Using Acronyms to Study

Using Acronyms to Remember Facts

PEMDAS, SOHCAHTOA

One of the most popular acronymic sentences that we are taught in school is Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. As most of you know this is used to describe the steps for the Order of Operations.

P - Parentheses
E - Exponents
M - Multiplication
D - Division
A - Addition
S - Subtraction

The order in which you would solve a problem with multiple operations such as (2 + 6)² – 8(3+4)/2.

We use these acronymic sentence to help us memorize the steps we need in order to solve the problem and we can use them to remember any information that we need to remember.

Here's how to create one of these sentences:

• Determine what information you have to remember and write it down
• Underline the first letter of each item that you have to remember using the first letter of the most important word if there are several words within a piece of information
• Write a sentence using words that begin with the letters that you underlined

Another example would be My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles - This is used to help remember the nine planets.

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