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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 collecting like terms, it is quite extensive but only covers expressions with at most two different terms all of which are linear. There are a few subtractions but nothing too misleading. This would make a great starter to assess how well students could deal with these easier questions before looking at some more difficult expressions. Students could work in threes probably as it is quite large and may take too long in pairs, thank you for sharing.