I still remember lots of facts about Albania from Cheers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0

My Algebra II teacher used Row, Row, Row Your Boat. She also wore a t-shirt with the quadratic equation on it, under her sweater. As she finished the song, she pulled off the sweater, much to the surprise of the students (the shirt stayed on, so things were still safe for school).

I'm still not sure if it was the song or the shock of seeing your teacher pull her clothes off. While I can still remember the song by heart, I also shudder every time I sing it.

Not exactly "hot for teacher" material from the sounds of it.

Does anyone else find these mnemonics harder to remember than the actual thing itself? I see a lot of people online talk about this and something else for sines and cosines and it always seems really hard.

I’m not saying I’ve got some super memory. Just that remembering the actual expression is easy. The mnemonic is always longer and harder for me to recall.

I can picture the shapeform of the equation itself but cannot muster a single of the rhymes. I wonder if it is a difference in how we were trained as children.

I got my 4 year old to reliably remember our address by just making a simply jingle out of it. The tune is not related to anything. The power of music for memory recall is amazing.

My teacher used the following short story:

The negative boy couldn't decide if he wanted to go to the radical party. So he decided to be square, missing out on 4 awesome chicks. It was all over by 2 AM.

My chemistry teacher had a similar acronym for remembering which of the anode and cathode where positive and negative.

Penises are not cunts.

My algebra teacher did it to the tune of the Notre Dame fight song, haha. Two decades later and I still remember it!

x equals the opposite of b

plus or minus the square root of

b-squared minus four a c

all over two times a

Same! In fact, I had to sing the entire song in my head to remember what the actual formula was.

Ours did it to Frere Jacque.

Or 'never gonna give you up'.