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). It focuses on the more “challenging” aspects of indices including negative and fractional. 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.

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 was asked to come up with some Olympic themed lessons so came up with four, each getting increasingly difficult. One was on drawing statistical graphs based upon medals tables, one on a race track (basically area and perimeter), one on speed and one on parabolas. Tuck in if you think they will be of any use.

This covers reflections, rotations, translations and enlargements (negative and fractional scale factors) and combinations. Some they have to describe, some they have to draw.

I got this idea from DaveGale (thanks by the way!) and the QR Code links to a picture of me looking silly. I used the website qrstuff.com to generate the original code then deleted some bits so that the kids needed to answer the questions correctly etc. It gives them a real reason to have their phone out too!

Using the R. White's 'I&'m a secret lemonade drinker' advert from 1973 (really?!), four questions recalling number facts based on the advert. Video on both Notebook and powerpoint. Great for revision of number facts KS3 mainly.

This activity is designed to be either a quick starter/plenary or a part of a lesson activity. It aims to encourage students to explain their geometric reasoning regarding angles properties including circle theorems. This should lead to discussion as there are some questions where the answer can be achieved in more than one way.

Calculate each team's final position in the race by substituting in a value of your choice. There's a bit of algebraic proof in there too to see if the teams will finish in the same position regardless of the value substituted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a whole set of lessons based around Maths in the real world: currency conversion, deals in shops, sales, tax, misleading statistics, ratio and proportion (recipes) etc. Each section has separate resources. I have put everything into one PowerPoint (“Whole”) but also uploaded them separately in case people want them individually. It is not supposed to get in to fine detail but just open student eyes to Maths that appears in day-to-day life just a little.

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.

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.