Round the numbers - if it rounds up, colour in the appropriate square; if it rounds down, leave that square blank. When finished it scans to Dead Or Alive's 1985 classic 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)'. Poor pun, but the best I could do!

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).

Same as all the others - answer the questions and unjumble the letters to find your next destination.

Answer the probability questions, link them to the probability scale and unjumble the punchline to a fish-related joke. These have worked really well in online lessons, but also work well in in-person lessons, despite the groans regarding the jokes…

The title rather give the game away here; answer he questions, reveal the punchline to the joke. I like this joke!

Find which letter is positioned at the midpoint of the two coordinates given, unjumble the letters and reveal the punchline to a joke.

Calculate how much the catering compnay should order of each ingredient. The recipes are about right (if a little bland) as they are lifted from the BBC website essentially.

Six "spiders" on six different sets of angle properties starting with "on a line", "around a point", "triangles", "polygons", "parallel lines" and "circle theorems". The final two require students to name the property used and I have left a couple of the parallel lines with the answers filled in so that students can draw their own diagram. The activity is designed to create discussion.

Erica is struggling with differential equations and regions bounded by two curves. Seriously, she needs some help so please get your students to explain what she has done and correct her homework. This gives students the opportunity to demostrate their understanding.

Santa wants no wastage this year so work out the smallest amount of each group of toys that are made in different sized batches.

I have three more of these (obviously) but not one where one must multiply/divide algebraic fractions so I thought I’d write one. The usual terrible joke for students to find.

Another joke whose punchline is revealed upon doing a load of maths. This is designed as a plenary/starter. Numbers 1 and 2 in the "Solving Quadratics" series are uploaded from months ago. Error corrected this time I hope!

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.

No knowledge of cricket required, just some names of counties! Choose the correct numbers from the list and unjumble the letters.

This idea is from Craig Barton and is an excellent one (check them out his at website); essentially it is four questions based on the same information. There are four here which use volume, surface area, expressions, Pythagoras, trigonometry and angles in parallel lines as well as other topics. This really should create discussion and a deeper understanding of the topics covered on top of ensuring that students actually read the question. I hope these are worthy! I will be using these as starters or plenaries.

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.

I’m teaching Further Maths Level 2 for the first time in a few years so thought I would produce some resources for it of which this is one. Set up and solve equations using your knowledge of multiplying matrices basically. I am particularly proud of the joke!!!

One punchline to find here; it’s simple using of a function machine in each case, both finding an output or finding an input. These seem popular in my lessons…

This worksheet is designed to practise naming linear graphs from the landscape of a new computer game. This could be extended to drawing their own plus parabolas, depending on the ability of the class.

I wanted to give a real life concept for inequalities so came up with this. When my classes did it some used the number line and some didn't; I left it up to them.