A fish joke after some population density questions are answered correctly; like a dream come true for many, I’m sure… Ideal for in class, homework or online. As the answers spell out a word or short sentence students know if they are going right or need help.

Summing arithmetic sequences and various other things arithmetic sequence related. The usual answer questions then unjumble the letters to reveal a fish joke. Ideal for in class or at home.

State the inequalities that bound the shaded region and discover the punchline to the fish-related gag. These seem to work either in a classroom, online or as a homework task, encouraging some competition for those who enjoy it.

Two more fish jokes to decipher: one on set notation and one on Venn diagrams. These have worked well for me both in the classroom and online with others using them as homework tasks.

Two more rounding-based tasks; answers are on the sheet but more than the number to questions to make guessing less easy but also allow those who have the confidence to continue without the need to ask the teacher to check, allowing the teacher to help those who actually require it. The truncation sheet also contains error intervals.

The usual “answer the questions and reveal the punchline” for some worded questions. This is designed as a task for Year 6 or 7.

Erica’s doing her data collection homework but keeps making mistakes. Can your classes help Erica learn from her mistakes by correcting then and explaining what she has done?

Erica keeps making mistakes on her homework; she needs your class’ help to explain what she’s done wrong so she won’t make the same mistakes again. This involves Venn diagrams, tree diagrams and independence.

Erica is looking at the binomial distribution here but making errors as usual. Can you classes correct Erica’s work and explain where she went wrong? I have written questions so that either tables or calculator can be used.

Erica’s homework on forces and motion is causing her issues as usual; can your students help Erica correct her mistakes and explain what she’s done incorrectly? Good for classroom discussion.

Essentially students must use y=mx+c to answer questions then reveal the punchline to a joke. There is a grid and five lines from which to refer to, but this includes parallel and perpendicular lines and their equations as well.

Solve the quadratic inequalities to work out the order in which to cut the wires. I find these sheets useful as the answers appear on the sheet and therefore students can check quickly (without asking the teacher) whether they are on the right track; this means that the teacher can help those who genuinely require it.

This is designed to help introduce factorising of quadratic equations in order to solve them. This should lead to some discussion.

I needed something for this topic and this is what popped out. Whilst it is a true or false activity I would expect some good discussions to arise whilst doing this, with conversations along the lines of “how could we make this statement true?” either by changing the wording or the initial algebraic expression. I have found these activities really quite successful in online lessons as well as “normal” lessons.

One sheet with three lines and ten statements about coordinates on the graphs, gradient y-intercept and their equations where students need to decide whether the statements are true or false, correcting the false ones (and explaining where the misconception arose?). These have produced really nice discussion in class and online in my experience.

A quick joke calculating angles using circle theorems, but circle theorems that are hopefully in a slightly different context than usual. These work well as starters, plenaries, main tasks or homeworks and even the cheesy jokes seem to be an incentive.

Find the roots as complex numbers and reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke. Something different to ploughing through text book exercises…

Answer the questions, link to the letters in the table and then laugh at the “hilarious” joke… you probably know how these work now. This one is on the product rule for counting (doing what it says on the tin).

Two codebreakers (the first one is slightly easier than the second) where students must identify the equation of a trigonometric function from the graph, resulting in the punchline to a cheesy joke. The scale is as large as I can make it I’m afraid so I apologise that it is small. I used Desmos to draw the functions.

One tree diagram, numerous questions to figure out a cheesy joke. This involves counters and replacement.