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Rhymes to help you remember things..?

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  • 02-06-2013 10:57am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭


    So sometimes rhymes or phrases can help you remember things.
    So I thought we could post rhymes that help us to remember things here :)

    Off the top of my head here are some phrases that help me remember stuff...

    Science
    Mrs Ferg (for the characteristics of living things)
    Movement
    Respiration
    Sensititvity
    Fedding
    Exrection
    Reproduction
    Growth

    Geography

    To remember the category's of rock and the rocks in each category I think of
    B.I.G (Basalt, Igneous, Granite)
    M.Q.M (Metamorphic, Quartzite, Marble)
    S.L.S (Sedimentary, Limestone, Sandstone)

    History
    The Spanish Conquests
    CAM (Cortez, Aztecs, Mexico)
    and
    PIP (Pizarro, Incas, Peru)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭finisher489


    claryfray wrote: »
    So sometimes rhymes or phrases can help you remember things.
    So I thought we could post rhymes that help us to remember things here :)

    Off the top of my head here are some phrases that help me remember stuff...

    Science
    Mrs Ferg (for the characteristics of living things)
    Movement
    Respiration
    Sensititvity
    Fedding
    Exrection
    Reproduction
    Growth

    Geography

    To remember the category's of rock and the rocks in each category I think of
    B.I.G (Basalt, Igneous, Granite)
    M.Q.M (Metamorphic, Quartzite, Marble)
    S.L.S (Sedimentary, Limestone, Sandstone)

    History
    The Spanish Conquests
    CAM (Cortez, Aztecs, Mexico)
    and
    PIP (Pizarro, Incas, Peru)

    Ring out your great bell in victory.

    Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

    Those are the colours that make up white light and they are in that order. Red and Violet can be seen in the extreme ends and Green is always in the middle


  • Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭finisher489


    claryfray wrote: »
    So sometimes rhymes or phrases can help you remember things.
    So I thought we could post rhymes that help us to remember things here :)

    Off the top of my head here are some phrases that help me remember stuff...

    Science
    Mrs Ferg (for the characteristics of living things)
    Movement
    Respiration
    Sensititvity
    Fedding
    Exrection
    Reproduction
    Growth


    Geography

    To remember the category's of rock and the rocks in each category I think of
    B.I.G (Basalt, Igneous, Granite)
    M.Q.M (Metamorphic, Quartzite, Marble)
    S.L.S (Sedimentary, Limestone, Sandstone)

    History
    The Spanish Conquests
    CAM (Cortez, Aztecs, Mexico)
    and
    PIP (Pizarro, Incas, Peru)

    Silly Sean Supports Chelsea Football

    Settling Screening Sedimentation Chlorination Fluoridation


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    Cows - capernaum
    Never -Nazareth
    Jump - Jeruslaem
    Backwards - Bethlehem

    Helps remember the order the towns of Palestine(time of jesus) are in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Jijsaw


    In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
    To remember composition of protein-Honc (similar to honk)
    Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    Sin=Oh/Hell (Opposite/Hypotenus)
    Cos=Another/Hour (Ajayenx/Hypotenus)
    Tan=Of/Algerbra (Opposite/Ajayenx)

    The forumla for the sin, cos and tan. ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭MmmPancakes


    Cat - Calcium
    Make - Magnesium
    Zebras - Zinc
    Cry - Copper

    For the reactivity of metals experiment in science


  • Registered Users Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Cr4pSnip3r


    1. Silly Old Harry
    2. Caught A Herring
    3. Trawling Off America
    1. Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
    2. Cos = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
    3. Tan = Opposite/Adjacent

    Think that's it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
    Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
    The planets in order of distance from Sun (Pluto still included despite not being a planet anymore, not sure where ye stand on that!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    dee_mc wrote: »
    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
    Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
    The planets in order of distance from Sun (Pluto still included despite not being a planet anymore, not sure where ye stand on that!)
    That's the old science course :rolleyes: there's no mention of planets or anything like that on the new science course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Pwee2029


    That's the old science course :rolleyes: there's no mention of planets or anything like that on the new science course.

    lol I thought it was for geography


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Jijsaw


    That's the old science course :rolleyes: there's no mention of planets or anything like that on the new science course.


    Damn I would have liked a nice planet question :( Better then stupid atoms anyways :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    Another one for maths is:

    SOHCAHTOA

    Sine = OH (Opposite/Hypotenuse)
    Cosine = AH (Adjacent/Hypotenuse)
    Tangent = OA (Opposite/Adjacent)


  • Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭sotisme


    Hungry Cats Never Order Average Portions

    Hydrogen Cathode Negative

    Oxygen Anode Positive



    SNAP-
    Simony
    Nepotism
    Abseentism
    Pluralism

    Dr. A and E (debit assets & expenses)

    Or EARL

    Expenses (debit)
    Assets (debit)
    Revenue (credit)
    Liabilities (credit)


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