By ‘a math teacher’, I mean anyone teaching math, including a home schooler. I am not talking about a math teacher who is teaching computer science or some other subject. In computer science it often makes sense to pronounce binary numbers like telephone numbers; a mere series of numerals. Why current pronunciation systems for binary are inadequate for the math classroom. Let’s…

Introduction. — The base ten counting system has a set of spoken names and rules for pronouncing them that works well, and that we take for granted. Other bases, such as binary, or base eight, or base sixteen seem inhuman, difficult, and useless mainly because they lack an analogous system of names…

This is my second published version of this mnemonic and puzzle. The mnemonic is essentially the same, but I tweaked it significantly. This article contains everything that was in the first article so there is no point in reading that one if you can read this one. It’s a better, easier puzzle now. When the order…

The mnemonic Roy G. Biv is the name of an imaginary person with the initials RGB, which recalls “red, green, blue” which are the names of the light primaries, also known as the primary colors, I noticed. This is in addition to its well-known function of recalling the classic seven colors of the rainbow “red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet”. I published the ideas of this article about two weeks ago but I can’t find my way back to that account, and so I am republishing it here.

If you put even a single word in all caps, like THIS, you will offend some of your readers. Instead, put that word in italics, like this. …

Draw it and Name it Systematically to Know it. People say, “Draw it to know it”. But in organic chemistry, even better is “Draw it and name it (systematically) to know it”. It works for me. In my experience, recalling a molecule is easy if I have once learned both…

A supplemental pentasyllables-based mnemonic to speed recall of the three-letter symbols of the 22 amino acids. Although my original mnemonic (https://medium.com/@bartshmatthew/how-to-easily-memorize-the-chart-for-all-22-amino-acids-including-the-three-letter-and-one-letter-3cd8f043e996) for the 22 proteinogenic amino acids *does* allow recall of the three-letter symbols, it is not a quick process. It’s a bit like a process of deduction. …

Better than the original article. Contains the chart and additional tips. — Introduction. This article is about how to relatively easily memorize the names, three-letter symbols, one-letter symbols, and which of the five types it is, for each of the twenty-two proteinogenic amino acids, and retain these facts for life. These fundamental facts are all in the chart of the twenty-one amino acids…

Awesome Amino Acids. — Maybe the best thing I ever did was memorize the names, three letter symbols, and one letter symbols of the twenty-two proteinogenic amino acids. Amino acids are prominent in chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, human biology, nutrition, health, evolution, genetics, forensic science, medicine, pharmacology, religion, and philosophy. Master the amino…