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Find the regions that Santa is yet to deliver presents to using inequalities. There is a worksheet and a PowerPoint presentation with this as well as answers.

Calculate the distance between baubles and the angle at which the tinsel is hung using Pythagoras and trigonometry.

Answer the indices questions, link them to the letters then unjumble the anagram produced to find out what Santa left in my stocking this year. This covers basic indices, fractional and negative.

Three codebreakers ranging from easy to difficult as you go through them, but all with a Christmas joke (made up by me, so I apologise now) and with all the questions being Christmas-y too. All sorts of topics covered. Hopefully errors corrected (I found one on each sheet!).

I was looking for something that had its own grids as I didn’t want the mis-drawing of axes to take over a lesson but there wasn’t a lot (maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place), so I wrote this. There are three sections: y=mx+c, rearranging to y=mx+c, mixed questions. There is also a RAG sheet for students to fill in as they go to demonstrate progress.

Simplify the fractions, reveal the punchline… you know the drill.

With each pair of fractions work out which shape has the larger proportion shaded using equivalent fractions. I have done this using different shapes so students can’t just do it “by eye”, they have to do it numerically. It also uses inequality signs.

This was my attempt to get a worksheet that incorporates all the basic loci: perpendicular bisector, angle bisector, from a point and shading a region. You could add stuff if you like, but I ran out of room for the instructions, hence just the 4 tasks. The answers are rough based on the ones I did with pencil and compass.

This is a whole set of lessons based around Maths in the real world: currency conversion, deals in shops, sales, tax, misleading statistics, ratio and proportion (recipes) etc. Each section has separate resources. I have put everything into one PowerPoint (“Whole”) but also uploaded them separately in case people want them individually. It is not supposed to get in to fine detail but just open student eyes to Maths that appears in day-to-day life just a little.

A variety of shapes getting increasingly difficult; answer the questions, reveal the punchline.

This is the usual codebreaker thing with expanding brackets at the core. Cheesy joke revealed upon finding the correct coefficients.

This has the usual joke/discover the punchline format but you get the letters by plotting a distance-time graph and noting down the letters upon which you settle at each point. Hopefully a change will be as good as a rest…

Expanding brackets including surds essentially, and find the missing numbers. Do it all successfully and a cheesy joke is revealed.

This does exactly what it says on the tin… needed for a session with Year 6.

This is an activity, with accompanying worksheets, that should encourage a discussion between students and teacher about equations of graphs/functions and what each part "does" regarding the position of the line/curve. You could lead on to other discussions about how the function/equation could be presented.

We had to come up with a “taster” lesson for Year 11s thinking about doing Maths or Further Maths A Level. We decided on this as it is something they will have heard of, isn’t on the Further or Additional Maths GCSE and relatively straightforward in its initial stages. There is a PowerPoint and a codebreaker.

The usual thing: answer the questions, reveal the cheesy joke. I use these as starters, plenaries and main tasks; you can use them (or not as the case may be) however you like… but students do seem to like them (if the volume of groans at the jokes is anything to go by).

“Charlie” is learning how to check whether their solutions are sensible. They have had a go at some geometry questions and made mistakes, but can your classes explain why they’ve gone wrong and why their answer is not necessarily sensible. This is designed for years 7 to 9 and covers topics like Pythagoras, trigonometry, area, volume, angles.

The terrorist, ‘The Mathematician’ has left clues to how you defuse the bomb 0 you must cut the wires in the correct order. Working up from simple ratio up to proportionality via three worksheets.

This covers angles on a line, in a triangle, in a quadrilateral and parallel lines both diagrams and worded. Angles in polygons is covered on another one. The joke had to be edited to fit but still as cheesy as one would hope.