Business & Money management
Numeracy: N2/L1.8, N2/L1.9, Functional Maths - number, N1/L1.7, N2/L1.10, N1/L2.3, N2/L2.7, N2/L2.8, N2/L2.9
Context: Business & Money management
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Game
A set of cards that can be used to play a game where students have shares in a small company. Each group of three players receives ‘market updates’ in the form of cards that require them to divide a number in a ratio, or find the value of an amount given the value of part of the amount. Students are encouraged to keep full financial records.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Business & Money management, Catering Food Nutrition, Employment skills & Public services
Level: E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
This resource is adapted from, and complements, the L1/2 resource with the same title created by Claire Douglas (see below).
The activity is based on recent changes to the minimun wage (Nov 2011). Students have to read the information given on the shop employees’ ages and new minimun pay to work out how much the staff are paid for their work.
I used this activity with my E3 students and they enjoyed it.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, MSS1/E3.1, MSS1/L1.1, N1/L1.2, N1/L2.1
Context: Business & Money management
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Game, Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
An activity to explore money management and negative numbers. Be prepared to signpost students if need be.
The activity starts with discussing who is most likely to get into debt and then by recognising that anyone can if they don’t have good money skills.
Then students use *place value dice (hundreds, tens and units) to fill in their budget sheets. If you don’t have such dice you could prepare the sheets by writing in amounts to differentiate for each student.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, MSS1/L1.1
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Informative presentation, Worksheet or assignment
Great for Functional Maths and/or employability classes, this set of resources explore the different levels of the minimum wage. A PPT introduces the topic and demonstrates how to solve some sample problems about the wages bill of a sandwich shop with 4 employees aged between 16 and 35. (Adding up and multiplying money).
The accompanying worksheet provides further practice and consolidation and includes extension questions.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Functional Maths - number, N1/L2.1, N1/L2.2
Context: Business & Money management
Level: L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Excellent practice with balance / budget sheets and working with large numbers (including negative numbers). Complete the missing information in three different sheets (holiday budget, household budget, business costs). Ideal for Functional Maths.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Functional Maths - number, N2/L2.8, MSS1/L2.1, N2/L2.9
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Challenging and very functional worksheets where learner must complete the missing information and calculate the take-home pay etc. for various UK tax payers. There are also some interesting open questions that are ideal for Functional Maths interpreting skills.
Literacy: Writing: text focus (composition)
Free tags: Humour
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
Pass Percy’s three point test and then complete his informative and persuasive writing tasks!
Literacy: Functional Skills English
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Reading comprehension, Teaching idea, Warm-up, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
Fabulous set of resources – aimed at E2-L1 Functional English but some activities are also suitable for E1 and/or L2.
10 different sets of resources encompassing a range of teaching strategies and covering many aspects of reading, writing, and discussion.
Literacy: Plan, compose and draft, Organise and present text structure, Apply punctuation and capitalisation, Use language style and purpose, Functional English - writing
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Cut and stick, Handout or guide, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
This wonderful pack of differentiated resources is ideal for mixed ability classes from Entry 1 through to Level 2. It takes the learner through:
- the layout of formal and informal letters
- formal and informal language
- typical vocabulary for formal letters
- sentences and paragraphs
- writing a range of letters
- revision and/or assessment exercises
Includes writing prompts, task sheets, matching /sorting cards, and a many cut and stick exercises.
Fully mapped to the Functional English writing criteria.
Numeracy: N2/L1.8, N2/L1.9, N1/E2.6, N2/L1.10, N1/E3.7, N2/E3.2, N1/L1.8, N2/L2.8
Context: Business & Money management, Politics & News items
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Lesson plan
A fabulous, very clear lesson plan ideal for money-management / personal finance classes. The mathematical focus is on percentages (VAT) but it also covers rounding and extracting data and can be used in mixed ability classes from E2 -L2.
The plan also includes links to online Budget videos, a ‘chop or not’ game, VAT calculators and more!
Also suitable for underpinning L1 Functional Maths, and linked to Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC).
