Solving Equations Codebreakers - Cross Curriculum

This resource contains three different worksheets to suit the different levels of ability that your students are working at with solving equations. All three resources are a codebreaker that gives a capital city as the solution and asks the student to name the country that it is the capital of. This allows you to incorporate some geography into your maths lesson, encouraging your students to be engaged with learning across the curriculum! Each worksheet then challenges students to try and create their own questions for a peer. Please see a break down of each worksheet below :)

Worksheet 1. Solving one step equations
Set 1: Solving equations in the form a + b = c or a - b = c.
Set 2: Solving equations in the form ab = c.
Set 3: Solving equations in the form a/b = c
Set 4: A mixture of all of the above with some negatives included for added challenge.

Worksheet 2. Solving two step equations
Set 1: Solving equations in the form ab + c = d.
Set 2: Solving equations in the form ab - c = d.
Set 3: Solving equations in the form a/b + c = d.
Set 4: Solving equations in the form (a + b)/c = d.

Worksheet 3. Solving equations including brackets
Set 1: Solving equations in the form a(b + c) = d.
Set 2: Solving equations in the form a(b - c) = d.
Negative numbers begin to be tested in this set.
Set 3: Solving equations in the form a(b + c) + d(e+f) = d
Set 3 includes negatives in the expansion that regularly challenge students.

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