Inspired by mrbarton's collective memory tasks that my classes have enjoyed I wrote these for some lower ability classes I teach. There are calculations for them to do too. If you don't know how they work, get students in groups of 3/4, show the file on the board for 30 seconds and they try to copy what they remember from it (no writing whilst file is being shown). Show the file a total of 4 or 5 times. Great for discussions etc.

Prevent Hulk from going on the rampage by simplifying the following surds!

Matthew the Mathematician has wants a house designed mathematically - this involves transformations, calculations, properties of number etc.

The Incredibles statistics worksheet have written a questionnaire to make their superhero operations more efficient in the current economic climate. Can you help them amend their questions?

This was done using a free piece of software (search online for 'Physics Tracker') to track objects and plot a distance/time graph. I designed it to be a discussion activity, explaining what's happening at each stage of the graph.

Nothing particularly enlightening here other than I found that using function machines to show how to calculate a dimension given the area formula seemed to work quite nicely with a class of mine. This should be a discussion activity in my view.

Using the R. White's 'I&'m a secret lemonade drinker' advert from 1973 (really?!), four questions recalling number facts based on the advert. Video on both Notebook and powerpoint. Great for revision of number facts KS3 mainly.

KS3 / GCSE worksheet with answers. Using the old 'Accrington Stanley, who are they?', 'Exactly' advert, I have based some measures conversion on the things that appear. Includes simple conversions, metric to imperial and area conversion. Video now on both Notebook and powerpoint.

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.

New timetable, low ability class and I needed some function machines.

The name was suggested by a pupils of mine, but it's pretty self explanatory. Describe Bear&'s journey across the Lake District, where he meets friends and ends up at Stan Laurel&';s birthplace in Ulverston!

This is a word document worksheet involving finding the missing angles using circle theorems for KS4. A colleague of mine gave me this idea of using records and circle theorems - you have to calculate the missing angles to get the turntable fixed in each case. I've chosen some of my favourite albums! A separate answer sheet is included.

Calculate the missing angles for this new 'Sing Store' game, explaining how you did it.

Finish off the details of Superman's journey to the various crime scenes. This involves scale and bearings.

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.

Calculate each question using Bodmas/Bidmas, unjumble the letters and find the name of a famous international city!

I found this map of the Neet (Not in Employment, Education or Training) data from 2009/10. I have looked at Worthing purely because that's where I work. Not the most happy statistics, but real-life and relevent to the kids, and might encourage them to get the best grades they can before they because a statistic!

Watch the videos and then use inequalities and height restrictions to solve some simple problems. This was an idea my student teacher had and I took it in a slightly different direction with number lines etc. It is an introduction to inequalities. Videos now on the powerpoint.

Fenton the dog likes chasing deer and geese through Richmond Park (the original video from YouTube is included in the Notebook file). The Rangers need to calculate the number of distressed animals there are as a result of the chases using the total number of feet chased and the total number of animals.

Usain Bolt worksheet. This is a speed, distance, time activity using the Visa advert of Usain Bolt racing the starter across London from Heathrow. It is an Olympic based activity. Powerpoint now also contains video.