This takes you from the most basic simplifying up through substitution and proof of formulae.

A student gave me the title (pun on 'The Hunger Games'), I did the rest. Five different sets of questions in a functional style for students to work through either individually or in pairs/teams. It's supposed to be non-calculator! I may do a sequel for this as there are a few topics I haven't covered.

This moves through fairly easy to expanding two brackets via 8 different matching activities. This should give students the opportunity to discuss their thoughts and demonstrate their understanding.

Dealing with inequalities from representing on a number line to solving to shading regions.

I needed something for my top set Year 8 to get their teeth into regarding "order of operations" and since I'm clearly into spiders at the moment this was born. It asks student to place operations and brackets into calculations to make them equal a certain total. There are 4 that get increasingly difficult (no indices involved) and then a challenge (with indices involved). There will also be more than one way to answer some, but I have provided an answer for each.

This is around 580 slides including notes, worked examples and questions for students to do on all topics in Edexcel’s Year 13/Book 2 including all the differentiation, integration, trigonometric identities, functions, logarithms/exponentials work as well as everything else. examples and solutions are animated so that each step can be looked at and discussed as is your and/or your students’ preference. Fully editable obviously. Now without differentiating arcsin, arccos and arctan and a rearranged series chapter.

Around 25 codebreakers (answer the questions, reveal the punchline to a joke) in this bundle. There are a number aimed at covering parts of the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate but also ones covering topics on the GCSE curriculum too. Each of these is individually available for free but if you want all of them they are available here.

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.

This set of resources (four PowerPoints and a booklet) are populated with Maths topics that often appear in school entrance exams to Year 9 having looked at numerous examples from various schools. The PowerPoints are split in to Number, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics & Probability and include worked examples and questions to do. The booklet contains questions and answers involving the topics covered in the PowerPoints.

This set of resources (four PowerPoints and a booklet) are populated with Maths topics that often appear in school entrance exams to Year 7 having looked at numerous examples from various schools. The PowerPoints are split in to Number, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics & Probability and include worked examples and questions to do. The booklet contains questions and answers involving the topics covered in the PowerPoints.

I wrote this for new students joining Year 10 to do over the summer (if they wanted to) given that they hadn’t attended school due to lockdown for a few months. Each of the eleven topics is a typical Year 9 topic and each sheet is self-marking whether is forms an image, questions and answers match or a punchline to a joke, so students can work independently and ensure that they are not rusty in September. Topics include bounds, circle theorems, compound measures, equations of line, indices, percentage change, trigonometry, sequences, simultaneous equations, quadratics, standard form. If they get stuck, each sheet has a QR code that when scanned using a smartphone takes you to a short tutorial video. There are two activities for each topic (22 activities in total) and answers are provided; if printed out as a booklet the answers are on the reverse of the question sheet.

I wrote this for new students joining Year 9 to do over the summer (if they wanted to) given that they hadn’t attended school due to lockdown for a few months. Each of the twelve topics is typical Year 8 topics and each sheet is self-marking whether is forms an image, questions and answers match or a punchline to a joke, so students can work independently and ensure that they are not rusty in September. Topics include angles in polygons, averages, bearings, equations of lines, quadratics, inequalities, percentage change, perimeter/area/volume, Pythagoras, speed, transformations. If they get stuck, each sheet has a QR code that when scanned using a smartphone takes you to a short tutorial video. There are two activities for each topic (24 activities in total) and answers are provided; if printed out as a booklet the answers are on the reverse of the question sheet.

Twenty three "defuse the bomb" worksheets and answers on various topics including vectors, inequalities (solving, number lines and regions), shapes, bearings, rearranging formulae, transforming functions, trigonometry in right-angled triangles, similarity and surface area. These are self-marking to the extent that if their answer doesn't appear in the list of possible answers then they need to check what they've done which allows students to just get on and grow in confidence.

This is a powerpoint covering all aspects of fractions, decimals and percentages including equivalence and calculations. It contains brief notes by way of an explanation, model answers to questions and a question or two for the students to do; all of the questions come with answers that you can display when ready. The slide show comes with a progress grid (regularly referred to in the presentation) so that students can mark their progress from start to finish and pinpoint any areas that may need extra work with a “red/amber/green” system that they fill in; each one is given an approximate grade in both new (2017 onwards) and old system in England. It’s what I use in my lessons before setting tasks from worksheets or text books to practise.

All these are available individually for free but if you want them as a single bundle then here they are. They offer questions that form a joke and I use them as light relief from exam questions and text books or as homeworks, plenaries or starters.

A bunch of codebreakers (the usual terrible joke) having solved a load of algebra problems involving functions, arithmetic sequences, inequalities, substitution and other algebra topics. These can be used as a starter or plenary or even part of a main task in a lesson.

All these are available for free but if you want to download them in one bundle then this is for you. The activities ask increasingly harder questions as you go through and are designed to encourage discussion in class. I use them regularly and the students engage well with them.

All these are available for free but if you want them all from one place then here you go. Some Easter-themed maths worksheets including graphs, distance-time, simultaneous equations and others.

Each of these 21 worksheets has six questions and eight answers to choose from (this is to avoid students guessing the final answer/answers) so that Santa can rest two reindeer for each trip. I have covered all sorts of algebra topics from solving equations to linear graphs (including parallel and perpendicular lines), inequalities, algebraic fractions, simplifying expressions, linear sequences and substitution. I use these as quick starters/plenaries or as "prove you can do this" sheets. I have used them as quick homework tasks too. Answers are provided for each.