Discussion
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words Topic: Remembering Numbers
- Compare and contrast how you first learned about that topic with the way it is presented in this week’s materials.
- What did you learn that you may not have expected?
- Give an example of how you can apply what you learned to a situation outside the classroom.
Remembering numbers
A common task is to remember a string of numbers, like the address 2305 Maple St., a phone number, or a credit card number. Except for numbers used a lot like a person's own address or a spouse's phone number, the brain is not very good at remembering miscellaneous numbers. The brain's short-term memory can store just a few numbers (about 7), and only for a short period. But the brain is quite good at remembering images and stories. So, one helpful memory technique converts numbers into images with a story.
Remembering numbers using images and a story.2305 Maple ST
An animal'stooth
Biting at atree
That falls on aball
Rolling to afire
0Ball (0 is round)
1Pencil (1 looks like a pencil)
2Tooth (starts with "two" sound)
3Tree (close to "three" sound)
4Fort (starts with "fo" like "four")
5Fire (starts with "fi" like "five")
6Chair (6 looks like a chair)
7Axe (7 looks like an axe)
8Snowman (8 looks like a snowman
9Balloon (9 looks like a ballon)
The brain isn't great at remembering a string of numbers. People may easily forget the "2305" in address "2305 Maple Street".
1.The brain is better with images and/or stories. A number memory technique starts by a person having an image for each digit, like a ball for 0 (as 0 is round).
2.Then the person creates a short "story" with those images. 2305 is a "tooth" biting at a "tree" that falls on a "ball" that rolls to a "fire".
3.The images and story are easier to remember. From the remembered images and story, a person can convert back to numbers.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 75 words
SS. Post 1
I was just reading the section on remembering numbers and found it quite interesting. I have never thought about remembering numbers in that such a way. (Class, if you have not read this part yet, there is a word associated with a picture that corresponds with the number which allows one to create a story to help remember a string of numbers) This way of remembering numbers kind of reminds me of using a melody to help memorize history or actually anything that needs to be remembered.
I did not quite "get" why they said "the brains short-term memory can store just a few numbers" because remembering numbers is one thing I am fairly good at. I have always been able memorize phone numbers, credit card numbers, airline frequent flyer numbers and various other numbers as well. That being said, as I get older it does seem a bit harder to do that, so I may just have to try this image/story thing out. (Now I just need to remember what all the images of the number are!)