Solve the addition and subtraction problems to find the path through the maze.
Beginning with ‘Start’ your students need to answer the sum and follow the correct path to the next question. Repeat until they have reached the finish.
This pack contains 6 maths mazes:
Addition - One without carrying and two featuring carrying
Subtraction - One without borrowing and two featuring borrowing
Each worksheet comes with an answer sheet.
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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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Maths Certificates - Pack of 50 Maths Awards
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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.
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Math Certificates - Pack of 50 Math Awards
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
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A free sample of 3 printable Maths certificates, each featuring a mathematician or scientist linked to the award. Each of the certificates also includes a picture and biography giving some basic information about the award’s historical figure and listing some of their important contributions to their STEM field.
This pack contains:
The Isaac Newton award for not letting gravity or anything else hold them back.
The Katherine Johnson award for excellent mental mathematics.
The Leonardo da Vinci award for accurate and precise diagrams.
The certificates come as a printable PDF file.
These maths certificates are part of a 50 certificate pack available to buy from the DoingMaths TES Store.
As well as a further 47 certificates covering various mathematical topics and skills, and each featuring a different mathematician or scientist, the full pack also includes PDF certificates in red, white or blue, plus the original, fully-editable PowerPoint file and instructions on how to edit the backgrounds of all certificates.
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A pack of 50 printable, fully-editable maths certificates featuring prominent mathematicians from throughout history.
Each award features a different mathematician and an award category linked to that mathematician’s history. Historical figures featured include famous mathematicians such as Isaac Newton and Pythagoras through to more obscure figures such as Sophie Germain and Simon Stevin. A short biography of each mathematician is also included on each certificate. Perfect for end of term or year awards.
The awards cover topics such as:
mental mathematics - Katherine Johnson
probability - Giralamo Cardano
algebra - al-Khwarizmi
statistics - Florence Nightingale
geometry - Euclid
algebraic equations - Niels Abel
maps and scales - Gerardus Mercator
area and circumference of circles - Archimedes
coordinates - Rene Descartes
and more…
Also included are awards for maths skills such as:
pair work - Mary Cartwright
group work - Evariste Galois
improvement in maths - Carl Friedrich Gauss
being a star - John Flamsteed
problem solving - Martin Gardner
and more…
The certificates are in printable PDF format in three colours; red, blue or white. Also included is the fully editable PowerPoint file allowing the name and date to be typed on, background designs to be changed or wording to be edited to suit individual students. Instructions are included on how to change the background colour of all certificates.
Image attributions (where required) are also included in the download.
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Further resources
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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.
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The Algebra Practice Bundle contains 19 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles to get your students practising their algebra skills. 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:
Completing the square
Factorising quadratic expressions
Finding the formula for the nth term of a sequence
Changing the subject of an algebraic formula
Simplifying algebraic expressions
Solving quadratic equations
Solving linear and quadratic inequalities
Substituting into algebraic expressions
Using algebraic functions
All files 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.
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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.
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Simplify the fractions to complete the jigsaw puzzle in this fun printable maths activity.
Featuring 30 pairs of equivalent fractions over 24 triangular jigsaw pieces, your students need to match the equivalent fractions in order to fit the triangles together into one large hexagon.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task during lesson, enabling you to do some formative assessment by listening to your students discussing their understanding while completing the task.
The jigsaw is in printable PDF format with answer sheet included.
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A set of three printable worksheets covering addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers both with and without borrowing/carrying.
This free sample pack includes the following printable worksheets:
One 2-digit addition with carrying worksheet
One 2-digit subtraction without borrowing worksheet
One mixed arithmetic worksheet featuring 2-digit add and take-away with some borrowing/carrying.
Each of the worksheets features 20 questions with space for working out and answers to be written in and answer sheets are included.
These worksheets make excellent warm-up activities for maths lessons, are great for numeracy hour and also make quick summative assessments.
All worksheets are in printable PDF format.
This is a free sample containing 3 worksheets from the 2-digit Addition and Subtraction - Arithmetic Practice Worksheet Pack. The full pack consists of 45 worksheets covering addition and subtraction, both with and without borrowing and carrying.
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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.
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A free worksheet to get your students practising how to tell the time from an analogue clock.
The worksheet features 9 analogue clocks which require your students to read the time and write it down below the clock. All of the times on this beginner worksheet are either o’clock, quarter past, half past or quarter to.
The worksheet is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
This worksheet is a free sample from the pack ‘Analogue and Digital Time Worksheets and Puzzles’.
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A printable Mathematician of the Month poster for January featuring Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ among many other things.
The poster comes as a printable PDF with two A3 sheets highlighting Dodgson’s mathematics, some interesting facts about Dodgson himself, and questions to get your students thinking mathematically.
The full pack of 12 Mathematician of the Month posters is available to buy from the DoingMaths shop and features a double A3 poster for each month of the year highlighting the work of various mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Evariste Galois and Katherine Johnson.
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This free sample of Cafe Menu Maths contains the beginner menu and question set from the Cafe Menu Maths pack.
Perfect for practising the use of money with Key Stages 1 and 2, this sample set contains one cafe menu featuring prices in multiples of £0.50 and simple questions about finding the total cost of different orders.
The full pack contains two further menus with prices rounded to the nearest £0.25 or £0.05 and trickier questions for more differentiation plus a bonus table order sheet for pupils to practise adding the prices together to calculate the total bill.
The file is in PDF format.
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A jigsaw chain puzzle featuring 16 quadratic inequalities which require solving in order to match the tiles together and complete the puzzle. Each tile contains a quadratic to solve and an answer. Solve the quadratic, match it up with the tile with the correct answer on it and keep going until the tiles fit together in one circular chain.
Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
This is a free sample of a maths jigsaw activity. Visit the DoingMaths store to find more jigsaws and chain puzzles covering all aspects of maths.
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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.
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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.
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 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.
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