Cheap knock-offs

25 September 2007 8:32 PM (1 year ago) | Filed under live

My math class is doing derivatives via basic differentiation rules after suffering through doing them “the long way” (the limit process that apparently produces many groans and bad test grades).

So Mr. Riley taught us a cute math rhyme for doing the derivative of (u/v):

Lo-dee-hi minus hi-dee-lo,
Over the square of what goes below.

Derivative formula for u/v Derivative formula for u/v

So totally awesome.

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1. Jenn on 26 September 2007 7:13 AM (1 year ago) #

When I learned the quadratic equation, my teacher taught it to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”:

x is equal to minus b
plus or minus the squaaaare root
of b square minus four ac
all! over two a.

Clearly, I still remember it to this day. Mnemonics rule!

2. mnd on 27 September 2007 9:38 AM (1 year ago) #

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