Designed to be used in the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate but could be used at A Level too. Answer the questions, reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke… the usual nonsense.

This is designed to get students thinking rather than getting in to a rut with this. There are columns for questions, factorising, a sketch of the curve and the solution; some are missing in each case.

The usual terrible joke in a bid to get my A level students to remember the exact trig results. These are specifically for the A level curriculum as radians are involved and negative angles in number 3. Number one is available separately.

Fun Pupil Activity. Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Worksheet where pupils solve the equations and colour in all the answers on the grid in order to read Tony the Tiger's text message. Now with an answer sheet.

Four sections of increasingly difficult circle theorem problems, some where students need to draw the question given some of the solution. Explanations are involved in every question too.

Doing what it says on the tin; terrible joke mandatory. It includes factorising as well as adding and subtracting algebraic fractions.

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). 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 (you will as you don’t need me to hold your hand).

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.

Two codebreakers: one of frequency tables and one with grouped frequency. The usual; you know how these work by now… Typo corrected…

This asks about median, range, upper and lower quartiles from a list of data. The usual cheesy gag to discover (an anagram this time).

Three sheets; one each on reflection, rotation and translation. Each one leads to a lame joke as usual.

This came from observing a colleague and an idea of making students use their knowledge in a more general way. I have gone from basic angle facts up to circle theorems. I have also (acting on advice) given example reasoning for students to circle on some questions…

This asks students to estimate where a given fraction, decimal or percentage should be within a block; this uses students’ knowledge of the conversion between the three. Inspired by Professor Smudge (Twitter: @ProfSmudge).

Estimate where each fraction is given a “marker” fraction. This is designed to get students thinking about the relative sizes of fractions including multiples and “factors” of the fractions. A discussion about how they reached their answer is what I’m planning to do, but you may well have better ideas. Inspired by Professor Smudge (on Twitter: @ProfSmudge) and his blog (decimalicious.blogspot.com)

Choose the numbers that are either multiples or factors of the number in italics and unjumble the letters to find a football team.

Convert the area and volume units to reveal the punchline to a joke related to the ocean. These work in the classroom, online or as a homework and students seem to enjoy them, especially the competitive side of discovering the punchline first.

This is a non-calculator sheet, using knowledge of exact trig values to solve problems. The joke is obviously hilarious… Designed for GCSE or AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate.

The usual answer the questions, reveal the joke, this time using multiple circle theorems or forming and solving equations using circle theorems.

The usual lame joke (quite guess-able hence the anagram version) but sets and Venn diagrams covered in this one. This could lead to discussions and students inventing their own jokes.

This is purely aimed at Further Maths Level 2 where functions have three distinct parts. The joke is not my best to be honest, but I had to get one that was the right length!