Practice adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators with this higher level Tarsia jigsaw puzzle. Featuring 30 questions over 24 jigsaw pieces, students need to add or subtract the pairs of fractions by converting both into equivalent fractions. Mixed numbers are also included. Simply solve the sums to match the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Excellent as either a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity, foundation and intermediate versions to aid differentiation can also be found in the DoingMaths shop.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle all about adding and subtracting with negative numbers. Solve the 30 addition and subtraction questions in order to match the 24 pieces together and complete the puzzle. Great for a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle containing 30 sums involving multiplication of negative numbers. Simply solve the sums to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answers included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 questions on multiplying and dividing surds such as square root 10 * square root 2 and square root 120 / square root 5. Answer the questions to match together the 24 jigsaw pieces and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia jigsaws make great maths lesson starter activities and are equally useful as group activities for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Two simplifying algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaws which require your students to collect like terms in order to simplify each expression.
Each jigsaw puzzle features 30 algebraic expressions spread over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces. Match each of the expressions with its simplified form in order to piece the triangles together and solve the puzzle.
Maths jigsaw puzzles are excellent as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity to get your class discussing their understanding as they work together to complete the puzzle. This can be used as formative assessment, allowing you to check students’ progress without setting tests.
This pack features two puzzles:
Puzzle 1 - Beginner: All expressions feature a combination of a, b, c and integers.
Puzzle 2 - Advanced: All expressions feature a combination of x, y, x^2, y^2, xy and integers.
All files are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Related resources
Solving Inequalities Tarsia jigsaw puzzle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Substituting into algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
A pack of four Christmas themed arithmetic codebreaker puzzles featuring addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Your students need to answer the 26 arithmetic questions in order to crack the code and find the answer to the Christmas riddle. Perfect for primary school or any secondary school student requiring extra practice.
Worksheet 1 covers addition, worksheet 2 covers subtraction, worksheet 3 covers multiplication and worksheet 4 covers all four main operations.
All worksheets are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Given that a=2 and b=5, students need to substitute into the algebraic expressions in order to match up the triangular pieces and form the giant hexagon.
With 30 expressions to substitute into, this activity is a great lesson starter or settling activity and also works well as a group activity for checking understanding of substitution of positive integers into simple algebraic expressions.
The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Get your students practising their European capital city knowledge with this fun Tarsia match-up puzzle. It features 30 European countries and their respective capitals. By matching them up into their correct pairs, the 24 triangular pieces join together to make one large hexagon.
The puzzle is in pdf format with an answer sheet included.
Five Tarsia puzzles each consisting of 30 expressions to substitute the given values into. The puzzles gradually increase in difficulty:
Puzzle 1 - Two positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 2 - Three positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 3 - Two positive values and one negative value, slightly more challenging expressions.
Puzzle 4 - Three positive values, expressions involving squares and cubes.
Puzzle 5 - Three positive values and one negative value, expressions involving squares, cubes and brackets.
Perfect as maths lesson starter activities or as group activities to test understanding of substitution into algebraic expressions.
A bundle of three Tarsia jigsaw puzzles covering multiplying and dividing fractions. Each puzzle features 30 questions which need to be answered correctly to then fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Puzzle 1: Multiplying a whole number by a fraction.
Puzzle 2: Multiplying two fractions together.
Puzzle 3: Dividing whole numbers or fractions by a fraction.
Maths jigsaw puzzles make a great maths lesson starter activity or group task for assessment for learning.
All the puzzles are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
A 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 quadratic expressions and their completed square form. Simply complete the square for each expression to match it up with its answer and complete the puzzle.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
Jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Visit the DoingMaths store to find more jigsaws and chain puzzles covering all aspects of maths.
Related resources
More Tarsia jigsaw sets
Using Surds Jigsaw
Using Algebraic Functions Jigsaw
Making x the Subject of the Formula Jigsaw
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Jigsaw
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 modes of transport in English and Spanish for your students to match up. Simply match each type of transport with its translation in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Each Spanish translation also comes complete with its definite article (el or la) in order to help learn the gender of each word.
Tarsia puzzles are great as lesson starter activities and equally useful as a group task for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
12 printable Mathematician of the month posters. Each poster is on two sides of A3 and features pictures, information, trivia and questions on a mathematician who was born in that month.
From people renowned for their maths such as Isaac Newton and Evariste Galois, through to less well-known mathematicians such as Katherine Johnson and G. H. Hardy and people more famous for other things such as Florence Nightingale, each month highlights some of the mathematics of each person along with further information about their impact on the world.
Perfect to put up as a changeable display each month and great for showing pupils that there is more to maths than just arithmetic and quadratic equations.
The posters come as PDF files with two A3 sheets for each mathematician. Each month of the year is included (maybe August could be put up in September).
Learn the capital cities of the world with these eight match-up jigsaw puzzles featuring capital cities from Europe, Africa, Asia, North American, South American and Oceania (Australasia).
Match each country up with its capital city to complete the puzzles.
Each file is in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Learn the flags of South American with this fun match-up chain puzzle. Simply match each country to its flag to complete the chain. Featuring all twelve South American countries and their flags, this makes a great geography lesson starter activity.
Files are in PDF format with answer sheet included.
The Algebra Practice Bundle contains 19 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles to get your students practising their algebra skills. For each puzzle, simply solve the questions and match them up with their answers to fit the pieces together.
Great fun as a maths lesson starter activity or equally useful as a group activity for formative assessment, this bundle covers most areas of GCSE algebra including:
Completing the square
Factorising quadratic expressions
Finding the formula for the nth term of a sequence
Changing the subject of an algebraic formula
Simplifying algebraic expressions
Solving quadratic equations
Solving linear and quadratic inequalities
Substituting into algebraic expressions
Using algebraic functions
All files are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Related resources
Using surds Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 cloassroom posters
A collection of six worksheets featuring two different fraction walls and a set of equivalent fractions, adding fractions and subtracting fractions worksheets for each wall.
Use the visual representation of the fractions in the wall to aid students in their understanding of what equivalent fractions are, how to switch between then and how to use them to add or subtract fractions with different denominators.
All files are in PDF format and answers are included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Further resources
Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Adding and subtracting fractions differentiated Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
A number of the day lesson starter worksheet for practising basic number skills.
You choose the 3 or 4 digit number of the day and your students write it on their sheet before completing the number problems using that number.
Featured on the worksheet is:
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Converting into word form
Adding/subtracting tens and hundreds
Rounding to the nearest 10 and 100
Finding the factors
and more…
The sheet can be laminated to make a reusable resource ready for the beginning of every lesson; you simply use a different starting number each day.
The worksheet is in printable PDF format.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Further resources
Maths Certificates - Pack of 50 Maths Awards
2 digit addition and subtraction - Pack of 45 printable worksheets
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
A free sample of 3 printable Maths certificates, each featuring a mathematician or scientist linked to the award. Each of the certificates also includes a picture and biography giving some basic information about the award’s historical figure and listing some of their important contributions to their STEM field.
This pack contains:
The Isaac Newton award for not letting gravity or anything else hold them back.
The Katherine Johnson award for excellent mental mathematics.
The Leonardo da Vinci award for accurate and precise diagrams.
The certificates come as a printable PDF file.
These maths certificates are part of a 50 certificate pack available to buy from the DoingMaths TES Store.
As well as a further 47 certificates covering various mathematical topics and skills, and each featuring a different mathematician or scientist, the full pack also includes PDF certificates in red, white or blue, plus the original, fully-editable PowerPoint file and instructions on how to edit the backgrounds of all certificates.
Further resources
Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
Simplify the fractions to complete the jigsaw puzzle in this fun printable maths activity.
Featuring 30 pairs of equivalent fractions over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces, your students need to match the equivalent fractions in order to fit the triangles together into one large hexagon.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task during lesson, enabling you to do some formative assessment by listening to your students discussing their understanding while completing the task.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Related resources
Dividing fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle
Multiplying and dividing fractions Tarisa jigsaw puzzle bundle
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Fraction walls - Finding equivalent fractions and adding/subtracting fractions worksheet pack