There are six spiders to do: two on reading and writing numbers in standard form, two on multiplying and dividing and two on adding and subtracting. Each is designed to be a bit more difficult than the last with some opportunities for discussion.

Four spiders on sets and two on shading Venn diagrams. Hopefully these will create a little discussion and make students think. A couple of the diagrams now improved.

An old fashioned elf has labelled all the stuff in Santa's larder with imperial units, but being a modern man Santa only really does metric. Can you convert them all please?

This idea is from Craig Barton and is an excellent one (check them out his at website); essentially it is four questions based on the same information. There are four here which use volume, ratio, Pythagoras, bearings, measures, area and perimeter, speed, percentages and bounds as well as other topics. This really should create discussion and a deeper understanding of the topics covered on top of ensuring that students actually read the question. I hope these are worthy! I will be using these as starters or plenaries.

I found an image of lots of the Star Wars vehicles on the internet and noticed that loads had symmetry; hence this was produced. I have downloaded a Star Wars font hence it’s a PDF as unless you have downloaded the same font the text will be in a dull font. Pretty simple mathematically but could lead onto more difficult stuff.

This allows students to access different aspects of proportion. This covers direct and inverse proportion and could be used as a discussion exercise.

Four spiders to complete: two involving two linear equations and two involving a linear and a quadratic. This is designed to create discussion and gives students options on how to solve, either by elimination or substitution. If you are feeling adventurous you could even draw the graphs...

Describe and complete the transformations for the following potraits from the cast of Toy Story.

As many of my students struggle with number facts and recalling what they mean I thought I'd do this as a bank of starters/plenaries. Nothing to print, just display on the board.

This activity uses clues involving number facts and special numbers to find certain items in a supermarket. Some of the clues are easier than others, but it's a nice challenge and makes students aware of Fibonacci, square, cube and triangle numbers.

Calculate how many villains Captain America has to fight in certain rooms of the three 'House of Horrors', plus the rule rule (nth term) he uses to make this calculation. Ideal for KS3 and GCSE maths students.

A student gave me the title (pun on 'The Hunger Games' - original was 'The Number Games'), I did the rest. Five different sets of questions in a functional style for students to work through either individually or in pairs/teams.

Erica has homework again but is getting a little confused. She needs your help to explain where she has got confused and to correct what she's done. These questions contain common mistakes and should lead to discussion in class between students.

I was doing some revision with a class and realised that I was yet to do a sheet involving HCF and LCM and everything along those lines. That is now remedied.

Laura Craft, our hero, has slides to go down this time ot complete the game that are in the shape of cubic graphs. we have the equations but not the graphs (you need to draw them) and work out which is the steepest - could you tell from the equations?

Four problems for students to correct for Clive; he has made some common errors on his homework again. This is designed to get the students and teacher discussing probability. Small typo amended.

Erica is struggling with iteration and Newton-Raphson, as it's on the new "Pure 2" syllabus. Can you help her sort out her homework answers and explain what she's done wrong?

Calculate how much food my pets are going to need whilst I'm away on holiday for a week. This involves multiplying, dividing and adding fractions.

This covers pictograms, bar charts and dual bar charts. It is just a simple set of 4 queestions, nothing more than it says on the tin.

Erica is struggling with the binomial expansion; can you (and your class) help Erica correct the answers she has arrived at and explain to her what she has done incorrectly. This is designed to create discussion and help students become familiar with new style questions. Actual thing now linked - sorry!