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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Dirty Monkeys Steal Bananas

What does every good mnemonic device need to be remembered?... short, relatable, and a little silly! Enter in Dirty Monkeys Steal Bananas. I know it sounds weird, but my students crushed long division problems by the end of the unit after using this mnemonic device (and a lot of repeated practice) to help remember the correct order of operations.  
 
Dirty-Divide,  
Monkeys-Multiply,  
Steal-Subtract,  
Bananas-Bring Down. 

What's better is my students were actually excited to work on division problems because we got to say this silly sentence.