How can I memorize the Presidents of the United States?

Question

Any neat songs or word/ letter tricks? Thanks for the answers everyone, I appreciate the help!

Answer 1

Come up with a series of goofy sentences like: Why are Jeeps my most adored jalopy?

W = Washington (Why)
A = Adams (are)
J = Jefferson (Jeeps)
M = Madison (my)
M = Monroe (most)
A = Adams (adored)
J = Jackson (jalopy)

And so on... I always had an easier time memorizing lists of things if I could come up things like this.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Hey there, Jonathan!! Now, I see that you are having trouble trying to memorize the Presidents of the United States. I have to do this in the sixth grade, as our teacher had required us to do. How he did it was that he had a complete list of all the Presidents, but he only gave us ten at a time. When I did it, I read those ten, several times. Next, I took a piece of paper and numbered from one to ten. From my memory, I wrote down what I remembered, and what I left blank or got mixed up, I either filled that blank in or corrected the order of the list that I written. I did this for about three days, trying to remember the Presidents in their prospective orders.
When the day to recite the Presidents, many of the other students messed up. My teacher wasn't too thrilled because alot of people didn't take the time to try to remember or even do it. My turn came and with pride, I recited the Presidents in their correct order, with no problem. My teacher was escatic. He told me in front of everyone, because I was the only one to get it right, he did something special: He bought me lunch from McDonald's! The other kids were hot, but it was their problem, not mine!
I remembered when I had to vote back in November, there was a couple of people standing behind me. They were trying to remember the Presidents in the correct order. I spoke up and said, First was George Washington, second was John Adams, third was Thomas Jefferson, fourth was James Madison, fifth was James Monroe, sixth was John Quincy Adams, seventh was Andrew Jackson, eighth was Martin Van Buren, ninth was William Henry Harrison, and tenth was John Tyler! THEY WERE COMPLETELY AMAZED!! They were like, "Wow, you are so smart!!"
But memorizing things was easy, so as long as you make it easy!! Again, if it helps you, study the Presidents in their prospective order, and write them down on a piece of paper and after doing so, filled whatever you left out or messed up!! And study from that list!! That would really help you to learn from your mistakes!! After you got the first set of the first ten Presidents, move onto the second set of Presidents and do the same thing!! You'll be amazed by this trick!!!

Answer 3

someone asked a similar question before and here was a really good answer that was given:

This is tough but not impossible, I will give you the links on how to do it and also the links of the presidents. There's only 43, easy peasy.

Mnemonics.

INTRODUCTION

Mnemonics (pronounced "ne-mon'-ics") is the art of assisting the memory by using a system of artificial aids - rhymes, rules, phrases, diagrams, acronyms and other devices - all to help in the recall of names, dates, facts and figures.

http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnframe.h...

http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics....

Basic mnemonics

These mnemonics can be applied immediately, although it certainly pays off to practice them first. All of these mnemonics are based on elaboration and association, which why we start out with these. Elaboration adds more meaning to a word, while association makes sure that two words are thoroughly linked together in memory.

http://memory.uva.nl/memimprovement/eng/...

USA Presidents

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presid...

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history...

http://www.shabbir.com/nonmatchbox/uspre...

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

GOOD LUCK

Answer 4

There is a song that we learned in elementary school for a play that was the names of the presidents in order.

Answer 5

Good luck. Personally I'd point out to the teacher it's pointless as you will never ever have a need to know them all in your entire adult life outside of a trivia game show. In fact outside of the basics in school, such as reading, spelling and basic math, there is a good chance you won't need to know much more unless you aspire to be an astronaut or an astrophysisist.

Answer 6

practice a lot.. have a list, but see how far you can get without looking.. then look if you get stuck.. keep doing that and you'll need to look less and less often untill you eventually get all of them..

Answer 7

Tell your parents to cook you pumpkins. Scientists proved that eating pumpkins helps you memorize more work in a less amount of time. Hope this tip helps. If this didn't help, try connect presidents with something significant they did in their life time.

Answer 8

sing them in a song

Answer 9

websearch mnemonics for presidents u.s.

Answer 10

well you can not use monica