Students are give the answers but there are parts missing in the question; students must decide what should go in the blanks. This should cater for all ages and abilities at secondary (and some primary) and lead to discussion in classrooms. There are four slides of four questions and suggested values/expressions.

Another fish joke discovered having written and simplified some algebraic fractions as a single fractions. Ideal for starters, plenaries, main tasks and homeworks; they are surprisingly popular given the standard of joke…

Solve the problems involving time and find the punchline to the fish-related joke. Useful as a classroom activity, online or as a homework.

Two worksheets here; the answers appear on the sheet but there are just 6 questions but 10 answers to avoid guessing towards the end. These enable confident students to get going whilst a teacher can help those who are less confident. They have worked well online for me…

Lionel is a great mathematician but won’t write any workings. He keeps losing marks as a result. Can you give full solutions so that Lionel understands how he can achieve full marks?

Lionel’s pretty good at Maths but shows no workings whatsoever; this means he gets very few marks even though he gets stuff correct or partly correct. Students need to show Lionel how to write a full solution so he can maximise his marks. The whole point of this is to get students discussing the steps to a successful solution. This involves forming and solving equations, substitution and algebraic fractions amongst other things.

Lionel is still refusing to writing any workings so your students need to show him the way. He is tackling trigonometry, bearings, parallel lines and speed (measures, which I know could come under Number but…)

Three slides, each with four questions of increasing difficulty that use percentages. Students are expected to use percentages situations where they wouldn’t always be found like substitution, polygons, averages and more.

There are four slides, each with four questions (one involving algebra, two on geometry, one on data) of increasingly difficult questions involving ratio in contexts you would not usually see them. Topics covered include angles facts, circle theorems, trigonometry, probability and others. The song with this one is Madness album track but also the title of a film they did about how the group started…

Six questiopns where students are given the answer but have to show the workings. There are two “challenge” questions but this is designed to force students to explain what they are doing mathematically.

There are four trees where students can work from bottom to top, choosing an appropriately challenging start point if they wish. This is “introduction to algebra” stuff, I will do expanding and factorising on a separate file but these could offer nice starters or plenaries. It contains adding/subtracting as well as multiplying variables and collecting like terms.

The usual answer the questions, reveal the joke, this time using multiple circle theorems or forming and solving equations using circle theorems.

Solve some quadratic inequalities, reveal a cheesy joke about fish. A simple but effective concept that always seems popular in my classroom, plus the answers are on the sheet so students know whether they are right or wrong as the answer will reveal itself. Typos corrected…

Six trees to climb on percentages, covering equivalence, of an amount, change and repeated change. Each tree gets increasingly challenging as the tree is scaled so these might be useful for a plenary or starter to inform you of where they feel comfortable/challenged.

Casey is doing the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate and struggling; Casey requires you class’ help to explain where they have gone wrong and then correct it. This chapter deals with trigonometry and Pythagoras including £D and non-right-angled triangles.

Casey is making mistakes in the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate chapter on Coordinate Geometry, involving gradients, circles (equations), dividing lines in a ratio; can your class help Casey out? This works nicely in class and gets students discussing mathematics. Typo corrected…

Casey is at it again whilst going through the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate course. Algebra III is essentially functions so this includeds domain/range, equations of functions given two points, composite functions, functions split in to three distinct parts. The usual correct and explain stuff which encourages discussion in class.

Answer the proportion questions and reveal the fish-related joke. These are popular in class, both online and in-person, offering those who are fairly confident the opportunity to get on with an answer being revealed whilst the teacher can help those who need it.

Six questions to do and the answers on the sheet (four answers do not match to questions). These sheets allow those students who are confident to get on without asking if answers are correct whilst the teacher helps those who need it.

I wanted an extension for a class on solving quadratics; this is what occurred. There are 6 questions and 10 possible answers. These seem to work quite well and this will hopefully get them thinking.