Functional Maths - data handling
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, HD1/L1.2
Resource type: Informative presentation
Level: L1, L2
I created this powerpoint to help my students learn the parts and uses of graphs and charts. They can also revisit it on Moodle to remind themselves of labels etc., while revising for the exam.
Editor’s note:
Covers tallies, pictograms, bar charts (vertical, horizontal, single, dual), pie charts, line graphs, conversion graphs and scatter graphs.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, HD2/L1.2
Resource type: Game, Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1, L2
A game to help learners get to grips with the likelihood of selecting a particular thing at random. Students practise expressing probabilities as fractions, decimals and percentages. This activity avoids the taboos on dice and cards that some learners have. It also revises concepts such as multiples and “greater” and “less than”.
1 page cards to be cut out – give one set to each student (or pair of students), 1 page for student to complete, plus an answer sheet.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, HD1/E2.4, HD1/E3.3, HD1/E3.4
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
A Functional Maths and numeracy task sheet written for a mixed group of entry level learners to collect, represent and analyse data on favourite biscuits. The topic is introduced with a news article about Britain’s favourite biscuits. Learners must create a tally chart/frequency table, a pictogram and a bar chart. Pre-drawn grids and squared paper is included.
I used this task with a mixed group of learners with a range of learning difficulties, in an FE college setting.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, HD2/L1.2
Resource type: Revision material, Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1
An alternative probability page (page 29) for Simon Kelsey’s popular L1 Numeracy & Functional Maths work book. This page offers alternative probability problems for younger/older students and/or those of a nervous disposition (replacing the original questions on sexually transmitted diseases and Russian Roulette with some about a deck of cards!).
Note: the answer sheet for this page can be found on the same page as the main answer booklet (listed under “see also” below).
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, MSS1/L1.8, MSS1/L1.9, HD1/L1.1, MSS1/L1.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, Painting Decorating & DIY
Level: L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Work out the cost of carpeting a flat (compound shapes) and seeding and fencing a rectangular lawn.
The step by step problem solving approach also makes this ideal for underpinning L1 Functional Maths – although the scaffolded worksheet on page 2 can be removed for confident students or for assessment purposes.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Collect organise represent, Averages and range
ICT: Developing, presenting and communicating information
Free tags: Smarties & Love Hearts
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Investigation or project
Level: L1, L2
Here is another Level 1-2 variant on the classic ‘Smarties’ investigation which incorporates the use of a PC and Excel. I stopped using Smarties and Skittles because of the health and hygiene issues.
I stumbled upon the Foam squares at www.craftpacks.co.uk ‘Giant Jar of Foam Squares for £4.75 + 20% VAT. The exercise is in two parts: the first part a bit like Smarties and then the second part covers ‘mean, mode, median and range’.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - number, N1/L1.7, N1/L1.10, HD1/L1.1
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Free tags: Drug awareness
Context: Health, Social care, Early years
Level: L1
Resource type: Discussion points, Informative presentation, Worksheet or assignment
This lesson is designed to embed adding and subtracting, ratio and proportion, etc. whilst looking at the important issue of alcohol consumption and units. Students are able to look at the RDA of alcohol consumption, binge drinking, etc. in the introductory PPT.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, HD1/E2.1, MSS1/E2.4, HD1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.3
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A set of exercises to practise timings in a salon. Ideal for, and fully mapped to, embedding Entry Level Functional Maths.
Literacy: Functional English - speaking, listening & communication, SLc/E1.3, SLc/E2.2, SLc/E2.3, SLlr/L1.6
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - number, HD1/E1.1, HD1/E2.4, HD1/E3.3
Free tags: Equality and Diversity
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: E1, E2, E3
Resource type: Ice breaker, Listening and/or speaking activity, Worksheet or assignment
Find out and record everyone’s favorites from a diverse list of foods. Use as an icebreaker in any Entry Level literacy, numeracy, Functional Skills or ESOL lesson.
Also ties in well with lessons on diversity, healthy eating, collecting data, making / taking simple surveys, tallies, counting, asking questions, etc.
Mapped to Functional Maths and SfL adult numeracy, Functional English (speaking, listening and communication) and SfL adult literacy.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, HD1/E2.1, MSS1/E3.3
Context: Art Film Media Music TV
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A very practical and useful E2-E3 Functional Maths resource for extracting information from lists and tables, recording information in a table, and completing simple calculations with time (programme length).
