What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Don't swallow it whole! When someone gives you a phone number to remember, use 'chunking' as a way of remembering it. Short-term memory is limited so chunking helps us process long bits of information ...

You pick up your cell phone and dial the new number of a friend. Ten numbers. One. Number. At. A. Time. Because you haven't actually typed the number before, your brain handles each button press ...

Which of these strings of letters is easier to remember: QKJITJGPI or BBCITVCNN? Chances are, you chose the latter string, where the nine letters are the combined names of three television networks.