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submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'll never understand these approaches to learning. They require remembering the phrase, and then require remembering how the phrase translates to the rules you need to remember.

I'll just remember the rules in the first place. Less effort.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    There's just no way rote learning is easier than mnemonics unless you have a photographic memory.

    Shit, I still remember the order of taxonomic ranks after seeing the phrase "King Phillip came over from Germany stoned" written in a used bio textbook 30 years ago when we never even made it to that chapter to officially study in class. I guarantee I never would've remembered the list "kingdom phylum class order family genus species".

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Don't ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes ...

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Warning: my music nerd's about to come out.

    I'm in my 40s, and have been playing music since single digits. I still remember the order of lines in the staffs with "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge", "FACE", "Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always", and "All Cows Eat Grass". I did teach my kids "Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart", though, since they seem to like burritos.

    My internal math nerd agrees with the grandparent though, for some reason I just remembered the order of operations and was confused when my kids came home with PEDMAS. But to be fair, I use the order of operations every day at work, so 🤷. I'm also one of those people who will insist on using parentheses everywhere there's more than two terms, though, so take from that what you will.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago

    I’ll never understand these approaches to learning. They require remembering the phrase, and then require remembering how the phrase translates to the rules you need to remember

    Yeah, exactly, but the U.S. seems to have a chip on it's shoulder about always doing everything differently to the whole rest of the world. "Maths? We're not going to use BEDMAS, and we're not going to call them Brackets, and...".

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