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Completing the Square - Algebraic Expressions Jigsaw Puzzle
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Completing the Square - Algebraic Expressions Jigsaw Puzzle

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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. Related resources More Tarsia jigsaw sets Using Surds Jigsaw Using Algebraic Functions Jigsaw Making x the Subject of the Formula Jigsaw Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Jigsaw
Using Algebraic Functions Advanced Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzle - Algebra Substitution Practice
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Using Algebraic Functions Advanced Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzle - Algebra Substitution Practice

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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. Related resources More Tarsia jigsaw sets Using Surds Jigsaw Solving Inequalities Jigsaw Making x the Subject of the Formula Jigsaw Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Jigsaw
2 Digit Addition and Subtraction - Arithmetic Practice Worksheet Pack
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2 Digit Addition and Subtraction - Arithmetic Practice Worksheet Pack

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A set of 45 printable worksheets covering addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers. The pack contains: Fifteen 2-digit addition worksheets - 5 without carrying, 5 with carrying and 5 mixed. Fifteen 2-digit subtraction worksheets - 5 with borrowing, 5 without borrowing and 5 mixed. Fifteen 2-digit addition and subtraction mix worksheets - 5 without carrying or borrowing, 5 with carrying and borrowing and 5 mixed. Each worksheet features 20 questions with space for pupils to write their working and answers. Answer sheets are included for all worksheets for easy marking. These worksheets make excellent warm-up activities for maths lessons and are great as practice for numeracy hour or for use as quick summative assessment. All worksheets and answer sheets are in printable PDF format. More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store. Related resources Arithmetic riddle packs Addition Subtraction Multiplication Mixed operations
Finding Squares, Cubes and Roots - Maths Practice Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzle
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Finding Squares, Cubes and Roots - Maths Practice Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzle

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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. Related resources Using surds Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Algebra Catch-up Booklet Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Substituting into algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions - Maths Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzles
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Simplifying Algebraic Expressions - Maths Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzles

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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. More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store. Related resources Solving Inequalities Tarsia jigsaw puzzle Algebra Catch-up Booklet Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Substituting into algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Factorising Quadratic Expressions Tarsia Puzzle - GCSE Mathematics
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Factorising Quadratic Expressions Tarsia Puzzle - GCSE Mathematics

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Two Tarsia puzzles requiring students to factorise various quadratic expressions or expand brackets. The pieces go together end to end forming a circular chain when completed. Puzzle 1 consists of expressions of the form x^2 + bx +c, while puzzle 2 increases the difficulty level by using expressions of the form ax^c + bx + c. Answers to both puzzles are included
Functional Skills Level 1 Workbook - Decorating Your Home
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Functional Skills Level 1 Workbook - Decorating Your Home

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This Functional Skills workbook uses decorating examples to practice many of the core skills of Functional Skills Level 1. With 8 pages of activities including: Calculating the areas of floors and walls Working out how many tins of paint are required for a room Reading off measurements on a tape measure Calculating the hire price of equipment Comparing costs in different sales. Functional Skills used include: Number work Areas and perimeters of rectangles and compound shapes Reading from tables Basic proportion Using worded formulae Calculating simple percentages and fractions of amounts Converting between metric units The workbook comes in pdf format with full answers included.
Solving Quadratic Equations Tarsia Puzzle - GCSE Mathematics
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Solving Quadratic Equations Tarsia Puzzle - GCSE Mathematics

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Two Tarsia puzzles requiring students to solve various quadratic equations. When solved, the pieces join together in one continuous chain. Puzzle 1 consists of solving simpler quadratics of the form x^2 + bx + c, while the more challenging puzzle 2 requires students to solve equations of the from ax^2 + bx + c. Full answers to both puzzles are included.
Simple Probability Tarsia Puzzle - KS3 Mathematics
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Simple Probability Tarsia Puzzle - KS3 Mathematics

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A Tarsia puzzle containing questions on simple probability in both fraction form and worded, such as probabilities with dice and playing cards, picking coloured marbles from a bag and even the probability of winning the National Lottery. Answer the questions correctly to connect the pieces together into one large triangle. Perfect for a fun starter or an informal test to check students’ progress. An answer sheet is included.
Analogue and Digital Time Worksheets and Puzzles KS 1 and 2
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Analogue and Digital Time Worksheets and Puzzles KS 1 and 2

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A collection of time worksheets and activities covering telling the time on analogue clocks and converting between 12 hour and 24 hour time. Great for Key Stage 1 analogue clock reading and Key Stage 2 converting between 12 hour and 24 hour clocks. Included are: Reading analogue clocks - One worksheet on reading time to quarters of hours and one worksheet on reading to five minute intervals. Fill in the clocks - Three worksheets of varying difficulties from half hour intervals through to five minute intervals requiring pupils to draw the hands on the clocks. Converting time - Three worksheets involving converting between analogue, digital 12 hour clock and digital 24 hour clock. Puzzles - One chain puzzle on converting 12 hour clock to 24 hour clock and one chain puzzle on converting between analogue and digital time. All answers are included in the pack.
Mathematician of the Month Posters - 12 double A3 posters
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Mathematician of the Month Posters - 12 double A3 posters

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12 printable Mathematician of the month posters. Each poster is on two sides of A3 and features pictures, information, trivia and questions on a mathematician who was born in that month. From people renowned for their maths such as Isaac Newton and Evariste Galois, through to less well-known mathematicians such as Katherine Johnson and G. H. Hardy and people more famous for other things such as Florence Nightingale, each month highlights some of the mathematics of each person along with further information about their impact on the world. Perfect to put up as a changeable display each month and great for showing pupils that there is more to maths than just arithmetic and quadratic equations. The posters come as PDF files with two A3 sheets for each mathematician. Each month of the year is included (maybe August could be put up in September).
Algebra Catch-up Kit - Creating Expressions, Simplifying and Substitution
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Algebra Catch-up Kit - Creating Expressions, Simplifying and Substitution

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This is an algebra catch-up worksheet and activity set aimed at lower attaining secondary school students who are struggling with algebra concepts. Designed to take them back to the beginning with simple activities about creating and simplifying expressions and substituting into them. The set includes the algebra catch-up booklet of 13 pages, which can be used either as a booklet to work through or as individual worksheets, and a match-up activity to check understanding of collecting like-terms. Perfect for individual or small group catch-up sessions, this set also works well as an introduction to algebra for younger pupils. Answer booklet included.
Maths Word Searches
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Maths Word Searches

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This collection of 14 maths based word searches makes excellent starter or settling activities for maths lessons, providing great vocabulary practice for 14 different GCSE mathematics topics. The word searches can be extended by asking pupils to write a definition of each word as they find them. The topics covered are: algebra, angles, area and volume, averages and the range, circles, collecting data, constructions, fractions, functions, lowest common multiple and highest common factor, powers, probability, quadrilaterals and sequences.
Cafe Menu Maths (Primary Mathematics Money, Arithmetic and Decimals)
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Cafe Menu Maths (Primary Mathematics Money, Arithmetic and Decimals)

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Perfect for practice of arithmetic with money and decimals in Key Stages 1 and 2, this resource includes a menu for ‘cafe maths’ in three difficulty levels: a beginner menu where all prices are in multiples of 50p, an intermediate menu with prices in multiples of 25p and an advanced menu with prices in multiples of 5p. All prices are written in pounds and pence. There are three sets of cut-out question cards of varying difficulties ranging from finding the price of an individual order, through to calculating cost and the expected change from an order, and working out what can be purchased for a set amount of money. There is also a sheet of four large orders for pupils to calculate the total cost. The menus and questions can be mixed and matched, so easier questions can be used with trickier numbers or vice versa to increase differentiation. The menus and question cards are illustrated with pictures of the menu items to allow easier use for those with reading difficulties.
Designing a Garden - Functional Maths Worksheet (Pounds and metres)
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Designing a Garden - Functional Maths Worksheet (Pounds and metres)

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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 Algebra Catch-up Booklet Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
Substituting into Algebraic Expressions 2 Tarsia Puzzle - a=2, b=3 and c=5
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Substituting into Algebraic Expressions 2 Tarsia Puzzle - a=2, b=3 and c=5

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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.
Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzles - Maths Practice
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Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple Tarsia Jigsaw Puzzles - Maths Practice

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A set of two jigsaw puzzles covering highest common factors and lowest common multiples of pairs of numbers. For each puzzle your students need to answer the 30 questions in order to fit together the 24 triangular pieces into one large hexagon. These puzzles make a great lesson starter activity and are ideal for testing the previous lesson’s learning or as a reminder warm-up activity. Puzzle one consists of finding the highest common factor of pairs of numbers, while puzzle two is finding the lowest common multiple of pairs of numbers. All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Circle Theorems Investigation Pack - GCSE Mathematics Geometry
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Circle Theorems Investigation Pack - GCSE Mathematics Geometry

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Featuring six worksheets and seven circle theorems, these worksheets will get your students measuring the angles and lines in order to deduce the circle theorems for themselves. An excellent introduction activity to circle theorems and perfect for a more hands-on approach. The pack is in PDF format with answers included.