Where Does The Fielder Intercept The Ball? This is essentially simultaneous equations solved graphically, but in the guise of a fielder stopping a ball whilst playing cricket.

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.

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.

The bosses at Legoland are building a new scale model of the UK and need your help with the scales. Basically fill in the blanks.

Six "spiders" on six different sets of angle properties starting with "on a line", "around a point", "triangles", "polygons", "parallel lines" and "circle theorems". The final two require students to name the property used and I have left a couple of the parallel lines with the answers filled in so that students can draw their own diagram. The activity is designed to create discussion.

Four sets of sequences for students to match with their nth terms. there is always one extra sequence which doesn't match and this requires students to find the nth term. It's designed to generate discussion. The five sets get increasingly difficult and are all arithmetic until the final two sets which are all quadratic sequences, the first lot being relatively easy, the second not so.

Six matching activities: 1 mode, 1 median, 1 mean, 1 mixture (all include frequency tables), 2 grouped data. These are designed to be starters or plenaries but could be used as a whole lesson activity if you wish.

I’ve called this an “Advent” calendar as I couldn’t think of a better name, but I have little intention of using it in the run up to Christmas only. There are 24 questions which you can choose to display; students have a go and can then check their solutions with the model answer slide. Topics include forming/solving equations, estimating the mean, equations of lines, trigonometry, tree diagrams, transformations, standard form, angles, compound interest, bounds, geometric sequences, completing the square amongst other topics. Questions are from Edexcel past papers.

Put the equations with the same answer in to the correct frame for a family portrait.

Using average and range convince me that Steven Spielberg should direct my biopic. This combines a bit of literacy too, but should get them using averages to explain their reasoning.

Calculate how many villains Captain America has to fight in certain rooms of the three 'House of Horrors', plus the rule rule (nth term) he uses to make this calculation. Ideal for KS3 and GCSE maths students.

Calculate the points I'd score by destroying these pigs and then calculate the formulae for calculating the total score. It's designed to make algebra more relevent. Smart board file to save printing once more!

Santa needs to know how many of each toy there will be after a certain amount of time. The elves know how many they can make in a minute and how many they have in stock. Can you help calculate how many toys there will be after the timescale given by Santa?

I've been dying to use this pair from Disney&'s Brother Bear movie. Can you use the speed of sound to calculate how far away the nearest mountain is? Designed as a starter.

Rotate Spidey in the the correct quadrants to capture his enemies. I have produced the Notebook file to save on printing.

Calculate how much food my pets are going to need whilst I'm away on holiday for a week. This involves multiplying, dividing and adding fractions.

Calculate the answers to each problem, use the table to change the answers to letters and then unjumble the letters to make a country. This is aimed at foundation GCSE or KS3 and involves simple powers (squares and cubes) as well as Bidmas.

It's always a challenge to make constructions interesting and seem relevent so I came up with this. Not sure it&'s hugely more engaging but it&';s something!

This is purely codes, using various "famous" codes including Caesar cipher, Pigpen, Semaphore, Atbash (the alphabet backwards) and one just written backwards. Each time the culprit is number 18 and I have left the names blank so that you can fill in with names of your choice.

The usual terrible joke once students have done some work on gradients of lines either by finding it from the equation (involves some rearranging) or by calculating it from two points on the line.