Space Memory blog
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…