Space Memory blog

Spacy and her mentor pinning picture cards linked by a turquoise thread Mnemonics Mnemonics for kids — how to memorise instead of cram Four techniques a child aged 8–18 can start using today: image, association, chain and memory palace. With ready examples and… A fox cub on a picnic blanket copying a shape pattern from a card Memory How to improve memory for kids — what works and what only looks like help A child studies in the evening and remembers half of it by morning. Usually this is not ability and not laziness, but study… Spacy with a book beside a board holding six cards Memory How to memorize a poem — a six-step method Not reading it over and over until it sticks. Split it into chunks, turn each into a picture, link the pictures into a chain … A mentor and a fox cub building a pyramid of blocks on the rug School work How to memorize multiplication tables — without chanting them in order A hundred squares only look frightening. Remove the duplicates and the easy columns and you are left with about fifteen facts … Spacy in headphones holding an orange next to a card with an orange Languages How to memorize vocabulary — so the words do not fade in a week A list of word-and-translation goes in over one evening and is gone in three days. A word stays when there is a sound, an image… Spacy and her mentor pointing at objects in a hallway Mnemonics Memory palace for kids — how to build one in a single evening The oldest memory technique, and still the most reliable for long lists in a fixed order. Take a place the child knows by heart… A mentor and a fox cub over a book with a turquoise ruler and an hourglass Speed reading Speed reading exercises for kids — seven you can do at home You need a book, a timer and ten minutes a day. First measure, then remove the three habits that steal the time, and only after… Spacy assembling a tangram next to an hourglass Focus Concentration exercises for kids — how to stay with a task to the end A child starts a task and five minutes later is somewhere else. Below: five exercises to do at home, the causes that usually sit…