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Andy Lutwyche
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Does Maths resources (uses them in lessons) and is very opinionated about music.
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And one I completed yesterday.
Similarity (Length, Area, Volume) Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
Worded questions regarding similar shapes and their lengths/areas/volumes (this does what it says on the tin); answer correctly to reveal the punchline…
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March 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Reveal the joke…
Finding Gradients From Graphs Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
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
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March 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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I done a nuvver resauce:

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Surd Identities Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
Expanding brackets including surds essentially, and find the missing numbers. Do it all successfully and a cheesy joke is revealed.
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January 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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And another one
Comparing Coefficients Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
This is the usual codebreaker thing with expanding brackets at the core. Cheesy joke revealed upon finding the correct coefficients.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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If interested; this one’s a bit different
Plotting Distance-Time Graphs Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
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
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January 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Another fractions one: www.tes.com/resource-det...
Fractions - Larger or Smaller | Teaching Resources
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
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January 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A simplifying fractions joke: www.tes.com/resource-det...
Fractions (Simplest Form) Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
Simplify the fractions, reveal the punchline… you know the drill.
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January 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The English Teacher album is so “good” that every BBC6Music DJ is playing the same track (“Broken Biscuits”) off it when they have the entire thing to choose from… 🤔
December 14, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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A Christmas resource:

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What's Santa left in my stocking? - Indices | Teaching Resources
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
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December 12, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Playing the tripe that is Georgie Greep’s “Blues” (it’s just attempting to show off musically, is the modern equivalent of “King Arthur On Ice” and will be ridiculed eventually) then the beauty of Sade’s “Young Lion” sums up BBC 6Music and the reason I listen to it
December 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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A Christmas one on inequalities and regions.

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Santair Traffic Control | Teaching Resources
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.
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December 6, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Dire Straits’ “Private Investigations” doesn’t half go on… the single equivalent of “War and Peace” #80schart
December 1, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Soft Cell, the band that sound like they were formed in a wet break by a Year 8 Drama scholar and his friend #80schart
December 1, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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I did an indices resource today, which or might not be useful:

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Indices - Fill In The Blanks | Teaching Resources
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)
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November 28, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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I did a new maths joke sheet: www.tes.com/teaching-res...

I don’t blame you, I’d have scrolled past too.
Laws of Indices (Multiple Variables) Codebreaker | Teaching Resources
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.
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November 14, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Ok, so here I am if anybody’s interested.
November 10, 2024 at 10:10 PM