Pick of Twitter 18/04/15 – Miss Norledge's Storeroom

@missradders ~ Link to a blog post from Disappointed Idealist about the issues with SATs resits; a very thought-provoking piece from a parent/teacher. Given that a significant number of pupils get to secondary school in Year 7 with real confidence issues with maths, I can’t see that getting them to resit a standardised test is really going to improve that problem.
@Kris_Boulton ~ Link to Tom Bennett’s article on the TES about evidence based education research and the inherent issues with this. I found this really interesting to read on the back of last Wednesday’s #mathschat “How to bring research mathematics and other research into the classroom?“.
@srcav ~ Blog post about using incorrect examples of prisms and the problems this can cause. I admit, this had me checking some of my resources this morning! His posts about incorrect teaching of BIDMAS and rounding are also really good.
@aap03102 ~ Interesting facts about Pythagorean triples, which reminded me that I need to do this similar investigation again at some point this year.

*You've got to see this* A couple of well-known Pythagorean Triangles with an interesting property! #MindBlown #Maths pic.twitter.com/6t9pVzTdCP
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) April 16, 2015

Finally, this cute little comic from @spikedmath made me giggle a lot. I wonder if this could be the key to getting A Level pupils to stop mixing up sine and cosine graphs…

https://twitter.com/SpikedMath/status/588511443785355264