Practice adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominators with this foundation jigsaw puzzle. Featuring 18 sums to complete over 20 jigsaw pieces, simply add or subtract the fractions to complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter or group activity.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
Intermediate and Higher puzzles on adding and subtracting fractions are also available from the DoingMaths shop.
A Tarsia jigsaw puzzle all about converting into standard form. Featuring 30 questions across 24 pieces, your students need to match up each number with its standard form version in order to fit the pieces together and complete the puzzle. The puzzle features both positive and negative powers of ten.
Excellent as a maths lesson starter or as a group activity for assessment for learning.
The jigsaw is in PDF format with answer sheet included.
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
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.
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 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
Three jigsaw puzzles for your students to practice their rounding to the nearest integer, ten or hundred. Each puzzle consists of 30 numbers to be rounded in order to fit the 24 triangular pieces together into one large hexagon.
Puzzle 1 features rounding to the nearest whole number, puzzle 2 features rounding to the nearest ten and puzzle 3 features rounding to the nearest hundred.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Learn the flags of Africa with these two jigsaw puzzles featuring all 54 countries of Africa and their flags. Simply match each African country with its flag to complete the puzzles.
Puzzle one features 30 countries from A-M while puzzle two features 24 countries from M-Z.
Files are in PDF format with answers sheets 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 with this 24 piece printable jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 ratios which need simplifying. Match each of the ratios up with its simpified form to complete the puzzle.
Great as a maths lesson starter or even as a group task for assessment for learning.
Files are in PDF format with answer sheet included.
A pack of four Christmas themed arithmetic codebreaker puzzles featuring addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Your students need to answer the 26 arithmetic questions in order to crack the code and find the answer to the Christmas riddle. Perfect for primary school or any secondary school student requiring extra practice.
Worksheet 1 covers addition, worksheet 2 covers subtraction, worksheet 3 covers multiplication and worksheet 4 covers all four main operations.
All worksheets are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Get your students practising their European capital city knowledge with this fun Tarsia match-up puzzle. It features 30 European countries and their respective capitals. By matching them up into their correct pairs, the 24 triangular pieces join together to make one large hexagon.
The puzzle is in pdf format with an answer sheet 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.
Three jigsaw puzzles for practising rounding numbers to significant figures. Each puzzle consists of 24 pieces containing 30 numbers which need to be rounded to the given number of significant figures in order to piece the triangular pieces together into one large hexagon.
Puzzle 1 is about rounding to one significant figure, puzzle 2 is about rounding to two significant figures and puzzle 3 is a mixture of one-four significant figures.
Perfect as a lesson starter activity or as a group exercise to test understanding.
All files are in PDF format with answer sheets included.
Practise finding percentages of an amount using the multiplier method on a calculator with this 24 piece jigsaw puzzle featuring 30 percentage questions to solve.
Your students need to solve each percentage of the given amounts in order to match the pieces together and solve the puzzle.
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 bundle of three Tarsia jigsaw puzzles covering multiplying and dividing fractions. Each puzzle features 30 questions which need to be answered correctly to then fit the 24 jigsaw pieces together and complete the puzzle.
Puzzle 1: Multiplying a whole number by a fraction.
Puzzle 2: Multiplying two fractions together.
Puzzle 3: Dividing whole numbers or fractions by a fraction.
Maths jigsaw puzzles make a great maths lesson starter activity or group task for assessment for learning.
All the puzzles are in printable PDF format with answer sheets 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 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
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.
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