<p>Updated from previous years.</p> <p>This was designed to last at least an hour but could easily last longer if required.</p> <p>Easy to follow format, that consists of 11 rounds.</p> <p>After every two rounds, the answers are provided, I recommend getting students to swap with a neighbouring team.</p> <p>In the rare occurance that two teams are tied, there is a “closest answer wins” tie breaker question</p> <p>The rounds include:</p> <ol> <li>Streaming at its finest (Name the popular tv programs that were released this year)</li> <li>Secret Santa (Name the celebrity behind the Santa disguise)</li> <li>Merry Christmas fonts (Merry Christmas is written in famous fonts; name the reason it is famous. I.e. Written in the style/colours of Coca Cola</li> <li>Santa’s Sat Nav (Name the country Santa is visiting)</li> <li>Blankety Blank (Find the Missing famous Christmas song lyric)</li> <li>Christmas movie emojis (Name the Christmas film described using emojis)</li> <li>Christmas toys (Name the parts of past Christmas best sellers)</li> <li>Elf of the Shelf’s holidays (Name the festive Cities)</li> <li>Christmas Advert (Watch the advert and answer questions based on it)</li> <li>It’s Christmas time (What are the Pixelated/zoomed in Christmas objects)</li> <li>Christmas Wipeout (General Christmas knowledge, multiple choice with extra marks, however if one is wrong, all marks for this round are lost)</li> </ol> <p>Feel free to skip rounds, edit and generally do as you see fit.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p>

46 mental maths puzzles designed to be completed in 30 seconds. Each puzzle has a 30, 45 and 60 second timer available in order to cater for all abilities. Click on the timer that you wish to use and it should start counting down, a noise will sound when the timer reaches 0. A homepage button will take you back to the puzzle selection screen.

<p>I run a puzzle of the month competition at school. I put the puzzle on display outside of the maths classrooms but also encourage teachers to show the presentation as a starter in their lessons.</p> <p>Students place their entries into a post box outside of my classroom and a winner is randomly picked out of all the correct entries. I award all entries with housepoints, with extra being awarded if they were correct.</p> <p>Feel free to use how you will, at the very least there will be some engaging maths problems for you to use, with answers attached.</p>

<p>I recently used these two worksheets for my second set Year 9 class. They were given a choice of what worksheet to start with, those that started the red were encouraged to move on to an extension on the board.</p> <p>The green worksheet is easier than the red worksheet.</p> <p>Feel free to use and adapt as you will</p>