This is a version of the codebreaker with a fish/aquatic joke. Each of the 40+ comes with answers and provides students with a fun challenge that’s slightly different to working through exercises. These have worked well in online lessons. Topics include algebraic fractions, indices, compound measures, area and perimeter, ratio and proportion, equations of lines, inequalities, measures, volume, expressions and many more. Each of these is available individually for free.

Four problems for students to correct for Clive; he has made some common errors on his homework again. This is designed to get the students and teacher discussing probability. Small typo amended.

Either cut out and group or colour in the cards and tables that go together - just thought it would make a bit of a change to just grinding out questions.

Calculate the exact distance that either Superman or Iron Man have to fly to get to each villain. No need to print as you can use the Notebook file.

Six trees to climb on percentages, covering equivalence, of an amount, change and repeated change. Each tree gets increasingly challenging as the tree is scaled so these might be useful for a plenary or starter to inform you of where they feel comfortable/challenged.

Solve the quadratics and reveal the anagram of a film - each quadratic gives 2 answers unless there is an odd number of letters in a word when the answer counts just once. The second sheet contains coefficients of x squared that are greater than one and a difference of 2 squares question.

Find an expression in terms of x for y using circle theorems and discover the punchline to a cheesy joke. Designed for AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate but could be used as an extension at GCSE. Typo corrected!

Three codebreakers ranging from easy to difficult as you go through them, but all with a Christmas joke (made up by me, so I apologise now) and with all the questions being Christmas-y too. All sorts of topics covered. Hopefully errors corrected (I found one on each sheet!).

This is designed for students sitting AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate (it could be a basic A Level one too), but it is the usual thing: answer question, laugh at joke.

Three codebreakers covering area using trig, the sine rule and cosine rule respectively. Make sure that students do not round any answers until right at the end (it does state on each to round you “final answer”) and reveal the three cheesy jokes. These work well in my classes as starters, plenaries or main tasks. Each one is an anagram so that students are not tempted to guess letters. The final question on each is more of a problem solving question.

Answer the questions and reveal the gag; I rather like this joke (I saw it on social media and it’s clean). There are “given that…” questions too to create discussion.

Some questions that students have to figure out then find the position on the number line; it spells out an anagram to a terrible joke. This is a slightly different type of codebreaker in looks due to the subject matter but hopefully as effective as the usual ones.

Written for the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate but could be used at A Level too. This is the usual “answer the questions, reveal the anagram of the punchline” thing, being an anagram so that student don’t guess the order/answers. I like this joke but others may not…

A sheet in four parts regarding functions: substitution, domain/range, inverses and composite. I have tried to cover as many different aspects of each part; each part contains eight questions and I have done it this way so you can use each part separately if you wish, or all together, whatever you like. The idea is to work forwards and backwards using the information given. Hopefully it is fairly self-explanatory but no doubt we will find out!

Casey is now on the final chapter of the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate: matrices, including multiplying and transformations. Casey requires help because mistakes are being made; can your classes help and explain what Casey has done wrong? These work well as discussion activities in class in my experience, but use them (or not) how you wish,

Casey is doing the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate and struggling; Casey requires you class’ help to explain where they have gone wrong and then correct it. This chapter deals with trigonometry and Pythagoras including £D and non-right-angled triangles.

Four codebreakers (each with a different cheesy joke) on rounding starting with nearest whole 1,10,100 etc, then decimal places, then significant figures and finally a mixture of all types. Error in sheet 1 corrected. More codebreaker resources 🔑 Cheesebreakers (Cheese-related joke) Bundle Codbreaker (Fish-related Joke) Bundle Number + Probability Codebreakers GCSE Maths

For those who have used these before it is the usual format where students answer questions to reveal a punchline to a cheesy joke. Student seem to like them as they offer a competitive edge and are different from answering questions out of a text book. I use these as starters/plenaries but occasionally as a main task. Topics here include inequalities, linear and quadratic graphs, simultaneous equations, transformations, expanding brackets, factorising expressions (including quadratics), rearranging formulae amongst others. Some of these are already available for free on TES.

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 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.