*silly* rules you learned in school...

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
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that you still remember to this day. One popped into my head today and this thread was born. lol

1) "I" before "E" except after "C" or when sounded as "A" as in "neighbor" and "weigh"

2) There's the "9's trick" for your times tables with 9s. If you hold up both hands and count from the left, then put down the finger corresponding to the number you're multiplying by 9 you will get the answer.

example: With palms out and a mission of figuring out 2x9, you'd count from the left...1, 2. Put your ring finger down and you're left with a pinky (which serves as a "10" ) and 8 singles.

Similarly 3x9 would have you put your middle finger down...you have 2 fingers on the left of your middle finger (which serve as 2 "10s") so you're left with 20 + 7 singles = 27. WINNING! (i loved this when I was learning my times tables)

What are yours?
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  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    Looking through your fingers on Heads Up 7 Up is frowned upon.


    Highly.
  • 31993703
    31993703 Posts: 1,144
    Criss Cross and go under the bridge
    Then you got to pull it tight.
    Make a loop but keep a long tail
    That is how to do it right
    Then you take the other string
    and you wrap it 'round the loop
    Pull it through the hole
    Now you got the scoop

    Criss Cross and go under the bridge (this is where you tie the loops together)
    Now you made a Double Knot!!
  • MidwestAngel
    MidwestAngel Posts: 1,897 Member
    Saying *kitten* when you get out in 4 square in 4th grade will land your butt on the curb for the remainder of recess.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    Looking through your fingers on Heads Up 7 Up is frowned upon.


    Highly.
    Cheater. lol Loved that game though.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Multiplying by 11 once you get to double digits

    11 * 15. Last digit is always the same, add the two digits together for the 10s place and at the one to the hundreds place

    JM
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    Multiplying by 11 once you get to double digits

    11 * 15. Last digit is always the same, add the two digits together for the 10s place and at the one to the hundreds place

    JM

    That's awesome. I had to actually do 11*15 first to see it. So cool.
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
    "There" can never be the subject of a sentence. (5th grade teacher)


    "You just did"...and straight to detention.
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Any number you multiply by 9 will then add up to 9 if you add all the digits together.

    9 * 3 = 27. 2 + 7 = 9

    9 * 7 = 63. 6 + 3 = 9

    9 * 101 = 909. 9 + 0 + 9 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9.


    And thus a life long obsession with adding up numbers to get a single digit was born...
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
    Kissing ALL the girls gets you a ruler across the knuckles



    Damn nuns.
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    'Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses..."
  • Keiko385
    Keiko385 Posts: 514 Member
    HOMES = the Great Lakes
    Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    HOMES = the Great Lakes
    Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior

    LOVE! I never knew this! Adding to my knowledge just in case I ever get on the show...Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    the five second rule is subjective.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    i learned that C's and D's get degrees...
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    if a boy pulls your hair he loves you.
  • nikinyx6
    nikinyx6 Posts: 772 Member
    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

    To remember the order of the planets...too bad Pluto doesn't count now :(
  • Stella2070
    Stella2070 Posts: 38 Member
    Looking through your fingers on Heads Up 7 Up is frowned upon.


    Highly.


    This made me cackle (yes, cackle - outloud like a chicken)! I almost wet my pants (which I think would also be frowned upon in school, but who knows).
    By the way, add tattling, in the 3rd grade, to the list of "frowned up". My teacher made me wear a tail all day long. I could witness a murder and not rat someone out! So scarred by that tail.
  • BeingAwesome247
    BeingAwesome247 Posts: 1,171 Member
    HOMES = the Great Lakes
    Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior

    ha ha ha every kid from the Mitten learned this one
  • nikinyx6
    nikinyx6 Posts: 772 Member
    'Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses..."

    I HATE this!! gets stuck in my head all the time still
  • cskalaj
    cskalaj Posts: 94 Member
    Any number you multiply by 9 will then add up to 9 if you add all the digits together.

    9 * 3 = 27. 2 + 7 = 9

    9 * 7 = 63. 6 + 3 = 9

    9 * 101 = 909. 9 + 0 + 9 = 18, 1 + 8 = 9.


    And thus a life long obsession with adding up numbers to get a single digit was born...

    Similar to this is if you add all of the digits of a number together and the end result is a multiple of 3, the number is divisible by 3.

    Examples: 111 = 1+1+1 = 3 so 111 is divisible by 3! 927 = 9+2+7 = 18 = 1+8 = 9 so 927 is divisible by 3!
  • fitblondebaker22
    fitblondebaker22 Posts: 84
    30 days has September, April, June, and November. (I still use that every month) lol
  • BeingAwesome247
    BeingAwesome247 Posts: 1,171 Member
    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

    To remember the order of the planets...too bad Pluto doesn't count now :(

    Now it'd be:

    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing

    (haha mom is on strike damnit)
  • The_New_Christina
    The_New_Christina Posts: 818 Member
    My (mercury) Very (venus) Educated (earth) Mother (mars)Just (jupiter) Sat (saturn) Upon (uranus) Nine (neptune) Pins (pluto)
  • CGPrincessWarrior
    CGPrincessWarrior Posts: 76 Member
    for directions: North East South West...
    Never Eat Soggy Worms :)

    For the math :
    Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
    () exponents X / + -
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    Oh wait? These kind of rules. Huh the only thing I learned was to do a better job of not getting caught in the locker room with a chick.....naked LMAO
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    I remember the quadratic equation by singing it to the tune of "Pop goes the weasle."
    ( x equals negative b, plus or minus the square root of, b squared minus 4ac, ALL over 2a! )

    I can also recite all 48 prepositions in abc order thanks to my 8th grade English teacher.



    Oh, and most importantly...

    calc.gif
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat.
  • iqnas
    iqnas Posts: 445 Member
    HOMES = the Great Lakes
    Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior

    haha, yes.
  • BeingAwesome247
    BeingAwesome247 Posts: 1,171 Member
    30 days has September, April, June, and November. (I still use that every month) lol

    There's also the knuckle trick
    make a fist and start at your pinky knuckle of your left hand
    For every knuckle, that corresponding month has 31 days
    the space inbetween the knuckles, those corresponding months have 30 (feb 28)
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

    To remember the order of the planets...too bad Pluto doesn't count now :(

    Now it'd be:

    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing

    (haha mom is on strike damnit)

    My very eccentric mom just made us nachos

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