Three algebraic fraction codebreakers to solve with the usual terrible jokes. They are of increasing difficulty so choose the one appropriate to your needs.

This takes you from basic rounding to whole numbers up through decimal places, significant figures and beyond! Upper and lower bounds also covered along with standard form calculations.

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.

This should bring about plenty of discussion. Four "spiders" of increasing difficulty asking students to complete a list of numbers to make the average and range properties true. A couple of typos corrected.

Name the company and describe the symmetry of each logo plus students can do their own afterwards if they wish.

A simple sheet where they have to link the shape to the properties - made for a purpose but other may find it useful.

Work out the probability of each superhero fighting the given battles using tree diagrams. Batman uses fractions, Spiderman decimals.

Quite wordy questions but the maths is simple - crack the code to find the punchline to my (slightly lame) joke.

Notes, examples and questions to do on simple powers, simplifying indices, surds, rationalising the denominators and mutliplying out two brackets.

Figure out the answer to the (awful) joke by finding HCF or LCM of pairs of numbers.

Here are 3 frequency tables and the mean, mode and range from each. The student cut and stick the results and tables into the correct groups.

The name was suggested by a pupils of mine, but it's pretty self explanatory. Describe Bear&'s journey across the Lake District, where he meets friends and ends up at Stan Laurel&';s birthplace in Ulverston!

The usual cheesy joke; these offer an increasing challenge as students work through them and seem popular (certainly in my classes). Some are partially factorised which makes the students think.

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.

Two corny jokes to unveil. Sheet one is purely rectangles, squares and triangles; sheet two involves parallelograms, trapeziums and circles.

Just a quick homework, starter or plenary which gives a punchline to a lame joke.

With the new curriculum in mind I did this. Students must use their knowledge of parallel and perpendicular lines to fill in blanks but this could lead to discussions about different ways to write equations of lines etc. Errant negative signs on number 4 corrected (I hope).

A set of notes, examples and questions taking students through mental and written methods of these calculations.

I (when I say "I", I really mean "students") needed some practise on tally/frequency tables and this is what I came up with. There are three tables to complete: firstly a simple tally/frequency, secondly the students must fill in the categories and thirdly a grouped frequency table (on the other side of the worksheet as a mini extension). Simple but got the job done.

A comment from my trainee teacher made me think that rounding to decimal places and significant figures needed an activity, so I came up with this. It should get students thinking and should open up discussion on rounding, which can be a little "dry" but essential to get to grips with. Typo corrected!