Functional Maths - number
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 - number, N1/L1.3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1
I designed this activity as my level 1 learners needed more practice in solving word problems involving addition and subtraction and with reading numbers as words.
I have used a range of vocabulary to indicate the operation required eg. less than, difference, increase and decrease. My learners are mostly parents but the resource would be useful in any area of learning.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Functional Maths - number
Resource type: Game, Ice breaker, Revision material
Level: E2, E3
A set of cards to cut out and ideally put in plastic balls or a jazzy box. Aimed at E2- E3 Functional Skills learners as an ice breaker, introductory lesson or for revision. Students need to work out the question and identify the maths skills they are using to answer it. Best printed onto card.
Questions are aimed to appeal to young adult students – e.g. clubbing, Facebook, food, mobiles, etc.
Questions cover the 4 operations, money, time, shapes and more.
26 cards. Includes Functional Maths mapping chart.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Functional Maths - number
Free tags: Sport Relief
Context: Sport, Voluntary & Charity
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A Sport Relief task which looks at the dates of the events and the cost of buying products from the Sport Relief shop. It includes reading a calendar and working out the days/weeks left until the event. It also includes questions on comparing, adding, subtracting (working pout change) and halving money. Learners have to read prices from the Sports Relief shop and decide what to buy with a given amount of money.
With answer sheet, and fully mapped to the E2-E3 Functional Maths criteria.
Numeracy: N2/L1.9, Functional Maths - number
Context: Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: L1
Resource type: Game
A set of cards where learners have to find percentages of money.
Note that it is percentage of not off – this should be discussed.
Use as a paired game. Learners share the cards between them, then both turn over one card each. They work out how much their card is worth then the “winner” or person whose card is worth more keeps both cards. Play continues until 1 player has all the cards.
Adapted from Emma Shaw’s Fractions of quantities top trump cards see below.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Functional Maths - number, N1/L1.7, N1/L2.3
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Resources I designed as a mini project for Functional Skills maths. Also for L1/L2 Adult Numeracy
Editor’s notes:
Includes several recipes including a delicious sounding Spanish flan (some questions involving doubling and halving might also suit Entry Level students), mixing paint, proportion (wages) and some challenging L2 scale map questions. Fully mapped to the Functional Maths criteria.
Literacy: Functional English - reading
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number
Free tags: Australia
Context: Motor vehicles & Transport
Level: E2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
A set of questions about an advertisement for motorbikes. Students are asked to find information about the store, as well as comparing the prices of motorbikes for sale. Provides practice in scanning, skimming, comparing numbers, etc.
Answer key included.
Pre-entry: General pre-Entry
Numeracy: N2/E2.2, N2/E3.1, Functional Maths - number, N2/E2.1
Free tags: Australia
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Level: E2, E3
A simplified worksheet which covers labelling fractions, writing the words and a practical exercise in estimating eg: Mark 1/2 cup etc. Uses fractions commonly found in recipes and other practical situations. Ideal for, and mapped to, Functional Maths.
Numeracy: N2/E2.2, N2/E3.1, N2/E3.6, Functional Maths - number, N2/E2.1
Free tags: Australia
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Worksheet or assignment
A worksheet which gives students practice in naming and calculating the fractions most often seen in recipes. 1/2, 1/3 cup etc.
This worksheet can be accompanied with a ‘hands on’ exercise. eg: measuring 1/2, 3/4 cup of rice etc. You need: a tray, a marked measuring cup, a cup and a jar of rice or other suitable medium.
Ideal for, and mapped to, Entry 2 and 3 Adult numeracy and Functional Maths.
Numeracy: N1/E2.3, N1/E3.2, Functional Maths - number
Resource type: Informative presentation
Level: E2, E3
Adapted from old BBC Skillswise worksheets, this PPT presents different ways of adding and subtracting (numberlines, rounding and splitting).
