Students need to calculate the answers using fractional and negative indices in order to match the triangular pieces together into one large hexagon.
With 30 questions all involving powers that are fractions, negative or both, this makes a great starter activity or group task in order to test students’ understanding of indices.
The puzzle comes in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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Powers, indices and surds Practice Bundle - Maths Jigsaw Puzzles
The powers, indices and surds Practice Bundle contains 10 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles to get your students practising their use of index notation. 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: * Finding squares, cubes and roots of whole numbers * Using index laws * Raising numbers to fractional and negative powers * Simplifying surds * Multiplying and dividing surds * Rationalising the denominator * Converting numbers into scientific notation / standard form * Multiplying and dividing numbers in standard form All files are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included. More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the [DoingMaths TES Store](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/D_A_Wilson). **Related resources** [Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12763062) [Algebra Catch-up Booklet](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/algebra-catch-up-kit-creating-expressions-simplifying-and-substitution-12324781) [Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12486463) [Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 cloassroom posters](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12319234)
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Indices Practice Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzles
Give your students practice on the laws of indices and using fractional and negative powers with these four jigsaw puzzles. The two Laws of Indices puzzles feature multiplying and dividing powers and finding powers of powers, while the other two puzzles practise how to simplify numbers with negative and/or fractional powers. Great as maths lesson starters or as group tasks, these puzzles are all in PDF format and come complete with answer sheets.
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