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Most persons have a hard time memorizing mathematical formulas. Yet, numerous tests require memorizing formulas and students have a hard time with it.

I have developed a technique to learn those formulas speedily and keep them in memory for weeks without thinking in regards to them again. I employed it in my last stats exam to memorize closely 60 formulas and after half a year I am still competent to write them down.

The most difficult share of this technique is to be competent to find the right formula for the given question.

Because it is not in regards to understanding the formula. It is when it comes to memorizing each share of it. Quickly.

Here is how you do it in three steps:

1. Break the formula up in all elements you need to memorize (variables, numbers, operands)
2. Substitute all elements with something you may do not forget (there is a simple method to it, which I will cover in just a second)
3. Glue all elements back together by telling a crazy story

After you determined what elements you need to do not forget in step 1, you will now learn how you may substitute those abstract elements with something we may remember.

By the way, I have recorded a free video explaining the whole conception on an example (namely the quadratic formula). Look for the link below.

After you have understood how this technique is working you must invent your own substitution rules because they normally work better that way. Until then, here are mine:

• Variables: Animals starting with the letter of the variable
• Numbers: If numbers are combined with variables, picture “two apes” for “2a”. If it is like “a+2″ I picture an ape running towards two things (like bananas).
• Plus: Everything combined with a plus I picture in a row like little ducks running behind their mother one after another.
• Minus: I do not forget minus like the plus sign, but the minus sign makes whatsoever comes after it annoyed or angry.
• Multiplication is parallel for me. All parts of the equation want to do something at the same time.
• The section line puts everything underneath underneath the world surface.
• Power: I always take whatsoever the base is and picture babies of it. As a frequent rule I put everything in the exponent in “baby form”.
• Square root (sqrt): Most of the time I visualize a bus-stop or a giant wooden root covering everything in it.

Now that we have a substitution of all elements of the formula, we may move to step three and tell a story, that helps us memorize all elements in order.

First, we ought to pick a base. Look around you and take something that you may remember. I, for instance, have a glass of water in front of me, that I am going to use as my base. It is a good idea to take a dissimilar base for each formula to stay clear from confusion.

Here is an example:

We will memorize this formula: (x – y)^3 = x^3 – 3x^2y + 3xy^2 – y^3

Our formula parts are:

• x… X-ray fish (a fish with a highly transparent body)
• y… yak (The yak is a long-haired bovine found allround the Himalayan region)

Now, I will visualize my glass of water and construct a story of all constituents while reading the formula from left to right:

There is a giant glass of water in front of my table. In it, a x-ray fish and a yak are fighting to save their children from drowning. Two fish-yak baby hybrids made it already out of the glass, the third one is just getting pushed up by the angry yak. The yak is angry, because he told the kits not to play near the giant water-glass and yet they did and fall into it. All this is getting observed by an x-ray fish mother walking by, carrying her three babies safely on her shoulders. (picture a fish with shoulders and walking on their fins.)

The mother fish is so in a brown study, that she oversees three other animals and crashes with them: an x-ray fish father, with his two kits (twins!) and a yak mother pushing an empty baby buggy. And an invisible animal which she cannot see, but smell: it smells awful! “Can’t you recompense attention when you are walking?” the three animals yell at the mother angrily.

The mother-fish walks away and after numerous time she thinks she has a deja-vu: Again, three animals (those invisible animals actually stink – what are they?) are walking towards her. But when she looks closer, she sees that this time there are no kits on the fish-shoulders, but twins on the yak-shoulder, while the baby buggy is still empty. The mother-fish fends off crashing into them and all pass by happily.

The mother fish looks back, marveling why the yak is carrying their kits on the shoulder rather of putting them in the baby buggy, as she crashes into a huge body-builder-yak. “Where are you looking at?” the body-builder-yak is yelling. The mother fish ducks and walks rapidly and without delay to get away. What a yak! He had muscles that looked like three kits are sitting on his back!

I commend to go through the story in your head and look at the formula at the same time to make sure you have memorized everything correctly.

After that, you must be competent to write the formula down without looking at it again. If that is not the case I commend to invent your own story.

To manufacture a story that you may do not forget it is necessary to not just put story constituents together, but let them interact with each other. I, for instance, would not let the mother-fish just walk down the street seeing those two hybrid families. By letting her crash into them, I formulated a connection I will memorize. Then I used the matching of 3x^2y and 3xy^2 to my vantage by letting her have a deja-vu.

This technique might look elaborated when you read it the primary time, but is not when you applied it once on your own. Just try it on a simple formula like this one: V = (4 pi r^3) / 3

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