Find the equation of the line and the circle, then calculate the points where the streaker crosses the boundary

This one uses coordinates to get to the joke; I’m actually quite pleased with myself over this joke as it is self-referencing. This also involves reflection, rotation and translation.

Two-way tables, filling in the missing information. I needed some questions on this for a lesson and struggled to find what I was looking for so wrote this. Typos now corrected!

New on the GCSE syllabus, Clive is struggling with function notation icluding inverse and composite functions. Can your students check, correct and explain what Clive has done wrong in the four questions? This should encourage discussion.

Erica's got yet more homework that she's struggling with, this time on modulus inequalities, sketching functions, finding inverses and composite functions. As usual she needs someone to explain what's gone wrong and correct her work. Designed to create discussion between students and between teachers and students.

A themed episode of Bargain Hunt and some ratio problems to solve as a result. Some worded questions for students to pick the bones out of.

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!

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.

Work out the missing angles in this still from a bowler bowling a ball and the batsman hitting it.

This is just anoither effort at getting students to remember facts about polygons. You can use the worksheet with the powerpoint/Notebook files or without. The powerpoint has an embedded video of Disco Stu from the Simpsons but otherwise the two are the same.

Work out which shape is being decribed in each case and reveal the punchline to the joke.

This goes from basic multiplying and dividing by 10,100,1000 to powers to decimals. The now expected lame joke to discover. Designed to use for starter, plenary, discussion or quick homework.

KS3 / GCSE Maths worksheet. Plot the squirrel from the Carling Black Label advert's journey and answer the questions. Video on both Notebook and powerpoint.

The usual lame jokes and two different codebreakers. The first one is just putting the gradient and the y-intercept to y=mx+c and a little bit of simple rearranging. The second sheet gives two co-ordinates and you need to find the equation of the line.

This does involve a bit of working out for the class but is designed to make recurring decimals a little more colourful and interesting.

Clive is making silly mistakes again and it is down to your class to spot, correct and explain where he's gone wrong. This is designed to create discussion between students and teacher. This could be used as a plenary or a revision task.

A mathematician's Christmas tree has to be decorated using transformations. Can you fully describe them?

The designers of the classic game Tetris want to produce a more difficult version of the game. Can you help decide which shapes will fit together with no gaps? This is centred around interior angles of regular shapes and tessellation.

Save Our Satellite - Simultaneous Equations: Trying to find a real life example of where we might solve simultaneous equations graphically I came up with this. Students have to plot to linear graphs and find the point of impact. You could bring in Pythagoras and find out if the two bodies were travelling at the same speed would they actually collide, but I wanted to keep the worksheet to one side of A4.

There are two codebreakers, each furnished with a terrible joke. The first deals with positive powers only, the second deals with fractional and negative powers. Designed for a quick homework or plenary.