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Practical memory improvement

• Introduction

• Part I: A new focus for memory improvement

• Part II: The boring truth about never forgetting

• Part III: How to learn memory skills

Practice tools

• Maths Accelerator

• Sound Speller

Articles

• Today's music theory simply explained

• A beginner's guide to musical improvisation by Hector Leitch

• How to write mathematics clearly

• Have fun learning from computer games

• Help your child learn to spell

• Help your child learn number facts

• 7 memory myths exploded

• What is different about people who have lots of good ideas?

• How sports skill really works

• How can Schema Theory help you learn sports skills?

• Human Knowledge Design

• Straight and crooked thinking about uncertainty

Welcome

This website holds some interesting articles on learning, written over many years. This was the first place I had any success with a website, but that's ancient history now.

Some poll results

In a poll I carried out in 2003, 93% thought that schools should make more effort to teach memory skills.

Visitor feedback on this website was gathered during the period October 2004 to early March 2005. Roughly 54% of visitors were students (mostly visiting "A new focus for memory improvement" which is well indexed on the web). 20% are educators/trainers, 6% are researchers, and 20% are "other."

Generally they like what they see. 15% of all ratings were "Outstanding", 55% were "Very good", while 23% were "OK". Average ratings were just short of "Very good". The most common comments by far were "Insightful" and "Right."

Researchers and educators/trainers tend to give the highest ratings and the handful of ratings at "mediocre" or worse were from students/pupils.

The papers were about equally rated, so although some papers are visited far more than others this is just because of indexing of the web and interest in certain topics, not the quality of the papers.