A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 questions on rationalising the denominator. Each question features a fraction with a surd on the bottom which needs rationalising in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia jigsaws make excellent starter activities for maths lessons and are equally useful as group activities to get students discussing their understanding.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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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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