Get your students practising their knowledge of fractional powers this match-up jigsaw activity. Calculate the answers to the 30 questions with powers in fraction form and match them up with the answers to piece together the triangles into one large hexagon.
Great as a starter activity or as group work.
The resources are in PDF format with answers included.
A 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 questions on dividing fractions. Simply solve the fraction division questions such as 11/12 ÷ 3/8 and 6 ÷ 2/3 in order to match the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A 24 piece Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 quadratic expressions and their completed square form. Simply complete the square for each expression to match it up with its answer and complete the puzzle.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
Jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Visit the DoingMaths store to find more jigsaws and chain puzzles covering all aspects of maths.
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A maths activity worksheet where students need to design and draw a scale diagram of a garden based on the prices and restrictions given.
This functional skills worksheet practices skills including:
logical thinking
numeracy
area and perimeter
money
scale drawing
This worksheet is the English version with prices in pounds and measurements in metres. An American version of the garden maths worksheet is also available.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Further resources
Maths Certificates - Pack of 50 Maths Awards
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Given that a=2, b=3 and c=5, students need to substitute into the given expressions in order to match up the triangular pieces and solve the puzzle. Once completed, the pieces make a hexagon.
With 30 expressions to substitute into, this activity makes a great lesson starter/settling activity or alternatively can be used as a group activity to test students’ understanding of algebraic substitution.
The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet 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.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 sums involving division with negative numbers. Simply solve the division questions in order to fit the 24 pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet 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 functions of the form f(x) = … which require your students to substitute in the given value of x and solve. Once solved, match each question up with its answer in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia jigsaws make excellent maths lesson starter activities and are equally useful as group activities for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A Beginners version of the functions puzzle is also available.
Visit the DoingMaths store to find more jigsaws and chain puzzles covering all aspects of maths.
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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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Algebra Catch-up Booklet
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A Tarsia puzzle which involves looking at quadratic expressions and completing the square. When answered, the puzzle pieces then fit together end to end to make a circular chain.
Full answers are included.
Get your students practising how to share amounts into ratios with this 24 piece match up jigsaw puzzle. Divide each of the 30 amounts into the given ratios to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as an assessment for learning exercise.
Files are in PDF format with answers included.
Get your students practising how to simplify ratios into unit form with this 24 piece jigsaw puzzle. Simplify each of the 30 ratios into the form 1:n to match the piece together and complete the puzzle.
Maths jigsaws make a great starter activity for maths lessons and are equally useful as group activities for assessment for learning.
Files are in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A math activity worksheet where students need to design and draw a scale diagram of a garden based on the prices and restrictions given.
This functional skills worksheet practices skills including:
logical thinking
numeracy
area and perimeter
money
scale drawing
This worksheet is the American version with prices in dollars and measurements in yards. An English version of the garden maths worksheet is also available.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
Further resources
Math Certificates - Pack of 50 Math Awards
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
This number bonds collection consists of ten worksheets covering number bonds to ten, twenty, one hundred, one thousand plus two bonus extension sheets covering decimal number bonds to one.
Perfect for practising this important arithmetic skill, the ten sheets cover all abilities within your class and are perfect for primary maths.
All resources are in PDF format with answers included.
Practise finding fractions of an amount with these two Tarsia match-up jigsaw puzzles.
Puzzle one (beginner) has 16 jigsaw pieces featuring 18 questions on finding a unit fraction of whole numbers e.g. 1/7 of 63.
Puzzle two (intermediate) has 24 pieces and features 30 questions on finding non-unit fractions of whole numbers e.g. 5/12 of 60.
Maths jigsaw puzzles make a great maths lesson starter activity and equally as useful as a group activity for assessment for learning.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
A pack of two Tarsia jigsaw puzzles on converting between mixed numbers and improper (top-heavy) fractions. Each jigsaw features 30 pairs of fractions to match up in order to fit the 24 pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Puzzle 1 covers converting between simplified mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Puzzle 2 covers converting between top-heavy fractions which require simplifying and simplified mixed numbers.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task for assessment for learning.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Get your students practising how to use order of operations (BODMAS, BIDMAS, PEMDAS) with these two differentiated Tarsia jigsaw puzzles.
Each puzzle features 30 expressions which need calculating and then matching up with the correct answer to fit the 24 triangular pieces together into one large hexagon.
Puzzle 1 features order of operations with brackets, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Puzzle features this plus the use of indices.
Perfect for a starter activity or as a group activity.
Two simplifying algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaws which require your students to collect like terms in order to simplify each expression.
Each jigsaw puzzle features 30 algebraic expressions spread over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces. Match each of the expressions with its simplified form in order to piece the triangles together and solve the puzzle.
Maths jigsaw puzzles are excellent as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity to get your class discussing their understanding as they work together to complete the puzzle. This can be used as formative assessment, allowing you to check students’ progress without setting tests.
This pack features two puzzles:
Puzzle 1 - Beginner: All expressions feature a combination of a, b, c and integers.
Puzzle 2 - Advanced: All expressions feature a combination of x, y, x^2, y^2, xy and integers.
All files are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
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