Holiday Jigsaw Puzzle with Area Maths Activity

Cut out the shapes filled with essential holiday items and fit them into your suitcase!

Squeezing all of your belongings into a suitcase is often the hardest part of any holiday. The challenge is to make everything fit exactly within your luggage.

A holiday is never far away, so use maths to prepare for it!

Do you want a fun maths activity to challenge your students and get them thinking before you start teaching and get on the usual stuff?

Use this puzzle and maths questions to do just that and take your maths lessons outside of the classroom.

PACKING PUZZLE AND AREA QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS!

Created for any exam board, testing maths involving areas at the Key Stage 3 level.

Buy this activity pack now to show your students how maths can be applied to any situation!

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

An A4 page including a description of the question, shapes to cut out, a suitcase to stick the shapes onto and an extension task. Answers are provided as well as the worksheet in colour and in black and white.

The extension task involves finding the area of the shapes, which includes squares, rectangles, triangles and trapezium. The students can either count the squares, use formula or split up the shapes into smaller shapes to find the answers.

WHAT PREPARATION IS REQUIRED?
Print the puzzle to create an involved activity, share over the school’s online system or even work it out as a class on the board.

All questions and answers are provided as A4 sized PNG image files in the same format.

HOW CAN THEY BE USED?
Once you have downloaded the activity set you can use it time and time again in varying scenarios such as…

• Use as a starter to get your students focused and thinking
• Group up students and have them discuss the best way to answer the question
• Use as homework or even a holiday at home activity
• Use as a fun maths based challenge

Work as a team, mark each other’s work or challenge your students before they go on a real holiday, there are endless possibilities for this puzzle. Explore the joys of holidays with maths!