Six matching activities: 1 mode, 1 median, 1 mean, 1 mixture (all include frequency tables), 2 grouped data. These are designed to be starters or plenaries but could be used as a whole lesson activity if you wish.

I’ve called this an “Advent” calendar as I couldn’t think of a better name, but I have little intention of using it in the run up to Christmas only. There are 24 questions which you can choose to display; students have a go and can then check their solutions with the model answer slide. Topics include forming/solving equations, estimating the mean, equations of lines, trigonometry, tree diagrams, transformations, standard form, angles, compound interest, bounds, geometric sequences, completing the square amongst other topics. Questions are from Edexcel past papers.

Put the equations with the same answer in to the correct frame for a family portrait.

Using average and range convince me that Steven Spielberg should direct my biopic. This combines a bit of literacy too, but should get them using averages to explain their reasoning.

Calculate how many villains Captain America has to fight in certain rooms of the three 'House of Horrors', plus the rule rule (nth term) he uses to make this calculation. Ideal for KS3 and GCSE maths students.

Calculate the points I'd score by destroying these pigs and then calculate the formulae for calculating the total score. It's designed to make algebra more relevent. Smart board file to save printing once more!

Santa needs to know how many of each toy there will be after a certain amount of time. The elves know how many they can make in a minute and how many they have in stock. Can you help calculate how many toys there will be after the timescale given by Santa?

I've been dying to use this pair from Disney&'s Brother Bear movie. Can you use the speed of sound to calculate how far away the nearest mountain is? Designed as a starter.

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

Calculate how much food my pets are going to need whilst I'm away on holiday for a week. This involves multiplying, dividing and adding fractions.

Calculate the answers to each problem, use the table to change the answers to letters and then unjumble the letters to make a country. This is aimed at foundation GCSE or KS3 and involves simple powers (squares and cubes) as well as Bidmas.

It's always a challenge to make constructions interesting and seem relevent so I came up with this. Not sure it&'s hugely more engaging but it&';s something!

This is purely codes, using various "famous" codes including Caesar cipher, Pigpen, Semaphore, Atbash (the alphabet backwards) and one just written backwards. Each time the culprit is number 18 and I have left the names blank so that you can fill in with names of your choice.

The usual terrible joke once students have done some work on gradients of lines either by finding it from the equation (involves some rearranging) or by calculating it from two points on the line.

Answer the questions involving density, mass and volume to reveal the punchline to a joke. These work well as either class activities, online school activities of as a homework and students seems to like the challenge and competition to find the punchline first.

Answer the questions on surface area of cubes and cuboids and reveal the punchline to a fish joke. These work well in class, online or as a homework and offer some reassurance as students find their answers in the table allowing the teacher to help those who really need it.

The usual terrible joke in a bid to get my A level students to remember the exact trig results. These are specifically for the A level curriculum as radians are involved and negative angles in number 3. Number one is available separately.

This 270 slide Powerpoint covers all of the first year of the single A Level Applied course (based upon the Edexcel course). It includes explanations, worked examples and questions for students to do. I have included everything, possibly more than you may need but I’d rather give people the option to skip a slide than have to make something up on the spot. Colleagues of mine used this during the first year of the new course. The “Forces and Motion” part has been edited.

Find the next term in each sequence - if it is even, colour in the square, if not, leave it blank. Use a QR scanner and it links to a great song by Andy Burrows called ‘Keep On Moving On’, which was as close as I could get to a song about sequences! I generated the QR code using qrstuff.com.

Find the answers, colour in the correct squares then scan to get Madonna’s ‘Substitute For Love’ (the best I could do). QR code generated using qrstuff.com.