A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream: Arithmetic

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
In sacred truth and rigid spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
For me the lexicon's dull weight.

Counting the letters of each word gives you the value of pi to the 20th place. The thing I like about this mnemonic is that it actually makes sense!

May I have a large container of coffee?

Counting the letters of each word gives you the value of pi to 7 places. Contributed by joekor@earthlink.net... thanks!

The Old Arab Carried A Heavy Sack Of Hay

Tan = Opp/Adj; Cos= Adj/Hyp; Sin= Opp/Hyp - for remembering Trig identities, from rgc2@vax.york.ac.uk.

For trig, you could also use:

SOH-CAH-TOA,

pronounced like the name of the old Native American Indian chief (or some such story). This one was sent to me by rwatanabe

Only Holy Angels Have Opposite Angles.

Another trig function mnemonic, useful if you remember the order is sine - cosine - tangent. This one from munro@ben2.ucla.edu.

For remembering the order of calculations in algebra:

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. Thanks to ACL22@worldnet.att.net for this one!

You could also use:

Please Execute My Dog And Soon

Put Every Man Down And Shout

These are from Lioness623@aol.com ... Thanks!

King Henry Died (Monday,Tuesday...) Drinking Chocolate Milk

I    E     E     GRAMS OR           E        E         I

L    C     C     METER              C        N         L

O    T     A     OR LITER           I        T         L

 A                                       I         I

The order of magnitudes in metric measurements. Thank you, Ruth, for contributing this.

Lucky Cows Drink Milk

The ascending order of Roman numerals: LCDM ... Made up by the intelligent ranney@sonic.net.

I Surely Am Elated Making Curves.

Thanks to luigiispaul@yahoo.com, who says, "A high school teacher of mine used this one to remember what to look for when graphing a function." It stands for:
Intercepts
Symmetry
Asymptotes
E – ??? If you know, let me know!
Max/Min
Curvature

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