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January 16, 2005

X marks the mnemonic

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.

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 16, 2005 05:09 PM


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I love that!

Posted by: Linda | January 16, 2005 05:34 PM


Y has a tail it goes up and down.

Posted by: Doug Klippert | January 16, 2005 06:40 PM


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.

Posted by: daniel luke | January 16, 2005 06:51 PM


Thank you. I am always looking for things like this to help my kids learn more effectively. Any more?

Posted by: Paul Waters | January 20, 2005 02:38 PM


Rows and columns: Porches have columns.

Well, it helped my friend in class when we were learning database basics 8^)

Posted by: Sherri | January 23, 2005 09:33 AM


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