How many days are in each month? Use your knuckles!
Just how many days are in a given month? September, 30 or 31? July and August both have 30, right? Many people grew up reciting the nursery rhyme about the days in each month. Learn the poem and you'll know how many days there are in each month.
My attitude is if you can remember the damn rhyme you can learn the number of days without resorting to the poem as a crutch. That's right, I never learned the damn rhyme.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November:
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except for February,
Which hath twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
I showed my Mom the above YouTube video at Christmas 2008. It was the first time she'd seen this trick done. I always thought both of my parents taught it to me. Obviously it was Dad.
So here's Dad's trick to remember how many days are in each month: We're all right-handed so we made a fist using our left hand. Knuckles represent 31 days and the valleys between the knuckles are 30 (or 28/29). The neat thing is that once you learned the order of the months you automaticly knew how many days are in each month. Try it and see!
The number of days in each month are:
jul 31 aug 31 sep 30 oct 31 nov 30 dec 31
Learn the fist trick and you'll have no need for the nursery rhyme! Unless of course, you've already memorized it.
