Brittany Chesna, Kristin Erdmann, Vicky Hagen, Heather Janik, Amanda Moxley, Erin Shemoski

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Mnemonic Strategies

• Brittany Chesna, Kristin Erdmann, Vicky Hagen,
  Heather Janik, Amanda Moxley, Erin Shemoski

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Mnemonic Strategies

• Technique for improving memory
• Used with students with disabilities
• Works with any subject

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Types of Strategies

• Keyword
• Remembering the definition of carline a witch
  driving a car (carline means witch)
• Pegword
• Rhyming words to represent numbers
• One bun
• Letter
• Acronyms or acrostics
• Every Good Boy Does Fine the notes on the lines
  in the treble clef

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Implementing Strategy

• List all processes needed to complete the
  strategy in the correct order
• Take an initial to help remember the step for
  each process
• Use initials to make a word or phrase
• Teach students math process while using the
  strategy to remember the order of operations

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Examples

• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
• Order of opperations
• Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division,
  addition, subtraction
• Does McDonalds Sell Cheese Burgers
• Long division
• Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Compare, Bring down

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Pros/Cons

• Pros
• Can be used for all ages
• Proved to work especially well for children with
  learning disabilities as evidenced by The Council
  for Exceptional Children
• Used with any subject

• Cons
• Memorizing the mnemonic device
• Coming up with creative sayings to remember the
  process