These are an attempt to break from the monotony of past papers in the run up to exam season. I have taken 2 questions from past papers and put them on one sheet; I will photocopy onto A3 for students to have a go in groups and discuss. The aims/rules etc are all listed if you wish to follow them and hopefully they all make sense. I have also provided answers.

Practice for the skills required to find a percentage of an amount; not difficult but designed for non-calculator use ultimately and checks skills such as multiplying and dividing by 100, decimals, converting between fractions, decimals and percentages before asking a few percentage of an number questions.

The second in my US crime drama series on negative numbers. Pretty simple stuff involving temperature differences and temperatures being "n times colder". No real need for the worksheet unless that's what you prefer as it's all on powerpoint.

I got this idea from DaveGale (thanks by the way!) and the QR Code links to a picture of me looking silly. I used the website qrstuff.com to generate the original code then deleted some bits so that the kids needed to answer the questions correctly etc. It gives them a real reason to have their phone out too!

The students are given the answer and asked to fill in the gaps in the question. Topics used involve probability, algebra, fractions, percentages, ratio, speed, distance, time and many others. Some of the questions allow for multiple answers so discussion could be had. Designed to be used as starters/plenaries to get the grey matter moving. The Easter theme runs through every question and is a tad tenuous at times but there you go.

Put the equations with the same answer in to the correct frame for a family portrait.

Find where the images of the coordinates are following a transformation, reveal the joke and then (possibly) laugh.

I needed some surds practice so designed this. It moves through simplifying surds, surd calculations to rationalising the denominator. Discussion should be forthcoming as to the answer to the "spare". Now printable!

Erica’s having a complete stinker with this particularly long homework. She desperately needs help from your students to correct the homework and explain what she needs to do. This is designed for students to demonstrate understanding.

Another in the series taking students through the skills required to solve equations, including simplifying expressions, expanding brackets and reading the question carefully!

Answer the question, scan the right QR code and find the code that will defuse The Mathematician's latest bomb!

Using average and range convince me that Steven Spielberg should direct my biopic. This combines a bit of literacy too, but should get them using averages to explain their reasoning.

Help Batman with his weaponry orders and tidying up the Batcave - can you help Batman arrange all his stuff?

Four screens each with four questions that have the same answer but the question is missing information; can your class work out what information is missing? This is designed to create discussion (some questions have multiple answers possible) and I intend to use these as starters. Topics include ratio, probability, solving equations, indices, angles and many more.

Use statistical calculations to justify which was the best series of Strictly Come Dancing based upon the scoreboards shown.

Answer the questions - if the answer is an even number colour in the question number in the grid; if the answer is odd or not a whole number then leave it blank. When they have finished they scan the QR code and if correct it will take them to the Depeche Mode video for 'Walking In My Shoes', for no other reason than I had already created the QR code.

This is designed to get students thinking rather than just blindly following a mathematical recipe. There a four sets of 4 problems which all have the same answer (given in the centre of the screen). Each question has a blank for the students to fill in and sometimes there is more than one answer for the blank. This particular one covers probability,fractions, ratio, angles in polygons, solving equations, sequences, area and other topics. I will be using these as starters to get students thinking. One error corrected in the answers! (I need to read the question.)

One of my Year 10s suggested doing something to do with ice cream cones, so here it is. A functional/real life question involving sectors of circles in a logo design and whether the design is affordable. Involves perimeter and area of sectors.

I've decided to do some maths stuff based upon US crime drama shows and this is the first based on differentiation, covering differentiation (including negative indices), gradients at certain points, turning points (maximum and minimum) and finally increasing/decreasing functions at certain points. The worksheets aren't massively necessary as it's been designed to work from the powerpoint but they are there to give you the option.

Either sketch, figure out the equation, state intersections with axes or state maxima/minima of these trigonometric functions or a combination. There are 10 of increasing difficulty and hopefully discussions in class will be forthcoming…