Periodic Table of Elements?

It's a little out of date now, but you might want to look at Tom Lehrer's song about the table of elements.

As a bio-chem undergrad. I find that I didn't memorize the first two rows the table on purpose. Memorization of the first two rows come from doing homework problems over and over again. By the time you get thru introductory and general chemistry, you'll at least know the atomic number and mass of H, N, C, and O in the back of your head. Probably even a few other elements such as Cl, Fl, B, S, I, Na, Li, Fe..etc.. But a few of my instructors has mentioned, except for a few mostly used elements, the rest of the periodic table should be used as tools, not memorized.

One tip is learn first the easy elements. Most of them are in latin.

For example: Carbon C, Nitrogen N, Fluor F, Then some common elements that aren't in latin: Gold Au, Silver Ag, Steel Fe... And so on... finally you learn the funny elements: Antimonium Sb, ....

I find that the way its laid out actually helps.

Learn it by groups rather than trying to remember each atomic number and its element in number order.

i would just say that it takes time...i havent studied to memorize, i just have studied it throughout the years in my reading, calculating and experimenting. It will all make sense maybe one day:)

i only memorized exactly what i had to. most profs let you have one for the tests so what's the point of memorizing?

make up stupid things to remember them, maybe you could think of a person you know and match there anitials to the symbols on the periodic table. it worked for me!

study, study and study some more.... so that you could memorize the damn thing.... dont worry i never memorized it but.... i downloaded the periodic table on my mac....

Yeah get a photographic memory. LOL

Read it again and again and again. That's how I did it.