A set of six spiders which encourage students to show every stage of their calculations as they tackle increasingly difficult questions. There are also some question where the answer is given and the workings shown so that students can work backwards; this is designed to avoid students getting stuck in a rut and not thinking about what they are doing in each case.

This is just a general, 'end-of-term' activity containing a few different, and fairly simple maths problems, including co-ordinates, locus, Pythagoras/trigonometry/scale drawing, conversion, solving linear equations, ratio, substitution. It is designed for most students to do.

Students have to calculate the probability that each of three fruit machines will pay out and how many different combinations there are.

Erica got another homework to fine tune her differentiation skills regarding implicit functions, chain rule and second derivatives. Predictably it is not going entirely to plan. Can your students help Erica correct her mistakes and explain what she's done incorrectly. Designed for students to display understanding and cause discussion.

Eight quadratic functions to complete the square (including one where the coefficient of "x squared" is not 1) for students to do then plot the graphs. The aim is for them to spot how completing the square informs transformations of functions.

Erica is struggling with radians this time and has messed up 5 questions on her homework. Can you help Erica sort out some arc lengths, an area of a sector and some trigonometric equations? She will need her answers correcting and then explanations as to where she went wrong. This should encourage discussion.

This covers reflections, rotations, translations and enlargements (negative and fractional scale factors) and combinations. Some they have to describe, some they have to draw.

Using some (clean!) clips from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail and Life of Brian (5 clips in total) there are some maths questions. Each clip (which has a hyperlink as the embed feature in Powerpoint is messing about) has 3 questions. It was a challenge given to me on Twitter! Should be fun though, and I will have to prevent myself from giggling in the corner. There are Smart Notebook version but the file size exceeds the limit apparently!

This takes students through factors, multiples and on to HCF and LCM. Hopefully this will allow students to work out what HCF is themselves.

Slightly harder equivalences to colour in

Erica is struggling with double angle formulae, compound angle formulae - the works"! Can you help her sort out her homework and explain what is going on? Designed to encourage discussion.

Beginning with relatively easy equations and building up to equations with fractional parts on both sides of the equals sign. I am writing this for a new class so that I know where to start on equations, but the anagrams are always popular too, offering an incentive to finish. Typo corrected.

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?

Four slides each with five questions on answered either correctly or incorrectly; students must decide whether each given answer is correct or incorrect then explain why. These work nicely as a reasoning activity at the end of a lesson or topic in my experience but use them how you like (or don’t).

Find the next term in each sequence - if it is even, colour in the square, if not, leave it blank. Use a QR scanner and it links to a great song by Andy Burrows called ‘Keep On Moving On’, which was as close as I could get to a song about sequences! I generated the QR code using qrstuff.com.

Three "spiders" - the first two are general using of the theorem and the final one is more problem solving. This should encourage discussion, especially the final one.

This is a matching activity on bounds (it does what it says on the tin?), including the potential error in calculations. Ideal for a starter or plenary and should hopefully generate discussion and enable students to demonstrate understanding.

Use the values for a, b, c, d and e to calculate yhe distance between the cities in the UK using the formulae given. It also gives the students the opportunity to create their own formulae.

Superman can only throw half as far as usual as he is back on Krypton. Find the midpoints of the pairs of co-ordinates to spell out which villain he's trying to catch.

Leading students through the skills required for proportion problems at GCSE level including substitution, solving equations and order of operations before asking some proportion questions. I didn’t have room for graphs I’m afraid, but that could be a discussion from the questions.