Calculate how many presents there are in Santa's sacks of gifts for each journey. This involves two-step equations, brackets and an unknown on both sides. Festive equations - what more could you want?

Either cut out and group or colour in the cards and tables that go together - just thought it would make a bit of a change to just grinding out questions.

Solve the clues to discover the murderer by deciphering the codes: there's Caesar Cipher, Pigpen Cipher, Solving Equations, Number Problems and Transformations. It designed so that you can put your own class' names in for the suspects, but "Number 5" is always the culprit.

Sort into three groups - 14 statements. Does what it says on the tin really. It should encourage some discussion in class at the very least.

From simplifying to evaluating, including negative and fractional indices. The usual 'stop the bomb blowing up' saga. No algebra, just numerical.

Robot Wars Challenge: a pair of worksheets which I was trying to bring vectors into a real-life context. Hopefully I've succeeded. A great activity for GCSE students.

I always struggle for something a little different for recurring decimals and although this is the same old thing dressed up differently it might make them keener to complete the questions!

Given the equations of the curves required to destroy the pigs, can the students plot the graphs? This is an attempt to bring quadratic graphs to the world of the teenager!

Factorise the expressions, find the answer, reveal the film title! Simples. I may add more versions as a differentiated thing at a later date.

Decide whether these statements are Always, Sometimes or Never true. Cut out and stick.

Calculate the exact distance that either Superman or Iron Man have to fly to get to each villain. No need to print as you can use the Notebook file.

Fun Pupil Activity. Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Worksheet where pupils solve the equations and colour in all the answers on the grid in order to read Tony the Tiger's text message. Now with an answer sheet.

Some shapes' symmetrical properties need describing, starting with simple mathematical shapes and moving to other stuff (potential for discussion if you are that way inclined) and then completing a few diagrams to give them symmetrical properties (simple GCSE questions).

This sheet starts off with some examples and questions about surds - pretty easy ones to be honest. There is a surds 'joke' at the end to complete. This was an attempt to make surds a little more interesting and to show just how easy they really are.

A KS3 resource activity with worksheets to be completed by students. This was an idea I had that actually came to fruition - it's based around a secret agent type mission. It involves deciphering codes, grid references, bearings, simplifying algebra, ordering fractions and sequences. I did a silly video to introduce it using some of my daughter's puppets. Hope you enjoy it, my classes certainly did.

The usual story but with some Bidmas/Bodmas questions. If you’ve not seen these before then the students must answer the questions correctly in order to know the order in which to defuse the bomb.

A student asked me to do a resource involving Harry Potter; we are doing unit conversion soon so this is what occurred. There are two tasks, one converting metric units (including a challenge involving areas and volumes) and a second converting between metric and imperial. I downloaded a font from dafont.com for free so if you want to edit the worksheets (I have included the Word versions so you can do so) you will have to download the font too.

Find the values of the expressions to get the letters to an anagram of a film. Fairly straight forward but sheet 2 is more difficult than sheet 1.

The Avengers need your help to display this data successfully, and also calculate some averages etc. This builds up from low ability to high ability in stages, but is designed to be 'dipped into' where you need to. It covers from bar charts, through scatter graphs and frequency polygons, up to histograms and contains the calculations that go with each. The teachers' notes are just as a guide and don&'t need to be adhered to, but I have tried to guess the kinds of calculations that students might perform. Transparency of the title pages sorted!

Wreck It Ralph, Disney's new hero, likes smashing up Fit-It Felix&'s rectangles. Calculate the area of the rectangles left after Ralph has been working his magic! It&';s double sides where the first side is all rectangles and the other side is triangles and circles.