Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Today is my last real day of maternity leave! Banach and Tarski are off to nursery next week 😢 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What bit of further mechanics (MEI) should I teach first to year 12? It really doesn't seem to be designed for the parallel course! 210
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The mission in episode 5 of Irish Traitors! One of the questions was 8÷0... I wonder what the correct answer was? 120
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Has anyone here used Magma Maths and what do you think of it? 003
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Accidentally conducting randomised, double-blind trials on my newborn identical twins by forgetting which one I've given the daily vitamin D drops each day. 390
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025If any maths teachers feel like feeling annoyed by people being confidently wrong on the internet this evening, go and check out this Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/Cz...reddit.comFrom the AskUK community on Reddit: Can someone please explain why my daughter only got one mark for this question in her year 8 maths?Explore this post and more from the AskUK community 113
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Got to admit I'm disappointed my twins don't seem to be coming tonight. How cool would it be if the older one ended up being legally younger than the younger one due to daylight savings? Ok not that cool 070
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My school may sometimes have some crazy policies and ideas that I think are a bit silly, but a work from home inset day just before half term is absolute genius 040
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025At my school we have been asked to redesign our KS3 assessments so that the results will follow a normal distribution. Instinctively this feels like a bad idea. Maths teachers: what do you think? Anyone done this? 1130
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I love this binomial expansion question. You get an over or under estimate depending on whether you start rationalised or not. 040
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Can you talk about the roots of a quadratic expression? You can have roots of quadratic functions. Is the equals sign required even though the zero is not? 512
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The Thursday Murder Club film has ruined my entire holiday. Awful. Terrible. What a waste of amazing actors and beautiful sets. I'm re-reading the book now to reclaim it. 330
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025My new hobby is watching @themathsbazaar.bsky.social yell at kids on Reddit for buying the wrong A level calculator 250
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Follow up question: it's two girls! So, assuming that I'm equally likely to conceive identical and non (doc says so), What's the probability that they're identical? 160
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025guys I'm having a real life two-child problem! I'm pregnant with twins and the doctor could only tell me that one of them was a girl, the other one she couldn't tell. so what's the probability I'm having two girls?? #alevelmaths 21342
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025What do you do in lessons with year 13 after you've finished teaching the spec? How can I use the next 10 weeks effectively? #alevelmaths 762
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My half white British half Pakistani 2 year old daughter just dipped her fish finger in my tea 😫 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Someone write me a message I can send to the mum of the girl I tutor who forgot to turn up to online tuition today, wasting my time. I'm not sure of the etiquette here. 300
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Used this today and three students immediately pointed out a big problem with it 😅 can you spot my mistake? 120
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Can I read 5 books tonight so I can meet my Goodreads goal? 110
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I know I'm a bit early but here's my top books of 2024 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I completed #Ronin #1 www.andrewt.net/puzzles/roni...andrewt.netRoninA sudoku game played on a chessboard 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Fans of the card game Set (so basically all maths teachers) will enjoy this! 150
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Absolutely no passion planning my volumes of revolution/mean value lesson. Such a boring ugly topic. 310
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Is continuity correction a thing in A level maths these days? AQA specifically. 221
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024#mathstoday Planning my normal lesson based off Catriona's ideas 😊 @catrionaagg.bsky.social 1306
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I'm setting target grades today for year 12 and for the first time we've been given each student's average GCSE grade as a way of helping us decide. Huge eye opener! Everyone has a 7-9 in maths but average GCSE grade varies from 4.33 to 9.00! Seems a very good indicator so far. 020
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The most recent homemade cakes for the #furthermathscakerota. My year 13s are really outdoing themselves! 050
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Waterstones loves to make beautiful books and then RUIN them with icky sticky stickers that leave permanent residue 210
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Need help on improper integrals! Is part (ii) 1/81 or undefined? 530
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024In #mathstoday I set my year 12s this as homework and I enjoyed seeing what they drew in the last box! 030
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024In #mathstoday we discovered that when desmos draws y=artanh(x), there's a curious gap down near y=-18. Any good explanation for this? 351
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2024#MathsToday I thought I'd start off improper integrals with some interesting questions to get my students thinking about infinite series. 271
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Does anyone here work in a trauma-informed approach school? Would like to know what your behaviour system looks like and how it's going. My school is now using this approach but I'm a bit confused about it. 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Struggling to understand the affine cipher. I did A=1, B=2 etc and found a linear equation to map cipher to plain and another for plain to cipher but neither agrees with the affine tool equation (which I brute forced). @ecrmaths.bsky.social you done it? 110
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2024School not letting my colleague go to her NPQ training day because they can't afford cover 😔 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2024I work three days a week but spend half of my other two days (and my weekend) working. My friends who are civil servants work full time but compressed over 4 days. This feels so ridiculously unfair! 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2024The reason collinear has that extra l, for those talking about it today 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2024#alevelmaths #mathstoday we played noughts and crosses with these suvat questions. They couldn't get that top right question so no one won in the end! 2101
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2024I love teaching with booklets but sometimes you want to include something that you don't want students to see until they've thought about it themselves. So I do spoiler sheets that get stuck in after the discussion #alevelmaths #todayinmaths 3152
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2024Had a great turnout at my code breaking club today! They're excited for the main competition to start next week! 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2024In #mathstoday my students were doing some proof by induction and I HATE the way their previous teacher taught them to write their conclusions (although I know it's perfectly valid). How do you write yours? #alevelmaths 752
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2024After reviewing scripts of students who were one or two marks off the next grade in A level maths, I think we've decided to switch away from AQA. Mark schemes are pedantic and punitive. Lose 4 marks for one slip? Can't allow "not enough evidence", must be "insufficient evidence". Frustrating! 430
