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Emma W
@emmaemma53.bsky.social
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Senior Lead Practitioner for Maths. Comic nerd. Music snob. A Lady That Beers. F1 enthusiast. Traveller. Quietly inquisitive.
* Just a heads up that if you’re a man with no real posts/bio and exclusively following women I am likely to block you *
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The lurgy finally got me this week but we still managed to head out last night for a night of utter silliness at the wrestling.
Two wrestlers grappling while one is is mid-air having leapt down from the corner post. Someone better than me would know the proper technical terms… Yorkshire Tough tag team facing off against The Mike Myers Brothers - one dressed as Austin Powers, the other as Michael Myers from the Halloween films Another tag team bout. This one featuring hot dog costumes. Sadly my shouts of “let’s go hotdogs!” did nothing to change the inevitable result. The final match was utter chaos. 13 wrestler eliminator round. Lots more stupid fancy dress, but obviously my favourite was the T-Rex. Amazingly he did manage to flip someone over the top rope in spite of his tiny arms, but was then eliminated himself.
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Did you get the 100% safe and not in any way terrifying little rollercoaster back down?
Hope you have a brilliant trip.
The little rollercoaster you can take down from the Great Wall of China if you go to the super touristy section. The rollercoaster consists of a single line of colourful plastic chairs on a track. Even the lady controlling the line looks a bit dubious about it. We survived though.
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This weekend has involved curry, cocktails,cheering and comedy.
Curry on the lane after a long and very busy week. Out for Liverpool Cocktail Week Everton Women’s League Cup game vs Nottingham Forest. I appreciated the toffee lady flag that was flying before the start of the match Waiting for Jack Dee at the Liverpool Philharmonic
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Went to watch Everton Women’s Team at Bramley Moore. Took this photo just before the second half, when we were still 1-0 up…
Much happier at half time!
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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…and of course a massive thanks to everyone who delivered a session or who I chatted maths (and not maths) with today at MathsConf. Without you it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as enjoyable or thought provoking.
Now to navigate a different kind of problem… 🤣
“We’re sorry, Emma - your train’s been cancelled due to a points failure. CANCELLED
October 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Having told @teakayb.mathsy.space that people would definitely want to come to his session, I really had to choose it for session 5! Loved hearing about the research Tom and Jason carried out about embedding history into maths lessons. I’m also looking forward to reading Tom’s book #MathsConf39
The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlicked The Power of Numbers by Thomas K Briggs
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Always fascinating to get a window on how other people teach specific topics; like this from @jwrightmaths.bsky.social in session 3 #MathsConf39
“How I teach standard form It’s all about place value No between 1 and 10, it’s all about significance. Introduce with number sentences. Give a chance to talk indices early on. Can use counting as a back up, but not the primary way so number of zeros errors happen less often”
October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Loved discussing some excellent maths tasks in @nathanday.bsky.social’s session. Great to have the opportunity to dig into what makes them so good and how they could be adapted. #MathsConf39
16 principles of task design with Nathan Day
October 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Thoroughly enjoyed solving problems in Rob Eastaway’s session. Important to remember that so much mathematical thinking can take place way before getting to a solution. #MathsConf39
The Baywatch problem: what is the shortest route? The intersection of Art Attack and circle theorems “The volunteer who gets things wrong often makes the biggest contribution to understanding and problem-solving”
October 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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First time watching Everton Women. Not the result we wanted but I got a blue donut so it could be worse. First time I watched the men’s team at Goodison they lost too and there weren’t even blue donuts back then 🤣💙
Blue toffee donut with an Everton emblem in a box.
September 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Saturday morning
Pilates class ✅
The tip ✅
Local farmers market ✅
…and relax!
Goats cheese, caramelised onion and cherry tomato danish - apparently the early bid catches the savoury pastry! (At least that’s what the bloke on the stall said) A small posie of dried flowers, also from the market. Coffee - photographer’s own 😉
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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@learningmaths.bsky.social will be sad to hear that there are no dented cans around today. They do have pyramids in the fridge though
Cans of beer in a fridge. They have names such as Pyramid Field and Generic Hardcore Shirts
August 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Snap! I’m at the taproom because @mathninja3.bsky.social has a Bloodbowl social there so I’m tagging along 🤓 Since they have it on draught today it was an easy decision
Axiom of choice!
August 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Is it bad that I spent half the time watching Weapons wondering where I recognised Julia Garner from?
(I recognised her as Anna Delvey from Inventing Anna, just in case you’re wondering)
Poster for the film Weapons. Last night at 2:17 am every child from Mrs. Gandy’s class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark …and they never came back. 5 children running down a dark suburban road with arms outstretched.
August 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Buying the Saga Deluxe Hardcovers seemed like such a good idea when I started. I really wasn’t anticipating a 6 year gap between books. Need to schedule in a re-read over Easter or something.
A shelf of comics including the first 3 deluxe hardcovers of Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga series. They’re being guarded by a dinosaur puppet made of card because they are clearly precious things. Screenshot from Amazon showing that there has been a 6 year wait between books. Yes I know they’d always planned a break between books 3 and 4. And there was a pandemic. But 6 years…
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Happy Birthday! We ended up paying a visit to Highgate Cemetery at the weekend and had to explain the bad maths on Douglas Adams’ gravestone.
Douglas Adams’ gravestone in Highgate Cemetery, showing “6x9=42” because whilst 42 might be the answer to life, the universe and everything, it still helps to know what the question was! 😆
July 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I’m part of a ladies beer group. We have a social once a month. Often I find myself thinking things like “I’m not sure I’m really up for this today” and then have a brilliant night chatting and cackling with wonderful ladies I probably never would’ve met otherwise.
A photo of our May social. A group of ladies is sat around a long table at Azvex brewery in Liverpool. There’s a colourful mural behind them with images inspired by the brewery’s beer names, e.g. there is a zombie squirrel and king seagull. A day out in Crewe meeting up with another ladies beer group. We’re sat outside in the sunshine at Hops Belgian Bar. A photo from last night’s social. A group of ladies is sat across 3 picnic tables in the yard at The Pilgrim in Liverpool. There’s are hanging plants and flowers around the top of the wall.
July 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Of course this is my 1001 albums suggestion today. The universe has spoken.
1001albumsgenerator.com recommendation for today: Black Sabbath, Paranoid
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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It’s Pi Approximation Day! 🥳
A happy T-Rex says “On July 22nd instead of eating pie, I’m just going to sort of rub pie around my face and call it a day!” From out of the picture “Good luck with that.” T-Rex “ Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!”
July 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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This is what I’m starting with. Probably in the order displayed too since I’m already 150 pages into Night Watch
A book on top of two comics. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, FML issue #5 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, and One for Sorrow issue #1 by Jamie McKelvie
July 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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These are the UK dates, but suspect you may have missed the boat. Sorry.
I’m jealous about Sigur Ros though, they’ll be magical
Dates of deftones Gigs in UK 12/2 Birmingham 13/2 Glasgow 14/2 Manchester 18/2 Cardiff 20/2 London
July 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Sunday evening playing Patchwork with @mathninja3.bsky.social ☺️
A central board has tokens on. There are cardboard tiles arranged around the outside of the board to represent patches of a patchwork quilt. A man with a beard is selecting a patch to add to the quilt he’s constructing on his board. In the background there is a bookshelf and some plants.
July 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Happy Publication Day @kateweston.bsky.social! 🥳
This is jumping right to the top of my TBR pile.
The cover of How To Make a Killing by Kate Weston. “To get to the top, you need to snap a few necks”. The cover image shows a smartly dressed lady striding purposefully, carrying a For Sale sign that’s dripping blood…
July 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I’m on a 1000 day learning streak on Duolingo.
June 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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We went to see TV on the Radio at the Albert Hall in Manchester last night. Something so powerful about howling along to Wolf Like Me with a mass of people. Didn’t realise how much I needed it. When I’m in charge they’ll be able to prescribe gigs on the NHS 😉
The band TV on the Radio on stage at Albert Hall in Manchester. The venue is an old converted chapel, making for quite an ornate setting. The stage is lit up red and purple.
June 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM