Designed to help students become comfortable with algebra, this also covers inequalities including one "explosion" involving two inequality signs. Discussions could be had over simplifying and different ways to write them.

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

This is designed to help introduce factorising of quadratic equations in order to solve them. This should lead to some discussion.

All these are available for free but if you want them all from one place then here you go. Some Easter-themed maths worksheets including graphs, distance-time, simultaneous equations and others.

All these Christmas-themed resources are available for free but if you want them as a bundle then here you go. These festive worksheets cover number and algebra including Bidmas, solving equations, linear and quadratic graphs, co-ordinates, ratio, inequalities, LCM, estimation and simultaneous equations.

All these Christmas-themed worksheets are available for free but if you want them as a bundle then this one covers data and geometry and measures. There are festive worksheets on unit conversion, transformations, area and perimeter, tree diagrams, bearings and distance-time.

All these are available individually for free but if you want a bundle then this is for you. In this lots is a Maths Advent Calendar, two murder mysteries where you can input your own class’ names, a big quiz and some festive codebreakers ranging from easy to fairly tough. All come with answers.

All these are available for free individually but if you want them all in one lot here you go. Each delivers a (generally lame) joke whilst practising key mathematical skills. I use them for short homeworks, starters and plenaries. Topics include vectors, probability trees, circle theorems, algebraic fractions, histograms, angle properties, trigonometry, simultaneous equations, sets and Venn diagrams. All come with answers.

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

The usual lame joke (quite guess-able hence the anagram version) but sets and Venn diagrams covered in this one. This could lead to discussions and students inventing their own jokes.

There two sets of tables (one without negative values of x and one with) and equations to match up. There are two more tables than equations meaning that guessing is far more difficult but as an extension students can work out the missing equations of lines. This should encourage some discussion too.

This is designed to test all aspects of y=mx+c. There are 4 different "explosions" of increasing difficulty that should encourage discussion in class and hopefully develop deeper understanding of the concept of equations of lines.

I am about to tackle rearranging formulae (a topic so many find difficult) with my Year 10 class so came up with this in an attempt to make them more comfortable with playing with algebra; it should also encourage discussion about different ways of doing it.

Four lame jokes to discover (a couple with help from Tim Vine) based around logarithms. I use these as starters to get the students in the logarithm mood but use them as you wish. They cover simplifying, and use of the laws.

This is a poor joke whose punchline that is discovered by solving the probability problems listed. One has a tree diagram drawn and the others could use a tree diagram but ultimately they can be done without.

The predictably lame joke upon answering the histogram questions. The first part involves calculating from a frequency table and the second involves reading a histogram.

This covers basic differentiation, finding gradients at given x values but could be used to introduce integration plus moves on to negative and fractional powers of x. Could be used at Core 1 (or whatever they are going to call it when it changes) and with the new GCSE.

This designed to help students unravel and solve quite complex equations. It could also lead to in-class discussion and there are templates/blank slides to do your own should you wish. The initial idea came from a colleague (thank you Mr Steve...).

A really lame joke (more lame than usual if you can get your head around that) but some reasonably straight forward vectors practise. It could be used to as a starter or plenary and students could design their own routes.

The mandatory terrible joke whose punchline is revealed by answering some questions involving circle theorems. Useful as a starter or plenary in my experience.