Memory - Memorizing numbers
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For this lesson, the advice is to have covered the lessons 'Memorization - Associating & Visualizing' first."
Module insight: You can get better at anything.
Lesson insight: You can memorize numbers more easily by using a system.
Materials needed
'Memorizing numbers' worksheet for every student"
Additional Information
In the 'Associating and Visualizing' lesson, the essence of visualizing information was covered. This lesson takes the concept a step further by devising thinking systems for memorizing numbers. Three systems are covered in the lesson: images, rhymes, and the Major System. Memorizing the system itself might feel like extra work, but once the system is firmly established in memory, it often improves the long-term recall of numbers.
The Reflection
If this is the students' very first lesson of the 'Cleverly being yourself' series, you can skip the reflection.
Extra Information:
The reflection is intended for reflecting on the execution of the experiment. Students consider what they have learned from their experiment. There is no right or wrong answer here. Even if they did not carry out their experiment, it is valuable to reflect on why that was the case. By reflecting consistently, it becomes a habit for students, and a culture emerges where sharing your learning approach is normal.
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Ask the students about their experiments: What have they learned from doing them, or from not doing them? Did they encounter hacks that they used in order to regulate their own behaviour? Did they encounter common pitfalls or challenges that prevented them from executing their experiment?
Learning objectives
To get better at memorizing numbers.
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Learning objectives:
The student can memorize numbers by using different systems.
The Check
Extra Information:
The check is there to discover the students' current approach. It can be a question, assignment, or test, and there are no right or wrong answers. Its sole purpose is to discover which strategies or techniques the students are currently using.
Memorizing numbers
The following slide contains a long sequence of numbers. Try to memorize them as well as possible in one minute.
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Memorizing numbers
314159265358979323846264338
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Ensure that the students do not write down the number.
What were the numbers?
Have the students answer the question.
Read the correct answer aloud (3141592653).
Additional Information
This number is the value of Pi (3.141592653).
What strategy did you apply to memorize the numbers?
Extra information:
This question is included to make students aware of their method of memorization. Try to find out from the students exactly what made it difficult or easy to remember the number.
The Experience
Extra Information:
During the experience, students are presented with scientific theory and practical learning tips, which they then start working with. The goal is for them to discover how the knowledge, techniques, and/or strategies offered work for them. It is important that the students experience this for themselves. Only then can they choose what they want to do with it moving forward.
Making systems
If you want to memorize numbers, you need to create a system that allows you to give meaning to those numbers. There are basically two options.
1. Turn each digit into an image
(the Mnemonic Peg System)
2. Turn each digit into a letter
(the Major System)
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The mnemonic Peg System
With this system, you link the digits 0 through 9 to an image that you feel fits the number. You can also choose images that rhyme with the number. This way, you can use multiple images per number.
For example: you visualize '1' as a 'Sun' or 'gun', '2' as 'zoo' or 'shoe', and so on.
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Additional Information
An example of a story where you use the image system (the mnemonic peg system):
A pregnant woman (3) and a giraffe (1) are sitting in a sailboat (4), on which the giraffe (1) throws a snake (5) towards a snail (9), and it suddenly turns into a swan (2)!
The number that belongs to this is: 3141592
The Major System
With this system, you link every digit (0 through 9) to a consonant. You can then form words using these consonants by adding vowels yourself. You will need to devise this system yourself, which will subsequently allow you to easily memorize numbers. The video on the following slide explains exactly how it works.
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Additional Information:
The 'Major System' is a slightly different system. This system transforms digits into consonants. This way, you can create words from all the consonants and easily memorize many numbers.
Please note: it works best when the students fully develop their own system (you may of course use our suggestions). This system is the most complex of the three.
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Example of the Major System
An example of a Major System could be:
0 = Z (for 'Z'ero)
1 = T (One vertical line)
2 = N (Two vertical lines)
3 = M (Three vertical lines)
4 = R (for fou'R')
5 = V (Romanletter for 5)
6 = J (Upside down '6')
7 = L (Upside down 7)
8 = S (looks like an 8)
9 = P (mirrored 9).
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Ask the students if they understand the system.
Please note: it works best when the students fully develop their own system (you may of course use our suggestions). This system is the most complex of the two.
Making your system
Grab your worksheet and create your own system of consonants. Good to know: the order from most to least frequent consonants in English is:
"T, N, S, R, H, D, L, C, M, F, P, G, Y, B, V, K, X, J, Q, Z"
Tip: you can also use two consonants that look very similar for a single number, such as B/P, T/D, S/Z.
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Hand out the worksheet to the students.
Get started!
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Which consonants do you link to the digits?
Write these next to the digit on your worksheet.
Have the students link a letter to each digit on the worksheet.
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Practice
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Let's practice with a number sequence: 03141592
Create a sentence for this, using your system.
Example: (The) ZooM TiRe ToLd a PiN.
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Start the timer.
Competition!
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Time for a competition!
Let's see who can memorize the most digits after the decimal point of the number Pi. Use your worksheet for this.
Have the students memorize as many digits as possible using their own system.
On the worksheet, they will see the digits after the decimal point of the number Pi.
Start the timer.
Once the timer has run out, they can fill in how many digits they still remember on the next slide.
What is the sequence of the digits after the decimal point?
Have the students answer the question.
What was your story during the memorization?
Have the students answer the question.
Check whether the story actually corresponds to the number sequence.
My Experiment
Extra Information:
'My experiment' is the final step in the process. In the check, the students' current approach became clear. In the experiencing phase, they started working with a different way of learning. Now it is time for the students to decide what they want to take away from this to try out, practice further, or turn into a new, valuable habit. It helps to make this plan as well-defined as possible. This ensures that it becomes easier to actually carry out the experiment.
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How will you use this knowledge? Design a well-defined experiment.
State that it is important to make it as well-defined as possible.
Ask a number of students if they would like to elaborate on their experiment.
If an experiment is not yet well-defined, you can ask probing questions. ("What exactly are you going to do?", "When are you going to do it?", "What is the first step?").
What did you think of this lesson?
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Extra Information:
If you have added the lesson to 'My Lessons' and have taught the lesson, you can later review the students' answers under 'Reports' (rapportages).
Conclude the lesson.
