Erica has recently had a homework on exponentials and logarithms (including natural logarithms) and is really srtuggling. Can you help her by correcting her answers and explaining her mistakes? Designed to encourage discussion and the ability to check work carefully, as the new A level course seems to like.

Three of the characters are flying around Europe and need your help with the equations of the lines for their route. There are three (all on the same sheet) that get increasingly difficult. Depending on the confidence in this topic topic, start them where you see fit.

Rotate Spidey in the the correct quadrants to capture his enemies. I have produced the Notebook file to save on printing.

Erica is tackling equations of circles but is, as usual, making errors. Can you help Erica correct the errors and explain what she has done incorrectly. designed to get students to check work carefully and discuss what has gone wrong.

Join Woody (from Toy Story) on his fraction ranch, helping to put the animals into the correct pens, feeding them and getting bales of hay together too. This involves equivalent fractions, fraction of an amount and adding fractions. The powerpoint now contains a video!

I have so few resources for a lesson on 3D views that I felt I had to write one and this came to mind. The usual cheesy joke having found all the answers. Depending on the class I do this with I may allow multilink usage or I may not; you will know your class better than I.

Two sets of "explosions" involving prime factors and using them to calculate LCM and HCF. There are some where students are given the two numbers and have to find prime factors, HCF and LCM; there are others where students are given the prime factors and have to find the numbers, HCF and LCM; there are some where students are given the HCF and LCM and need to find the numbers and their prime factors. It it is designed to lead to discussion.

Three “Crack The Safe” worksheets: the first tackling “one a line, around a point etc”; the second tackling “parallel lines”: the third tackling “angles in polygons”. These are designed to be used as starters or plenaries and allow students to self-mark as the answers are on the sheet (along with some values that are not answers) - if their answer isn’t on the list of possible answers they need to check their working.

This takes students from fairly straightforward area and perimeter questions (trapeziums, circles etc) through compound shapes and on to cones, frustums and hemispheres including finding the height in terms of the radius for a cone. I have tried to cover all bases with it including density and capacity problems.

The survivors have found some mathematically shaped islands which are zombie free. Find the area and perimeter of the islands to see how many people can live on them and how much fencing is needed to keep zombies out. Rectangles, triangle, parallelogram, trapezium, circle and compound shapes involved.

More cheesy jokes for students to discover using their mathematical skills; these are a nice plenary, starter or main activity offering something different from exercises from books. The jokes, whilst terrible, only make them keener to discover the punchline oddly.

Answer the questions and find my destination each time.

This is designed to lead students through solving quadratic equations by completing the square from quite basic to difficult. The activity is also there to encourage discussion in class and helps them get into good habits regarding setting their solutions out.

All sorts of calculus issues for Erica here! She really needs your (your class') help to correct her work and explain where she's gone wrong. There are common mistakes here for student to find and discuss in class.

Eight matching activities that encourage discussion in class involving substituting into functions, inverses and composite functions. These would work as a starter/plenary or as a revision lesson on function notation.

New timetable, low ability class and I needed some function machines.

Twenty easy(ish) equations that link to Noel Gallagher's song 'In The Heat Of The Moment' that is apt due to the anticipated excitement of solving all these equations!

There are eight matchings here: 4 surface area and 4 volume. They get increasingly difficult moving through cubes/cuboids to prisms to cones, cylinders, pyramids and spheres. These are designed to be used as starters or plenaries but you can use them for a lesson main activity, totally up to you.

Calculate how much each of these people need in each case. It is essentially rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

Erica is struggling whilst differentiating trigonometric functions, using the product, chain and quotient rules and parametric equations. She is desperate - please help her! Designed for students to demonstrate understanding and to encourage discussion.