Exponents
then solve Multiplication and Division
from left to right
then finally solve Addition and
Subtraction from left to right.
