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 · 28/08/2026We teach pure, stats and mechanics all from day one. We used to delay mechanics but we always run out of time before the AS exams! 020
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 · 17/08/2026I've always said this!! Numbers on a thermometer go up not down! 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 · 01/12/2025Soft launching them via this post! They're not even two weeks old 140
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 · 24/10/2025Can't wait to suggest these in the next subject leaders meeting 110
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025That would be really useful! Thank you for the offer. 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025And are you aiming for a symmetrical set of GCSE results? I'm trying to work out whether that matters 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Oh so when you say above or below what do you mean? 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Mathematically speaking I think that's only true if each question was independent. If success on one predicts success on another I don't think so necessarily 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Why did you decide that a symmetrical, unimodal distribution was the ideal? Wouldn't a skewed distribution be a better indication of good teaching? Especially if you're using a mastery approach. (Not criticising, I really want to understand!) 200
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025So if their percentile for CATS was 40th and now it's 60th you might say they're making above expected progress? 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I've always thought the skew in A level maths is weird. Other subjects aren't as skewed. Maybe if you remove FM students they're less skewed? 110
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025GCSE maths grades nationally are quite bell shaped. But it's a weird thing to aim for because if you want to increase your grade 9s you'd have to aim to increase your grade 1s too! 110
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Oh good someone who's been through this! I would love to know how you think it's improved the usefulness of the data you have. Also you will always have half of your cohort below expected - is that useful? 210
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This sounds sensible. The overlap means you can still compare well enough to decide if someone needs to move up or down a set. 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025That would make some sense. But it would probably be a flawed expectation. There's no reason to believe results will naturally follow a normal distribution. 010
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025It's just so hard when someone is using maths badly 😭😭😭 030
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I agree. They didn't use to do the same test, we used to have three levels, but now they have to do the same one, which means that the bottom set has to do a test containing things they were never taught. 200
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Yeah, if anything we should be trying to match it to the distribution of our SATs results, or to the distribution we're aiming for in year 11. 020
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025They definitely won't. Frustrating though because I'd rather refuse to do it on the grounds that it's pointless. I'm going on maternity in four weeks though so I'm trying not to care 120
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025And what I'm really concerned about is that we have whole year groups making less progress than they should, which will be hidden completely. 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I'm not sure if you can tell, but it was a non maths teacher who came up with this idea 120
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I think they just mean that rough shape. They said that our assessments are badly designed if they don't make that shape. They want to track percentiles as a way of monitoring progress (?) 310
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Well I guess you look at your current distribution and you add easier or harder questions in? Or take them out? I mean the easiest way would be to leave the assessment as is and just use a transformation on the results, but that's cheating really 100
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 · 02/09/2025Although I'm thinking that maths teachers are way more pedantic about these things than mathematicians 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I can see why you'd feel that way, which is why I was thinking they could have roots. Because an expression still kind of has an output, even if we don't name it 100
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 · 27/08/2025Omg I've never looked at my achievements before. The banana ones are all about length of scrolling 😭 000
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I can't read your DM right now because I haven't done age verification but you're probably asking if I'm on there and yes that's me 100
Emma Bukhari @emmabuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025The maths teachers around the country will be grateful for your service 100
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
