Taught in Florida. It was an alligator.
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I was being disruptive in first grade and kicked out of class then we learned this (ADHD and boredom). I tried to peak through the window and do the crocodile arms to learn it, but my teacher saw me and came out and told me to stand at the end of the hall. I didn’t really learn this until 3rd grade. Ironically, math was my favorite subject for all of k-12.
MesseR Rechts, GabeL Links.
Every single time when setting up dishes on the table.
when you hold your hands with your fingers spread out in front of you the L is on the left
*palms away from you
I see nothing wrong with this.
Sooo, does the crocodile face to the left or to the right?
The lines are the crocodiles wide-open mouth... ... but yeah, I'm not a fan of this kind of mnemonic. It requires remembering a heap of details, such as which way the crocodile is facing, and does it prefer to attack the larger number or the smaller number - and how the relates to negatives... Which I think is surely more difficult than just remembering that the large end of the wedge is the larger number, and the small edge of the wedge is the smaller number.
That said, having multiple different ways of remembering something is often helpful, particularly when getting started. (I remember having a bunch of different ways to remember which was "left" and which was "right" when I was a child. But now I don't think about any of those things anymore.)
The version I got taught was gobbledy monster!
Duck!
Another way to remember is that < is like a squished L, for "Less than"
This is how I always remember it
Crocodile want to eat cactus ?
That is exactly how it is taught. Goog job.
That's exactly the same level as the crocodile mnemonic.
Say it in English grammar "GREATER than" means greater number first. And vice versa.
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Indicative of the fact this approach is counterintuitive to our thinking, but we're too stupid to adopt a new way to show it.
It's not. This is schools failing worldwide to teach math in an adequate form.