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Funny things that your teachers told you during Elementary school to help remember topics

NFS4

NFS4

No Lifer
Let's just limit it to elementary school.

My fifth grade math teacher, Mr. Ireland, told us the best way to remember improper fractions was to think of Dolly Parton. Big on the top, small on the bottom aka Dolly Parton fractions 😛

Everytime I see Dolly Parton now, I just have to think back to fifth grade and laugh
 
more useful than funny:
< > the big alligator mouth eats the bigger number. i could never remember it any other way 😱
 
Originally posted by: HN
more useful than funny:
< > the big alligator mouth eats the bigger number. i could never remember it any other way 😱
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I was told to look at it as Pac-Man's mouth 😀.
 
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies.

But now Pluto isn't a planet or some shit? And when I was a kid no one knew why the dinosaurs died off...now a days it seems like everyone says an asteroid killed them.
 
Originally posted by: mattocs
My Very Excellent Mother Just Baked Us Nine Pies.

But now Pluto isn't a planet or some shit? And when I was a kid no one knew why the dinosaurs died off...now a days it seems like everyone says an asteroid killed them.
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Baturn? 😉
 
Originally posted by: JetBlack69
Originally posted by: mattocs
My Very Excellent Mother Just Baked Us Nine Pies.

But now Pluto isn't a planet or some shit? And when I was a kid no one knew why the dinosaurs died off...now a days it seems like everyone says an asteroid killed them.
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Baturn? 😉
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Haha, my bad. I corrected that.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Let's just limit it to elementary school.

My fifth grade math teacher, Mr. Ireland, told us the best way to remember improper fractions was to think of Dolly Parton. Big on the top, small on the bottom aka Dolly Parton fractions 😛

Everytime I see Dolly Parton now, I just have to think back to fifth grade and laugh
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I heard that too, sixth grade. I just heard "Dollyparton Fractions," and I figured that that was another name for them. It wasn't until quite a few years later that I finally heard "Dolly Parton" as a name, saw the person, and made the association.

Roy G Biv, as someone mentioned, was another. The alligator mouths, that too.
The planets? Hah, I knew their names, diameters, and orbital periods sometime before 4th grade. 😀


I usually just tried to remember the concept itself - the order of operations for example. I could remember the order easily, but never the pneumonic. Too many of those "helpful" things like that didn't make sense to me, or sounded like jibberish, while the thing that was being taught in the first place was much easier to remember by itself.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
the mnemonic for the resistor color code is pretty shocking.
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Oh please teach me that one. You don't know how much I struggled in the microelectronics lab to check out every resistor we had to use. Ever since the first 2 labs screwed up cuz people throw in 100 ohm resistors into the 1k ohm resistor tray I've always told myself to look out and read the color bands. Of course I'm no EE major so I probably don't have to deal with this any more but if I just decide to take a EE lab class as my last elective next semester....
 
Originally posted by: jagec
the mnemonic for the resistor color code is pretty shocking.
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lmao! I teach physics in a high school, and I usually go into much more depth than the state curriculum requires. I had a student ask me if there was an easy mnemonic for remembering the order... "Yes, there is. If you were in college, I'd tell you myself. But, you're in high school, so you're just going to have to look it up yourself. Try wikipedia."



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Bad Boys Race Our Young Girls But Violet Generally Wins
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well Good Sir.
Bye Bye Rose, Off You Go - Birmingham Via Great Western
Bad Bacon Rots Our Young Guts But Venison Goes Well. Get Some Now!
B.B. ROY of Great Britain had a Very Good Wife, Good Son
Buffalo Bill Roamed Over Yellow Grass Because Vistas Grand Were God's Sanctuary
Bully Brown Ran Over a Yodeling Goat, Because Violet's Granny Was Gone Snorkeling
Buy Better Resistance Or Your Grid Bias May Go Wrong
Bongo's Buy Randy Ocelot Young Girls Buy Very Groovy Walruses
Black Beetles Running Over Your Garden Bring Very Good Weather
Black Brown Richard Of York Gave Battle in Vain and the Good Women Grieve Sadly
Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes Wrong
 
Originally posted by: mattocs
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies.

But now Pluto isn't a planet or some shit? And when I was a kid no one knew why the dinosaurs died off...now a days it seems like everyone says an asteroid killed them.
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That's bullshit. Everyone knows Chuck Norris killed the dinosaurs. No one is allowed to be bigger than Chuck in Chuck's world. He's been working on the whales now and elephants.
 
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