{"id":596,"date":"2009-10-05T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2010-09-28T23:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T06:01:38","slug":"how-to-remember-trig-ratios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/10\/05\/how-to-remember-trig-ratios\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remember trig ratios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inventing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarecirclez.com\/blog\/how-to-remember-trigonometry-ratios\/3517\">cute mnemonics<\/a> is fun, and the process of inventing and checking them may help reinforce the definitions, but beyond that they really are useless &#8211; and I believe they do more harm than good when people actually try to use them.<\/p>\n<p>It takes much more time (and mental effort) to correctly recall and decode one of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarecirclez.com\/blog\/how-to-remember-trigonometry-ratios\/3517\">these<\/a> than anyone who needs to use the terms can afford.  And there is a much better way.<\/p>\n<p>Just think &#8216;Sine is the Side&#8217; or\u00a0 &#8216;Cos goes Across&#8217; (we don&#8217;t need both)<\/p>\n<p>This takes negligible time to decode, reinforces the concept directly, and is immune to the vagaries of failing memory. (Was that  &#8220;Odd Aged Teachers Are Happy Campers On Hot Sundays&#8221; or &#8220;All Old Teachers, Happily Out Camping, Have Amnesia Sometimes &#8220;?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventing cute mnemonics is fun, and the process of inventing and checking them may help reinforce the definitions, but beyond that they really are useless &#8211; and I believe they do more harm than good when people actually try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/10\/05\/how-to-remember-trig-ratios\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}