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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