Congratulations to Sarah Pearson, who worked out that
Rejoice heartily, your teacher has measles (Music)
is a way of remembering the spelling of RHYTHM.
No one got the others, which were, admittedly, harder:
LADPOCS (Geography)
is a list of factors affecting the weather: latitude, altitude, distance from the sea, prevailing winds, ocean currents, clouds and rainfall, slope of the land.
BODMAS (Maths)
This is the order of working out a mathematical expression: brackets, of, division and multiplication, addition and subtraction. In other words, if you have to work out 2(4×6+2), then you first multiply 4 by 6 (=24), then add 2 (=26), then multiply the whole thing by 2 (=52). Which doesn’t seem to be in the order of BODMAS, but it made sense at the time!
King Henry’s daughter makes delicious cream meringues (Maths)
This one I’m sure of: kilometres, hectometres, decametres, metres, decimetres, centimetres, millimetres.
“But Miss, what if it’s grams and not metres?“
Then it’s: King Henry’s daughter gnaws delicious cream meringues.
September 23, 2011 at 12:59 am
I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t even understand the explanation of the maths one. I can’t help it, my wilful brain just refuses to comprehend anything to do with maths.
September 23, 2011 at 12:04 pm
and you omitted the most common:
Richard of York won battles in vain
September 23, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Hmm. I don’t know that one. But it’s almost like the colours of the rainbow, which I remember as VIBGYOR.
September 23, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Gosh, even the answers are difficult. Like the rhythm one (have I spelt that properly!?) Thanks, Miriam 🙂
September 23, 2011 at 8:27 pm
They were fun games and very clever.
September 23, 2011 at 8:30 pm
You know…a mnemonic that I still use today is Never Eat Soggy Waffles to help me remember North East South West. It’s not nearly as clever as the ones you’ve posted but I just thought of it and wanted to share.
September 24, 2011 at 8:17 pm
That’s a nice one, although you also have to remember to go clockwise. I remember that it spells the word WE