Quite wordy questions but the maths is simple - crack the code to find the punchline to my (slightly lame) joke.

I needed something for a class just being introduced to manipulating formulae/algebra so I produced this… The usual: do the maths, reveal the punchline.

This is an attempt to get students to fill out every stage of their rearranging process. There are six relatively basic questions then three more challenge on the reverse of the page (I did this so that I could decide whether they were suitable for certain classes).

Two sections, one for direct and one for inverse proportion; four calculations (one example) to complete the blanks in. This aims to get students thinking forwards and backwards.

Problems involving fractions basically; unjumble the letters to discover the cheesy joke.

This was born out of a conversation in our department; it revises products of prime factors and then uses them to simplify surds. There is a challenge side of this two-sided sheet where the surds are only partially simplified. Typo in answers corrected.

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

Two codebreakers, each with a joke to work out; one is converting from standard form to normal numbers, the other converts back.

This is a poor joke whose punchline that is discovered by solving the probability problems listed. One has a tree diagram drawn and the others could use a tree diagram but ultimately they can be done without.

This was designed to revise plotting linear graphs from an equation before moving on to non-linear (quadratic, cubic, reciprocal and exponential). I have deliberately changed scales to suit each graph/equation so that they aren’t just -5 to 5 on x and y axes, going up in 1s; hopefully this makes the students concentrate and think a bit more!

This is pretty basic describing of transformation on a co-ordinate grid with a few "challenge" questions. It involves reflection (in x and y axes), rotation (centre (0,0), translation and enlargement (centre (0,0)). The "challenge" questions involve reflecting in other lines including y=x, vertical and horizontal; rotation away from the origin and an enlargement away from the origin. I have left it in MS Word so you can edit the challenge questions out.

Pick a letter that forms the shape described and find the punchline.

Working forwards, backwards, repeated percentage change etc using multipliers. It does what it says on the tin.

The title rather give the game away here; answer he questions, reveal the punchline to the joke. I like this joke!

Find the missing values, and the missing words in the comparisons regarding median and interquartile range.

Answer the questions, reveal the punchline to a joke. The graphs are both linear and non-linear.

Find which letter is positioned at the midpoint of the two coordinates given, unjumble the letters and reveal the punchline to a joke.

I was asked to cover “An Introduction To Reciprocal Graphs” for an interview lesson; it went quite well so I thought I’d share it. The PowerPoint takes you through it and the worksheets are obviously for the students. Enjoy!

I wanted some problems involving trigonometry (both right-angled and non-right-angled) and thought I’d mix them up with circle theorems for a particular class. Hopefully these will make them think a little bit. There are animated solutions should you want them. One typo corrected…

This not only lists all the topics on the IGCSE maths syllabus but also gives an example of what they all are so you don’t get the continual question “what does this topic mean?”. I put a RAG analysis against each too so that students can focus revision to where it’s required. A few topics added including expanding 3 brackets, transforming functions, an extra indices example, shading regions (I originally left this off by mistake) and adding/subtracting algebraic fractions. I have just added some more examples of transformations and constructions plus summing arithmetic sequences and recurring decimals. Also includes Sparx activity codes (you can delete if you don’t want those). There are now answers (which I have done quite quickly so hopefully not too many errors!).