This has been half-complete for a while but I am looking for some more reasoning resources so decided to finish it. This involves the usual angles issues (on a line, around a point etc) as well as polygons and a slide of circle theorems.

There are twelve transformations here, all of which have more than one solution; this asks students to find as many solutions that work, including reflections, translations, rotations and enlargements with negative scale factors. I did this with a class and offered rewards for any solutions I hadn’t listed which seemed to motivate them even more! Solutions are on a separate slide to enable printing.

Enlarge the shapes, form the punchline to a terrible joke. This involves negative and fractional scale factors where it’s possible.

This one uses coordinates to get to the joke; I’m actually quite pleased with myself over this joke as it is self-referencing. This also involves reflection, rotation and translation.

More homework tasks with QR code allowing students to access a tutorial video if required. These involve algebraic fractions, more circle theorems, partially simplified surds (so students can’t just use their calculator), proportion, vectors (more complicated questions involving collinear vectors), truncation, trigonometry in right-angled triangles and others. There are 23 new sheets with answers in this bunch.

These tasks allow students to build up the challenge by completing increasingly challenging questions on a given topic; ideal for end of topic tasks, revision or AfL. All these are available for free but if you are short of time…

Ultimately you transform shapes to get the punchline to a lame joke. This involves reflection, rotation and translation. Correct answer sheet now attached.

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

The usual: Do some maths Get some letters Reveal a lame joke My classes like them, yours might too.

There was a gap in the codebreakers for straightforward compound shapes, so I did one… The usual stuff: answer the questions get a punchline to a lame joke.

As ever, do the maths, get a punchline to a joke.

The usual business: answers some maths questions, find the letters from the table and get the punchline to a terrible joke. Ideal for starters, plenaries, whatever you like (you’re an adult).

I had and could find loads of surface area resources but they weren’t just on cubes and cuboids so I remedied that. The usual terrible joke discovered after doing some maths…

This is a set of eight slides, each with five questions and answers; the students must work out whether the answers given are correct. There is also, with each set of questions, confirmation of whether each answer is correct or not but no method done on purpose allowing student to demonstrate their understanding. These are designed to create discussion in class and I have found that asking students what mistake has been made offers an extra challenge.

Complete the pyramids to figure out the punchline to a lame joke. This involves simplifying indices and could be used as a plenary or starter, although that is clearly up to you.

These are standard pyramids that lead to the punchline for a cheesy joke which should hopefully make them a little more desirable, but you never know. Typo corrected!

These are calculation pyramids but they give a punchline to a joke. These are designed to be done without a calculator but it is clearly up to you.

Five slides each with five questions that students must decide whether the given answers are correct or not, explaining their reasoning. There are questions on equivalence, fraction/percentage of an amount, calculations, percentage change etc. These are designed to create discussion in class.

Six slides each containing five questions where students need to decide if the answer given is correct and explain how they have arrived at their conclusion. Topics include whether a coordinate lies on a line given its equation, y=mx+c, equations of curves (quadratics, cubics, reciprocals), gradient, These are designed to generate discussion in class.

Five slides each containing five problems which have either been answered correctly or incorrectly; students decide and justify their answer. This is designed to encourage discussion in class. Topics include simplifying ratio, sharing in a given given, simple proportion, algebraic proportion etc.