Four slides each containing four questions with parts missing but an answer to reach meaning that students have to demonstrate their understanding by filling in the blanks. This is designed to create discussion.

Four slides each containing four inequalities questions where students are given the answers but are missing parts of the question; their job is to fill in the blanks. This should allow students to demonstrate their understanding as well as encouraging discussion as some of the blanks could be filled with numerous different values. This involves solving, satisfying (number lines etc), regions etc.

This is an activity designed to et students thinking about ratio but changing one value in a ratio to get another ratio. There are four ratios on each slide which get steadily more challenging and should create discussion. This also brings multiples and factors into play as well as simplifying/equivalent ratio.

More fish jokes to be discovered having done some maths; there are two to do here, the first dealing with integers that satisfy inequalities (including number lines) and the second that deals with solving inequalities. I use these at various different times of a lesson but clearly the choice is yours whether you use them or not and when! They are always popular even though the groans over the jokes get louder each time.

Using the “Impossible” game show format where each question has three options: a correct answer, an incorrect answer which would be correct in a different concept and an impossible answer. There are 12 questions tackling transformations, surds, quadratics, inequalities and more. Students need to calculate which is the correct answer, which is impossible and which is incorrect but “partially right” so this should encourage discussion in class and develop a deeper understanding.

I realised that I didn’t have anything on currency conversion so I amended the situation and you get to reveal another lame fish joke. Typo corrected.

The usual thing: do some maths and find the punchline to a cheesy joke. Ideal for online learning or any other type of activity.

There are 10 statements for students to decide whather they are true or false regarding a pair of box plots. This should encourage mathematical discussion and these sheets seem to work well online too.

Each slide contains five questions that have been answered, but not necessarily correctly. Your class need to discuss whether the answer given is correct or not and find the correct answer if not. These bring up common errors and lots of discussions. Areas covered: substitution, inverses, composite, domain & range.

Erica’s homework is causing her issues, this time on representations of data. This one involves box plots, histograms and cumulative frequency graphs as well as talking about quartiles. Your class’ task is to explain where Erica has gone wrong and to correct her solutions.

Casey is working through the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate and has reached the Calculus chapter; however, Casey requires the help of your class. Spot the mistakes, correct them and explain where Casey has gone wrong. These work well for discussions in class.

Designed for the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate, it struck me as we were covering matrices that a “fill in the blanks” sheets would (should?) work nicely with them. Hopefully I have come close to hitting the nail on the head… it involves multiplying and transformations.

Students must work out from the written transformations the transformation matrix in each case to reveal a punchline to a joke. This is designed for the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate qualification.

Casey is now on the final chapter of the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate: matrices, including multiplying and transformations. Casey requires help because mistakes are being made; can your classes help and explain what Casey has done wrong? These work well as discussion activities in class in my experience, but use them (or not) how you wish,

I needed something for this topic and this is what popped out. Whilst it is a true or false activity I would expect some good discussions to arise whilst doing this, with conversations along the lines of “how could we make this statement true?” either by changing the wording or the initial algebraic expression. I have found these activities really quite successful in online lessons as well as “normal” lessons.

Three sheets: one on rounding to 1,10,100, one on rounding to decimal places and one on rounding to significant figures. Answers are on the sheet but there are more answers than questions meaning that guessing less of an option and students can get on in the knowledge that their answer should be on the sheet somewhere. These have been useful in online lessons as well as “normal” lessons.

Find the equation of the tangent to a curve at a given point and reveal the joke (I apologise, I made it up at about 3am). Something different in an A Level class or a challenge in an IGCSE class…

This is aimed at AQA Further Maths Level 2 students but could be used in early A level lessons as something a bit different. Answer the questions, reveal the joke.

This is designed to be non-calculator and was written with the AQA Further Maths Level 2 Certificate in mind, but could also be used for GCSE. It involves simplifying, expanding brackets and rationalising the denominator. The punchline is revealed upon answering all the questions.

This does what it says on the tin, nothing fancy. Reveal the joke, which is so bad it’s good…