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How are we making maths fun? What have we got there? Hannah? Making maths fun is something that I. I think is really important, because if you're making maths fun, then there's less anxiety around it. I'm not going to go through all the resources because we do just have so many, but I wanted to highlight two resources that I think are really, really great fun and I created mainly because I'd used them in my own teaching. So the first one is Tarsier puzzles. You can see these. They're very simple recap work, fluency work, but the kids love it. It gets them active. They can do it in pairs. They can make their own as well, which is really good fun as well and can be quite a challenge for some pupils. And then this one is probably my favourite resource that I have ever made and it's because you can see my terrible, terrible sense of humour through it. So I will apologise in advance, but Maths Code Crackers, the idea is it's a recap of an entire block of work. You've got a really silly Jo. The kids have to answer questions to solve the punchline. And I used to love giving these to my class and saying, oh, but this is one of my favourite jokes. And the kids, they'd be solving the questions, oh, Ms. Sal, you're really not that funny. And it just used to get them really engaged. So I really love maths Code Crackers.

Yeah. What a great motivator. I really like the idea of pretending that it's your own joke, so I encourage all the teachers to pretend that they're your jokes, because I'm sure a lot of classes take a lot of joy in telling their teachers they're not very funny. That's a really nice one, thanks.