This leads on from 'Misleading Graphs' where the students have to draw a graph in an effort to convince a Small Business Manager to give them a loan.

I came up with this activity whilst toasting crumpets for breakfast over half term. This gives the opportunity to measure/read bearings accurately and find the position of something given a bearing from two points. Answers are the best I could do from my computer screen!

Where Does The Fielder Intercept The Ball? This is essentially simultaneous equations solved graphically, but in the guise of a fielder stopping a ball whilst playing cricket.

Five matching activities involving the Sine Rule, Cosine Rule and finding the area of a triangle using trigonometry. These are designed to show learning/demonstrate understanding whether as a starter or plenary but could be used all together as a lesson's main activity.

All the skills required for sequences up to and including summing arithmetic sequences and geometric sequences.

This allows students to use their knowledge of y=mx+c. There are five different spiders of increasing difficulty ranging from being given the gradient and y-int then forming the equation, to being given one of those pieces of information and a point on the line to being given two points on the line. Discussion could arise over how to write the equations.

Two fish jokes to discover: one on reverse percentages (finding an oroginal amount) and one on repeated percentage change (compound interest etc). These work nicely in the classroom, in online lessons and as homework tasks. Students are reassured when words start to appear allowing the teacher to help those who require it.

Clive is tackling a new topic on the GCSE curriculum, but predicatably is struggling. Four questions getting increasingly difficult requiring you to check as Clive has made mistakes. These will hopefully generate discussion in class.

This is using the famous racing game to revise angle properties with parallel lines.

This is a Christmas-themed idea I came up with where students answer the questions (the solutions are 1 to 24) and each answer links to a word; put the words in numerical order and an entire joke is revealed! My students are actually enjoying them quite a lot.

This takes students from simplifying expression, through factorising and up to algebraic fractions.

Somebody's eaten some of the pizza that Paolo has prepared for an event. Does he have enough pizza remaining to fulfil the order?

Colour in question number if it's even, leave blank if it&'s odd - the usual caper. It covers rectangles up to circles with parallelograms and trapeziums in between. Links to Then Jericho&';s timeless classic 'Big Area' on YouTube.

Erica tackles partial fractions, algebraic long division and simplifying algebraic fractions in this homework. This goes predicatably wrong and she requires your help to correct and explain what she’s done incorrectly. This should create discussion regarding different methods.

Erica is struggling with radians this time and has messed up 5 questions on her homework. Can you help Erica sort out some arc lengths, an area of a sector and some trigonometric equations? She will need her answers correcting and then explanations as to where she went wrong. This should encourage discussion.

Doing what it says on the tin; terrible joke mandatory. It includes factorising as well as adding and subtracting algebraic fractions.

The usual story that links to Cher's 'Believe' (I couldn&'t find a song containing the word 'Share' so you&';ll have to put up with this pun). All worded ratio questions.

A set of six spiders which encourage students to show every stage of their calculations as they tackle increasingly difficult questions. There are also some question where the answer is given and the workings shown so that students can work backwards; this is designed to avoid students getting stuck in a rut and not thinking about what they are doing in each case.

This is just a general, 'end-of-term' activity containing a few different, and fairly simple maths problems, including co-ordinates, locus, Pythagoras/trigonometry/scale drawing, conversion, solving linear equations, ratio, substitution. It is designed for most students to do.

Students have to calculate the probability that each of three fruit machines will pay out and how many different combinations there are.