Hello dear people,
Can you help me - in 4 weeks I am supposed to teach young adults the basics of mathematics.
It’s about algebra, rearranging formulas and angle functions. Can mnemonics help me to memorise the problems and solutions permanently? So far I have used mnemonic techniques to learn words from biochemistry and medicine. (created a picture for each term and then used the memory palace to give a place to the respective terms - how can it be used for algebra or formula conversion, who can help me please?
@Jupp, hi! I found a nice little collection of sciences and math mnemonics from some Polish educators in English you might like. Check out my post on it.
Doug
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For permanent memories spaced repetition reviews are required.
Mnemonics is good infrastructure to perform those spaced reviews but it is really spaced repetition that creates permanent memories.
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vielen Dank
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as @zweb_chess says, long term retention and fluency only come from repeated review spaced over time. Review need not be rote repetition. For math identities I recommend doing exercises that require that knowledge and deliberately invoking the mnemonic every time the identity is employed. For myself, I found deriving the identity also provides a good memory attachment but often the manipulations involved are beyond the comfort zone of most beginners.
I still sometimes use the old saw for basic trig identites:
Some Old Horses
Can Always Have
Tons Of Apples
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