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Mnemonics

January 16, 2018

A ridiculous sentence whose initial letters stand for one through ten, a mnemonic harder to remember than counting.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-16-mnemonics/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Only twins threaten forest fires, sir. See Einstein's nice tent?" (arrows: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten)

[Caption] "when the mnemonic is harder to remember than the thing it's a mnemonic for"

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Number & Arithmetic › CountingMath Culture › Learning & Memory
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