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I often have opportunities to develop my own acronyms for my math classes. Although there are established ones in place, I develop humorous alternative acronyms that normally get a chuckle (or a groan) from the class. A recent acronym was "I View XL Centurions Drinking Milk". This acronym was used to remember the Roman Numerals from 1 through 1,000. At least 50% of the class applied the acronym on their quiz and homework. I then challenge students to develop their own acronyms and share them with the class. The creativity of the students can be quite surprising.
I am always using them in teaching my math classes. It helps students remember the math steps.
Hi Luke,
Like your use of personally developed acronyms for remembering math concepts and formulas. A re-enforcer of how well this is being accepted is the fact that at least 50% of the class used this method to remember math concepts.
Gary
Hi Luke. Please let me know of other acronyms you have for math...I had not thought of using words to describe number sequences before...maybe you have a few for English/metric dimentional analysis equivalencies.