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Collection of Famous Einstein Quotes “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” “I want to know [...]

So how does the 12′s shortcut work? Let’s take a look. 12 X 7 the first thing is to always multiply the 1 of the twelve by the number we are multiplying by, in this case 7. So 1 X 7 = 7. [private] Multiply this 7 by 10 giving 70. (Why? We are working [...]

We can all use log tables to look up these rules, but I am going to show you one method that will hopefully speed up your trigonometry. Sin, Opposite, Hypotenuse, Tan, Adjacent, Cos. There are several methods to remember this, when I was in school my maths teacher said it like this: So, tow a [...]

Certainly, you can use the memory techniques from here to memorize the phone book, but why? How many times can you really show that? This trick will imply that you’ve memorized the phone book. Imagine this: You hand out 9 cards or slips of paper, each with a different digit from 1 to 9, and [...]

Need help with The distance, speed, time stuff?? this is good Dads Silly Triangle Distance= speed x time Speed= distance/time Time= distance/speed Cover the part of the triangle you’re looking for and the equation for it will show! Hope this helps Related Articles: Albert Einstein’s Genius Routine Share your Ideas Stalagtites or Stalagmites Part 2 [...]

If you need to learn a formula, and need to rearrange it, the easiest way is just to learn one part of it and use a cross to find out the others. For example, I’ve put an image of the mass = moles * Mr . Then because mass is on the top of a [...]

The Knight’s tour is a great feat of mathematics that allow you to move the Knight around a chess board landing on all squares only once. To see just how difficult it is, get out your chess board and try moving the Knight around the chess board in its L shaped motion. Imagine now that [...]

The Knight’s tour is a great feat of mathematics that allow you to move the Knight around a chess board landing on all squares only once. To see just how difficult it is, get out your chess board and try moving the Knight around the chess board in its L shaped motion. Imagine now that [...]

The Theory of Memory in GMS®   This article is an introduction to the “Giordano Memorization System®’” (GMS®) memory model. For more detailed information on this subject see our “GMS Manual”. The GMS® model of memory strongly differs from memory models you might have read about in the psychological literature. Process – “memory” «Memory» process [...]

This little math trick will show you whether a number is divisible by four or not So, this is how it works. Let’s look at 1234 Does 4 divide evenly into 1234? [private]Well for 4 to divide into any number we have to make sure that the last number is even. If it is an [...]