Yusuf Rahman

A little about me

I teach Physics from Year 9 through A Level. I ask pupils to estimate first: if they have a rough sense of the size of an answer, they have a way to notice when a calculation has gone badly wrong. Diagrams also help us organise the situation before equations are introduced.

A diagram can show which quantities are connected and what the question is asking. I want pupils to choose a relationship and explain why it fits, rather than begin by searching for an equation that contains familiar symbols. That makes the calculation part of a chain of reasoning instead of a set of detached steps.

I look for resources that give pupils room to predict, represent and then calculate. A follow-up question can ask whether the result seems reasonable and what assumption the model makes. I value work where pupils can defend an answer through both a mathematical method and a physical explanation.