Common Measures
Numeracy: Functional Maths, Common Measures, HD1/L2.3, MSS1/E3.1, MSS1/L1.1, N1/L1.2
Context: Employment skills & Public services
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Game, Worksheet or assignment
A wonderful dice game that will also improve money skills (addition and subtraction) and awareness of negative numbers.
Plus extension L2 statistics questions. Ideal for work skills students and fully mapped to L1 Functional Maths criteria.
Numeracy: Number, Data Handling, Common Measures
Free tags: Easter
Level: L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A lovely topical set of questions covering whole numbers, rounding, ratios, fractions, volume and data handling. Makes a great end of term activity.
Numeracy: Common Measures, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money
Context: Construction Carpentry Plumbing
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Interactive presentation, Worksheet or assignment
Functional measuresA set of real life problems written for construction students but suitable for any L1-2 Functional Maths students. Covers area, perimeter, volume and scale drawings. coudl also be printed out as worksheets. Mapped to the FM criteria.
Linked to Elizabeth’s L1 and L2 FM Schemes of work (see below).
Numeracy: Functional Maths, Add subtract multiply divide, Common Measures, MSS1/E3.1, N1/L2.4, N1/L2.1, MSS1/L2.6
Free tags: Winter
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Topical practice with L1-L2 number and measure skills (plus a few at E3) and would make a good starter or homework activity. Most questions are based on recent data from the Big Freeze of January 2010. Topics include converting temperatures, converting between metric and Imperial units, proportion, negative nos. and percentrages.
The topical and problem solving nature also makes this very suitable for underpinning L1 and L2 Functional Maths.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths, Common Measures
Free tags: Family learning, Christmas
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity
Star templateChristmas Star template was designed to accompany Sarah Horsley’s How to Make a Christmas Star resource (below) and makes the folding and cutting process easier. Ideal when using Sarah’s resource in a family learning situation.
Numeracy: Number, Common Measures
Free tags: Christmas
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A lovely seasonal problem solving task with extension questions (number, measures, money) based on the total number of gifts delivered over the 12 day period! Ideal for mixed ability groups (E2-L1).
Numeracy: Number, Data Handling, Common Measures
Resource type: Assessment material
Level: E3
Practice E3 numeracy multiple choice test based on the online version available on the Move-On site http://www.move-on.org.uk/
Ideal for revision or assessment purposes.
Numeracy: Common Measures, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money
Context: Leisure Travel Tourism, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Measures portfolio / workbook is a semi-structured set of investigations that would be ideal as an end of topic (common measures) informal assessment for L1-2 students. Covers length, weight, capacity, money, time, area and shapes.
The investigative approach also makes this ideal for underpinning L1 and L2 Functional Maths
Numeracy: Functional Maths, Data Handling, General numeracy / maths, Common Measures
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: L2
Resource type: Assessment material
An excellent assessment paper (based on a college cafe) designed to be used in the Autumn Term. Covers all aspects of Level 2 Functional Maths and will be immensely useful for providers that are switching from adult numeracy to FM.
Numeracy: Common Measures
Resource type: Reference card
Level: L1, L2
A really useful wallet-sized reminder about metric and Imperial conversions, area., volume and perimeter. Print back to back, laminate and cut into 12 cards.
