IGCSE Math RevisionThemed maths: seasonal lessons for IGCSE and GCSE Maths
Ready-to-teach lesson packs for the days in the school year that classes look forward to. Each pack has a 5-minute starter, a 30–40 minute main activity, an extension, suggested timings, full worked answers and a printable student sheet. Every question is original and every answer is checked by computer.
Level: IGCSE and GCSE (Higher and Extended). Free to use and print.
Next up
Through the year
Halloween
Zombie outbreaks, pumpkin volumes, trick-or-treat probability and a haunted-house coordinate maze.
Open the lesson pack → 5 NovemberIGCSE / GCSEBonfire Night
Firework rockets as quadratics and projectiles, and ‘Remember, remember’ number patterns.
Open the lesson pack → 1–24 DecemberChristmaths advent calendar
One original festive puzzle a day from 1 to 24 December, with a class leaderboard.
Open the advent calendar →Valentine’s Day
Heart curves, cardioids and polar graphs.
Pi Day
Estimating π with Buffon’s needle and Monte Carlo simulation.
Spring egg geometry
Ellipses, egg-shaped curves and volumes of revolution.
Sports day and World Cup statistics
Real-looking match and race data: averages, spread, scatter graphs and predictions.
How to use a pack
Open the pack, put the starter on the board as students arrive and hand out the student sheet for the main activity. The answers are in a closed ‘For teachers’ section on each page and in a separate answers PDF, so you can project the page without giving them away.
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