Designed for AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate course (the style of questions in particular) but could be used at A level too. Answer the questions, reveal the (really rather good, even if I do say so myself) joke.

This 500+ slide Powerpoint covers all of the first year of the single A Level Pure course (based upon the Edexcel course). It includes explanations, worked examples and questions for students to do. I have included everything, possibly more than you may need but I’d rather give people the option to skip a slide than have to make something up on the spot. I used this during the first year of the new course.

Another poor joke with the punchline found via domains of functions.

Solve some relatively simple trigonometric equations and reveal the punchline to a joke. This was written with AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate in mind but could be used at A Level.

One punchline to find here; it’s simple using of a function machine in each case, both finding an output or finding an input. These seem popular in my lessons…

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.

Much of this has been copied from GCSE and A Level and parts amended to fit the course. It obviously includes matrices, factor theorem and calculus that don’t appear in the Maths GCSE. Each topic gives the tools required for each topic, a couple of examples and some for the students to do themselves. Modified in the summer of 2020 to include product rule for counting, more on functions, simultaneous equations with three unknowns, trigonometric identities, solving trigonometric equations (including quadratics) and many other things.

I realised that I have very little on this topic, so I came up with this. Four different functions, each with five transformations of increasing difficulty and students need to find where a point moves to. Error corrected!

Eight problems involving angles in parallel lines, probability, averages, area/perimeter, ratio, Venn diagrams, percentage change, arithmetic/geometric sequences where to solve them you can use simultaneous equations. There is a question slide and a solution slide.

I’ve noticed that standard form questions are being set where the powers are too large for calculator use so I did a codebreaker like it. The usual stuff: answer the questions, reveal the punchline.

Six questions with 10 possible answers; students who are confident can just get on whilst the teacher can help those who genuinely require it.

This does what it says on the tin, encouraging students to work forwards and backwards and therefore not get in a rut of just sticking numbers in a formula.

More questions are turning up with massive numbers given as a product of prime factors and students being asked to find the HCF or LCM, so therefore I did a codebreaker for it. The usual stuff: maths, punchline, hahaha.

These sheets allow students who are relatively confident just get on knowing that their answer should be on the sheet whilst the teacher helps those who need it. This is a style of question that is occurring more frequently, understanding how to use the prime factors.

This was designed to revise plotting linear graphs from an equation before moving on to non-linear (quadratic, cubic, reciprocal and exponential). I have deliberately changed scales to suit each graph/equation so that they aren’t just -5 to 5 on x and y axes, going up in 1s; hopefully this makes the students concentrate and think a bit more!

I wanted some problems involving trigonometry (both right-angled and non-right-angled) and thought I’d mix them up with circle theorems for a particular class. Hopefully these will make them think a little bit. There are animated solutions should you want them. One typo corrected…

I wrote this for new students joining Year 7 to do over the summer (if they wanted to) given that they hadn’t attended school due to lockdown for a few months. Each of the ten topics is taken from the Year 6 national curriculum and each sheet is self-marking whether is forms an image, questions and answers match or a punchline to a joke, so students can work independently and ensure that they are not rusty in September. Topics include angles, coordinates, fractions, decimals, percentages, measures, ratio, rounding, numerical calculations, statistical graphs. If they get stuck, each sheet has a QR code (bar a metric conversions one) that when scanned using a smartphone takes you to a short tutorial video. There are two activities for each topic (20 activities in total) and answers are provided; if printed out as a booklet the answers are on the reverse of the question sheet.

I was given a box of Cheesy Jokes by a student so thought I'd make some codebreakers with them. Some codebreakers turned into 17 codebreakers and a change of name to Cheesebreakers and here you go. The students enjoy the challenge of revealing the terrible joke and they get to practise som questions on the topics listed which include fractions, percentages, angles, circle theorem, inequalities, transformations, equations, surds, ratio, proportion, measures, indices, averages. I will do a Cheesebreaker Taster if you are not sure.

These prove popular with many students and colleagues and are perfect for online working due to them spelling out a punchline to a cheesy joke. There are 30 codebreakers in this bundle. Topics covered include: inequalities (regions), cumulative frequency/box plots, probability (including tree diagrams), transformations, circle theorems, set notation, discrete data, factorising quadratics, arc and sectors, averages, statistical graphs and more. Each of these is available individually for free but if you you want them all in one hit then this is for you.

This involves the old water issue, requiring 4 litres when you only have containers of 3 litres and 5 litres, plus an interactive game from subtangent.com. I have done a powerpoint version exported from SmartBoard too, on request, and now I have worked out how to embed the video! Enjoy!