Remember

Topics: Starter | Memory | Multiple Intelligences

• Mrs. Fischl, Port Hope, Ontario
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• I would like it to wait a little while longer before the number is revealed.
• Ian Clark, Port Hope High School, Ontario, Canada
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• Ian would like to see the number in its entirety. It is easier for him to remember chunks of numbers rather than one digit at a time.
• Team 24, Rio Real School, California
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• We loved the memory game!
• Transum,
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• We would really like to know what is the greatest number of digits pupils are able to remember in a number. Does 'chunking' (splitting the number into groups of three or four digits) help? Has anyone tried using a mnemonic method? What is the record for your class?
• Mr Shepherd, The St Lawrence Academy
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• I studied Bruno Furst's legendary memory enhancement course years ago. Passing on the basics to a year 10 allowed him to memorise a of forty pictures, in order, for a history test - much to the amazement of the humanities dept. The same technique can be used for almost any number of items / digits etc. by anyone who cares to train themselves. (eg. Pi to 250,000 places is all based on the same system.)
  Record for remembering lists in class was a year 9 student in my last year's 3 class who successfully recited 30 items (randomly chosen by individuals in the class) in order after a two minute period of silently studying the list. Impressive.

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