Down Sick: Making Memory Aids

1. W.A.F.F.L.E. – When adding fractions make lowers equal.

2. A poem.
To divide fractions we do something silly
And flip the bottom to make it less frilly.
Then it becomes a very simple affair
To instead multiply the fractional pair.

3. A poem.
To multiply the decimal
We first forget the rigmarole,
Instead we do the number part
And then upon the tens we start.

4. A limerick.
There was an odd fraction called Clyde,
Who knew not that he had to divide,
The line that went right through his middle,
Sent his mind to a merry fiddle,
But now that old line is his guide.

5. A limerick.
Horatio the ratio was a fanciful beast,
Who was used to create the most unusual feast,
For on each of his parts a whole number was seen,
Which decided the shares of meat, veg and bean,
After those whole numbers had all together been pieced.

6. A couplet.
Percentage, percentage, why do you vex me so?
You’re only a fraction with a hundred below!