Two fish jokes to find involving gradients: one short one with lines and one where students have to find the gradient between two points. These work in class, online or as homeworks and seem quite popular.

Another fish-related joke to discover once the HCF and LCM questions are answered. These work well online but also in the classroom and the students seem to enjoy discovering the joke no matter how cheesy. The reassurance of the spelling of a word allows students to get on.

Read the graphs and use the information to draw a scatter graph to compare the sets of data.

Answer the questions regarding sale prices to reveal the joke; you know how these work by now…

There are six “spiders” each with four increasingly challenging quadratics to solve, including completing the square and using the quadratic formula. Different blanks are left for students to fill in, working forwards to the solutions, backwards from the solutions, from partially complete questions and a mixture of all three. These have been very useful in online lessons.

I realised that I have very little on this topic, so I came up with this. Four different functions, each with five transformations of increasing difficulty and students need to find where a point moves to. Error corrected!

I wanted some problems involving trigonometry (both right-angled and non-right-angled) and thought I’d mix them up with circle theorems for a particular class. Hopefully these will make them think a little bit. There are animated solutions should you want them. One typo corrected…

Spiderman and simplifying fractions, fraction of an amount and fraction of a turn.

There are six “Defuse The Bomb” worksheets here involving: one on reflection, one on rotation, one on translation, one on reflection/rotation/translation and two on enlargements (one including fractional, one including negative and fractional). These are designed to create discussion in class, by deciding whether the transformations described are correctly described or not. I have designed these with online learning in mind.

Find area of circles and volume of spheres featured in this clip from Toy Story 2. The powerpoint version now contains the video.

Answer the questions, unjumble the letters and find your next destination.

Three “Crack The Safe” activities on decimals (stuff related to decimals). There is one on calculating with decimals, one on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages and one on recurring decimals. These contain six questions but ten possible answers (bar the equivalence worksheet) meaning that students can self-check their answers (are they in the list of possible answers?) whilst the teacher can help those who require it. I use these as starters and plenaries but that is obviously up to you.

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.

Rearrange the formulae and reveal the joke (generous description in fairness). These formulae are not particularly tough to rearrange but should get across the principles of it; the subject only appears once in each case. Ideal for classroom activities (main task or starter/plenary) but I have used them for online lessons and homeworks as well.

Students must work out whether statement is true or false regarding the tree diagram. These sheets work well online in my experience as they can be done from the screen. This involves a tree diagram where the second probability is conditional upon the first.

Four matchings - two relatively easy and two more challenging. These are designed to be used as starters or plenaries and will hopefully give students the confidence to tackle tougher problems than they usually do.

We’ve had a bit of an obsession with factorising quadratics with a coefficient of x squared greater than 1 at school this week so I produced this codbreaker to add a fish pun to the mix. They do get quite challenging but that’s kind of the point…

A little bit of mutually exclusive but otherwise normal probability question all to discover a probability related fish gag. These work in class, online or as a homework.

Six students run a race and their races are described; draw the graphs then work out in which order they came.

This is a quick worksheet on simple quadratic graphs, finding the equation that a firework travels through the air.