Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 17, 2013

Netither do i

At least I know I can get that in 20 seconds……

No, at the end of last year he studied for his Social Studies exam and got 99%, losing 1% for not putting his name on the paper. He prioved he can do it.

He certainly needs a new system.

Relative thinking … :P

His path—although long—is association. I used it for learning the capitols of the US states. Example, capitol of Oregon is Salem. Salem Cigarettes. Capitol of Nebraska is Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln.

Nate’s system has already plummeted.

It’s called Mnemonics – which is using associations to remember facts. There are various ways to do this from a simple “Roy G. Biv” to remember the colors of the visible light spectrum(Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet) to using a “memory house” in your mind with objects emplaced there to aid your recall of certain facts. Songs, pictures, ANYTHING can be used to aid a memory – as long as it is something a person can link to the fact/ memory needed. Some are very simple for generally easy things, others are very complicated for remembering things like entire pages of a book word for word. The more complex the process, the higher the chance of a mistake. But the entire process is dependent on the mind of the person using it – no one system will work the same way for many people, which makes it a very difficult skill to learn or master.

Side note – Nate is NOT doing it right. He is using a “memory path” method which can lead to mistakes and problems.

Agreed Nate.

They’re called Mnemonic Devices for those who don’t know, very handy for memorization. Unless, of course, you have to use 20 of them per fact.

How does that even work?

Is it me, or does Nate’s system look like the upper intestine?

Francis’ question to Gina at the end would assure that there were at least ten quiz questions. So: if Mrs. G, in a gush of sympathy (or just plain pity!) would give Nate a couple good penmanship points on top of the ten he snagged for “mnemonicing” his way to one correct answer, he’ll bag at least a “12”!! Chuckle! CHUCKLE!!

the rube goldberg approach to creative achievement

Grace Slick’s vocals on White Rabbit were phenomenal!

Sometimes you gotta use a stupid system.

And another mark on the failed tests chart!

Perfect system. Well, almost.

today is the day last year that i officialy started reading big nate and now i am working to read all five books in one day! i am already on book #4.

Happy St Patricks Day!

Creative strip!

Flivver, river and liver do NOT rhyme with silver. A word that would rhyme with silver woud need to end in -ilver. Sporange is not a dictionary word, but sporangium is.

Evil Rat: Thirty days hath September, all the rest I can’t remember.

Silver does not rhyme with sliver, flivver, river, or liver.

Lol.i used to do that in kindergarten.

Maze is easy

sheepsheepsheepsheep

his system is remembering an AWFUL lot of relationships.

In the top right, the maze only has one pathway. It is actually easy.

how can his system take so long?or do they just give the class 20 seconds to complete over 10 questions

At least it works. Just takes a while.

Hey, Nate, you’re correct! Yay!

That. Was. So. BRILLIANT! I think Nate has ADHD!

WHAT? ONE QUESTION? THAT WAS ONLY 5 MINUTES! THAT IS WRONG!

Aaron Burr, sir.

Surprisingly, he’s right

reminds me of a part in captain underpants

He actually got it right though…

Smart

I mean it worked…

the maze is easy.

At least he tried though.

omg hes right

NATE IS DUMB BECAUSE HE TAKES SO LONG TO ANSWER ONE QUESTION ON A TEST

At least he got 1 question right.

Nate got it right

I Wonder What The Second Part Of The Test Say?

Surprisingly, he was right

Orange rhymes with door hinge, if you do that thing where you don’t really pronounce the h

This is a perfect representation of my brain.

Reminds me of Ryan Higa