Two situations regarding mutually exclusive events with six questions and ten potential answers. These are useful for students to get on and check that their answers are on the sheet whilst the teacher can help those who are completely stuck.

Students must answer the questions on simplifying ratios to reveal the punchline to a cheesy fish-related joke. These work well both in class and online as students who are confident just get on with the words revealed whilst teacher can help those who need it.

Formula, values, workings and answer columns; stuff is left blank, students fill in the blanks. It does what it says on the tin.

Five columns: data (in order), mean, median, mode, range. Some are blank; work out what the blanks need to be.

Some of the first four terms, the nth term, the term-to-term rule, the 20th term and the 50th term are missing and you have to fill in the blanks (it does what it says on the tin). Should get them thinking…

This looks at basic statistical diagrams: pictograms, bar charts and pie charts. There are four pages, one for each of the above and the final one being the same data represented by all three charts mentioned, but with bits missing on each. For each there are blanks to be filled, plus a question on the data. The idea is to get the students working forwards and backwards, not just getting stuck in a rut of doing the same thing repeatedly.

I needed something for a bar chart and pie chart consolidation lesson and thought of this in the car; Barbara likes bar charts, Piers likes pie charts (the puns are clearly intended). There are two bar charts to convert to pie charts and two pie charts to convert to bars.

Calculate the bearings and discover the punchline for a joke involving fish. These have worked really well in online lessons but also before with real-life lessons so enjoy!

Various ratio questions (5 on each sheet) with 3 possible answers for each. Every answer is linked to a QR Code that links to a music video containing a number or colour. Get the code and defuse the bomb.

Three sheets of increasingly difficult questions regarding parallel lines and their angle properties. On a couple of questions the students have to draw a diagram given the answer.

This does what it says on the tin; some using coordinates, some using sketches, some working forwards, some backwards. Hopefully it will get students thinking carefully about transforming functions.

Three levels starting at simple metric conversion, then calculating with different metric units before converting imperial to metric. I used Vampire Diaries as one of my Year 9 class requested it. The worksheet is set out as a "RAG" activity where you prove what you know by answering the questions. It's short enough to be a plenary or starter and the presentation can be split into individual tasks.

Students can use the nth term to answer these sequence questions but it doesn’t push them that way. The joke is cheesy but you’ve probably come to expect that by now… ideal in class, online or as a homework.

Simplify the complex numbers (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) to reveal the “hilarious” punchline. Good for something different…?

Differentiate the expressions to reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke. I will probably use this as a starter but you can use it however you like…

The usual "do the Maths, find the punchline) thing; find where the coordinates have moved to after the transformation. I particularly like this joke, by the way.

Two jokes to be discovered: one on surface area and one on volume. Students answer the questions and reveal a cheesy, fish-related pun. These are useful for starters, plenaries, main tasks or online lessons as the answer reveals itself meaning that students can just get on or check if nothing is being spelt out.

Answer the questions regarding column vectors and reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke; popular in class and online despite the cheesiness of the jokes, which is a surprise if I’m honest!

Answer the questions, reveal the (cheesy) joke. These allow those students who are confident to get on and find their answers on the sheet whilst the teacher helps those who require it.

Find the coordinates based on the information given and reveal the joke. This is designed for the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate course.