GOVERNMENT & SOCIAL STUDIES: The Bill of Rights

Trying to memorize the Bill of Rights? Remember this sentence: 

Since All Questions Seem Difficult, Study To Begin Passing Exams

The first letter of each word in the sentence pertains to memory prompts for the first ten amendments:

1. Free Speech

2. Bear Arms

3. Quartering Soldiers

4. Search & Seizure

5. Due process

6. Speedy trial

7. Trial by jury

8. Excessive bail or punishment

9. Protects unwritten rights of the people

10. Extra powers belong to the people

MATH: Order of Operations

When trying to recall the order in which to complete operations in an equation, remember the following:

Please  Excuse  My  Dear  Aunt  Sally

The first letter of each word in this sentence stands for:

Parentheses  Exponents  Multiplication  Division  Addition  Subtraction

MATH: Pac-Man Eats the Bigger Number

Great way to remember which way a greater than, or less than, sign should face. Think of the sign as a Pac-Man figure, and just remember that Pac-Man will always eat the larger number.

5 > 4

3 < 4

GEOGRAPHY: The Great Lakes (classic mneumonic - remember this?)

To remember the names of the Great Lakes, remember the word "HOMES." The word is spelled by the first letter of the names of each of the great lakes:

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.