Nursing Students General Students
Published Aug 23, 2003
AlishaNHayzley
60 Posts
Any good tricks to help remembering your metric convertions? Really hate these, they just don't want to stay in my head.
TeresaRN2b
550 Posts
Okay this is really kind of dumb, but it worked for me. I drew a picture of two worms. One I labeled inchworm for inches and then the other centipede for centimeters. On the centipede I drew 2 antennas first then I drew 5 legs and then 4 feet. If you follow the critter along from top to bottom you get 2.54. So one inch equals 2.54 cms. I have not forgotten it since I drew the little picture. I have really found drawing pictures helps me to visualize it and then I can remember it. I am not sure if that was what you were talking about for conversions. Or if you just meant metrics in general.
Teresa
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
12,126 Posts
No sort of memorization technique can be dumb!!
Everything will be a solution to someone!
Kinda like the terms "objective data" and "subjective data" i could NOT remember the difference!!! But i do now, since objective begins with an O, i remember it as "O i SEE it now", to remember objective data is the kind i am seeing and observing for myself