My daughter loves these things and you can't move in my house for them them so I thought I&'d do a ratio activity involving them. It involves simplifying, sharing and finding value for money.

Batman gets Robin to replace the weapons he uses, but Ironman can only fit a certain number in his suit. This is designed to show reasonably simple tree diagrams with replacement (Batman) and move onto tougher tree diagrams without replacement (Ironman).

I really wanted some frequency polygon work but it is very thin on the ground, so I came up with this. I have also linked the website from which I got all the data. There are two versions; one (Raw Data) where they must tabulate first, and a second (Data Tables) for those you just want to get on with graphing and interpreting.

Help test the formulae the party planner uses to calculate the amounts of each item they need. Very straight forward and intended for a low ability set.

I saw a picture on Twitter showing what happens in a minute on the social networking site (lots of my students use it too). I therefore came up with this activity. I'm sure you could make more questions based upon the statistics given.

Two-way tables, filling in the missing information. I needed some questions on this for a lesson and struggled to find what I was looking for so wrote this. Typos now corrected!

Simplify the expressions, find the answer, reveal the film title! Simples. I may add more versions as a differentiated thing at a later date.

The Avengers need your help to display this data successfully, and also calculate some averages etc. This builds up from low ability to high ability in stages, but is designed to be 'dipped into' where you need to. It covers from bar charts, through scatter graphs and frequency polygons, up to histograms and contains the calculations that go with each. The teachers' notes are just as a guide and don&'t need to be adhered to, but I have tried to guess the kinds of calculations that students might perform. Transparency of the title pages sorted!

Expand the brackets, find the answer, reveal the film title! Simples. I may add more versions as a differentiated thing at a later date.

Factorise the expressions, find the answer, reveal the film title! Simples. I may add more versions as a differentiated thing at a later date.

All super heroes have decided to survey people in order to make their operation more efficient, but they need help with stratified sampling. That’s where you come in…

I found this poster with various numbers regarding the World Cup in Brazil and made this activity from it. Change the questions at will. I have also put a link to the website 'My Life In Numbers' as that has a new 'Live Event' measuring from the start of the tournament.

The computers are down and people want to check out so their bills need ot be calculated manually. There's an extension that involves taking off a given amount in tokens.

Nothing particularly enlightening here other than I found that using function machines to show how to calculate a dimension given the area formula seemed to work quite nicely with a class of mine. This should be a discussion activity in my view.

Powers calculations to get correct so that the student can defuse the bomb successfully. This is based upon squares and cubes but ventures into other powers of 2 and 10.

Read this piece of news item from the BBC Sport website, then answer the questions, mainly about percentage change.

Casey is doing the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate but keeps making mistakes; can your class help Casey and explain what went wrong? This time Casey is tackling circle theorems, trigonometric identities, trigonometric equations and surds (trigonometry in right-angled triangles). Spot the mistakes…

Casey’s tackling quadratic sequences, quadratic inequalities, factorising cubics using the factor theorem and solving quadratics “in disguise” but making errors again and need your class’ help. Ideal for discussion in class… Designed for use in the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate course.

Casey is making mistakes in the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate chapter on Coordinate Geometry, involving gradients, circles (equations), dividing lines in a ratio; can your class help Casey out? This works nicely in class and gets students discussing mathematics. Typo corrected…

Four of Clive’s “homework” sheets to correct and explain where he’s gone wrong. There are four to complete: a “basic” one, one on parallel lines, one on polygons and finally one on circle theorems. The basic and parallel lines ones have 5 questions to correct; the other two have 4 questions to look at. These are designed to encourage discussion between students and then to share that discussion with the teacher as there’s not always one way to correct a question. I introduced these before the holidays and they went very well.