Memorizing Numbers
How can I improve my ability to remember telephone numbers?
How can I test my ability to remember numbers?
Here's a very simple memory test. Numbers are fairly abstract for the average person. So a memory test for yourself would be having somebody write down a list of seven random sequence of numbers. They're going to call the numbers, and see if you can remember those, repeat those numbers in a perfect sequence. And then try it with ten numbers. If you can get five numbers out of the seven, that's one percentage that we could say your memory is fair. If you're getting seven out of seven, that's excellent. If you get ten out of ten, your memory for numbers would be excellent. Remembering lists of series of numbers, look for a relationship in the numbers. If it's three, four, seven, you'd say "Oh, three plus four is seven." You start to look for connections, and group them. Three or four numbers in a group, another three or four numbers in a group, another three numbers. Before you know it you can have ten or twelve numbers in a perfect sequence. But making active pictures of numbers, there are techniques to remember: making numbers into pictures.
How can I help my child to remember multiplication tables?
The average child that trys to learn the multiplication tables, they repeat it over and over again. It could be six months or a year later and they still don't know their tables. As an example for nine times five or five times nine is forty-five: every child knows what a football field looks like, so picture a football field with team number nine playing against team number five, and they're playing on the forty-five yard line. Get the picture? So nine times five, or five times nine, whats the yard line? The forty-five yard line. Now eight, eight looks like a snowman, can you see the head and the body of the snowman looking like the figure eight? Here we have eight times eight, there's mama snowman next to papa snowman, and they're celebrating their sixty-fourth birthday and there's a huge birthday cake with the sixty-four candles on it. See the picture? Eight times eight is what? Sixty-four, right? Now for four times eight, lets take four times eight, can you see our snowman, he's out on the desert holding a four leaf clover, thats eight times four. The desert's very hot; he says "I'm thirsty too." Thirsty too sounds like what? Thirty-two. So the child instantly remembers nine times five, eight times eight, eight times four.
