Enlarge the shapes, form the punchline to a terrible joke. This involves negative and fractional scale factors where it’s possible.

Interpret a couple of scatter graphs and get a properly cheesy joke…

Find the inequalities that have created the region and discover a terrible joke; popular with students and easy to mark remotely!

The usual thing: do maths, get cheesy joke. Students seem to like them and you can use them as starters, plenaries or part of a main activity.

The more circle theorems resources the merrier… The usual thing: answer the questions, find the punchline.

The usual stuff: maths followed by joke. This involves area of sectors, arc lengths and perimeters of sectors.

Clive is having a go at quadratics questions now; these involve expanding two brackets, plotting graphs, factorising and solving on test 1 before moving on to more solving, using the roots, completing the square and using the quadratic formula. Clive is prone to making mistakes so your class has to spot these and explain what his mistakes are so that he learns from them.

Four slides each containing four questions; the answer is known but the questions are incomplete. These are designed to create discussion and many questions have multiple possible blanks.

I did a worksheet on the quadratic formula where questions build up from entering values into the formula to working in reverse from formula to original quadratic equation and I was looking at some completing the square questions and thought I could do the same with this. I have put 10 increasingly challenging questions initially with blanks to fill in before moving on to a “Challenge” section where the coefficient of x squared is not 1.

Inspired by an idea @McGuirea499 posted on Twitter I thought I would write these. There are two; the first gets students used to the idea of changing one particular aspect (this could be pushed into generalisations if you like) and the second allows students to pick one element of an equation to fulfil a numerical property in the solution. There are obviously loads of different solutions for each task so discussion should evolve as a result. I have given examples of answers and left a template slide on each so you can design your own if you wish.

Given one coordinate, can students come up with a second coordinate so that the line between the two meets certain criteria? This is an activity designed to create discussion, covering gradient and equations of lines. Extension should be pretty easy, allowing students to generate equations of lines etc. I have left a slide template so that you can create your own if you wish.

Based on the format of the BBC game show “Impossible”, there are 12 questions with 3 potential answers: one is correct, one could be correct in another context and one is impossible. These are designed to create discussion and debate in class, possibly leading on to other mathematics. I have left a template slide at the end so you can write your own if you wish.

This is designed to create discussion in class regarding average and range whereby students change one value in a set of numbers in order meet certain requirements. The final two slides are similar to a Don Steward task where students can change numerous values to meet three average and range requirements. I have left a template on the presentation so that you can create your own if you like.

Ideal for GCSE Further Maths as well as A level (Year 12) this offers up a cheesy joke in return for doing some maths.

Find the midpoints, discover the cheesy joke. I realised that I had too few resources on midpoints for a lesson on them, hence this. These are good for starters, plenaries, main tasks or homeworks as they spell something out so students know quickly whether they are going in the right direction.

Another fish joke, another set of maths questions to answer. This involves increase/decrease, finding the percentage change, reverse percentages and one repeated percentage change question. Ideal for both classroom and online tasks or a homework.

Three “spiders”: one on perimeter and two on area. Each slide contains six questions; four contain a diagram from which a formula needs to be derived and two contain a formula where students can draw their own diagram (this should lead to interesting discussions and thought processes).

Answer the questions, match to the letters and get a fish-related joke. These are useful in class, online or for homework; students seem to like them too despite the quality of the jokes…

Use the graph showing 5 hours in the life of a shark to answer the questions and reveal a (pretty terrible) punchline to a joke. These work in class or online and essentially mark themselves as they spell out the answer so students can be reasonably independent with it.

Find the areas of some parallelograms, trapeziums, compound shapes and circles as well as working backwards to calculate a dimension to discover a really lame fish pun/joke (a generous description in this case). Ideal for class task, online task or a homework.