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

Addition

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

Here you can find a range of Year 2 teaching slides, worksheets, activities, games, assessments and additional teaching resources to help you teach your Year 2 class the Key Stage 1 primary maths curriculum.

Year 2

Deepen your Year 2 pupils' understanding of addition with this challenging tarsia puzzle.

Mix up the triangles in this tarsia puzzle and task your pupils to solve the adding two 2-digit numbers calculations and match the questions and answers.

This adding two 2-digit numbers 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 adding two 2-digit numbers.

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

Year 2 add two 2-digit numbers tarsia worksheet

The triangles in the tarsia puzzle have all been mixed up; pupils will need to match the adding two 2-digit numbers questions to the correct answers to create one large triangle.

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Tarsia Puzzle | Add Two 2-Digit Numbers | Year 2

Year 2 add two 2-digit numbers tarsia worksheet