These are all individually available for free but if you don’t have the time to find them they are all here. They all find a joke or song title or film and I use them as quick homeworks, plenaries or starters to chack understanding.

These are all available for free but if you want to save time and get them all then here they are. These are general mathematics questions, not on one specific topic. I have used them at the start of term as a "welcome back" but also, in the case of the Christmas and Easter versions, at the end of term. Each contains a joke punchline to find.

All these are available individually for free but if you want them as a single bundle then here they are. They offer questions that form a joke and I use them as light relief from exam questions and text books or as homeworks, plenaries or starters.

Celebrity cracker eating - order the fractions to see who wins each heat and the series. Increasing difficulty of common denominator.

No real imagination here, just a quick worksheet to stop the students bisecting a horizontal or vertical and bisecting a right angle. Don't expect anything fancy people...

Putting surface area into some kind of context without using wrapping paper (next best thing here mind). Two worded questions and one which involves two different units of measurement.

This was designed as a "taster" session to A Level mathematics for Year10s/11s and builds on what they should know regarding expanding brackets until they discover that you can use Pascal's Triangle to expand brackets. It gives them the chance to investigate their theories and what effect a negative sign makes.

This is designed to lead on from finding nth terms of arithmetic sequences, getting students to spot a relationship from square and cube numbers. There are 4 sections each of increasing difficulty plus an extension task. This is not "superheroes" etc but should lead to nice discussions of "how do you know that?" and "how did you get that?".

A simple worksheet on drawing pie charts with some practise questions. Nothing special, just doing a job.

Describe the term-to-term rules of these then it could be extended to link into nth terms. This is an attempt to show the relationship between the difference and the nth term through comparison and therefore discovery rather than the teacher just saying how it works. I have also thrown in some "famous sequences" that can be discussed.

This uses term-to-term rules to get students to generate sequences then moves onto finding position-to-term rules and possibly nth terms if appropriate (with the sequences paired to an extent).

This is designed as a lead into equations of lines and links to previous work on function machines/sequences. Five sets of co-ordinates to find the relationship between x and y plus to fill in some blanks.

Designed as a starter for worded mathematical problems this involves a wordsearch where the answers all go into a table linking words like "sun" and "total" to addition etc. These are followed by a few questions.

No power and therefore no access to phones (battery's run out) so estimating in your head it is then! Four fairly simple calculations (I've called the final one a challenge as it involves more steps) that could lead to further discussion, something I have added/given the option to people in after the answers are revealed in the powerpoint. You can either do straight from the powerpoint or from the worksheet (saving the planet option available therefore).

Can you calculate what the workers in each box are doing on the mathematical building site? It's essentially function machines but where you have the answers but need to find the rules.

Two codebreakers, the second one being a touch harder, involving time calculations. Two cheesy jokes for the students to discover. Can be used as a class activity, starter, plenary, discussion exercise or homework (or however you want really, including not at all). Error mentioned in the comments now corrected - thank you!

The usual joke found by converting times from 12 hour to 24 hour clock and vice versa. Also includes some "worded" times. Designed for starter, plenary, discussion, homework.

This goes from basic multiplying and dividing by 10,100,1000 to powers to decimals. The now expected lame joke to discover. Designed to use for starter, plenary, discussion or quick homework.

A really bad joke (I think I've surpassed myself with this one) but some practice on multiples and factors on this one. As I say on all of these they can be used as a starter, plenary, homework, discussion exercise, whatever you like basically.

Four codebreakers (each with a different cheesy joke) on rounding starting with nearest whole 1,10,100 etc, then decimal places, then significant figures and finally a mixture of all types. Error in sheet 1 corrected. More codebreaker resources 🔑 Cheesebreakers (Cheese-related joke) Bundle Codbreaker (Fish-related Joke) Bundle Number + Probability Codebreakers GCSE Maths