Answer the indices questions, link them to the letters then unjumble the anagram produced to find out what Santa left in my stocking this year. This covers basic indices, fractional and negative.

Three codebreakers ranging from easy to difficult as you go through them, but all with a Christmas joke (made up by me, so I apologise now) and with all the questions being Christmas-y too. All sorts of topics covered. Hopefully errors corrected (I found one on each sheet!).

I was looking for something that had its own grids as I didn’t want the mis-drawing of axes to take over a lesson but there wasn’t a lot (maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place), so I wrote this. There are three sections: y=mx+c, rearranging to y=mx+c, mixed questions. There is also a RAG sheet for students to fill in as they go to demonstrate progress.

Simplify the fractions, reveal the punchline… you know the drill.

With each pair of fractions work out which shape has the larger proportion shaded using equivalent fractions. I have done this using different shapes so students can’t just do it “by eye”, they have to do it numerically. It also uses inequality signs.

This was my attempt to get a worksheet that incorporates all the basic loci: perpendicular bisector, angle bisector, from a point and shading a region. You could add stuff if you like, but I ran out of room for the instructions, hence just the 4 tasks. The answers are rough based on the ones I did with pencil and compass.

This is a whole set of lessons based around Maths in the real world: currency conversion, deals in shops, sales, tax, misleading statistics, ratio and proportion (recipes) etc. Each section has separate resources. I have put everything into one PowerPoint (“Whole”) but also uploaded them separately in case people want them individually. It is not supposed to get in to fine detail but just open student eyes to Maths that appears in day-to-day life just a little.