X marks the mnemonic
Posted on:: January 16th, 2005
Our son Nathan, 14, last night figured out a mnemonic for remembering which way the X axis goes on a graph:
X is a-cross
X is a cross. X is across. Works for me.
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I love that!
Y has a tail it goes up and down.
A kid clever enough to come up with something like that certainly couldn’t have much trouble remembering which is which. As for myself, I don’t think I will ever confuse the two again.
Thank you. I am always looking for things like this to help my kids learn more effectively. Any more?
Rows and columns: Porches have columns.
Well, it helped my friend in class when we were learning database basics 8^)