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.
Five Tarsia puzzles each consisting of 30 expressions to substitute the given values into. The puzzles gradually increase in difficulty:
Puzzle 1 - Two positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 2 - Three positive values, simple expressions.
Puzzle 3 - Two positive values and one negative value, slightly more challenging expressions.
Puzzle 4 - Three positive values, expressions involving squares and cubes.
Puzzle 5 - Three positive values and one negative value, expressions involving squares, cubes and brackets.
Perfect as maths lesson starter activities or as group activities to test understanding of substitution into algebraic expressions.
A collection of nine jigsaw puzzles each involving rounding 30 numbers to the given level of accuracy in order to fit the pieces together. Covering rounding to decimal places, whole numbers and significant figures, these puzzles make ideal lesson starter activities and are also great group exercises for practising this important skill.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
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).
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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Arithmetic riddle packs
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Mixed operations
Learn the capital cities of the world with these eight match-up jigsaw puzzles featuring capital cities from Europe, Africa, Asia, North American, South American and Oceania (Australasia).
Match each country up with its capital city to complete the puzzles.
Each file is in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Learn the flags of the world with this bundle of 8 match-up puzzles featuring the countries of Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania (Australasia).
Match each country with its flag in order to complete the puzzles.
Each file is in PDF format with answer sheets included.
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
Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 classroom posters
A collection of 7 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles for practising German vocabulary. For each puzzle simply match up each English word with its German translation in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia puzzles are great as German lesson starter activities and equally useful as a group task for assessment for learning.
The pack includes countries of the world, fruit and veg, clothes, sports, transport, parts of the body and animals.
The jigsaws are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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French Vocabulary Practice
A collection of 7 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles for practising Spanish vocabulary. For each puzzle simply match up each English word with its Spanish translation in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia puzzles are great as Spanish lesson starter activities and equally useful as a group task for assessment for learning.
The pack includes countries of the world, fruit and veg, clothes, sports, transport, parts of the body and animals.
The jigsaws are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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French Vocabulary Practice
German Vocabulary Practice
A collection of 7 Tarsia jigsaw puzzles for practising French vocabulary. For each puzzle simply match up each English word with its French translation in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Tarsia puzzles are great as French lesson starter activities and equally useful as a group task for assessment for learning.
The pack includes countries of the world, fruit and veg, clothes, sports, transport, parts of the body and animals.
The jigsaws are in printable PDF format with answer sheets included.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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Spanish Vocabulary Practice
German Vocabulary Practice
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.
Related resources
Algebra Practice Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Mathematician of the month - 12 double A3 cloassroom posters
Learn the flags and capital cities of the world with this super bundle of sixteen match-up puzzles featuring the countries of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania (Australasia).
Simply match each country to its capital city or flag in order to complete the puzzles. Great for geography lesson starters.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
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.
More DoingMaths Activities can be found in the DoingMaths TES Store.
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Using surds Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundle
Algebra Catch-up Booklet
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