Answer the questions, reveal the punchline; this old chestnut once again! It includes ascending and descending sequences.

The usual: “do the thing, reveal the punchline to cheesy joke”. Students seem to like them (and some of my classes rate the jokes in their books).

Five “Defuse The Bomb” sheets on area and perimeter including: rectangles/triangles, parallelograms/trapeziums, circles, compound shapes (no circles), compound shapes (including circles). These are designed to give students a bit of confidence as the correct answers appear on the sheet whilst you, as the teacher, can help those who are struggling initially. These have worked well in the classroom and online but could also work as homework tasks.

Another “Crack The Safe” worksheet containing six questions, each with three possible answers, on algebraic fractions. These allow the teacher to leave those who understand the topic to try some and check that their answer appears in the options, whilst helping those who are less secure. I use these mainly as starters and plenaries.

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.

The usual thing: answer the questions, reveal the punchline. This gives inequalities and asks students to find the representation on the number lines. The letters are jumbled up to stop them guessing the answer.

Two “Crack The Safe” activities to test students on their trigonometry knowledge, and with a selection of possible answers they can self-check their solutions. These have been designed to be used as starters and plenaries and should create a bit of discussion in class as well.

Here’s another one; answer the questions and reveal a rather nice fish-related pun. This involves circumference and area of circles, including fractions of circles at the end. Ideal for classroom, online or homework activities.

Impossible, the game show, involves asking questions and giving three possible answers: one correct, one that’s incorrect but could be correct in a different context, an impossible answer. There are twelve questions on various different topics and this is designed to encourage reasoning and discussion. Getting the answer correct is obviously important but the discussion as to why the impossible answer is correct and the other one not correct for the context might be more interesting. Topics include fraction calculations, place value, rounding, coordinates, angles and others and could be useful for Year 7.

Yet another fish pun (this one was made up by me!) involving expanding and simplifying two brackets with surds. Students seem to like these in all setting and I have used these in the classroom, during online lessons and as a homework so they are pretty versatile.

Solve some relatively simple trigonometric equations and reveal the punchline to a joke. This was written with AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate in mind but could be used at A Level.

I now teach enlargements using the vector method and decided to produce a worksheet to encourage this method, which involves fractional and negative scale factors.

Another fish-related joke after some standard form conversions and calculations. Ideal for online lessons but also in-person lessons.

Colour in the numbers in certain multiplication tables and you are left with the primes.

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.

Two fish jokes to discover by understanding y=mx+c and the properties of parallel and perpendicular lines; these are useful for in class, online classroom and homework.

Calculate the cost of the items required using the deals advertised. Reveal a cheesy joke, the usual gubbins…

This covers reflections, rotations, translations and enlargements (negative and fractional scale factors) and combinations. Some they have to describe, some they have to draw.

This worksheet has six questions and eight answers to choose from (this is to avoid students guessing the final answer/answers) so that Santa can rest two reindeer for each trip. This one covers linear sequences (finding their nth terms) and contains an answer sheet. I use these as starters/plenaries or as "prove you can do this topic" sheets. I have used them as quick homework tasks too.

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.