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A set of two Tarsia maths jigsaw puzzles for practising the order of operations in calculations. Commonly referred to as BIDMAS, BODMAS, PEMDAS or other similar acronyms, knowing how to use the order of operations is an extremely important skill for all students to learn. The two puzzles are differentiated with the first puzzle just using brackets along with addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, while the second puzzle extends this to use of indices. Excellent as a maths lesson sta

In this Tarsia maths jigsaw puzzle, your students need to use the laws of indices to simplify the expressions and solve the puzzle. The jigsaw involves the use of the index laws for multiplication, division and powers of powers using positive, integer indices only. Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group task for students to discuss their understanding with each other, promoting collaboration and critical thinking. The jigsaw is in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF format with answer sheet i

Two simplifying algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaw puzzles, perfect for practising this important algebra skill. Each puzzle contains 30 expressions which require simplifying by collecting like terms. Match them up with their simplified versions to join the triangular pieces together and solve the puzzle. Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group task for students to discuss their understanding with each other. Maths jigsaw puzzles are also excellent as formative assessment, allowi

A collection of four Tarsia jigsaw puzzles covering the laws of indices, negative indices and fractional indices. Ensure your students know what to do when faced with a negative power or fraction power with these fun maths activities. Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group task for students to discuss their understanding with each other, promoting collaboration and critical thinking. The jigsaws are in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF format with answer sheets included. All four puzzles ar

A pack of 5 printable maths worksheets featuring maths mazes on solving algebraic equations. For each maths maze, begin at start and answer the question. Follow the path containing the answer and then move on to the next question. Repeat until you get to the end. For further practice, the other questions on the worksheets can also be answered. This pack includes 5 maths mazes of increasing difficulty ranging from equations such as 2x=8 through to equations such as 3(2x+7)=39 with all answers in

A bundle of 19 Tarsia maths jigsaw puzzles covering algebra. Each puzzle requires students to solve the questions and match them with the correct answers in order to fit the jigsaw pieces together and solve the puzzle. Jigsaw puzzles make excellent maths lesson starter activities and are equally useful as a group task to get students discussing their understanding with each other. This can be used as an effective task for formative assessment. Topics included in this algebra bundle are: Completi

Get your students practising how to solve algebraic inequalities with this two pack of algebra jigsaw puzzles. Each jigsaw features 30 inequalities which need solving in order to fit the 24 pieces together and solve the puzzle. Puzzle 1 (beginners): Solve inequalities involving one simple function such as x+6 <11 and 6x <60. Puzzle 2 (advanced): Solve inequalities involving multiple functions or more complicated functions such as 2(3x+1) <4x+26 and 5x/2>-5. Jigsaw puzzles make excell

Get your students practising their manipulation of algebraic formulae with this algebra practice jigsaw puzzle about making x the subject of the formula. The puzzle features 30 formulae of the form y=... which each require rearranging into the form x=... and matching up with their answers in order to fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle. Great practice for that important skill of changing the subject of a formula. Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity to

Given that a=2, b=3 and c=5, students need to substitute into the 30 algebraic expressions in order to match together the triangular pieces into one large hexagon. This activity makes a great maths lesson starter/settling activity or alternatively can be used as a group activity to test students’ understanding of algebraic substitution using basic integers. The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included. This puzzle is also available as part of a great value bundle pack with four other p

Two Tarsia maths puzzles each containing 16 quadratic expressions which require factorising in order to connect the pieces together into one continuous chain. Puzzle 1: Factorise algebraic expressions of the form x^2 + bx + c Puzzle 2 (advanced): Factorise algebraic expressions of the form ax^2 + bx +c. Great as a lesson starter or as a group activity for formative assessment of your students. The puzzles are in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF format with answer sheets included. More DoingMaths acti

In this Tarsia maths jigsaw puzzle, your students need to use the laws of indices to simplify the expressions and solve the puzzle. By using index laws on problems with both positive and negative integer powers / exponents, the triangular pieces can be fitted together into one large hexagon. Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group task for students to discuss their understanding with each other, promoting collaboration and critical thinking. The jigsaw is in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF

Five puzzles each consisting of 30 algebraic expressions for students to substitute the given values into. The puzzles gradually increase in difficulty in terms of both numbers and expressions: Puzzle 1 - Two positive values into simple expressions. Puzzle 2 - Three positive values into simple expressions. Puzzle 3 - Two positive values and one negative value into slightly more challenging expressions. Puzzle 4 - Three positive values into expressions involving squares and cubes. Puzzle 5 - Thre

Solve the algebraic equations and use the results to answer the given riddles on these two codebreaker worksheets. The algebra riddle codebreakers make great maths lesson starters or fun revision activities. The pack includes two algebra riddles in no-fuss, ready-to-print pdf format with full answers included. More DoingMaths activities and infoSubstituting into algebraic expressions Tarsia jigsaw puzzle bundleAlgebra booklet - Practice and revision for GCSE algebraIndices practice Tarsia jigsaw

Two Tarsia maths puzzles each containing 16 quadratic equations which require solving in order to fit the pieces together into one continuous chain. Puzzle 1: Simpler equations of the form x^2 + bx + c = 0 Puzzle 2: More challenging equations of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0. This activity makes a great lesson starter and also works well as a group activity for checking understanding of solving quadratic equations. The puzzles are in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF format with answer sheets included. M

A collection of five Tarsia maths puzzles based on factorising and solving quadratic equations and expressions. File 1: Completing the square domino puzzle File 2: Two factorising quadratic expressions domino puzzles (puzzle 1 features expressions of the form x^2 + ax + b, while puzzle 2 features expressions of the form ax^2 + bx + c). File 3: Two solving quadratic equations domino puzzles (puzzle 1 features equations of the form x^2 + ax + b = 0, while puzzle 2 features equations of the form ax

A Tarsia maths jigsaw puzzle featuring 16 quadratic expressions. Simply complete the square for each expression and match each up with its answer in order to join the dominoes together in one long chain. Great as a maths lesson starter activity or as a group activity to get your students discussing their understanding with each other as they complete the task. This makes for a useful formative assessment task, reducing the need for summative tests. The file is in PDF format with answers included

In this Tarsia maths jigsaw, your students need to calculate the answers using fractional and negative indices to match the triangular pieces together into one large hexagon. This puzzle features 30 questions all with powers that are either negative, a fraction or both, which require simplifying. Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group task for students to discuss their understanding with each other, promoting collaboration and critical thinking. The jigsaw is in ready-to-print, no-fus

Given that a=3, b=-2 and c=4, students need to substitute into the 30 given algebraic expressions in order to fit the triangular pieces together into one large hexagon. This makes an excellent starter activity for maths lessons and is equally useful as a group exercise to test understanding of substitution of positive and negative numbers into algebraic expressions. The puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included. This puzzle is also available as part of a great value bundle pack with fou

Given that a=5, b=2 and c=4, students need to substitute into the 30 algebraic expressions in order to piece the triangles together into one large hexagon. This makes an excellent maths lesson starter and works equally well as a group activity to test understanding of substitution into expressions involving squares and cubes. The Tarsia puzzle is in PDF format with answer sheet included. This puzzle is also available as part of a great value bundle pack with four other puzzles of varying difficu

Given that a=2 and b=5, students need to substitute into the 30 algebraic expressions in order to match together the triangular jigsaw pieces into one large hexagon. This activity makes a great lesson starter and also works well as a group activity for checking understanding of substitution of positive integers into simple algebraic expressions. The puzzle is in ready-to-print, no-fuss PDF format with answer sheet included. This puzzle is also available as part of a great value bundle pack with