I found a graphic on Twitter and thought it would make a nice discussion lesson/part lesson on time and number, possibly standard form. Anyway, I made this Powerpoint to get people started.

This powerpoint uses two scenarios: building site and office. You can choose the order in which you do them or whether to do one and not the other. These are worded ratio problems to discuss and use to establish understanding or encourage verbal explanations from students.

This allows students to access different aspects of proportion. This covers direct and inverse proportion and could be used as a discussion exercise.

Solve the equations, swap the answers for letters, unjumble and find the sport.

Match up the picture with the ratio with the proportion.

Use the diagrams to help add and subtract fraction. For fairly low ability to help them visualise what's happening.

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.

KS3/ GCSE algebra relating to everyday examples. I wrote this a while ago in a desperate bid to make algebra relate to the real lives of children. You could set up a spreadsheet in Excel and use formulas, or they can do the activity in class.

Calculate each question using Bodmas/Bidmas, unjumble the letters and find the name of a famous international city!

Various tutorials taking you from grade F to A - bar charts to histograms, simple avearges to estimating ther mean.

How can I do these addition calculations on my calculator when the calculator has lost its addition sign? This is to get across the fact that 2 negatives make a positive.

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.

Slightly harder equivalences to colour in

Cut out the cards and the students use the clues to guess each shape.

This is a set of three activities involving translation, reflection and equations of lines (for reflection purposes).

This worksheet is designed to practise naming linear graphs from the landscape of a new computer game. This could be extended to drawing their own plus parabolas, depending on the ability of the class.

Calculate the translation vector that Ironman has to travel to capture his enemies, even after the Ani-Men have knocked his grid out of sync. Notebook file can avoid photocopying, plus the extension involves Pythagoras.

Work out the equation of the line that the footballers kick the ball along in order to eventually score. There are two versions, one with the pitch and one without due to possible printing out issues.

A KS3 maths worksheet in which is the best selection box to go for? The students have to decide.

Cut out and play activities with blanks so that the students can make up their own questions.