Remember This Mnemonic Device
Do the words please excuse my dear Aunt Sally sound familiar. If you remember, this mnemonic device was used to help you recall that you worked with parenthesis first, then exponents, then multiplication, then division, then addition, and finally subtraction. Would you agree that this made learning that process easier? The process is equally easy when students have at their disposal several of these types of strategies that aide learning. It will be a veritable picnic table of strategies that each child can draw from when they have a need. A second reason centers on time. By increasing a student’s metacognitive ability they will be able to identify quickly when a strategy is not working well for them.
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