This was written with AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate in mind but could easily be used for GCSE candidates. The joke is a classic as the students won’t guess it but it is actually quite funny (I didn’t write it, clearly).

Clive is tackling two tests on surds and indices; the second is more challenging than the first. As usual he is making mistakes and needs your students’ help to explain what he has done wrong and show him how he should have completed the questions correctly. These activities are designed to create discussion and develop understanding and model the new style “spot the error” questions that now appear in many exams.

Problems involving fractions basically; unjumble the letters to discover the cheesy joke.

Ultimately you transform shapes to get the punchline to a lame joke. This involves reflection, rotation and translation. Correct answer sheet now attached.

Calculate the bearings and discover the punchline for a joke involving fish. These have worked really well in online lessons but also before with real-life lessons so enjoy!

More challenging questions involving prime factors, HCF and LCM for students to work out. These are popular as a starter, plenary or main activity despite the jokes generally being a bit lame (this one is a classic though).

The usual stuff; cheesy joke revealed upon answering some questions.

Students must answer the questions on simplifying ratios to reveal the punchline to a cheesy fish-related joke. These work well both in class and online as students who are confident just get on with the words revealed whilst teacher can help those who need it.

Differentiate the expressions to reveal the punchline to a cheesy joke. I will probably use this as a starter but you can use it however you like…

Two vectors codebreakers with cheesy jokes having answered some questions. My classes like these and I’ve been using them whilst remote learning as they are easy to mark and the students know whether they are right or not straight away or almost straight away.

Can students use the clues to work out the numbers and form the joke. These have been popular in class and online, despite the cheesy nature of the jokes!

Find the coordinates based on the information given and reveal the joke. This is designed for the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate course.

Two situations regarding mutually exclusive events with six questions and ten potential answers. These are useful for students to get on and check that their answers are on the sheet whilst the teacher can help those who are completely stuck.

This is an attempt to get students to fill out every stage of their rearranging process. There are six relatively basic questions then three more challenge on the reverse of the page (I did this so that I could decide whether they were suitable for certain classes).

I needed something for a bar chart and pie chart consolidation lesson and thought of this in the car; Barbara likes bar charts, Piers likes pie charts (the puns are clearly intended). There are two bar charts to convert to pie charts and two pie charts to convert to bars.

Students can use the nth term to answer these sequence questions but it doesn’t push them that way. The joke is cheesy but you’ve probably come to expect that by now… ideal in class, online or as a homework.

Simplify the complex numbers (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) to reveal the “hilarious” punchline. Good for something different…?

This was done using a free piece of software (search online for 'Physics Tracker') to track objects and plot a distance/time graph. I designed it to be a discussion activity, explaining what's happening at each stage of the graph.

Three levels starting at simple metric conversion, then calculating with different metric units before converting imperial to metric. I used Vampire Diaries as one of my Year 9 class requested it. The worksheet is set out as a "RAG" activity where you prove what you know by answering the questions. It's short enough to be a plenary or starter and the presentation can be split into individual tasks.

Two jokes to be discovered: one on surface area and one on volume. Students answer the questions and reveal a cheesy, fish-related pun. These are useful for starters, plenaries, main tasks or online lessons as the answer reveals itself meaning that students can just get on or check if nothing is being spelt out.