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.
Three jigsaw puzzles for your students to practice rounding to different numbers of decimal places. Each puzzle consists of 24 pieces and 30 numbers which need to be rounded to the given number of decimal places in order to fit the triangular pieces together into one large hexagon.
Puzzle 1 features rounding to one decimal place, puzzle 2 features rounding to two decimal places and puzzle 3 features a mixture of rounding to 1, 2 or 3 decimal places or the nearest integer.
Perfect as a lesson starter activity or as a group exercise for further rounding practice.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Great practice for your students on using ratios, this bundle contains match-up jigsaws on simplifying ratios, rewriting ratios in unit form and sharing amounts into ratios.
Each jigsaw features 30 pairs to match up across 24 pieces. Solve each question to complete the puzzle.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Practise converting between fractions, decimals and percentages with these three Tarsia jigsaw puzzles. Each puzzle features 30 pairs of matching figures across 24 pieces. Simply match each number up with its partner in order to complete the puzzles.
Puzzle one features converting between fractions and decimals.
Puzzle two features converting between decimals and percentages.
Puzzle three features converting between fractions and percentages.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Practice adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators with this intermediate level Tarsia jigsaw puzzle.
Featuring 30 questions across 24 jigsaw pieces, each question requires one fraction to be converted to an equivalent fraction in order to complete the addition or subtraction.
An excellent maths lesson starter activity or group task; foundation and higher versions are also available from the DoingMaths shop to aid with differentiation.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Practice finding the formula for the nth term of an algebraic sequence with this 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle. Featuring 30 pairs of nth term formulae and sequences, your students simply need to match each sequence to its formula to join the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Maths jigsaws are great as a maths lesson starter activity and equally useful as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Three Tarsia jigsaw puzzles focussing on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with negative numbers. Each puzzle features 30 questions to solve in order to fit the 24 pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Puzzle 1: Adding and subtracting with negative numbers
Puzzle 2: Dividing with negative numbers
Puzzle 3: Multiplying with negative numbers
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring surds which require simplifying in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together.
Contains surds such as square root 12 and square root 160 which need rewriting in their simplified form.
Tarsia jigsaws make excellent maths lesson starter activities and are equally useful as group tasks for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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.
Two Tarsia jigsaw puzzles on solving algebraic inequalities. Each jigsaw features 30 inequalities to solve in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and solve the puzzle.
Puzzle 1 for beginners: Simple inequalities featuring one function such as x+6<11 and 6x<60.
Puzzle 2 for advanced learners: Inequalities featuring two or more functions such as 2(3x+1)<4x+26 and 5x/2>-5.
The puzzles are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 simple algebraic functions. Your students need to substitute in the given value of x to answer the questions and match each up with their answers in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and solve the puzzle.
Tarsia jigsaws make excellent maths lesson starters and are equally effective as group activities for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 modes of transport in English and German 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 German translation also comes complete with its definite article (der, die or das) 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.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 modes of transport in English and French 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 French translation also comes complete with its definite article (le, la or l’) 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.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 clothes in English and French for your students to match up. Simply match each item of clothing with its translation in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Each French translation also comes complete with its definite article (le, la or l’) 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.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 clothes in English and German for your students to match up. Simply match each item of clothing with its translation in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Each German translation also comes complete with its definite article (der, die or das) 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.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 countries of the world in English and German for your students to match up. Simply match each country with its translation in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
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.
A collection of 7 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles for practising German vocabulary. For each puzzle simply match up each English word with its German translation in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia puzzles are great as German lesson starter activities and equally useful as a group task for assessment for learning.
The pack includes countries of the world, fruit and veg, clothes, sports, transport, parts of the body and animals.
The jigsaws are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
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Get your students practising their squares and cubes of numbers up to 12 and square roots of different integers with this maths practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle.
The puzzle features 30 questions where the answer to the square, cube or square root needs to be found in order to match the 24 triangular puzzle pieces into one large hexagon.
Jigsaw puzzles are great as maths lesson starter activities and equally useful as group activities where formative assessment can be done as you listen to your students discussing their understanding with each other.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 types of fruit and vegetable in English and French for your students to match up. Simply match each fruit or vegetable with its translation in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Each French translation also comes complete with its definite article (le, la or l’) 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.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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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.
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