Use the graph showing 5 hours in the life of a shark to answer the questions and reveal a (pretty terrible) punchline to a joke. These work in class or online and essentially mark themselves as they spell out the answer so students can be reasonably independent with it.

Solve the simultaneous equations and reveal the joke; ideal for either in class, online or as a homework task. The students like the competition of unveiling the punchline first.

Two fish-related jokes to find: one for factorising and one for completing the square/using the quadratic formula. These work nicely in class, online or as a homework.

There are six slides with a percentage and fraction sales-related question question. This involves calculating sale prices, working out which sale would offer the best price and finding the original price given the sale price. This is designed to create discussion in class.

Given two points, find the gradient of the line between them and reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke (that is cross-curricular as it involves the German language too).

Find where the coordinates would be after the given transformations and reveal the joke (with a mathematical theme!).

Ten questions, each answers by four “students” but only one has got the answer correct; your class’ task is to work out where the other three went wrong. This is designed to be done as a starter or plenary and to create mathematical discussion but you can use them however you like obviously.

Find the areas of some parallelograms, trapeziums, compound shapes and circles as well as working backwards to calculate a dimension to discover a really lame fish pun/joke (a generous description in this case). Ideal for class task, online task or a homework.

Three diagrams and ten statements or angles that students need to state whether they are true or false. This could lead to nice discussions in class or in live online lessons.

This was designed to lead students into working out how the equation of a line is found, but ultimately it is a fill in the blanks thing.

This is designed as part of an introduction to gradient, essentially involving counting squares, but with one question (at the end) where two coordinates are used.

This is designed to prevent students from being entirely reliant on their calculators, although there are some where a calculator can be used. It’s the usual stuff: answer the questions and reveal a fish/sea creature-related joke. Useful in class, online or as a homework.

This (hopefully) shows how your skills at factorising and solving quadratics can enable you to solve other non-linear equations. Initially students must solve three straightforward quadratic equations, then look at a number of other equations that are linked to them, using their initial answers to help solve the more complex equations. This moves on to solving more complex equations. This could be a bridging resource between GCSE and A Level as it involves trigonometric and exponential equations.

This is nothing fancy whatsoever, just 5 sets of data to calculate the mean, median, mode and range from. There are two context questions and finally one frequency table to calculate averages from.

Find the coordinates described on each function, discover the cheesy joke (given to me by a Year 8 student I teach).

Eight situations where forming and solving an equation could be required; topics include Perimeter, angles, averages, percentages, fractions, compound measures, probability and ratio (the final two involve quadratics). Read the instructions and from that form and solve. I have done solutions should you need them.

This is an attempt to make rearranging equations accessible in real-life.

I was really struggling for a symmetry homework so I wrote this involving line and rotational symmetry, plus a QR code that links to a video that I found on YouTube in case the students get stuck. Nothing flashy just 3 questions.

Given one coordinate, can students come up with a second coordinate so that the line between the two meets certain criteria? This is an activity designed to create discussion, covering gradient and equations of lines. Extension should be pretty easy, allowing students to generate equations of lines etc. I have left a slide template so that you can create your own if you wish.

This was designed with a particular class in mind so covers calculating a gradient from a given line, drawing a line of a given gradient and then applying that to lines on coordinate grids using y=mx+c. There is an extension where the equations are not in the form y=mx+c.