HD1/L1.1
Numeracy: HD1/L1.3, HD1/L1.4, HD1/L2.3, HD1/L2.4, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L2.1, HD1/L1.2, HD1/L2.2, MSS1/L1.4, MSS1/L2.4
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1, L2
Temperature and thermometers is a great set of ‘real life’ questions, many based on weather statistics from across the world. Covers reading scales, using two scales to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, understanding negative temperatures, finding mean average and range, extracting information from tables and bar charts, and plotting data on line or bar charts. Due to the wide variety of skills covered, this makes an ideal end of year revision exercise- as well as neatly covering the temperature elements of the L1/2 curriculum.
Numeracy: HD1/L1.3, HD1/L1.4, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L1.2
ICT: Charts & graphs
Context: Leisure Travel Tourism
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1
What’s the weather like? and Party Time! are two ‘real-life’ task sheets that involve budgeting, Excel charts and tables, rounding and checking, and finding mean and range.
Numeracy: HD1/L1.3, HD1/L1.4, HD1/L2.3, HD1/L2.4, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L2.1, HD1/L1.2, HD1/L2.2
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
A twist on our ever-popular original E1-L1 Smarties resource (see below) rewritten for Level 1-2 students. Now with questions on mean, mode, median and pie charts.
Numeracy: HD1/E3.1, N1/L1.3, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L2.1, MSS1/E3.6, MSS1/L1.4, MSS1/L1.6, MSS1/L2.3, MSS1/L2.5
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Fabulous statistics investigation that involves extracting information from tables; reading, comparing and calculating with measures; and much discussion about healthy (unhealthy?) eating!
If you like Saul’s resources he has a book: ‘58 quick activities that don’t need a photocopier’.
Numeracy: HD1/L1.3, HD1/L1.4, HD1/L2.3, HD1/L2.4, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L2.1, HD1/L1.2, HD1/L2.2
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Game, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
A card game and a great way to introduce students to official statistics and get them to extract, interpret, and organise data.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, HD1/L1.3, HD1/L1.4, HD1/L1.1, HD1/L1.2
ICT: Functional ICT, Charts & graphs
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy, Motor vehicles & Transport
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1
Two task sheets – one for beauty therapists, one for motor vehicle students, etc. Find information, work out total cost, mean and range, display your results in a chart. (Originally used for Level 1 Key Skills Application of Number portfolio work).
Numeracy: N1/L1.7, HD1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.2, HD1/L1.1, HD1/E3.4, HD1/L1.2
Free tags: Recipe, Christmas
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Investigation or project
A seasonal maths investigation that involves a trip to the supermarket, scaling a recipe, rounding, estimating and much more!
Numeracy: HD1/E2.1, N2/E3.3, MSS1/E2.2, HD1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.1, HD1/L1.1, MSS1/L1.1, N2/E3.4, N2/L1.5, N2/L1.11, MSS1/L1.4
Free tags: Christmas
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Great series of differentiated assignments (2 each at Entry 2, Entry 3 and Level 1) using the Royal Mail web site or leaflets (last posting dates, parcel prices) for the postage assignments, and an Argos (or similar) catalogue for the Christmas present assignment. Topics covered include reading tables, weighing, working with decimals and money, using calculators.
Updated in 2007 to reflect new postal rates but you wil need to get the lastest price list from the Royal Mail http://www.royalmail.com/
