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1/18/2024 11:30:02 AM
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A question for my American friends.
How do you keep track of all the states and where they are? Do you just google the lesser known ones or do they make you learn in school?
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You theoretically know all the states and capitals with their locations from school, but do we? Not really. [spoiler]When I was in the 4th grade, we had quizzes over different sections of the US on what states were which. And for one quiz that had 4 states in the Texas area, including Texas, (you had to label the states), I was in charge of distributing the graded papers to the students. A concerning amount of them got half or less right. It was 4 states. We had a week to study.[/spoiler]
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We’re supposed to memorize their names, capitals, and where they are. Do we? Eh. most of us do not. Most of the time we just have a general idea of where they are located and sorta know a city or two in them.
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Back in my time at school, we memorized the states and capitals. We played a game in Geography class called "The Map Game" where we divided into 2 teams, and a student from each team went up to a pull down map in the front of the class, and the teacher would call out a geographical location. First one to point it out (sometimes with very aggressive smacks on the map) won. We did this not just for states, but the whole Atlas. We were taught of the original 13 colonies, the westward expansion, and the eventual acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii. It's really not difficult to learn. My sons however are more or less geographically challenged, for the later generations of curriculum deciders removed such classes, and now we have generations that are unable to read a map. Google maps and GPS are great tools, but people should still have a remedial working sense of their country.
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Most states are big open emptiness. No reason to know them
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1 ReplyThat's the neat part; you don't.
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Most of us don't know the exact location of each state. They went over it briefly in school, but barely anybody cared and even fewer remembered. At best, most of us just have a general idea of where they are in relation to the other states.
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Their taught, and we just remember them, or not
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Edited by CoolHandLuke04: 1/22/2024 4:10:05 PMThey taught us in school. But even better than that we have pocket computers that stay with us if we need to know just about anything we might need to know about the ones that don’t matter. *nods head toward Ohio*
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I’ve learned them in grade school. It’s pretty ez to remember them until you hit all the smol ones on the east coast. I still need a map for those lol
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You learn the states and their capitols in grade school, which is only a hundred names. The capitols fade over time, but you hear about the various states on the news all the time. And yeah, there's always the internet when memory fails. I looked just now and realized that I'd been to Indiana a long time ago. Don't remember it, but it's between Missouri and Ohio so, unless I teleported, I drove right across it. Wow, I've lost an entire state.
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Edited by Cupid Valentino: 1/20/2024 12:28:06 AMI memorized the whole map in each level of school. (primary, middle, secondary, and university) but tbh idk If I could place them all right now (betting like 38-39) but really it just about remembering where a state is relative to its more well known members. [ I correctly placed 44 of the 50 states]
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We have them on every table in every McDonald's in america, that way the kids associate geography with fast food. When they want fast food, they know it's learning time
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6 RepliesStates are being eliminated, we're forming up into districts.
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Learned them in 2nd grade
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Just generally guessing and stuff. I’ve seen a lot of maps in my life so maybe it’s just been hardwired into my brain.
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Separate them into regions: North, Southeast, Midwest, West, Northwest.
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1 ReplySame way we learn the countries. The Animaniacs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE
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I imagine it’s how Europeans learn about different counties in Europe. I took a class as a kid where we learned all our states and capitals, and from there even if I don’t know exactly where each state it, it’s mostly instinctual
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You memorize where the “famous” ones are (Texas, Florida, Cali) and remember what states border what and are in what region. You eventually remember the state shape or have some trick to memorize a group of states. Memorizing states is something you learn in middle or elementary school. My teachers at least would break the learning as down by region (Midwest, south, New England area, border states…)
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8 RepliesThere’s only four states anyways. Texas, California, New York, & Florida. The rest don’t matter.
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You learn them in school. Especially regions.
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Edited by Dredgen Wolf: 2/8/2024 9:39:36 AM[b] [/b]
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They were taught to me in school but if I'm honest, I doubt I could remember many outside of region.
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They try to make you learn in school. I don’t know if I remember all their names, though, let alone locations.
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I distinctly remember learning each state, their location, and their capital in early education, probably around grade 2 or 3. To this day I can still label each state on a map rather easily, but I remember only about half of the capitals.
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Edited by Fives: 1/22/2024 5:55:23 AMYeah, I have just memorized all of their names capitals and locations in school. I assume the rest of the world views most of the states the same way Americans view the countries of Eastern Europe. What actually happens there? [spoiler]Iowa is a pretty great state though. It is the location of the largest cereal mill in the world.[/spoiler]
