Answer the questions, swap the numbers for letters and unjumble them to find my next destination.

A set of worksheets where students work out the equations of the lines travelled by the fireworks.

Find the words and use them to complete sentences. Designed for lower ability in secondary school who will then have some notes too!

More questions are turning up with massive numbers given as a product of prime factors and students being asked to find the HCF or LCM, so therefore I did a codebreaker for it. The usual stuff: maths, punchline, hahaha.

Calculate how much each person raises by summing three arithmetic and a geometric series.

This is designed for students to recognise types of graph from their equation. It could lead to discussion too.

Erica's got another integration homework, this one involving the chain rule in reverse and integration by substitution. Predictably she is struggling and needs your help. This offers students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding, dicussing the best way to solve a problem.

I’ve noticed that standard form questions are being set where the powers are too large for calculator use so I did a codebreaker like it. The usual stuff: answer the questions, reveal the punchline.

These sheets allow students who are relatively confident just get on knowing that their answer should be on the sheet whilst the teacher helps those who need it. This is a style of question that is occurring more frequently, understanding how to use the prime factors.

Find the missing values, and the missing words in the comparisons regarding median and interquartile range.

Cut the cost of producing your box of Valentine's Chocolates by reducing the amount of packaging you have. Surface area and could be taken to varying levels of difficulty.

This aims, through four separate, increasingly difficult sheets, to give students a chance to show that they can share in a given ratio as well as simplify ratios. I have used different units and specified units to be used in most cases meaning that students must convert. Hopefully this will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the topic and will encourage discussion.

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

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).

I found a simple bar chart online breaking down where the money from a CD sale goes and came up with this. It's mainly percentages, but there are exchange rates and calculations to be done too. I&'m sure you can all come up with other questions about it, but this is what I dreamt up!

The usual activity on these but with vectors this time. Students can check that they are doing the right sort of thing as possible answers are on the sheet. Designed to be a starter/plenary.

The usual concept: do some maths to find the punchline to a cheesy (fish-related) joke. These work well both online and in class due to the answer spelling something so students know whether they are doing it right (or wrong!) quite quickly. There are two codbreakers here: one on expanding a bracket and one on factorising into a single bracket. Typos corrected…

Six questions with 10 possible answers; students who are confident can just get on whilst the teacher can help those who genuinely require it.

This does what it says on the tin, encouraging students to work forwards and backwards and therefore not get in a rut of just sticking numbers in a formula.

I got this idea from DaveGale (thanks by the way!) and the QR Code links to a video of Homer Simpson on YouTube. I used the website qrstuff.com to generate the original code then deleted some bits so that the kids needed to answer the questions correctly etc. It gives them a real reason to have their phone out too!