Using some (clean!) clips from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail and Life of Brian (5 clips in total) there are some maths questions. Each clip (which has a hyperlink as the embed feature in Powerpoint is messing about) has 3 questions. It was a challenge given to me on Twitter! Should be fun though, and I will have to prevent myself from giggling in the corner. There are Smart Notebook version but the file size exceeds the limit apparently!

Tutorial with questions taking you through primes, multiples, writing and reading numbers, directed numbers (negative numbers), prime factors, HCF and LCM.

Calculate the translation vector that Ironman has to travel to capture his enemies, even after the Ani-Men have knocked his grid out of sync. Notebook file can avoid photocopying, plus the extension involves Pythagoras.

Solve these quadratic equations and colour in the answers in the grid to reveal the key!

My intention is to use this as a "first lesson back" task to get students talking and recalling maths facts involving number, algebra, geometry and data. The joke is terrible (it's been all over Twitter this week, which is what pushed me to do this) but they all are for this kind of task. My classes enjoy these; hopefully yours will too.

This activity is designed to be either a quick starter/plenary or a part of a lesson activity. It aims to encourage students to explain their geometric reasoning regarding angles properties including circle theorems. This should lead to discussion as there are some questions where the answer can be achieved in more than one way.

This is split into four parts: finding scale factor, enlargement with no centre, enlargement with a centre, enlargement on a co-ordinate grid. It is supposed to scaffold up from basic to relatively difficult, but not too difficult! Typos corrected...

Look at the fourteen statements and decide whether they are always, sometimes or never true.

Cut out and play activities with blanks so that the students can make up their own questions.

This worksheet activity is designed to be used as a simple introduction to rearranging formulae in algebra, but getting students to calculate using the formula initially before rearranging it to work backwards using inverse operations.

Even superheroes get performance managed as the Avengers have to read from these graphs during their annual appraisal with Nick Fury. I just wanted a different way of looking at stats graphs.

The owners of P&Q have ordered labels but they have been delivered in the wrong units - can you convert them into the units required?

Arrange equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages into 'family' photos. I have done the smartboard file to show on the board and drag the fractions etc into the right frame if you like.

This takes students through simple angles properties (straight line, triangle, full turn etc) to parallel lines to angle properties of polygons and finally to circle theorems. These are not designed to fill a lesson with practice but as starters or plenaries which lead to discussion. The matchings reassure students that their answer is correct or that they may need to check their answers carefully; I have found that the "spare" question is checked far more carefully than with an exercise from a text book.

The two classic adverts and some maths questions on them regarding volume etc.

The Solid Caravan Company is planning to sell some avant garde caravans of different mathematical shapes but need to put each design's capacity in the brochure in cubic metres. Can you help calculate the volume in each case? Cube, cuboid, cylinder, triangular prism, square-based pyramid and cone shapes used. (The maximum width has to be 2.9m to avoid requiring a police escort for being a "wide load" by the way).

Answer the question, scan the right QR code and find the code that will defuse The Mathematician's latest bomb!

How many Christmas lights will be needed to make this house festive?

Plot this journey around the holiday island using three figure bearings.

This was my attempt to get a worksheet that incorporates all the basic loci: perpendicular bisector, angle bisector, from a point and shading a region. You could add stuff if you like, but I ran out of room for the instructions, hence just the 4 tasks. The answers are rough based on the ones I did with pencil and compass.