Find the words in the wordsearch then complete the sentences using them. I'd use this as a "plenary" but don't let that influence you.

The final installment in the lame logarithms joke series and the hardest of the bunch maths-wise.

This is a series of activities from basic percentages through to percentage change, including repeated change/compound interest. This is designed to create discussion and hopefully will offer something different to just working through an exercise from a book.

Three “Crack The Safe” activities on graphs (one on calculating gradient, one on y=mx+c, one on finding coordinates given an equation, one on transforming functions: two quadratics and a trigonometric function). These contain six questions but ten possible answers meaning that students can self-check their answers (are they in the list of possible answers?) whilst the teacher can help those who require it. I use these as starters and plenaries but that is obviously up to you.

The usual terrible joke once students have done some work on gradients of lines either by finding it from the equation (involves some rearranging) or by calculating it from two points on the line.

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.

Help Wolverine and Thor sort out their two-way tables and answer the probability questions based upon them.

Four lots of 4 average and range problems where the students are given the answer but need to find the blanks in the question. Some have one possible solution and some have many solutions which automatically builds in differentiation as you could task students with finding the range of possible solutions. I use these as starters/plenaries but use them however you like (assuming you like them).

Four sets of four problems where students have the answer but there are blanks in the questions which require filling in. This is designed to create discussion in class and hopefully provides natural differentiation (stretch the “top end” by finding the general solution where possible compared to finding a single solution). Whilst some of the questions can be answered without using algebra, this could be a way of convincing that the letters in algebra are just numbers! I will be using these as starters or plenaries as I believe they will develop deeper understanding of topics, but feel free to use them as you like.

Answer the questions and reveal the gag; I rather like this joke (I saw it on social media and it’s clean). There are “given that…” questions too to create discussion.

A short exercise converting imperial measures to metric for the "Time Travelling Handyman" (a rather bad sounding super hero, I know). I have tried to involve length, capacity and mass.

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

I hate having waste, so calculate how many people I should invite to the party to ensure that I have no left overs.

Help the Parr family (The Incredibles) use the formulae and calculate some things concerning Jack Jack.

There are four spiders (the last one has lost a couple of legs, I realise that!) of increasing difficulty. Fill in the blanks by using skills of adding and subtracting fractions. The final "spider" is a discussion one with many answers and the chance for students to fully demonstrate their understanding.

Three sheets; one each on reflection, rotation and translation. Each one leads to a lame joke as usual.

This does exactly what it says on the tin so is the usual: answer the questions, reveal the joke’s punchline…

Is Blitzen correct in telling Santa what the equation of his flight path is? It's up to you (or your class) to show that it is!

This worksheet has six questions and eight answers to choose from (this is to avoid students guessing the final answer/answers) so that Santa can rest two reindeer for each trip. This one covers parallel and perpendicular lines and contains an answer sheet. I use these as starters/plenaries or as "prove you can do this topic" sheets. I have used them as quick homework tasks too.

Taking students through the skills required to solve problems involving surds. There are questions that students will need to do without a calculator as the calculator will give them the fully simplified solution.