The "4" method
Memorize 4 digits at a time, get those in firmly in your head - then try and memorise the next lot of 4 digits. Keep doing this until you've memorised as much as pi as you need/want to
Audio/Photographic memory method
Check out the “
Pi song” by Steve Toner, keep singing it back to yourself until it sinks in!
The power of rhyme
Repeat this pneumonic (out loud!) until it's firmly in your head. You'll notice that the number of letters in each word are… (3.13156 etc.)
Amazing, isn't it?
Now, I will a rhyme construct
by chosen words the young instruct
Cunningly devised endeavour
Con it and remember ever
Widths in circle here you see
Sketched out in strange obscurity
- Count the letters of each word and write them down:
For example, the digits after the point (3.14159) would become "adaei" - Don't mean to rain on your parade or be a… sour lemon or anything, but if all of the above fail, give up! No seriously, just do it
You probably weren't destined to memorise pi anyway. Sorry to break it to you like this, but if all the above fail; you're just not pi material!
If he screwed up, or he didn't exceed his total from the week before, we all got a free day. Ah, high school.