Usain Bolt worksheet. This is a speed, distance, time activity using the Visa advert of Usain Bolt racing the starter across London from Heathrow. It is an Olympic based activity. Powerpoint now also contains video.

This is a Christmas-themed idea I came up with where students answer the questions (the solutions are 1 to 24) and each answer links to a word; put the words in numerical order and an entire joke is revealed! My students are actually enjoying them quite a lot.

This goes from discovering how c and m "work" in y=mx+c and then takes them through finding the gradient, finding an equation given a line, plotting a line from an equation and finally finding the equation given two points on the line. At the start of the sheet is a RAG analysis for them to demonstrate progress and target what they need to focus on.

Clive is having more problems with his homework, but this time it's converting metric measures. Have a look at Clive's homework solutions, correct them and explain what he's done so that he doesn't make the same mistakes again. This activity really encourages discussion between students and teacher.

This is a matching activity on bounds (it does what it says on the tin?), including the potential error in calculations. Ideal for a starter or plenary and should hopefully generate discussion and enable students to demonstrate understanding.

This takes students through basic shapes (rectangles and triangles) to trapeziums and parallelograms and finally circles, including compound shapes. I use these as starters or plenaries but use them how you like.

KS2 / KS3 Maths. This is simple rotation and writing coherent instructions using Pacman as a model. It is designed to be an introduction to rotation and transformations.

Inspired by the imminent release of the new Star Wars film The Force Awakens and an article on the BBC's Newsbeat website (linked in the Powerpoint) I created these standard form questions based upon predictions made by mathematicians regarding the Galactic Empire's Death Star. Just a bit of fun really, but eight standard form questions for your students to try, mainly converting from standard form to "normal" numbers and vice versa, but one calculation at the end. There's also some Death Star facts that could provide extra questions if you wish.

The Blue Darts Parallel and Perpendicular Problem is a GCSE worksheet on equations and gradients. The Blue Darts formation flying team want to plan a big finale to their display by creating an aerial rectangle. Can you help them find the equations of the lines that they need to fly along? What do you spot about the equations and their gradients?

This is a great GCSE activity in which students match each equation to its gradient, y-interceptor and the co-ordinate on it. I wrote this in order to get across the idea of y=mx+c plus the fact that it describes the link between the x and y co-ordinates.

This is a twist on revision notes. I have written some notes and given examples but there are mistakes that the students have to correct. They must therefore read the notes very carefully and a partner must check their work. The idea is derived from an idea born from a discussion on Twitter (if you're not on Twitter, seriously think about it). I have split the notes up into two bits but I have included the whole thing so that you can chop them up your own way, or change stuff if you want. It&'s a bit of an experiment and we&';ll see how it goes!

This is just a set of relatively simple transformation questions both on Powerpoint and worksheet. It is split into 5 parts: reflection, rotation, translation and two sets of mixed questions. I have written it with Year 7 or 8 but they could be used for foundation GCSE too.

A really lame joke (more lame than usual if you can get your head around that) but some reasonably straight forward vectors practise. It could be used to as a starter or plenary and students could design their own routes.

Surds practice from basic simplifying to expanding brackets to rationalising denominators. This encourages workings and the students to work backwards (what's the question given this answer?) so should also encourage discussion in class.

The usual format from adding and subtracting simple fractions up to mixed numbers on number 2. Some answers need simplifying.

Figure out the answer to the (awful) joke by finding HCF or LCM of pairs of numbers.

A set of notes, examples and questions taking students through mental and written methods of these calculations.

I (when I say "I", I really mean "students") needed some practise on tally/frequency tables and this is what I came up with. There are three tables to complete: firstly a simple tally/frequency, secondly the students must fill in the categories and thirdly a grouped frequency table (on the other side of the worksheet as a mini extension). Simple but got the job done.

One simplifying and one sharing in a given ratio; fairly basic stuff that would be ideal for a homework or starter/plenary. Two lame joke fashioned from my drive to and from school.

This hopefully covers all bases involving fractions, decimals and percentages from simplifying up to converting recurring decimals to fractions and everything inbetween.