Bonfire Night KS3 Maths Activities

Individual images of five symbols of Guy Fawkes Night each with a question to challenge your students on various topics!

Explore the fun of fireworks with maths questions surrounding the Gunpowder Plot.

Do you want a fun maths activity to challenge your students and get them thinking before you start teaching and get on the usual stuff?

Use these maths questions to do just that and take your maths lessons outside of the classroom.

5 BONFIRE NIGHT MATHS QUESTIONS, EACH WITH AN IMAGE, WRITTEN QUESTION AND ANSWER!

Created for any exam board, testing maths involving various topics at the Key Stage 3 level.

Buy this activity pack now to show your students how maths can be applied to any situation!

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

5 questions each with an image, a description of the question and an answer available.

With questions asking you to…

1. Work with prime numbers to help capture the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot
2. Draw the parabola of your sparkler air drawing
3. Work out the probability of the firework colour
4. Calculate the percentage of wood burned on the bonfire
5. Multiply and round your mass of gunpowder

Each question image comes with a similar image that includes the question and the answer in red.

WHAT PREPARATION IS REQUIRED?
Show the question on the board at the front of the classroom, print the desired question or share over the school’s online system.

All questions and answers are provided as PNG image files in the same format.

HOW CAN THEY BE USED?
Once you have downloaded the activity set you can use it time and time again in varying scenarios such as…

• Use as a starter to get your students focused and thinking
• Group up students and have them discuss the best way to answer the question
• Use as extra work for higher ability students
• Use as a fun maths based quiz

Work as a team, mark each other’s work or challenge your students to compete in a quiz, there are endless possibilities for this set of questions. Explore Bonfire Night with maths!