Game
Literacy: Rs/E3.1, Rs/E3.2, Rs/L1.1, Rs/L2.1
Free tags: adjectives, adverbs, Noiuns, verbs
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Game, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Cards to help students recognise what nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
They can then play the bingo game or use highlighter pens to identify the different parts of speech in a text.
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: 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: 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, 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 - 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: N1/E2.1, N1/E3.1
Free tags: alphabet
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Game, Warm-up
Place value starter based on an Open University course activity.
Useful as a carousel activity at the start of a lesson. Could be adapted for E2 by using 2 boxes rather than three. You may want to laminate the second page.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/L1.2, Mental maths
Resource type: Game, Sort or match cards
Level: L1
A set of cards where learners have to find fractions of money. I use this as a paired game where the learners share the cards between them, then both turn over one cardeach. 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.
Literacy: Ww/E1.3, Ww/E2.2
Resource type: Game
Level: E1, E2
Students need to work in pairs and throw a coin (heads, move 1; tails move 2). Each time they land on a blend they need to write down a word with that blend in it. Great when laminated.
Carrie was inspired to create this game after she saw a similar idea created by Mo Hammond, Liverpool.
Numeracy: Perimeter area volume, Length weight capacity temperature scales, MSS1/L1.7
Free tags: Follow me game
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Game, Revision material, Warm-up
This worked well as a bit of revision on measuring for a mixed class E2-L2. Also makes a good warm-up activity.
I’ve used different colours for easier and harder answers, so you can differentiate when you give the cards out (blue ones are supposed to be a bit easier, red ones a bit harder, and purple in between).
