{"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","url":"https:\/\/editions.kidibook.com\/en\/products\/pense-betes-primaire","provider":"Kidibook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}