Worded questions regarding similar shapes and their lengths/areas/volumes (this does what it says on the tin); answer correctly to reveal the punchline…

Nine gradients each revealing a letter to give the punchline to a cheesy joke. I suggest printing in A4 so it is more easily seen (A5 will almost certainly be too sm

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

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

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

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

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 ind

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.

I’ve started focusing on this a bit differently recently (ie. not just saying what a negative and fractional index does, getting them to use what they already know)

I was teaching Year 10 and realised that something like this would have been useful… so it’s the usual thing: answer the questions, reveal the cheesy joke.