Reveal the Tim Vine joke by finding the fractions of a number. Silly typo corrected too!

Find the percentages of a number to reveal a Tim Vine joke. Error corrected.

Some quizzes on fun maths facts. Ideal for KS3 and KS4 students. I decided to do a maths quiz in the style of a pub quiz - hope you enjoy it. It's supposed to be a bit of fun, end of term type thing.

Use the information to cost the building of a swimming pool. I have tried to use genuine values for costs of hire and labour, so the the results should be fairly accurate.

Calculate how angry The Bulk is by figuring out what scale factor he's enlarged by and using Bulk's 'Angry Scale'. See how that relates to his 'safety' box and its surface area and volume.

Help Batman with his weaponry orders and tidying up the Batcave - can you help Batman arrange all his stuff?

Three worksheets from the "Defuse The Bomb" series starting from basic stuff up to wordy questions. Hopefully I have corrected a repeat on number 1.

This is a twist on revision notes. I have written some notes and given examples but there are mistakes that the students have to correct. They must therefore read the notes very carefully and a partner must check their work. The idea is derived from an idea born from a discussion on Twitter (if you're not on Twitter, seriously think about it). I have split the notes up into two bits but I have included the whole thing so that you can chop them up your own way, or change stuff if you want. It's a bit of an experiment and we&'ll see how it goes!

This is a twist on revision notes. I have written some notes and given examples but there are mistakes that the students have to correct. They must therefore read the notes very carefully and a partner must check their work. The idea is derived from an idea born from a discussion on Twitter (if you're not on Twitter, seriously think about it). I have split the notes up into two bits but I have included the whole thing so that you can chop them up your own way, or change stuff if you want. It&'s a bit of an experiment and we&';ll see how it goes!

This is a twist on revision notes. I have written some notes and given examples but there are mistakes that the students have to correct. They must therefore read the notes very carefully and a partner must check their work. The idea is derived from an idea born from a discussion on Twitter (if you're not on Twitter, seriously think about it). I have split the notes up into two bits but I have included the whole thing so that you can chop them up your own way, or change stuff if you want. It&'s a bit of an experiment and we&';ll see how it goes!

Same as all the others - answer the questions and unjumble the letters to find your next destination.

This is a revision aid where students must read the 'notes' carefully and find the deliberate errors (and possibly undeliberate ones!). I have split (with some overlap) it up into three parts going from 'what is an expression/identity/equation?', through simplifying, expanding brackets, factorising into a bracket, solving equations, multiplying out 2 brackets, factorising quadratics and solving quadratics (factorising, completing the square and the formula). The aim is to get them active in their revision!

The Mathematician, that notorious terrorist, has put a series of bombs around the country, but each has a clue to defuse it. These cover many aspects of fractions, decimals and percentages and are numbered so that they get increasingly difficult. As I say, my classes like these as starters/plenaries, hence there are so many.

Three different codebreakers covering solving equations of increasing difficulty as you go through them. Solve the equations, find the letter and complete the anagrams of films.

Convert the units and find the answer to a joke. It involves length, mass and capacity.

I’ve no idea where I got these (if they were yours then message me and I will give credit as it’s certainly due) but I only had a paper copy so I have typed them up because I use them every year. They do exactly what they say on the tin. I have added my own one with slightly harder shapes entitled Cake Joke, but it’s the same thing (error corrected).

That terrorist, The Mathematician, is at it again. Make sure that you cut the right coloured wires to save everyone! This involves basic linear graphs, through more complicated linear graphs to quadratics and non-linear graphs (cubics, reciprocals and exponentials). My students seem to like this Defuse The Bomb concept, so as Simple Minds said in the Eighties, 2 Unlimited in the Ninieties, and just about any artist since the Millennium: if it ain't broke, don&'t fix it.

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.

A couple of statitstical graphs regarding the World Cup with some questions that I've come up with for my class(es); I&'m sure you could come up with different ones if you wish. The website I got them from is very USA-centric but interesting and could be used as a numeracy resource or cross-curricular stuff.

Three sheets varying from basic up to difficult. Angles 1 - lines, around a point, triangles. Angles 2 - parallel lines, polygons. Angles 3 - circle theorems. Each QR code links to a song where the band or song contains either a number or colour and they must find the final code. Could lead onto questioning and explanations as to how they arrived at their answer.