Four different sheets to practise solving linear equations rnaging from simple one step to two step to brackets (including variables on both sides of the "equals") to fractional parts. Designed as a quick starter, plenary or homework.

This is a powerpoint covering all areas of Core 2. It contains brief notes by way of an explanation, model answers to questions and a question or two for the students to do; all of the questions come with answers that you can display when ready. The slide show comes with a progress grid (regularly referred to in the presentation) so that students can mark their progress from start to finish and pinpoint any areas that may need extra work with a “red/amber/green” system that they fill in. It’s what I use in my lessons before setting tasks from worksheets or text books to practice. If there are any silly errors then let me know so I can correct them but I have been through the entire presentation with students who are keen to point out mistakes!

An extremely lame joke but some Pythagoras questions to calculate. Eight questions in total so ideal for a quick homework, plenary or starter; four questions have diagrams and four questions are worded.

A particularly lame joke this time but various proportion questions at a GCSE level, including direct, inverse and generating proportion formulae given enough information in order to do so.

The mandatory joke (courtesy of Tim Vine) and various probability questions including simple calculation, expected number of outcomes, the probability of x and y, the probability of "not x".

Two more codebreakers (and associated lame jokes) on volume and surface area. Codebreaker 1 is cubes, cuboids and cyclinders; codebreaker 2 in speheres, cones and pyramids.

Two corny jokes to unveil. Sheet one is purely rectangles, squares and triangles; sheet two involves parallelograms, trapeziums and circles.

Work out which shape is being decribed in each case and reveal the punchline to the joke.

Discover the punchline to the joke whilst testing your knowledge of polygons, mainly angle properties including interior and exterior angles.

Two sheets to discover the punchlines to two jokes. The first sheet is simple "increase/decrease", the second is worded questions including finding an original amount and finding the percentage of change.

A lame joke but plenty of "order of operations" practice.

The usual lame jokes and two different codebreakers. The first one is just putting the gradient and the y-intercept to y=mx+c and a little bit of simple rearranging. The second sheet gives two co-ordinates and you need to find the equation of the line.

Just a quick homework, starter or plenary which gives a punchline to a lame joke.

The usual lame jokes and two codebreakers, number 1 not involving mixed numbers, number 2 involving them.

Two codebreakers on simplifying surds, including adding and subtracting on number 2. The usual lame jokes to discover both involving toast and both conceived on the drive home.

D (Data) A (Algebra) N (Number) and G (Geometry) - four bombs to defuse on each area, left by that infamous terrorist "The Mathematician". Each sheet has 6 sections and the questions are more worded. Find the average of the answers in each section to crack the code to defuse the bomb in each case. It's just general revision to get students thinking. It's easier to look at than put into words!!!

The usual stuff, solve the problems to discover the punchline to the joke. I use for a starter or plenary or occasionally a homework.

Three different codes to crack: number 1 is just finding the next term in the sequence (not all are arithmetic), number 2 is substituting into nth terms (with a simple quadratic or two) and number 3 is finding and using nth terms of arithmetic sequences. Each has a punchline to a joke to find. I use these for starters and plenaries or homeworks as they are very easy to mark. Typo on number 1 corrected.

Just a quick starter/plenary on exact results from trigonometry. The usual lame joke is the answer.

One simplifying and one sharing in a given ratio; fairly basic stuff that would be ideal for a homework or starter/plenary. Two lame joke fashioned from my drive to and from school.