Help your primary school class to develop their mathematical understanding of Subtraction with this range of mastery maths teaching slides, worksheets, games, activities, assessments and additional teaching resources.

Subtraction

Tarsia puzzles offer your class a fun twist on a simple retrieval activity. Encourage your pupils to cut out the given triangles and match the question to the correct answer, therefore making one unified shape. 

Tarsia Puzzles

Add an element of fun to your maths lesson with these engaging retrieval activities. Perfect for use in class or as a homework activity. 

Tarsia puzzles can be used as individual activities or partner work. Partner work will encourage mathematical discussions and reasoning. 

Your Guide to Tarsia Puzzles

Year 1

Here you can find a range of Year 1 teaching slides, worksheets, activities, games, assessments and additional teaching resources to help you teach your Year 1 class the Key Stage 1 primary maths curriculum.

Deepen your Year 1 pupils' understanding of subtraction with this challenging tarsia puzzle.

Mix up the triangles in this tarsia puzzle and task your pupils to solve the subtracting within 20 calculations and match the questions and answers.

This adding equal groups tarsia puzzle can be used as an individual task to challenge pupils, or in partners or small groups to encourage mathematical conversations.

Often, teachers try to find fun ways for pupils to explore individual concepts. This tarsia puzzle provides an alternative to traditional worksheets when practising subtracting within 20.

You’ll find a template page for pupils to rebuild the subtracting within 20 tarsia puzzle. Blank templates can also be used as an additional task for pupils to create a subtraction tarsia puzzle of their own.

Year 1 subtract within 20 tarsia worksheet

The triangles in the tarsia puzzle have all been mixed up; pupils will need to match the subtract within 20 questions to the correct answers to create one large triangle.

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Tarsia Puzzle | Subtract Within 20 | Year 1

Year 1 subtract within 20 tarsia worksheet