I just wanted something that covers bar graph; this covers “normal”, comparative and composite bar graphs and is designed, in two cases at least, to create discussion.

Taking students all the way from pictograms, through bar charts, pie charts, stem-and-leaf, scatter graphs, frequency diagrams, cumulative frequency, box plots and histograms. The graphs are as large as I can make them and should be ok if copied on to A4.

Worded pie chart questions with a terrible joke to unravel; my Year 7s enjoyed it as a starter…

This involves negative and fractional indices meaning that calculators are pretty much redundant. The joke made my class groan…

This is a set of eight slides, each with five questions and answers; the students must work out whether the answers given are correct. There is also, with each set of questions, confirmation of whether each answer is correct or not but no method done on purpose allowing student to demonstrate their understanding. These are designed to create discussion in class and I have found that asking students what mistake has been made offers an extra challenge.

Four slides each with four questions where they have the answer but not all the information in the question. This is designed to get the students to think and demonstrate their understanding by working backwards from answer to question. These have been quite successful for encouraging discussion in class and being an extension task.

This is designed to get students to think about algebra and substitution as well as knowing properties of number. This is looking at what you can substitute into an expression or a formula (so that rearranging is involved) to produce a given property. This is intended to create discussion and each question has multiple answers, some of which could be generalised therefore creating extra challenge for those who require it.

The usual concept: do some maths to find the punchline to a cheesy (fish-related) joke. These work well both online and in class due to the answer spelling something so students know whether they are doing it right (or wrong!) quite quickly. There are two codbreakers here: one on expanding a bracket and one on factorising into a single bracket. Typos corrected…

Use one of the three calculations given to find the answers to the questions and reveal a rather good joke (if you like golf). these are popular with students and ideal for either using in class, online or as a homework in my experience. This could be used at KS3 or KS2 i think.

I’m teaching Further Maths Level 2 for the first time in a few years so thought I would produce some resources for it of which this is one. Set up and solve equations using your knowledge of multiplying matrices basically. I am particularly proud of the joke!!!

Two codebreakers: one of frequency tables and one with grouped frequency. The usual; you know how these work by now… Typo corrected…

Four shapes on a coordinate grid each. Describe the transformation given the description of where the points have moved and which points are invariant.

Some questions that students have to figure out then find the position on the number line; it spells out an anagram to a terrible joke. This is a slightly different type of codebreaker in looks due to the subject matter but hopefully as effective as the usual ones.

Answer the currency conversion question reveal a joke; good for starters or plenaries as well as main tasks but also useful due to the fact that they are self-marking so students know that they understand what to do quite quickly.

This is an exercise in finding the best way of buying what a customer wants given four different “deals” on pricing. You can buy more than required but not less which should add an extra bit of challenge. Workings are essential and I have provided answers on a separate slide each time. There are five to work out and this should lead to nice mathematical discussions. I have also put this in a format that could be used easily online if this is desirable.

This is like Expressions 1 but tougher - involves simplifying with brackets etc. Again I have put two versions: one with my face and one with smileys. A bid to make simplifying expressions more memorable.

Match up the picture with the ratio with the proportion.

This is a set of three activities involving translation, reflection and equations of lines (for reflection purposes).

This is a range of GCSE questions based around a bonfire. It involves circumference and area of a circle, percentages, Pythagoras, trigonometry, volume and surface area of cones.

Very short but a Tim Vine one-liner as the prize!