A really lame joke (more lame than usual if you can get your head around that) but some reasonably straight forward vectors practise. It could be used to as a starter or plenary and students could design their own routes.

Surds practice from basic simplifying to expanding brackets to rationalising denominators. This encourages workings and the students to work backwards (what's the question given this answer?) so should also encourage discussion in class.

The usual format from adding and subtracting simple fractions up to mixed numbers on number 2. Some answers need simplifying.

Figure out the answer to the (awful) joke by finding HCF or LCM of pairs of numbers.

A set of notes, examples and questions taking students through mental and written methods of these calculations.

I (when I say "I", I really mean "students") needed some practise on tally/frequency tables and this is what I came up with. There are three tables to complete: firstly a simple tally/frequency, secondly the students must fill in the categories and thirdly a grouped frequency table (on the other side of the worksheet as a mini extension). Simple but got the job done.

One simplifying and one sharing in a given ratio; fairly basic stuff that would be ideal for a homework or starter/plenary. Two lame joke fashioned from my drive to and from school.

This hopefully covers all bases involving fractions, decimals and percentages from simplifying up to converting recurring decimals to fractions and everything inbetween.

This powerpoint takes students from simplifying to sharing to proportion with a table of success criteria to show how far they've got.

Answer the questions, colour the answers in the grid and reveal the calculation that needs to be solved!

The Incredibles statistics worksheet have written a questionnaire to make their superhero operations more efficient in the current economic climate. Can you help them amend their questions?

This is a simple codebreaker to ensure that students can write a worded number in digits; if they finish they can have a go at writing the numbers that aren't used in words. The joke is one I found online but does the job!

This is pretty basic describing of transformation on a co-ordinate grid with a few "challenge" questions. It involves reflection (in x and y axes), rotation (centre (0,0), translation and enlargement (centre (0,0)). The "challenge" questions involve reflecting in other lines including y=x, vertical and horizontal; rotation away from the origin and an enlargement away from the origin. I have left it in MS Word so you can edit the challenge questions out.

Work out how long the journey is or how many carrots are required for a certain series of trips for Santa.

Describe the transformations William 'Billy' Black has use to place the cakes on the tables at the various events. There are 8 of them to describe, getting increasingly difficult. Answers are on the powerpoint only as I couldn't fit them on the worksheet.

Two codebreakers on simplifying surds, including adding and subtracting on number 2. The usual lame jokes to discover both involving toast and both conceived on the drive home.

This was designed as a "taster" session to A Level mathematics for Year10s/11s and builds on what they should know regarding expanding brackets until they discover that you can use Pascal's Triangle to expand brackets. It gives them the chance to investigate their theories and what effect a negative sign makes.

Chocolate based inequality problems - 6 in all. Display on the board and discuss is how I envisage it working but you may have other ideas. I must thank Deborah @MrsMathia for the logo and initial inspiration!

KS3 / GCSE worksheet with answers. Using the old 'Accrington Stanley, who are they?', 'Exactly' advert, I have based some measures conversion on the things that appear. Includes simple conversions, metric to imperial and area conversion. Video now on both Notebook and powerpoint.

This was an attempt to make inequalities more interesting and relevent by using them whilst helping the Inequaliser (Bobby McShout) solve a robbery.