What to do if your child can't remember the numbers?
Others remember, but yours doesn’t! It's a shame.
And, most importantly, why is this happening? Unclear.
After all, a child is no worse than the rest, right?
And, if we are to be extremely frank, then in some places - even better! Smart and talented...
Familiar story? And so it was with us as well 🙂.
What to do if your child can't remember numbers? How to help?
Masha is smart. Very smart and talented and… Well, you get the idea.
But remembering the numbers - it didn’t work out! No matter how much they repeated, or counted, stickers were pasted - no use.
All the figures for Masha were on the same face.
"On one face"
Here it is! This turned out to be main secret Masha and many other children.
It's all about perception! It is different for people. Not just for kids, by the way.
There are children for whom one is one, and two is two. Well, you know how a donkey is a donkey, and a lamb is a lamb. You would probably be surprised if your child couldn't tell a donkey from a ram, right?
And there are children for whom one, two, three and all-all-all (as well as letters!) -
JUST FOR - KO - RYU - CHKI!
And now imagine. They give you a piece of squiggles and say:
- This squiggle is called “one”, this “two”, and this is generally the letter “a”! Did you remember everything? Repeat!
Represented? Scary? So it is for children who do not remember numbers and letters in any way.
Well, okay, there’s nothing terrible about it now, because we have already come up with a solution that helped us learn letters first, and then numbers.
Quick memorization!
Yes, if our method suits you, let me remind you that you can learn the letters with with exactly the same method!
In March 2014, Arthur set a new record for reproducing the number Pi, naming 11,106 characters without hesitation. He got into the "Book of Records of Russia" as a student. In addition, Arthur, as an expert on memory development, advises a well-known service on memorization issues, and while preparing for the record, he wrote a whole book called Remember Everything.
Arthur shared with us a story about how good habits and self-training can achieve amazing results, and also dispelled some popular misconceptions about mnemonics and memory.
How to remember tens of thousands of digits?
I am often asked what it is like to have a phenomenal memory: can I learn languages in a matter of days, do I keep memories of every day I live, do I remember the books I read verbatim. At first it was nice to hear such questions, but now I immediately try to make it clear to new acquaintances that I have the most ordinary memory. The main thing is to understand how it works.
I was genuinely surprised to read about people who were able to memorize decks of cards, numbers, long lists of foreign words with amazing speed. Once I read about a person who can learn a language in two or three days, and I decided to seriously figure out how it works myself. At first, it seemed that training would allow me to someday learn to memorize languages in the blink of an eye. Now I can say that no one can learn a language in two or three days. The fact is that in the book that inspired me, the words “learn a language” meant memorizing 1.5 thousand words.
Then he actively memorized numbers with a stopwatch, wanting to learn how to study foreign languages with astonishing speed.
“Why spend a year learning a language when you can develop a memory in six months and learn a language in a few days?” I thought as I continued to train.
Having learned to memorize a hundred digits in three minutes, I found out that the real Russian record at that time in memorizing the number Pi was only 8,332 characters. Why not set a new record? A great opportunity to stay motivated and better understand how memory works.
I decided to memorize 22,528 digits of pi. This is slightly more than the European record. In order to memorize so many numbers, I walked around Moscow and laid out my pre-compiled images of numbers on the streets. For example, the image for the number 01 is Schumacher, because he comes first in the races, for 92 - the image of my brother, because he was born in 1992. All 22 thousand digits of Pi for me is big story that took place on the streets of Moscow.
Here - 3998 digits of Pi, arranged in a three-dimensional spiral. Source: flickr.com
Absolutely everyone can beat my record. The most difficult thing is not to remember the numbers, but to reproduce them, because the rules of the record book do not allow you to correct yourself if you make a mistake. If you say "Twenty-five... oh, no, thirty-five!", it will be counted as a mistake, even if you immediately corrected it. I made a mistake on 11,106 characters, and now this is a new Russian record. If someone wants to beat him, I suggest opening almost any book on mnemonics. Memorization is not the hardest part.
Where can I find time for training?
While preparing for the championship, I also wrote a book, studied English and studied for exams at the university. At the same time, there was no less free time: I still read fiction, met with friends and even played computer games. However, I tried to use my time more rationally: I listened to English podcasts in the metro, repeated the Pi number at breakfast (and in other free minutes), and tried to memorize new locations and places in Moscow while walking with friends. I read books, watched movies and played games only in the original language.
The main question is not time, but motivation - it should be enough to devote at least a few minutes every day to your goals. It is very easy to find a few minutes: in the morning at breakfast, on the subway, in line, waiting for a meeting, even in the toilet. It can take more than an hour a day. An hour a day for a month - already 30 hours! Add to this the ability to make better use of time (like watching movies in English, if your goal is to learn the language), as well as the hours that you devote entirely to achieving the goal.
How to memorize information quickly and for a long time?
To quickly memorize incoherent and illogical information, such as names, numbers, foreign words, it is best to use mnemonics. Mnemonics (or mnemonics) is the use of any associations that allow you to cling information to what is already in your memory. For example, in order to remember that the English "shriek" is translated as "screech", you can come up with some kind of consonant image: for example, screeching Shrek. There are no miracles, but this method will allow you to memorize 60 words per hour.
And here is the word "shriek". Source: thewire.com
When memorizing logical and structured information like concepts, laws, theorems, book plots, the main thing is understanding, identifying cause-and-effect relationships and any other patterns. As a rule, we have to memorize both logical and structured, and incoherent and abstract information within the same disciplines, so for effective learning both understanding and use of mnemonics are necessary. But no matter how you remember the information, it will still be forgotten.
According to the Ebbinghaus curve, most will be forgotten in the first hours after memorization, while the rate of forgetting will decrease exponentially. Although her curve was based on memorizing abstract information, these principles are also true for structured information, which, although not so quickly, will still be forgotten. The most rational way to solve the forgetting problem is to use the spaced repetition method. The essence of the method is to repeat the information not every day / week / month, but at increasing intervals. You can organize such a repetition through special programs. For example, through Anki, you can repeat any information by translating it into flashcards, and on LinguaLeo, spaced repetition is used to memorize foreign words.
When is the best time for memory?
According to the laws of retroactive and proactive inhibition, one stored information overlaps another. That is, the brain needs some time after memorization to process the received data. This requires changes in schools and universities. Based on these laws, the best time to memorize is immediately after waking up and immediately before bedtime. The latter is also supported by the fact that the consolidation of short-term memory into long-term memory occurs during sleep.
Also, the memory will work well after playing sports: here is the lack of proactive inhibition, and the consequence of physical activity. As for specific time periods, it cannot be reliably stated that, for example, from 8 to 12, memory works better. In my opinion, it all depends on the individual, his regimen and habits.
Memorizing numbers for some adults and schoolchildren is not an easy task. But many practicing psychologists have invented several ways to facilitate this process. Locations, associations, Roman rooms, mind chambers and Cicero's method - these mysterious words will soon help anyone who wants to improve their memory.
Memory training for memorizing numbers
We usually think about how to learn numbers when a baby grows in the house. It is very useful to place a colorful poster on the wall, with numbers from 1 to 10, and then from 1 to 20, periodically showing the child to one of the numbers, pronouncing its name loudly and clearly. It is good to play cubes with numbers written on them.
It is easier for a child to remember numbers by associations. Draw or buy pictures of one apple with the number 1. Two strawberries with the number 2, and so on. Counting the cubes, name the numbers. So gradually you can easily go to counting up to 10 and 20 by adding cubes.
An adult can also memorize numbers using associations.
Eg:
- visually zero looks like a donut;
- unit per aspen stake;
- deuce resembles a swan;
- the troika looks like a twisted mustache;
- four per chair;
- five on a fishing hook;
- six on a padlock;
- seven on a scythe for hay;
- figure eight on Vanka-standing;
- nine on a bagel with a thread.
There are also other types of associations.
For example, a number can be called the first letter of the name:
- zero, starts with the letter H;
- unit with the letter E;
- deuce with D;
- three - T;
- four - H;
- five - P;
- six - W;
- seven - C;
- eight - B;
- nine - D.
You can choose for yourself the method that is easier for you to master.
There is another method called Locations. It can also be called the Roman room, the method of Cicero, the palace of the mind.
First you need to prepare locations, places that you remember well in your home. So did Cicero in his Roman home.
For locations, choose those places that are stored in memory.
Locations can start from the hallway and move into the living room:
- Entrance door.
- Rug with a pair of shoes.
- Cassette with the rest of the shoes.
- Hanger for outerwear.
- Shelf for hats.
- Wall lamp.
- Chair.
- Bed.
- Large carpet on the wall.
- Pantry.
Assign a number to each location. To remember the numbers corresponding to this location, come up with a funny picture:
- Kol knocks on the front door.
- The deuce is trying on a pair of dirty shoes that you just came in from the street.
- Three, in the form of a mustache, checks the cleanliness of the rest of the shoes in the cassette.
- The four pokes at the clothes with all their sticks, looking for the right coat or cloak.
- The five crochet a hat from the top shelf.
- The wall lamp hisses, burning out too often.
- The chair bends when a braid is placed on it.
- The bed is always creaking.
- The large carpet on the wall looks like the biggest number.
- Ten opens the pantry door, adding a bagel to the cola.
The funnier the pictures, the better you will remember the numbers. Locations can be added. Moreover, if you counted from the bottom up from the shoe cassette, do the same with other items, such as a table and a vase.
Now to remember the desired number, you will imagine the place in the interior familiar to you where you placed it.
Memorizing numbers
Let's look at an exercise for memorizing numbers.
For training, let's take a four-digit number 1672. Let's come up with graphic associations for each digit. The unit is like a candle. Imagine that Peter the Great is sitting at a table on which a candle is burning and writing another Decree. And what about Peter the Great? Moreover, he was born in 1672.
The six is like the profile of an elephant. Let Peter the Great ride an elephant. Imagine this in your mind and draw an elephant. The seven is like a flag. Let's give him a flag. Two is like a swan. White swans meet in the pond near the palace of Peter the Great. A candle, an elephant, a flag, a swan and Peter 1 - all these symbols will help you remember the date of birth of a historical person.
In addition, we helped little story, which we came up with about the campaign of the emperor with a flag and an elephant with a swan.
No matter how good you are at drawing, memorizing numbers, use those graphic associations that are close to you. It will be easier to remember them if, by training new method, make up their own images.
There are also various methods for memorizing multi-digit numbers. One of them is logical sequences. They are ascending and descending, even, odd and complex.
It is interesting to study the method of the soldier Schweik. Memory training in this case concerns groups of numbers.
Let's consider a long number for clarity: 2, 718281828459045 (Euler number).
Let's divide the number into three groups:
- The numbers 27 are the year of the end of the military age.
- 1828 is the year of Leo Tolstoy's birth, repeated twice.
- 459045 can be drawn as an isosceles triangle with two 45 degree angles and one 90 degree angle.
We remember the year of the end of conscription into the army, the birth of L. Tolstoy twice and the angles of an isosceles triangle.
Of course, it is not always easy to find an association that is easy to remember. But any new business requires skill and experience, repetition. At first, everything will not be as fast as it seems. But, as they say, the eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing. So it is in this matter. If you decide to improve your memory in the way we teach, try and practice.
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Today our task is numerical information. Numbers surround us everywhere: passwords, numbers bank cards, dates of birth, accurate statistics, phone numbers, etc. After reading this article, it will not be difficult for you to remember a few dozen (and after a couple of weeks of training - hundreds) of numbers.
In the last article, we met with and learned to memorize words. Be sure to read it if you haven't already.
The main difficulty in remembering numbers is abstractness. We can represent a bicycle or a clown, but we cannot create an associative visual representation for the number 534079132537. To solve this problem, there is alphanumeric code.
Alphanumeric code (BCC)
BCC is a system that allows you to convert abstract numbers into very specific images. The method is based on the replacement of numbers with letters and the formation of words from them that have visual images. Each number has two consonants.
0 - H, M
1 - G, F
2 - D, T
3 - K, X
4 - H, W
5 - P, B
6 - W, L
7 - C, Z
8 - V, F
9 - R, C
According to these letters, we select a word-image for a given number. The letters "b", "b", "y" and vowels can stand anywhere. For example: 13 - G ah To a, 25 - T O P op, 79 - With s R, 40 – h ah n ik. You can encode three digits at once: 203 - T A nk, 602 – l A nd ouch, etc.
That is, in order to learn how to memorize numbers, we must select figurative codes for each two-digit or three-digit number. You can remember one digit at a time, but I do not recommend doing this. Learning figurative codes for two-digit numbers is easy, and the speed and the possible number of digits to remember will double.
Make your own table with figurative codes (you can find ready-made ones, but then you may not be comfortable using them). For example, it is difficult for me to imagine and associate with other images bristles (such an image was proposed in the table I found), but it is easy to do this with a shield. Also, during the memorization of figurative codes, when I could not remember the image for any number, I began to select it. Noticing that instead of the word "ace" the word "disk" constantly came to my mind, I boldly replaced the image for the number 27, and I still remember this number as "disk".
Important! It makes sense to create different codes for the numbers 01-09 and 1-9. In one case, you can use BCC (zero is usually omitted: 01 - e and, 02 - i d, 03 - at X o, etc.), and in the other - free associations, which we talked about last time: 2 - a swan, 8 - a snowman, etc.
Person-Action-Thing (NAP)
This method is also based on an alphanumeric code. Only the images are created differently: using the BCC, we select not just a word, but the name and surname of some person (it can be fictitious, if you can imagine it).
For example: 65 - A l la P ugacheva, 56 - O b e l x (character from the film), 85 - E V genius P lyushchenko.
Then we select for each person their characteristic action and object. Alla Pugacheva sings into a microphone, Obelix eats a pork knuckle, Evgeni Plushenko demonstrates the elements of figure skating (skates, respectively).
Now, in order to remember the number 566585, we first need to divide the numbers into pairs: 56 65 85; and then remember the person for the number 56, the action for the number 65, the object for the number 85 and combine it into one image: Obelix holds skates in his hands and sings in them.
The advantage of the method is that we memorize six digits in one image at once, and not two or three. But creating such a table is more difficult, and it will take longer to memorize it.
Important! I recommend starting with figurative codes for two-digit numbers, and only then, if desired, switch to three-digit numbers or CHDP. But whichever system you choose, learn your figurative codes in parts, constantly repeating what you have already learned. Train as often as possible, 15-20 minutes daily is better than 2 hours once a week.
Train! Let's remember the number written at the beginning of the article. Here it is: 534079132537. Let's break it into pairs: 53 40 79 13 25 37. Let's choose an image-word for each number: spider, teapot, cheese, nut, ax, scythe. Now memorize them with a chain or Cicero's method. Remember the images, transforming words into numbers (check with BCC). Write down what happened. Compare with original number.
Now you can easily remember the phone number or any other numerical information. Start by memorizing 20-80 numbers at a time daily. You will be surprised, but if earlier it was extremely difficult, now you will cope with this task in the very first days after memorizing your figurative codes.
many modern people situations are familiar when the necessary information - phone numbers, codes and card numbers, even two-digit numbers disappear from memory at the most inopportune moment. There are memorization techniques that will allow you to keep even the most complex combinations of numbers in your head for a long time, if not always.
All Courses Kom has created a useful collection of simple and effective techniques and techniques that are suitable for fixing different combinations of numbers and numbers in the memory in the desired sequence.
Alphanumeric code
Good for memorizing long combinations of numbers. This is one of the most used and time-tested memorization techniques. First, a letter is tied to each number.0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
if you convert numbers to letters, using the first letter in each word, you get
H p (“times”, since “one” begins with a vowel) d t h p w s v m (“many”, because “d” is already occupied by the number 2)
To remember a long number, you need to come up with words from these letters and connect them in an unusual but logical phrase - the more unusual and brighter the phrase, the better it will be remembered. You can make up a little story.
For free memorization by the alphanumeric code method, you should learn the resulting table so that it pops up in your head, like the prayer “Our Father” in the head of a decent priest. In this case, you can easily speak in response to "Write down the phone" - "I'll remember," as they show in the movies - and be sure that the phone will not fly out of your head in two minutes.
For example, how to remember the combination 459263?
Let's split the numbers into pairs. It turns out 45-92-63
An association should form in the head of the memory: chp - md - pcs
This is the time to use your imagination.
State of emergency is, for example, ChaPlin
MD - Fashionable
PC - Joke
We get the phrase "Chaplin liked to joke fashionably"
or
"Chaplin wore a fashionable cane-bayonet, so he was funny and dangerous"
If you worked on the phrase yourself and made a code phrase for your brain, it will not only be remembered well - you alone will see the code words, and the necessary consonants will be remembered by themselves. To resurrect a combination of numbers, it remains to reverse the translation of letters into numbers according to the table.
To improve this skill, take the phones of loved ones and compose your own phrase for each. Having got the hang of it, try to increase the speed of composing the phrase and deciphering it.
In order not to forget important phones, remember passphrases from time to time.
hanger method
It is also called the method of related associations. In this case, special images are created based on the visual representations of each individual person. The method will allow you to put in your head a list of any number of numbers. To do this, take the numbers from 0 to 9 and “hang” them on each image, after which remember them well. Next, you need to link the images tied to the numbers into any story. So, you need to remember the number 15. If we assume that we remember 1 as an athlete (“always the first, therefore 1”), and 5 - at school (AGAIN two!”), Then we can remember 15 as the story of an athlete who has to walk every day to school.
O'Brien Method
In this case, images of people you know are used to memorize numbers. Images should be bright and memorable. Each digit or two-digit number must be assigned a celebrity and its characteristic action. We remember these matches. For example, there is Evgeni Plushenko - 1, and Nikita Dzhigurda - 5, so to remember the number 15, it is enough to imagine a picture of the performance on the ice of the couple Plushenko and Dzhigurda. The method is similar to the method of hangers
Combining numbers with images
The idea of this method is that each digit has a shape (obtained directly when writing the digit), and this shape can directly or remotely resemble the outline of an object. Otherwise, the method is similar to the hanger method and is suitable for those who find it difficult to attach arbitrary images to numbers.
Yes, in this method the number 0 can be remembered as a hoop, circle, ball, moon. The number 1 will be remembered as a spear, pillar or stick. Number 2: swan, praying man, question. And so on with all the numbers.
Important: Of the three methods of hangers, try to choose one that is convenient for you and use only it. Otherwise, there is a risk of confusing association table templates.
In cases with numbers or combinations of numbers that need to be remembered for a long time, there are the following techniques:
Association with already memorized numbers
This method was proposed by Dale Carnegie. He advised memorizing dates by associating them with already well-known dates. For example, the pin-card code 17-99 will be easily remembered by those who know the year in which Alexander Pushkin was born.
Shedd system
Suitable for memorizing small numbers. The method requires the compilation of a special phrase, each word in which is in its place and has the number of letters indicated by a specific number. For example, to remember the number Pi equal to 3.1459, you need to come up with a phrase where the first word will contain 3 letters, the second - one, the third - four, and so on. So, for memorizing the number Pi, the phrase “I know this and remember it perfectly” is suitable. And zero can be replaced by the number 10 or any other word from the number of letters more than ten.
rhymes
Suitable for amateurs and craftsmen to compose rhymes and poems. This will help to remember certain numbers for a long time, weaving them into poems - this way, the numbers will not mix up and will remain in your head for a long time.
