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A Tarsia activity on simplifying expressions. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments, or spot any (non deliberate!) mistakes, please share them below. Many thanks to all the teachers who have helped me assemble these Tarsias over the years.
This is an excellent tarsia on simplifying expressions, it is quite extensive and covers a lot of different examples some of which involve brackets and divisions. This would make a great main activity to assess how well students could deal with something a little more complex when simplifying expressions. Students could work in threes probably as it is quite large and may take too long in pairs, thank you for sharing.