Your students will enjoy completing this tarsia puzzle to review solving equations with the variable on one side.

Tarsia puzzles are similar to a jigsaw puzzle. Rather than being connected by shape, adjoining sides are a question-and-answer pair.

This is a fun, hands on activity for students and is useful for independent or pair work. PDF file includes printable student puzzle plus solutions.

Print the student puzzles, and give to students to cut out, and arrange to form the tarsia puzzle.