Numeracy Resources
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Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/E3.3, N2/E3.5, N2/L1.6
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy, Motor vehicles & Transport, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Assessment material, Informative presentation, Lesson plan
A detailed lesson plan accompanied by a PPT and a lesson objective checker sheet. The lesson recaps place value and introduces students to decimals and using money in practical situations.
The PPT is an adaptation two other PPT resources I have used on skillsworkshop: ‘Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100’ by Elaine Baskerville, and ‘Pounds to pence’ by Jennifer Williamson. Two contextualised worksheets (Salon and Garage), written by Carrie Bray, are also linked to the lesson plan.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/E3.5
Free tags: Drug awareness
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
An original idea to engage FS students in decimals. Involves extracting information from tables and adding up decimals. Also useful for catering / hospitality students as it contains an element on responsibility when serving of drinks.
Ideal for embedding Functional Mathematics.
Note: this resource was the inspiration for the Working with Alcohol units (see below).
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/E3.3, N1/E3.1, HD1/E3.1
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Rt/E3.7
Context: Catering Food Nutrition, Health, Social care, Early years
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3
An interesting worksheet that covers both literacy and numeracy. Best used with an interactive food label on the UK Government Eatwell site but the questions can also be answered using the provided printout.
Covers reading comprehension (scanning), extracting information from tables, using decimals and place value.
Numeracy: N2/L1.8, N2/L1.9, N1/E2.6, N2/L1.1, N2/L1.10, N1/E3.7, N2/E3.3, N2/L1.2, N2/L2.7, N1/L1.8, N2/L1.3, N2/L2.8, N2/L2.2, N2/L1.5, N2/L1.6, N2/L1.7, N2/L2.1, N2/L2.3, N2/L2.6, N2/L2.9, N2/L2.4
Resource type: Interactive worksheet, Resource generator
Level: E3, L1, L2
This spreadsheet is designed to enable students to check their own work; but also to learn about what happens when you add two decimals, or multiply two fractions, and so on.
The spreadsheet consists of the following sheets:
- “Mult-div by 10-100-1000” allows a student to input a number and explore the effect when multiplied or divided by 10, 100 or 1000.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, Functional Maths - number, N2/E3.3, MSS1/E3.2, MSS1/L1.1, N2/E3.4, N2/L1.5
Context: Employment skills & Public services
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Working out weekly wages and then comparing, ordering and rounding your results. Includes information on the UK minimum wage – which makes an ideal discussion prompt.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, N2/E3.3, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Independent living
Level: E3
Resource type: Investigation or project
Home and Away flat budgeting is a practical task where learners must furnish a flat for someone going off to uni.
Ideal for underpinning E3 Functional Maths and includes full mapping to Entry 3 FM criteria.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, HD1/L1.3, MSS1/L1.11, HD1/L1.4, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Buying herbs at the garden centre is based on packets of seeds and covers addition and subtraction of decimals (money), range and mean, and scale drawings. Great for horticulture students or anyone with an interest in gardening.
The problem solving nature of many questions and the drawing a scale diagram task also makes this ideal for E3-L1 Functional Maths.
Numeracy: Number, MSS1/E2.2, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A visit to the garden centre was written for NCPT horticulture students but ideal for anyone with an interest in gardening. Cover addition. subtraction. multiplication and division of whole number and money.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, N2/E3.5, MSS1/E3.1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3
Money Matters: choosing between addition & subtraction helps learners make sense of problem solving and decide which operation to use. Six varied, multi-step word problems.
Numeracy: N2/E3.3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3
A straightforward but very useful conversion sheet. With extra teaching ideas.