Six different "spiders" moving through rectangles, triangles, trapeziums, circles and compound shapes. These are designed to prevent students hgetting in to a rut when answering questions and to encourage discussion. Ideally used as starter or plenary but could be used as a set of questions to consolidate new learning.

Four matchings getting increasingly difficult at they go Firstly spot the correct formula for the correct triangle, the next two calculate a missing side and finally use Pythagoras to find the area of a shape. These have been designed to be used as starters or plenaries but you could use them as a main lesson activity; up to you.

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.

Four matchings - two relatively easy and two more challenging. These are designed to be used as starters or plenaries and will hopefully give students the confidence to tackle tougher problems than they usually do.

Twenty four differentiation questions where students are asked to find the gradient of a curve at a given point, order the words associated with each answer in order to form a festive joke. The joke is particularly cheesy; I apologise…

Another cheesy joke generated by doing some maths, this time it’s listing integers that satisfy an inequality.

Factorise and solve the quadratic equations to reveal the punchline to a (lame) joke.

This (hopefully) does what it says on the tin: I wanted some sheets for students to construct triangles and bisectors so produced this. The constructions all fit in the boxes provided as long as you print them out on A4 paper. We start with constructing triangles, then bisectors, then a rhombus and a perpendicular line from a given point before finishing with couple of challenges (Yin-yang, incircle and circumcircle). Like I say, it is not designed to be flashy just practical.

A colleague suggested using Amazon reviews of albums to calculate averages from frequency tables/bar graphs, so I did. Hopefully it is useful. I have chosen albums that have similar ratings for a reason, plus the students will rip my music taste apart (little do they know that my music taste is far superior to theirs…).

This leads students through graphing trigonometric functions, transforming f(x) and transforming a trigonometric function. The graphs are as big as I can make them in the format given so sorry if they are a bit small. I used Desmos for the graphs if you are interested (it’s brilliant!).

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).

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…

Perform the fish enlargements to generate the letters that form the punchline to a rather lame fish pun. These are all enlargements by scale factor 2 or 0.5 but there are no negative scale factors. There are some letters that aren’t used in an attempt to avoid students guessing the answer.

We’ve had a bit of an obsession with factorising quadratics with a coefficient of x squared greater than 1 at school this week so I produced this codbreaker to add a fish pun to the mix. They do get quite challenging but that’s kind of the point…

Find the missing values in each coordinate given the equation of the graph to reveal the fish-related joke. Ideal for use in the classroom, online or as a homework task.

The usual answer the questions then reveal the fish joke. These have always been popular in my classroom, as well as working well online. I know some people have used these as homework tasks too. The benefit of these types of resources is that students will see that it is spelling out words and therefore know they are fine allowing the teacher to help those who need it.

This is designed to prevent students from being entirely reliant on their calculators, although there are some where a calculator can be used. It’s the usual stuff: answer the questions and reveal a fish/sea creature-related joke. Useful in class, online or as a homework.

Answer the average and range questions to reveal the aquatic joke; this involves basic calculations, averages problems and a frequency table. These are useful in the classroom, online and as a homework task.

A little bit of mutually exclusive but otherwise normal probability question all to discover a probability related fish gag. These work in class, online or as a homework.

There are six “Defuse The Bomb” worksheets here involving: one on reflection, one on rotation, one on translation, one on reflection/rotation/translation and two on enlargements (one including fractional, one including negative and fractional). These are designed to create discussion in class, by deciding whether the transformations described are correctly described or not. I have designed these with online learning in mind.