{"title":"Memos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lesson learned in the evening is gone by the morning.\u003c\/b\u003e Rereading over and over is not enough: memory does not retain what is repeated; it retains what is well anchored. This is precisely the role of a mnemonic aid: an image, a sentence, a trick — and the concept finally finds something to latch onto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kidibook Pense-Bêtes (Mnemonic) collection gathers our collections of mnemonic tips, from primary school up to competitive exams: simple and concrete ways to remember planets, conjugations, theorems… and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFrom school desks to exam halls\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMnemonic aids are no longer just for high schoolers. Two collections are now aimed at adults preparing for a decisive deadline:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-sante\"\u003eThe Healthcare Student's Mnemonic Guide\u003c\/a\u003e — 150 tips, 160 pages, 10 fields, to provide anchor points for revisions that evaporate from one day to the next.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-crpe\"\u003eThe CRPE Mnemonic Guide — 2026 edition\u003c\/a\u003e — 150 tips, 164 pages, 10 sections, content verified against official texts, to prepare for a competitive exam that does not forgive approximation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind them gathered in the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/etudes-concours\"\u003eStudies \u0026amp; Competitive Exams\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to choose your mnemonic guide?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eBy level\u003c\/b\u003e: primary, middle school, high school, higher education — each collection adheres to the concepts actually in the curriculum.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eBy format\u003c\/b\u003e: paperback book to keep on hand, or PDF to print and post above your desk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eBy use\u003c\/b\u003e: daily revision, final stretch before an exam, or a quick boost for a concept that just won't stick.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso discover\u003c\/b\u003e: because some things must be known by heart well before exams, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/malo-lila-secouristes\"\u003eMalo \u0026amp; Lila, the little first-aiders\u003c\/a\u003e teaches children from 1st to 5th grade the right reflexes in the face of an accident, in 44 pages and 10 chapters aligned with the \"Learning to provide aid\" curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBooks of mnemonic devices for school, from primary to high school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collections in this series all rely on the same principle: a difficult concept becomes a sentence, an image, or a gesture. \"Mais où est donc Ornicar ?\" for conjunctions, SOH-CAH-TOA for trigonometry, \"Me Voici Tout Mouillé, Je Suis Un Nageur\" for the order of the planets. These are mnemonic devices, nothing more: the three school volumes are not summaries of the curriculum and do not replace the course. They provide handholds, subject by subject, so that what was understood in class stays in memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe right volume according to the level\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePrimary, from 1st to 5th grade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003eThe Great Book of Primary Mnemonics\u003c\/a\u003e brings together 189 tips in nine sections, from multiplication tables to planets, with \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_wordAnimating_yu34g_11\"\u003e97\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e corrected exercises and their solutions at the end of the book. Of the three school volumes, it is the only one to include a section devoted to everyday tricks: months with 30 days, traffic lights, or how to learn a lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMiddle school, from 6th to 9th grade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-college\"\u003eThe Middle School version\u003c\/a\u003e contains 148 tips divided into nine sections, including Spanish, and 74 corrected exercises. Its final section covers work methods and the middle school diploma: testing yourself rather than rereading, spacing out your revisions, decoding a prompt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHigh school, from 10th to 12th grade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-lycee\"\u003eThe High School version\u003c\/a\u003e is the densest: 274 tips in eleven sections, including an entire philosophy and social science section, 137 exercises, and ten pages of written corrections. It goes all the way up to the Baccalauréat and the \"Grand Oral.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe same book, in a printable PDF version\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three school volumes are also available in digital format, to print at home as many times as necessary: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-pdf\"\u003ePrimary in PDF\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf\"\u003eMiddle School in PDF\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-lycee-pdf\"\u003eHigh School in PDF\u003c\/a\u003e. The content is identical to that of the paperback book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAnd after high school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo collections extend the series for adults preparing for a decisive deadline: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-sante\"\u003eThe Healthcare Student's Mnemonic Guide\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-crpe\"\u003eThe CRPE Mnemonic Guide, 2026 edition\u003c\/a\u003e, gathered in the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/etudes-concours\"\u003eStudies \u0026amp; Competitive Exams\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBooks designed to be opened for five minutes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the three school levels, each tip fits on a numbered colored card, with the formula to remember written in large print. One or two cards per page, an exercise at the bottom of each content page, and all solutions grouped at the end. The text speaks directly to the student, using the informal \"you.\" One can therefore read a card, do the exercise, close the book, and start again the next day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso discover\u003c\/b\u003e: because some things must be known well before exams, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/malo-lila-secouristes\"\u003eMalo \u0026amp; Lila, the little first-aiders\u003c\/a\u003e teaches children from 1st to 5th grade the right reflexes in the face of an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow to memorize: what a mnemonic device does\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device does not add memory. It changes the form of what must be remembered. A list of words without internal logic is lost in a few days; the same list transformed into a sentence, a made-up word, or an image lasts much longer, because the mind finally has a handle to return to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe known processes are few. First letters, when each word of a sentence reminds one of a term to recite in order. The made-up word, when letters put end-to-end form a word that does not exist but is memorable, like DOVES or DOCTOR. Number of letters, when the length of a word codes for a digit. Visualization, when an absurd scene replaces a definition. Gesture, when fingers do the calculation in place of memory. The collections in this series use all five: first letters everywhere, made-up words, images, gestures, and number of letters once, for the decimals of pi in the Primary volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest depends on use. Learning by heart by rereading mostly gives the impression of knowing, and this impression is not knowledge. Mnemonic techniques that work require two simple things: looking for the answer before reading it, and returning to the concept at intervals of several days. A tip makes the first gesture possible from the start, when you still know almost nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tip also has its limits. It fixes a form, not a line of reasoning: it provides the order of words, the sign, the placement of an agreement, and nothing more. The rest remains standard work. It is, moreover, on this observation that the Primary volume closes, whose very last card invites the child to create their own: the best mnemonic aids, the book writes, are those you invent yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat these books are not\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of the collections in this series offers memory palaces, the method of loci, or references to Cicero and the art of memory of ancient orators. These methods exist and work, but they require long training, contrary to the usage intended here: a card read in thirty seconds, usable for the next test. They also do not address memory disorders, which fall under the purview of a healthcare professional. Mind mapping, however, is present in the \"Methods\" section of the Middle and High School volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOne tip per level, beyond the examples already cited\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePrimary: the lying Moon\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Moon is a liar: C = wanes (décroît), D = waxes (croît).\" When the crescent draws a D, the Moon is growing (Début); when it draws a C, it is disappearing. It is the opposite of what the letter suggests, and that is why it is called a liar. The card is in the science section of the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003ePrimary volume\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMiddle school: \"23 from dad + 23 from mom = 46\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach cell carries 46 chromosomes, or 23 pairs. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-college\"\u003eThe Middle School version\u003c\/a\u003e turns this into an addition, then applies it to the sperm and the egg, which contribute 23 chromosomes each and produce a zygote with 46.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHigh school: QQOQCP\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho, What, Where, When, How, Why (Qui, Quoi, Où, Quand, Comment, Pourquoi). Six questions to ask before writing a single line on a document, in history, in social sciences, or in French. \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-lycee\"\u003eThe High School version\u003c\/a\u003e makes this a method card, with the advice to jot everything down on a rough draft before starting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMath that finally sticks: tables, mental math, numeration\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf mathematics comes up so often in parents' searches, it is because it concentrates everything that memory hates: abstract numbers, steps to follow in order, zero stories to tell oneself. The math mnemonic aids in the Great Book attack the problem through imagery: \u003cb\u003enumeration and integers\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003emultiplication tables on the fingers\u003c\/b\u003e — the famous technique that allows tables to be learned without reciting them in a loop —, \u003cb\u003emental calculation\u003c\/b\u003e — calculating mentally becomes a reflex, not an effort —, \u003cb\u003efractions and decimals\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eproblem solving\u003c\/b\u003e. Learning to calculate ceases to be a chore when each technique fits into an image: the child is no longer a victim of their calculations; they trigger them. And when a subtraction with regrouping or a geometry figure gets stuck, it is rarely intelligence that is lacking — it is the hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMultiplication tables: understand first, memorize later\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore learning multiplication by heart, a child needs two insights that school never repeats enough. The first is \u003cb\u003ecommutativity\u003c\/b\u003e: doing a multiplication in one direction or the other gives the same result — 7 × 3 is 3 × 7. Suddenly, the \u003cb\u003ePythagorean table\u003c\/b\u003e, this large grid that intimidates, loses half its squares. The second is that multiplication tables extend what they already know: the \u003cb\u003eaddition table\u003c\/b\u003e first, repeated additions then, then the move to the multiplier. Add mental calculation strategies — \u003cb\u003eadd a ten then subtract\u003c\/b\u003e for the 9s table, \u003cb\u003edecomposition\u003c\/b\u003e for large numbers, \u003cb\u003esquares\u003c\/b\u003e (6 × 6, 7 × 7, 8 × 8) as anchor points — and doing mental math becomes a construction game, not a recitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany families have already tried everything: paper fortune tellers, card games, calculation belts, score-based apps. It's fun, and these table games have their place — but when each table resets to zero on Monday, the hook is missing. That is where the mnemonic aid acts: \u003cb\u003emultiplication tables on the fingers\u003c\/b\u003e, the technique in the Great Book, gives the child a gesture they keep forever. In 4th and 5th-grade math, the same reflexes support \u003cb\u003edivisions\u003c\/b\u003e — each division is a multiplication read backward —, \u003cb\u003edecimal numbers\u003c\/b\u003e, and the first \u003cb\u003efraction\u003c\/b\u003e. Each student advances at their own pace, and the gold medal is the day the teacher asks for 7 × 8 and the hand goes up all by itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRevise without revising, from 1st to 5th grade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device is not an educational gadget: it is the shortest way to memorize a concept for good. Rather than revising by rereading — the method that wears out erasers and nerves —, the primary school child retains a sentence: \u003cb\u003e\"Mais où est donc Ornicar ?\"\u003c\/b\u003e for conjunctions, \u003cb\u003e\"Me Voici Tout Mouillé, Je Suis Un Nageur\"\u003c\/b\u003e for the order of the planets. From 1st grade up to 5th grade, each card follows elementary school learning and the new curricula: conjugation, spelling, geography, history, science, civics, English, music, and life skills. Mental recitation replaces the rote memorization endured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIn class as in tutoring\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany teachers write us the same thing: \"my students retain in one session what my class used to forget from one assessment to the next.\" This is the strength of a true mnemonic device — it can be shared in thirty seconds, at the board as well as at home, and it lasts until the assessments. In tutoring, the book serves as a toolkit: you pick the tip of the day, and the child leaves with a victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-maillage-memo\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to really retain?\u003c\/strong\u003e A book of tips is only useful if the method follows. Our guides explain, audience by audience, what works — mnemonic devices, active recall, spaced repetition — and the mistakes that waste the most time: memorizing \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-primaire\"\u003ein primary school\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-college\"\u003ein middle school\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-lycee\"\u003ein high school\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/memorisation-crpe\"\u003efor the CRPE\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/mnemotechnique-ifsi\"\u003ein nursing school\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eTo choose between the five volumes, read \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/livre-mnemotechnique\"\u003ewhich mnemonic device book to choose\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pense-betes-primaire","title":"The Big Book of Reminders — Primary School (Grades 1-5)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mom, what's 9 times 7?\" Silence at the table. A panicked look. And you, trying to figure out how to help without turning dinner into a written exam.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery night, the same battles: the multiplication tables that won't stick, the \"a\" and \"à\" getting mixed up, the planets in the wrong order. And this summer, during 8 weeks without school, everything they learned this year risks slowly evaporating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, the students who raise their hands first have a secret. Not a gift: tips. The 9s table that you read on your fingers. \"Mais où est donc Ornicar?\" for the conjunctions. A magic sentence to remember the planets in order. \u003cb\u003eThe Great Book of Mnemonic Tips\u003c\/b\u003e is that cheat sheet of tricks that the best students keep to themselves—finally gathered in one book, from first to fifth grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat this book contains\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e171 mnemonic tips divided into 9 major sections, from math to everyday tricks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e88 corrected exercises to anchor the tips while having fun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e102 pages covering all of primary school, from first to fifth grade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eColorful cards, one tip at a time: 5 minutes are enough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFor whom?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eChildren from first to fifth grade who get stuck on tables, spelling, or lessons to \"learn by heart\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eParents who want homework without the tears (not theirs, nor yours)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eA single book that follows the whole sibling group, year after year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eImagine, in a few weeks...\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the first day of school. The teacher asks: \"Who knows the 9 times table?\" A hand shoots up first. Theirs. 😊 Because this summer, between two swims, they swiped tips from their book—without even feeling like they were studying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne hour of tutoring costs about €30. This book costs €24.99—and it works from first to fifth grade, for all your children.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 FREE delivery in mainland France · 🖨️ Printed on demand in Europe, for your order · 🔒 Secure payment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGive them the secret playbook of the top-of-the-class students — they won't put it down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA book of mnemonic devices for children, from first to fifth grade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device is a phrase, an image, or a gesture that hooks a lesson into memory. Nothing magical: a brain retains what is funny, rhythmic, or visual better than a lesson re-read ten times. This book gathers 171 such tips, numbered one by one, divided into nine sections: math and numbers, spelling, conjugation, geography, history, science, arts and music, English, and everyday tricks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFrom the 9s table to the planets: six tips from the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe 9s table on your fingers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the book's number 1 tip, with a diagram of the ten fingers. You fold down the finger that corresponds to the multiplier, count the fingers to the left (tens) and those to the right (units). For 9 × 3, you read 27 directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Mais où est donc Ornicar?\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive words, seven coordinating conjunctions: mais, ou, et, donc, or, ni, car. It’s the first tip in the Spelling section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Me Voici Tout Mouillé, Je Suis Un Nageur\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eight planets in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The page specifies that Pluto was removed from the list in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Kangourou Habile Dansant Merveilleusement Devant Cent Manchots\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLength units in the right order: km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm. One box to the right, you multiply by 10; one box to the left, you divide by 10.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Petit Âne, Manges-Tu Copieusement?\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five major periods of history: Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Times, Contemporary Era. The book's timeline provides the markers 3300 BC, 476, 1492, and 1789.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Viens mon chou sur mes genoux jeter des cailloux au hibou plein de poux, avec tes bijoux et tes joujoux!\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single sentence for the seven words ending in -ou that take an \"x\" in the plural. All others take an \"s,\" and the page reminds you of this right below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e88 corrected exercises, and diagrams where pictures explain better\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the bottom of each content page, a one-line application exercise: 88 corrected exercises in total, exactly one per page. The 88 solutions are grouped at the end of the book, which allows the child to correct themselves. The text addresses them directly, using the informal \"tu,\" and a table of contents by subject opens the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also the one out of the three school volumes that contains the most diagrams: the ten fingers for the 9s table, the crocodile opening its mouth toward the larger number, the compass rose, the timeline of the five periods, the eight planets, and the fist method to know if a month has 30 or 31 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA non-curriculum section: everyday tricks\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ninth section does not follow any curriculum: traffic lights (\"red I stop, orange I wait, green I go\"), left and right, shoelaces, and a method to learn a lesson in four steps: read, hide, say it back, try again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAnd after fifth grade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same method continues: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-college\"\u003eThe Great Book of Mnemonic Tips Middle School\u003c\/a\u003e goes from 6th to 9th grade, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-lycee\"\u003ethe High School version\u003c\/a\u003e from 10th to 12th grade. All titles are gathered in the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/pense-betes\"\u003eMnemonic Tips collection\u003c\/a\u003e. This book also exists in a \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-pdf\"\u003eprintable PDF version\u003c\/a\u003e, with the same content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy a mnemonic tip helps you remember\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child who re-reads their lesson ten times rarely knows it better than after three readings. Re-reading gives the feeling of knowing, not memory. What makes things stick is the effort of recalling it yourself, without looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic tip serves exactly that purpose: it provides a hook on which to hang the information. Three processes appear throughout this book. \u003cb\u003eAssociating\u003c\/b\u003e something new with something already known. Creating a \u003cb\u003emental image\u003c\/b\u003e, because visual memory retains an image better than a list. And transforming a sequence into a sentence that can be \u003cb\u003erecited aloud\u003c\/b\u003e, which additionally engages auditory memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a simple reason for this. Working memory, which handles information in the moment, holds very little at a time: a sentence of eight words fits in easily, eight names of planets in order much less so. The tip compresses the list into a single object that is easy to remember, and it is that object that then moves into long-term memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepetition remains necessary. A tip seen once is forgotten like anything else; reviewed the next day, then a week later, it sticks. That is why an exercise accompanies each content page: it forces them to retrieve the tip instead of just re-reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat this book is not\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not a memorization method for adults. You won't find memory palaces, peg methods, or the art of memory inherited from Cicero: these techniques require long training, and an eight-year-old has no use for them. Nor are there mind maps to build, or a chapter on how neurons work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe principle is more modest and immediate: one ready-made tip per concept, read in thirty seconds, remembered right away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSix tips from the book, as written\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe order of the planets.\u003c\/b\u003e Eight planets orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The sentence to remember is \"Me Voici Tout Mouillé, Je Suis Un Nageur\" (\"Here I am, all wet, I am a swimmer\"): the first letter of each word gives a planet. The book adds that there were nine once, and that Pluto was removed from the list in 2006 because it is too small.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMais où est donc Ornicar?\u003c\/b\u003e This school phrase hides seven little words: mais, ou, et, donc, or, ni, car. These are the conjunctions, the words that hook two ideas together. \"Ornicar\" doesn't exist: it's a name invented for the occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePort and starboard.\u003c\/b\u003e On a boat, you don't say left and right. Think of the word BATTERIE: \"BA\" is at the beginning, so left (bâbord), and port is the left side. Another reference: tribord and droite both have an \"i\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 9s table on your fingers.\u003c\/b\u003e With both hands flat, the ten fingers count from 1 to 10. For 9 × 3, you lower the third finger: there are two fingers left on the left and seven on the right, the answer is 27.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge multiplication tables, on your fingers too.\u003c\/b\u003e You number your fingers from 6 to 10 on each hand. For 8 × 7, you touch finger 8 with finger 7: the bottom fingers give the tens, five, or 50; the top fingers multiply, 2 × 3 = 6. Total: 56.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHalf as many tables to learn.\u003c\/b\u003e In multiplication, you can change the order without changing the result: 3 × 8 = 8 × 3. Three bags of eight marbles or eight bags of three marbles, that makes twenty-four marbles in both cases. There are therefore only half the tables to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other tips follow the same principle, from the number of vowels in the alphabet (six: a, e, i, o, u, and y) to prepositions and the colors of the rainbow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide on \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-primaire\"\u003ememorization techniques in primary school\u003c\/a\u003e details the techniques that work, concrete examples, and the revision errors to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62662598394186,"sku":"KB-PB-PRIM","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/pense-betes-primaire.png?v=1783618151"},{"product_id":"pense-betes-college","title":"The Big Book of Study Guides — Middle School Special (Grades 6-9)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Yeah, yeah, I've studied.\" Door closed, music in their ears. Then, during the test, Pythagoras and Thales get all mixed up. Again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn middle school, you can no longer study for them. The coursework piles up, the Brevet is approaching, and every concept forgotten during the 8 weeks of summer will be a concept that needs to be caught up on in September — when everything is already moving too fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood students don't necessarily work harder. They retain information better because they have shortcuts: a phrase for SOHCAHTOA, clear landmarks for Pythagoras and Thales, images for figures of speech. \u003cb\u003eThe Big Book of Middle School Mnemonics\u003c\/b\u003e brings together about 145 of these tricks, from 6th to 9th grade, right up to the Brevet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat's in this book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e148 mnemonic tricks, from 6th to 9th grade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e74 corrected exercises to verify that it's mastered — alone, without you\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMath (Pythagoras, Thales, SOHCAHTOA), French, Physics-Chemistry, Biology\/Geology... right up to the essentials for the Brevet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e88 pages in short, colorful cards, perfect for a busy teen's brain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWho is this for?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMiddle schoolers from 6th to 9th grade who \"learn\" but don't retain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eFuture Brevet candidates who want solid reference points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eParents tired of asking \"did you study?\" without ever knowing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eImagine, in a few weeks...\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst test of the year. They turn the page over, smile: they know the shortcut. The formula comes to them effortlessly. That evening, it's them telling you about their day — without you having to pull teeth to get it out of them. ✨\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne hour of tutoring costs about €30. This book costs €24.99 — and it stays with them for four years, from 6th grade through the Brevet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 FREE delivery in metropolitan France · 🖨️ Printed on demand in Europe, for your order · 🔒 Secure payment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlip the book that turns \"I studied\" into \"I remembered\" into their bag.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA book of tricks for learning and memorizing in middle school, from 6th to 9th grade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn middle school, the volume of information to retain shifts scale: formulas, dates, grammatical rules, in all subjects at once. Rereading is no longer enough. This book tackles the problem from the other end: 148 mnemonic tricks, numbered one by one, that give each concept a foothold to stick. Nine sections: mathematics, French grammar, French literature, history-geography and civic education, physics-chemistry, biology\/geology, English, Spanish, and a Methods \u0026amp; Brevet section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSix tricks, from SOH-CAH-TOA to blood types\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSOH-CAH-TOA\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trigonometry classic, with the right-angled triangle drawn: Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse, Cosine equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse, Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent. Three ratios, and no more confusion possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eF.I.L.D. (First, Inner, Outer, Last)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo expand a binomial expression without forgetting a term: First, Inner, Outer, Last. You check off the four products in order, and the calculation is complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"The cloud is up, the demon is down\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cloud for the nu-merator, the demon for the de-nominator. In 3\/4, the numerator is 3 and the denominator is 4. One second is enough to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Napoléon Mangea Allègrement Six Poulets Sans Claquer d’Argent\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third row of the periodic table in order: Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar. The physics-chemistry section relies largely on this process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"O = Offers, AB = Accepts Broadly\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlood types: group O is the universal donor, group AB the universal recipient. The trick is followed by an explanation using antigens, so they understand rather than just recite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Assonance and vowel start with a vowel\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo you don't swap the two sound figures: assonance repeats a vowel, alliteration a consonant. The example given is the verse about snakes hissing over your heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAn exercise at the bottom of every page, all solutions at the end\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the bottom of every content page, an immediate application exercise: 74 corrected exercises in total, exactly one per page. The 74 solutions are gathered at the end of the book, often commented on in a single sentence. Your middle schooler can therefore verify on their own that they've understood, without you having to reopen a 9th-grade textbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book speaks to the student, using the informal \"tu,\" never to the parents. It doesn't replace the course: it's not a summary of the curriculum, it's a collection of tricks to consult in five minutes before a test or when a concept refuses to sink in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAn entire section devoted to methods and the Brevet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ninth section doesn't deal with any specific subject: it deals with how to work. Learning by testing yourself rather than rereading, spacing out your reviews (the same day, the next day, in a week, in a month), organizing yourself with short sessions, decoding a topic, and managing the day of the exam. Ten tricks that are useful in 6th grade just as they are the night before the Brevet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBefore and after middle school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection follows their entire schooling: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003eThe Big Book of Primary Mnemonics\u003c\/a\u003e covers the basics from 1st to 5th grade, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-lycee\"\u003ethe High School version\u003c\/a\u003e takes over from 10th to 12th grade, including philosophy and the final oral exam. See also the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/pense-betes\"\u003eMnemonics collection\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf\"\u003eprintable PDF version\u003c\/a\u003e of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat a shortcut changes when eight subjects pile up in the same week\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Middle School volume covers eight subjects, plus a methods section. In an ordinary week, an 8th-grade student is reviewing a math test, a biology lesson, a list of irregular verbs, and two dates. It's not the difficulty of each concept that's the problem, it's their number and their proximity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device acts on a specific point of this disorder. It doesn't make you understand: it fixes the form. The order of a list, the direction of a sign, the placement of an agreement, the arrangement of a formula. What was understood in class then becomes retrievable months later, even when the original reasoning has faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou must therefore know what a trick does not do. It proves nothing and replaces no exercises. A phrase doesn't prove a theorem: it just avoids inverting the terms on the day of a test. The book sticks to that, moreover: one concept, one card, one example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreating the trick counts just as much as using it. The operation mobilizes several memories at once: the memory of meaning, for the rule itself; the memory of recollections, for the funny image associated with it; the memory of gesture, when a finger covers the last two digits of a year to find the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSeven cards taken from the sections we talk about less\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePast participle with \"être\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With être, I agree with the being who does the action.\" The card uses the image of clothing fitting its size: feminine, an 'e'; plural, an 's'. The examples given are \"elles sont parties\" and \"ils sont venus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePronominal verbs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore \"s'est,\" the book suggests mentally replacing it with \"a,\" then applying the rule of the direct object placed before. \"Elle s'est lavée,\" but \"elle s'est lavé les mains.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"quand,\" \"quant\" or \"qu’en\"?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree tests in a row. \"quand\" speaks of the moment and replaces \"lorsque.\" \"quant\" means \"as for\" and always drags an \"à\" or \"au\" behind it. \"qu’en\" is two words stuck together: \"qu’en penses-tu?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOhm's law in a triangle\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eU on top, R and I on the bottom. Cover the sought-after letter with your finger, and the formula appears: U = R × I, R = U\/I, I = U\/R. Example from the card: R = 20 Ω and I = 0.3 A gives U = 6 V. The same triangle will be reused for speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWeight or mass?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMass like Matter: in kilograms, it never changes. Weight like Weightlessness (gravity): in newtons, it changes depending on the planet. The card concludes with the 70 kg astronaut, who keeps their 70 kg on the Moon but weighs six times less.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRespiration or photosynthesis?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo gas exchanges that are the inverse of each other, and only one thing to remember: respiration, release of CO2. Respiration takes oxygen and releases carbon dioxide, day and night; photosynthesis takes CO2 and releases oxygen, only when there is sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSince or for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"since\" announces a precise starting point, a date, a day: since 2020, since Monday. \"for\" announces a duration, like a set package of time: for two years, for a week.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same content exists in a printable file, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf\"\u003ethe middle school PDF\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Methods section: what really makes a lesson stick\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the book's cards is called \"Spaced Review.\" It starts from an unpleasant observation: the brain forgets quickly, and that's normal, it's filtering. The workaround boils down to four appointments, printed as such: the same day, the next day, in a week, in a month. The card adds the sentence that sums it all up: five minutes several times is worth more than an hour the day before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the principle of spaced repetition. Each return to the lesson is a reactivation: we force recall instead of rereading, and it's that effort that installs memorization. Rereading several times gives the feeling of knowing; reciting the lesson out loud, without looking, shows in ten seconds what is actually mastered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA second card deals with the review sheet. One sheet per chapter, everything fits on one page, you write the essentials in your own words. No copying: copying occupies the hand without making the memory work. Colors, keywords, no long sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA third suggests the mind map for lessons that are too long: a star-shaped diagram, the theme in the center, one branch per idea, little drawings everywhere. The book explains it in one line: the brain loves images and links, and an idea linked to others is retained much better. Those with a more visual memory gain the most; those with a more auditory memory will prefer reading aloud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowed by the Pomodoro technique, twenty-five minutes of work and five of rest, with the phone in another room, and a reminder about sleep: at night, the brain sorts and engraves the day's lessons. An all-nighter before the Brevet wipes out part of the work put in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese pages don't claim to explain how memory works. It's not a neuroscience book and it talks neither about neurons nor brain areas: it provides work habits and tricks to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMultiplication tables, decimals, and the basics of calculation fall, for their part, under \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003eThe Big Book of Primary Mnemonics\u003c\/a\u003e, which covers 1st to 5th grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThree questions parents often ask\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"They learn their lessons by heart and have forgotten everything a week later.\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's the most common scenario, and there's nothing abnormal about it. Learning by heart the day before fills the short-term memory, the one that serves to hold out until the test and then empties itself. Nothing was done wrong: the information was simply never reviewed, so the brain classified it as useless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat changes everything is going back over it. The same day, the next day, a week later. Each return costs five minutes and does more than the hour spent the night before. And it's better to close the notebook and recite the lesson than to reread it: asking yourself questions and having to go get the answer is what installs it durably. Rereading several times gives the feeling of learning quickly, without retaining anything more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"They say they have a bad memory.\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost always, it's not a question of capacity but of method. A student who believes they are incapable of memorizing generally applies the only technique they were shown: rereading until it sinks in. It's the least effective of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone also retains through slightly different channels. Some have a more visual memory and gain from transforming a lesson into a diagram or mental image; others, more of an auditory memory, retain better by reading aloud or explaining to someone; others still need to write, redo, manipulate. None of these profiles prevents learning effectively, provided you don't stubbornly stick to just one way of doing things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Does it work for languages?\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly in part, and it's best to say so clearly. The English and Spanish sections of the book deal with \u003cb\u003egrammar\u003c\/b\u003e, not vocabulary: the difference between \u003ci\u003esince\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e, modals, the genitive, \u003ci\u003eser\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eestar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epor\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003epara\u003c\/i\u003e. These are rules that we invert constantly, and a mnemonic device fixes them very well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLists of words, however, are not learned like that. For vocabulary, there is no shortcut: you have to review it regularly, in small, spaced series. You will therefore find in this book neither lists of vocabulary, nor speed-reading methods, nor memorization techniques to practice over months, like memory palaces or the art of memory. No mind mapping either, beyond the mind map explained on one page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat it contains is simpler: 148 ready-to-use tricks, one per concept, with an exercise opposite to verify that it's mastered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide on \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-college\"\u003emiddle school memorization techniques\u003c\/a\u003e details the techniques that work, concrete examples, and review errors to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62662598525258,"sku":"KB-PB-COLL","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/pense-betes-college.png?v=1783618155"},{"product_id":"pense-betes-lycee","title":"The Big Book of Study Notes — High School Edition (Grades 10–12)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlashcards everywhere, highlighters, hours of revision… and when the test comes, a total blank. Your high schooler isn't lacking in work. They're lacking in hooks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn high school, everything counts: every grade matters for Parcoursup, the Bac is approaching, and 11 subjects are competing for the same memory. What the summer erases, the school year leaves no time to rebuild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTop-of-the-class students have one thing in common: they compress. A formula becomes a sentence, a concept becomes an image, an essay outline becomes a reflex. \u003cb\u003eThe Big Book of High School Memory Aids\u003c\/b\u003e gathers 274 of these tricks, from 10th to 12th grade — the condensed knowledge that the best students pass among themselves, finally brought together in one book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat's in this book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e274 mnemonic tricks in 11 subjects: math, physics-chemistry, biology, philosophy, history-geography, economics, languages…\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e137 exercises with answers to turn tricks into habits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMethods dedicated to the Bac and the Grand Oral\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e160 pages covering all three years, from 10th to 12th grade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWho is this for?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eHigh schoolers from 10th to 12th grade who study hard but struggle to retain information\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eBac candidates who want clear benchmarks, right up to the Grand Oral\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eParents who can no longer help with the core content — but can provide the right tools\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eImagine, in a few weeks…\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack at school, the first test. Around them, there is sighing. They, however, are in the flow: the formula is there, the outline too. That evening, they say to you, \"Actually, this year is going fine.\" You know what that sentence is worth. 🎓\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reference book to use at home to find memorization tricks throughout the high school years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 FREE delivery in metropolitan France · 🖨️ Printed on demand in Europe, for your order · 🔒 Secure payment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGive them the condensed tricks of the best students — before summer erases the year.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA book of tricks to memorize high school coursework, from 10th to 12th grade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn high school, the problem isn't understanding: it's keeping everything in your head at once. Math formulas, chemistry mechanisms, philosophy concepts, economics definitions, two languages. This book gathers 274 mnemonic tricks, numbered one by one, divided into eleven sections: mathematics, physics-chemistry, biology, French language, literature, philosophy, history-geography, economics, English, Spanish, and a section on Methods, Bac \u0026amp; Grand Oral. The content follows the general curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSix tricks, from trig formulas to philosophy benchmarks\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"co-co MINUS si-si, si-co PLUS co-si\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAddition formulas in trigonometry without mixing up the signs: cos(a+b) = cos a cos b minus sin a sin b, and sin(a+b) = sin a cos b plus cos a sin b. Two rhythms to remember instead of two lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Please Value Nature, Remember Thermodynamics\" (PV=nRT)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ideal gas law, PV = nRT, in the right order. The card reminds you of the expected units (pascals, cubic meters, moles, and kelvins) as well as the constant's value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Radio Waves Make Infrared Visible Ultra X-ray Gamma\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe electromagnetic spectrum ordered from lowest to highest energy: radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTranscription or translation?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn biology, two words that look alike and get mixed up. You transcribe text in the same language, DNA to RNA; you translate into another language, nucleotides to amino acids. Same logic for mitosis (same cell doubled) and meiosis (half, and four gametes).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Human beings basically create light, real romantic, naturally symbolic surrealists.\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nine literary movements in chronological order: humanism, baroque, classicism, Enlightenment, romanticism, realism, naturalism, symbolism, surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"LEGAL = the law, LEGITIMATE = ethics\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA benchmark for the philosophy curriculum: conforming to the law is not the same as conforming to justice. The example given is a forbidden protest that is nevertheless judged to be just.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e137 exercises and ten pages of written corrections\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach page of content ends with an exercise: 137 in all, exactly one per page. There are calculations, language applications, and open questions on methodology or philosophy, such as \"What does Nietzsche mean by 'God is dead'?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corrections occupy ten pages at the end of the book. These are real, fully written-out explanations, several lines long, not just a list of answers. This is what distinguishes the High School volume from the others: you can work alone, make mistakes, and understand why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePhilosophy, Economics, and the Grand Oral\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree areas rarely treated in the form of tricks. The Philosophy section has 28 tricks: curriculum benchmarks, authors, and essay writing methods. The Economics section has 24, from the market to comparative advantage: that is where the card \"Demand goes DOWN, supply goes UP\" is found, as price increases. The final part goes through the Grand Oral and its format: 20 minutes of preparation, 10 minutes of presentation, 10 minutes of discussion with the jury. This book is not a course summary: it is a collection of tricks to be read one card at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe other levels\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection starts well before high school: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-college\"\u003ethe Middle School version\u003c\/a\u003e covers 6th to 9th grade, up to the brevet, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003ethe Elementary version\u003c\/a\u003e covers the basics from 1st to 5th grade. Everything is gathered in the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/pense-betes\"\u003eMemory Aids collection\u003c\/a\u003e. This volume is also available in a \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-lycee-pdf\"\u003eprintable PDF version\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEncoding, consolidating, retrieving: the three stages of a lesson\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn high school, the number of lessons isn't the problem, it's their lifespan. Three years' worth must remain available simultaneously, across ten subjects, for an exam that tests everything at the end. Memory, however, hasn't accelerated. It works in three stages: encoding information, consolidating it, and retrieving it when the time comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEncoding is the step that the trick improves. Isolated information is recorded poorly; connected to something else, an image, a word already known, or a sound, it is recorded much better. That is the entire function of a mnemonic device: to create the link that was missing instead of hoping it appears. A four-line formula becomes a six-letter word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsolidation happens outside of study hours. The book doesn't go into this mechanism, and that's consistent: it is a collection of tricks, not a neuroscience textbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat leaves retrieval, and that is where the book is the most direct. Its Methods section opens with the illusion of knowing: rereading is just recognizing; knowing is retrieving from memory. The instruction boils down to five words: \"Close the book, open your memory,\" and the card suggests flashcards, question on the front, answer on the back. A trick makes this test possible from the very first try, when one still knows almost nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSeven cards taken from outside the usual examples\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Cosine is horizontal, sine is vertical\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the unit circle, the cosine is read horizontally on the x-axis, and the sine vertically on the y-axis. The card reminds you of the direction of travel, from point (1; 0) and counter-clockwise, as well as the ever-true equality cos²θ + sin²θ = 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"The caTION is posiTIVE\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo syllables are enough to decide: the cation carries a positive charge, the anion a negative charge. The card gives the lists expected in high school, then the explanation: a metal that loses electrons becomes positive, therefore it gives a cation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"ATtention to the Garage-Cave\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDNA base pairing in two pieces: ATtention gives A across from T, Garage-Cave gives G across from C. The book warns: never A with G, never T with C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe four phases of mitosis in order: prophase, chromosomes become visible; metaphase, they align in the middle; anaphase, they separate; telophase, two nuclei reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe chiasmus, or the letter X\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chiasmus = the cross, the Greek letter chi.\" Two groups mirror each other, following the A-B-B-A scheme. The chosen example: one must eat to live and not live to eat. The card advises tracing the links: if they cross, it's a chiasmus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePor or para?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"PARA looks forward, the goal; POR looks backward, the cause.\" Salgo para Madrid for destination, gracias por tu ayuda for cause, es para mañana for deadline, viajo por tren for means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Family, School, Peers, Media, Work\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five agents of socialization expected in economics: family, school, peers, media, work. The card then distinguishes between primary socialization, that of childhood, and secondary socialization, that of work and groups joined later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other volumes are gathered in the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/pense-betes\"\u003eMemory Aids collection\u003c\/a\u003e, and those for post-baccalaureate in \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/etudes-concours\"\u003eStudies \u0026amp; Competitions\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the recommended revision methods are worth\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRereading one's lessons is the most widespread and least effective technique. It produces an impression of familiarity that is confused with knowledge: one recognizes the text, but doesn't retrieve it. The book calls this phenomenon the illusion of knowing, and makes it the starting point for its Methods section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat works requires more effort. Reciting a lesson out loud, notebook closed. Asking yourself questions and answering them from memory. Spacing out your reviews of the same concept instead of grouping everything on the eve of the test. Each of these actions shares the same common point: it forces you to go and retrieve the information, and it is the search that installs the trace, not the rereading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo cards in the book add to this. The first advises transforming a dense lesson into a mind map: a diagram that makes the structure of a chapter visible, where a page of text hides it. The second concerns sleep, and it is categorical: memory is built at night, when the brain organizes and engraves what has been learned, and an all-nighter erases the revisions. A third organizes retro-planning, starting from the date of the exam and working backward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mnemonic procedure is used differently. It does not organize the work and does not replace any method: it acts on a single piece of information at the moment it needs to be retrieved. A list of six elements, the order of two notions that you always invert, a formula where you no longer know which term goes where. It is a precision tool, not a revision strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA word on what this book is not, to avoid disappointment. It is not a neuroscience textbook: it talks neither of the cortex, nor the hippocampus, nor semantic memory. It is also not a memorization method to train over several months, like the memory palace. It is a collection: 274 ready-to-use tricks, one per concept, with an exercise opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThree mistakes that cost dearly in high school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eConfusing rereading with knowing\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting a lesson and then rereading it three times is the most common way to study, and the least effective. One ends up recognizing the sentences, which produces a deceptive feeling of mastery. The only reliable measure is a question: notebook closed, am I able to reproduce the chapter outline? Asking oneself questions and answering them from memory is more tiring than rereading, and makes you retain much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGrouping everything on the eve of the test\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA night of intensive work fills the working memory, not the long-term memory. The same number of hours spread over three weeks produces a result beyond comparison, because each review strengthens the trace instead of creating it once. This is the principle of spacing, and it is what allows you to retrieve in June a concept seen in September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBelieving there is a miracle method\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe memory palace, speed reading, spectacular memorization techniques sold as shortcuts: these methods exist, some work, but they require weeks of training before being of any use. A 12th-grade student three months from the Bac does not have this time, and this book does not claim to teach them that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt does something else, on a specific point. A mnemonic trick does not improve memory: it makes a particular piece of information easier to memorize, by giving it a short form, a mental image, or a sound. Six elements in an imposed order become a word. Two concepts that one always inverts receive a benchmark that distinguishes them. It is a precision tool, alongside revision cards, summaries, and retro-planning, not in their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest is ordinary work: understanding in class, doing exercises, sleeping before the test. The book says so itself in its Methods section, and sticks to its role: 274 tricks, one per concept, with an exercise opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe three cards that the Methods section places at the front of the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Learning is testing yourself, not rereading\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the very first card, and it describes a scene every student knows: you reread your lesson five times, it seems familiar, you think you know it, and the next day it's a total blank. The book calls this trap the illusion of knowing, and summarizes it in one line: rereading is recognizing; knowing is retrieving from memory. The formula to remember is \"Close the book, open your memory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe method that follows is simple: close the lesson, recite or write down everything you remember, then check. The card insists on a counter-intuitive point: getting it wrong then correcting it engraves the information much better than a tenth rereading. And it advises making flashcards, question on the front, answer on the back, which it presents as the number one tool for major revisions: you quiz yourself instead of skimming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpaced repetition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond card, same frankness: the brain forgets quickly, it's normal, it sorts. To engrave a concept durably, you must return to it several times while spacing them out more and more. The printed calendar holds four benchmarks: the same day, D+1, D+7, D+30. Each reminder placed just before forgetting strengthens the trace, and that is why fifteen minutes every two days beats three hours all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe card concludes bluntly on cramming: revising all your subjects on the eve of the test is the worst plan, the brain saturates and fixes nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Feynman method: if you can explain it, you know it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThird card, and the best test of understanding there is: explain the concept out loud, simply, as if to someone who knows nothing about it, without looking at your notes. Everywhere you stumble or have to reopen the lesson, you have just found a hole to fill. The book attributes it to Feynman and summarizes it as follows: teaching is learning twice. No audience? The card suggests explaining to your wall, your cat, or recording yourself: the important thing is to put words to the idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat these three cards change concretely\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey reorganize a study evening. You no longer reread the whole chapter: you close it, you test yourself, you rephrase it in your own words, you identify the concepts to retain that don't come to mind. Revision cards are reduced to the essentials, one per chapter, with keywords rather than copied-out sentences, because copying occupies the hand without making the memory work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest depends on the individual. Some retain better what they see and benefit from transforming a chapter into a diagram; others retain what they hear and should recite out loud; others still need to write to assimilate. There is no universal learning method, only effective revisions: testing yourself, spacing, explaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMnemonic tricks come after, on the precise points that these three habits do not resolve: a list whose order is inverted, two concepts one confuses, a formula where you no longer know which term goes where.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide on \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-lycee\"\u003ehigh school memorization techniques\u003c\/a\u003e details which techniques work, provides concrete examples, and lists revision mistakes to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62662598721866,"sku":"KB-PB-LYCE","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/pense-betes-lycee.png?v=1783618160"},{"product_id":"le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-pdf","title":"The Big Book of Memos — PDF","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e✨ NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e — the Kidibook owl mascot now accompanies your child through every chapter: 9 large full-page illustrations, a redesigned cover, and 18 new tips (b or d, the 8 neighboring countries, lightning and thunder, emergency numbers, etc.).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📚 The Great Book of Mnemonics — Printable PDF version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes your child study for hours... only to forget everything the next day?\u003cbr\u003eThe problem isn't the child — it's the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers 189 clever mnemonic tips to help retain everything\u003cbr\u003eeffortlessly, in all subjects:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e✋ The 9 times table on your fingers\u003cbr\u003e🚗 \"Mais où est donc Ornicar?\" (the conjunctions)\u003cbr\u003e🪐 The planets in order\u003cbr\u003e✏️ Common spelling traps… and many more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, it just clicks — and homework becomes a game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🖨️ The printable PDF version:\u003cbr\u003e• 113 full-color pages, A4 format\u003cbr\u003e• Received immediately after purchase\u003cbr\u003e• Print at home as many times as you like\u003cbr\u003e• Reprint a page as soon as it's scribbled on\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e👶 From age 6 · Primary school (CP to CM2) · Designed in France 🇫🇷\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive your child the method that makes lessons easy. 💡\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA PDF book of mnemonic devices for children, from CP to CM2\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file is the entire book: 113 full-color pages in A4 format, with 189 numbered mnemonic tips divided into nine sections (math and numbers, spelling, conjugation, geography, history, science, arts and music, English, and a \"daily life tips\" section). One or two tips per page on colorful cards, with a short exercise at the bottom of each content page: 97 corrected exercises, with all answers provided at the end of the file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFour examples taken from the file\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Le Chat De Marie\" (Marie's Cat)\u003c\/b\u003e The four Roman numerals that cause trouble: L equals 50, C equals 100, D equals 500, and M equals 1000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Que j’aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages\"\u003c\/b\u003e Count the letters in each word to find the decimals of pi: 3.1415926535.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"-ant becomes -amment, -ent becomes -emment\"\u003c\/b\u003e The two-step rule for adverbs: \"courant\" becomes \"couramment,\" \"prudent\" becomes \"prudemment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Reste En Classe Ou Fais de Grandes Études\" (Stay in class or go to university)\u003c\/b\u003e The classification of living things in order: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will also find \"Roger Ose Jouer Volontiers Bien Innocemment Vendredi\" for the colors of the rainbow, and the three dynasties in order, Merovingians, Carolingians, Capetians, from Clovis to Hugh Capet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the PDF format changes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a file that opens on a computer, tablet, or phone. You print what you want, when you want: the Roman numerals page before a history test, the adverbs page to display above the desk, the same page a second time when the first has been doodled on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade-off is simple: printing is your responsibility, and 113 color pages take up paper and ink. However, there is no obligation to print everything: you can print pages throughout the year, subject by subject, and read the rest on screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePDF or paperback book?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the PDF if you want to pick and choose page by page, reprint at will, or give the same tip to two children at the same time. Choose \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire\"\u003ethe Pense-Bêtes Primaire paperback book, from CP to CM2\u003c\/a\u003e if you prefer a real bound book to flip through without screens or printers, and to take everywhere. The content is identical: same mnemonic devices, same exercises, same answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat remains the next day of a lesson learned the night before\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lesson learned at night fades quickly, and the erasing begins the very next day. What slows this down isn't the time spent in the notebook: it's the number of times the child has retrieved the information from their head without looking at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device is used for exactly this. It transforms a list that needs to be learned by heart into a sentence, an image, or a gesture—something that can be recalled without any aid, in the car or on the playground. A funny sentence sticks to the memory; counting on fingers adds the memory of a movement. Two paths are better than one for retrieving the same lesson, especially on the morning of a test when the first one fails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file doesn't just provide the tips: its final section also explains how to use them, and ends with advice parents know by instinct. Reciting the lesson at night, in bed: at night, the book explains, the brain organizes everything, like a closet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFive cards taken from elsewhere in the file\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Naples Est Sous l’Orage\" (Naples is in the storm)\u003c\/b\u003e. The four cardinal points in the order they are recited, turning clockwise from the top of the compass: North, East, South, West. The card features a drawn compass with the direction of the turn indicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStalactite or stalagmite?\u003c\/b\u003e One letter is enough: the stalactite \"Tombe\" (falls) from the ceiling, the stalagmite \"Monte\" (rises) from the ground. The page shows a cross-section of a cave, with the two stone points facing each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Before m, b, p, we use an m\"\u003c\/b\u003e. Impossible, tomber, emmener, chambre: the n disguises itself as an m. The book points out four rebels to learn by heart: bonbon, bonbonne, néanmoins, and embonpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsect or spider?\u003c\/b\u003e Count the legs: six for an insect—the ant, the bee, the ladybug; eight for a spider, which never has wings. Therefore, a spider is not an insect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamel or dromedary?\u003c\/b\u003e The first letter indicates the number of humps, provided you lay it down: the D in \"dromadaire\" has one round back, the M in \"chameau\" has two. One hump for the dromedary, two for the camel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other two levels exist in the same format: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf\"\u003ethe middle school PDF\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-lycee-pdf\"\u003ethe high school PDF\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA file you can print multiple times, and why it matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA book opens, closes, and is put away. A file can be printed as many times as you like, and that is the real difference for a primary school child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe multiplication tables page can go on the fridge. The planets page above the desk. The \"a or à?\" and \"son or sont?\" pages in the French folder. The child sees them without thinking, for ten seconds while passing by, several times a day. It is effortless repetition: no one sits down to \"study the poster,\" yet eventually, it is learned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing mysterious about this mechanism. What helps retention is not the duration of a session but the number of times you encounter the material. A concept reviewed five days in a row is better established than a concept worked on for an hour all at once and then forgotten. A child who has the order of the planets before their eyes every morning ends up reciting it without ever feeling like they had to learn it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThree ways to use it at home\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDisplay.\u003c\/b\u003e Two or three pages, no more—the ones currently causing trouble. Replace them once they are mastered. A wall covered in twenty posters is no longer read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz.\u003c\/b\u003e The parent holds the page, the child answers from memory. Making a mistake and then correcting it does more for memorization than an extra reading, because the child had to retrieve the information instead of just recognizing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReprint.\u003c\/b\u003e A scribbled-on page, an exercise already completed, a notebook left at the other parent's house: just print it again, and that’s it. That is something paper alone doesn't allow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis file does not replace classroom work and does not claim to learn in the child's place. It simply makes the tips available where they are needed: on the kitchen table, not at the bottom of a schoolbag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-primaire\"\u003eprimary school memorization techniques\u003c\/a\u003e details the methods that work, concrete examples, and common revision mistakes to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62689583890762,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/NOUVELLE-COUVERTURE-PDF.png?v=1786040604"},{"product_id":"le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf","title":"The Great Book of Memory Aids — Middle School — PDF","description":"\u003cp\u003e📚 The Big Book of Mnemonics — Middle School — Printable PDF Version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes your teen study for hours… and still freeze during the test?\u003cbr\u003eThe problem isn’t them — it’s the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together 148 mnemonic tricks to effortlessly retain the entire middle school curriculum, up to the Brevet exam:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📐 Pythagoras \u0026amp; Thales, finally clear\u003cbr\u003e📏 SOHCAHTOA (trigonometry without the stress)\u003cbr\u003e📖 Figures of speech (metaphor, hyperbole…)\u003cbr\u003e⚗️ Physics-chemistry formulas… and many more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, it clicks — and studying becomes much simpler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🖨️ The printable PDF version:\u003cbr\u003e• 89 pages in color, A4 format\u003cbr\u003e• Received immediately after purchase\u003cbr\u003e• Print at home, as many times as you like\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🎓 From 6th to 9th grade · Brevet special · designed in France 🇫🇷\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive your teen the method that makes studying effective. 💡\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA book of tricks for middle school memorization, in PDF (6th-9th grade)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file includes the entire book: 89 pages in color, A4 format, 148 numbered mnemonic tricks, and nine sections (mathematics, French language, French literature, history-geography and civic education, physics-chemistry, life and earth sciences, English, Spanish, and a \"Methods \u0026amp; Brevet\" section). Each content page ends with a one-line exercise, totaling 74 corrected exercises, with answers grouped at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFour examples taken from the file\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOVES.\u003c\/b\u003e Doute (Doubt), Obligation, Volonté (Will), Émotion (Emotion), Souhait (Wish): the five triggers for the subjunctive, combined into a single word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThales, \"small over big = small over big = small over big\".\u003c\/b\u003e The three ratios written in the same direction, and you never invert anything again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE-L-J.\u003c\/b\u003e The three powers, each summarized by its verb: the executive executes, the legislative makes the law, the judicial judges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"My King Sets Apples\"\u003c\/b\u003e (French: \"Mon Kopain Sait Additionner\") The base units of the international system: meter, kilogram, second, ampere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the same spirit: \"You Invent Well, You, Young Ridiculous Idler\" for the order of colors in decomposed light, \"He Vexes Xavier, The Common Man\" for Roman numerals, and the century rule, with its trap noted on the page: 1500 still belongs to the 15th century, 1501 already to the 16th.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the file allows\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s a file that opens on a computer, tablet, or phone: a middle schooler can review a concept on the bus or the day before a test. And you only print what’s useful: the trigonometry pages before the math test, the Methods \u0026amp; Brevet section in 9th grade, or two copies of the same page if you have two children in middle school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn exchange, printing is at your expense, and 89 pages in color consume ink. You can also choose to print only the subject currently being studied and keep the rest on screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePDF or paperback book?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe PDF is suitable for those who want to pick and choose, reprint, and read on screen. If you prefer a book that your middle schooler opens without turning on a device, and that stays in their bag from 6th to 9th grade, get \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-college\"\u003ethe paperback version of the Middle School Mnemonics\u003c\/a\u003e. Same content, same 148 tricks, same 74 exercises with their solutions: only the format changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDon't confuse them: the real problem in middle school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn middle school, concepts are not only numerous: they resemble each other. Two similar agreement rules, two figures of speech built on the same principle, two physics formulas with the same look. A test error is rarely a complete blank: it’s confusion, applying the right concept in the wrong place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst this, rereading is useless because everything seems familiar. You must give each concept an address that belongs only to it—a word or an image that no neighboring concept can claim. This is the work of a mnemonic device: separating what the course presents side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat remains is to verify that the separation holds. This is done with the notebook closed, by asking yourself the question before looking at the answer: this is the role of the question that closes each content page, the answer to which only appears at the end of the file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFive cards, five subjects\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cross-product\u003c\/b\u003e. \"I multiply diagonally, I divide by the one that's left.\" If a\/b = c\/d, then a×d = b×c. Example from the card: 3\/4 = x\/20 gives x = (3 × 20)\/4 = 15.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Two stones for the tour, stone-two for the inside\"\u003c\/b\u003e. The perimeter of a circle is 2 × π × R, the area of a disk π × R². Two formulas often swapped, separated by a pun. With R = 3: a perimeter of 6π, an area of 9π, which is about 28.27.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe three states of matter\u003c\/b\u003e. Solid like \"Serré\" (Tight), Liquid like \"Libre\" (Free) to flow, Gas like \"Grand\" (Large) space. The solid keeps its shape, the liquid takes that of the glass, the gas spreads everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Small = Lungs\"\u003c\/b\u003e. Two words to stop confusing the two blood circulations: the small one goes from the heart to the lungs, where the blood picks up oxygen; the large one irrigates the rest of the body. The card adds the direction of flow in the heart: entry through the atria, exit through the ventricles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouble Spanish punctuation\u003c\/b\u003e. The upside-down signs open the question and exclamation, like a road sign before a curve: Spanish warns the reader. The examples on the card are ¿Cómo estás? and ¡Qué bien!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same file exists for the other two levels: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-pdf\"\u003ethe primary PDF\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-lycee-pdf\"\u003ethe high school PDF\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eStudying on screen or on paper: what experience shows\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question comes up with every file purchase. A middle schooler can read this PDF on a computer, tablet, or phone, and find a word in two seconds. It’s practical for finding a rule while writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor learning, however, the screen has a known flaw: you scroll. You skim, you recognize, you think you know it, and nothing sticks. Paper forces you to stop on one page at a time, and above all, it lets you write on it: underline, check off, cross out what has been mastered. These marks turn reading into studying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compromise that works best: consult on screen when looking for something, print when you want to learn. Six or eight pages, those of the subject at hand, rather than all eighty-nine at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBeing quizzed, rather than rereading\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file is particularly well-suited for two-person use. A parent, sibling, or friend holds the page: they ask the question, the student answers from memory, notebook closed. In thirty seconds, you know what is learned and what is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is more effective than reading alone, for one simple reason: rereading gives the feeling of knowing, answering proves it. A student who stumbles over a rule has just discovered exactly what they need to review, instead of spending an hour on a chapter already mastered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same pages can be used in reverse. Explaining a trick to someone else, out loud and without notes, is the best test of understanding there is: you cannot clearly explain what you have not understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, the file does not contain the lessons themselves. It provides shortcuts to remember what was seen in class, not enough to catch up on an entire chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-college\"\u003emiddle school memorization techniques\u003c\/a\u003e details which techniques work, provides concrete examples, and lists study errors to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62689695203658,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/pense-betes-college-cover.png?v=1783874886"},{"product_id":"le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-lycee-pdf","title":"The Big Book of Study Aids — High School — PDF","description":"\u003cp\u003e📚 The Big Book of Mnemonics — High School — Printable PDF Version\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHours of revision… and the stress that returns with every test?\u003cbr\u003eThe problem isn't the test—it's the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive book brings together 274 mnemonic tricks + 137 exercises to\u003cbr\u003eretain high school concepts, across 11 subjects, up to the Baccalaureate:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📈 Derivatives, primitives, limits (Baccalaureate math)\u003cbr\u003e🤔 The 17 philosophy concepts, finally clear\u003cbr\u003e⚗️ Physics-Chemistry: redox, pH, waves…\u003cbr\u003e✍️ Baccalaureate methods (essays, commentaries…) … and many more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, it clicks — and the Baccalaureate is much less daunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🖨️ The printable PDF version:\u003cbr\u003e• 161 color pages, A4 format\u003cbr\u003e• Received immediately after purchase\u003cbr\u003e• Print at home, as many times as you like\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🎓 From 10th to 12th grade · Baccalaureate specialty · 11 subjects · designed in France 🇫🇷\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive them the method that makes revision efficient. 💡\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Big Book of High School Mnemonics in PDF: 274 tricks to memorize your coursework, from 10th to 12th grade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe file is the complete book: 161 color pages, A4 format, 274 numbered mnemonic tricks, and eleven sections (mathematics, physics-chemistry, biology\/geology (SVT), French language, literature, philosophy, history-geography, economics and social sciences (SES), English, Spanish, and a \"Methods, Baccalaureate \u0026amp; Grand Oral\" section). Each page of content includes an exercise, totaling 137 exercises, and the solutions occupy ten pages at the end of the book: these are written corrections, not just simple answers. The content follows the general curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFour examples taken from the file\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPERA.\u003c\/b\u003e Oxidation = Loss, Reduction = Gain of electrons. And for the rest: at the cathode, it reduces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lili Berça Bébé Chez Notre Oncle Fernand Nestor\"\u003c\/b\u003e The second line of the periodic table in order: Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Diérèse = Deux (two), synérèse = Soudés (joined)\"\u003c\/b\u003e Two versification terms that are always confused, separated only by their initial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe discriminant.\u003c\/b\u003e Delta positive, two roots; delta zero, only one; delta negative, none. The neighboring card adds the sign of the trinomial: always the sign of 'a', except between the roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere in the file: \"Ce Mec Habite la serre\" (This guy lives in the greenhouse) for the three greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄, H₂O), the rule for primitives of a power (the exponent goes up by 1 and you divide by it, never forgetting the + k), and S-M-H for the three totalitarian regimes, with the page warning: Hitler became chancellor in 1933, not 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the PDF format changes for high school\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s a file that opens on a computer, tablet, or phone: the 28 philosophy tricks and 24 SES tricks fit in a student's pocket the night before an exam. And you only print what is useful: oxidation-reduction during that chapter, philosophy key points before the essay, the Methods section when organizing revisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 161 pages, printing the whole thing has little interest, especially since you would have to bind it yourself: the file reads very well on screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePDF or paperback book?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose the PDF if your student mainly revises on a screen and wants to print à la carte. Choose \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/pense-betes-lycee\"\u003ethe paperback version of the High School Mnemonics book, from 10th to 12th grade\u003c\/a\u003e if they prefer turning pages, annotating with a pencil, and finding a section without searching through a file. The 274 tricks, 137 exercises, and ten pages of corrections are the same in both versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFinding in June what was seen in September\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe high school curriculum spans three years; the exam takes place in June and covers what was seen in September. A memory trace weakens as soon as you stop engaging it, and highlighting does not engage it: you recognize the text, you do not produce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mnemonic device does not replace the lesson. It labels it: a list of eight elements becomes a sentence you can recite anywhere, without documents, and the order, which understanding alone never provides, holds on its own. You find the label, then you unfold what lies behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegarding memory itself, the file does not theorize. Its final section opens with \"Memorize for real\" and boils down to four operational cards: test yourself instead of re-reading, space out your reviews of the concept, explain out loud, \"if you can explain it, you know it,\" and sleep, because memory is built during sleep. The word neuron only appears in the SVT section, regarding the nervous message and the synapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFour cards taken far from the usual examples\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"u prime v, plus u, v prime\"\u003c\/b\u003e. The derivative of a product, in the order written: (u×v)’ = u’v + uv’. The card continues with the quotient: you derive the top first, keep the minus sign in the middle, and divide by v².\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"ln(a×b) = ln a + ln b\"\u003c\/b\u003e. The logarithm changes products into sums, which the book summarizes as \"the × becomes +\". The neighboring card shows the trap: ln(a + b) is not ln a + ln b, the rule applies to the product and never the sum; and ln x only exists for x \u0026gt; 0.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOCTOR\u003c\/b\u003e. The six uses of 'ser' in Spanish: Description, Occupation, Character, Time, Origin, Relation. Examples from the card: Son las tres for the time, Es de México for origin, Soy profesora for profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"actually = en fait\"\u003c\/b\u003e. False friends, which the book calls the Baccalaureate's favorite traps: library is a bibliothèque and bookshop is a librairie, sensible means reasonable while sensitive means sensible, and eventually means finalement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe previous levels are available in the same way: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-pdf\"\u003ethe primary PDF\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/le-grand-livre-des-pense-betes-college-pdf\"\u003ethe middle school PDF\u003c\/a\u003e. After the Baccalaureate, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/etudes-concours\"\u003ethe studies and competitive exam collections\u003c\/a\u003e continue the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMaking your flashcards from the file\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s Methods section presents flashcards as the number one tool for heavy revision: a question on the front, the answer on the back—you test yourself instead of skimming. The PDF format makes this immediate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou print the pages for the current subject, cut out the tricks with scissors, and each card becomes a question. The front holds the concept, the back the trick. One deck per subject, reviewed fifteen minutes every two days, with missed cards put back in the pile: this is spaced repetition without needing to keep a calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book insists on this point: getting it wrong and then correcting it engraves the information much better than a tenth re-reading. A missed card is not a failure, it’s the only moment when you truly learn something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThree uses that a bound book doesn't allow\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCutting.\u003c\/b\u003e A paperback book cannot be cut up. A file can. You isolate the twenty tricks that are problematic and leave the other two hundred and fifty aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharing the load.\u003c\/b\u003e In groups, you divide the subjects: everyone prints their own, prepares the questions, and quizzes the others. Preparing the questions already helps the person writing them revise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRe-printing before the Baccalaureate.\u003c\/b\u003e The pages annotated in September are no longer useful in June: you start again with a clean set, focusing only on the concepts that are still fragile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis file replaces neither the lessons, nor the exercises, nor the practice papers. It contains exactly the same text as the paperback book: 274 tricks and 137 exercises, nothing more or less, in a format you can cut and re-print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-kb=\"kb-guide-memo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to really use it?\u003c\/em\u003e Our guide on \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/techniques-memorisation-lycee\"\u003ehigh school memorization techniques\u003c\/a\u003e details which techniques work, provides concrete examples, and lists revision errors to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kidibook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62689700446538,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/1118\/9834\/files\/pense-betes-lycee-cover.png?v=1783875033"},{"product_id":"pense-betes-sante","title":"The Healthcare Student's Cheat Sheets — 150 Tips (IFSI)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 11 p.m., the night before your pharmacology exam. You’re re-reading the same page for the fourth time, highlighter in hand… and ten minutes later, everything has already evaporated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the day of the test, staring at the exam paper, drug classes get mixed up, the order of the cranial nerves becomes jumbled, and the formula for dosage calculations remains \"on the tip of your tongue.\" It’s not a lack of effort: it’s that the brain struggles to retain raw lists. It remembers images, phrases, and stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e150 ready-to-use mnemonic devices\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Health Student’s Cheat Sheet\u003c\/b\u003e gathers \u003cb\u003e150 mnemonic devices\u003c\/b\u003e in the form of \u003cb\u003ecolorful cards\u003c\/b\u003e, across \u003cb\u003e160 full-color A4 pages\u003c\/b\u003e. A tool designed for students in \u003cb\u003enursing school (IFSI)\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003emedical school (PASS)\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003enursing assistant\u003c\/b\u003e training.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e10 covered fields\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eAnatomy\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ephysiology\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003ePharmacology\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003edosage calculations\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eEmergencies\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003evitals\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eHygiene\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ecare\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eEthics \/ law\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003enutrition\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery acronym is \u003cb\u003espelled out in full\u003c\/b\u003e and all content has been \u003cb\u003efact-checked\u003c\/b\u003e. One important point, for the sake of transparency: this book is a memorization tool—it does not replace your courses or the protocols in effect at your institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImagine, in a few weeks…\u003c\/b\u003e You’re on clinical rotation, you’re asked for a vital sign or a dosage calculation, and the little phrase learned in the book comes to mind automatically. 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