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…

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.

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.

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

Six questions and diagrams designed to help students get used to using the area formula involving trigonometry. This does what it says on the tin and students fill in the blanks…

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

This does exactly what it says on the tin so is the usual: answer the questions, reveal the joke’s punchline…

Two sections, one for direct and one for inverse proportion; four calculations (one example) to complete the blanks in. This aims to get students thinking forwards and backwards.

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

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…

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.

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.

A colleague suggested using Amazon reviews of albums to calculate averages from frequency tables/bar graphs, so I did. Hopefully it is useful. I have chosen albums that have similar ratings for a reason, plus the students will rip my music taste apart (little do they know that my music taste is far superior to theirs…).

Answer the average and range questions to reveal the aquatic joke; this involves basic calculations, averages problems and a frequency table. These are useful in the classroom, online and as a homework task.