HD1/L1.3

Written as a contextualised resource for Leisure, Travel and Tourism students but should appeal to all club-loving teenagers. Makes a good quick practice / revision / reminder exercise.
Aimed only at Level 1 students with definitions of both the mean average and range at the top, I find that these students don’t find the maths particularly difficult; they just have a problem remembering the definitions.

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.

Misleading averages is bound to provoke much discussion how the media, and even Government reports, can mislead us!

Uses illustrations and thought-provoking statements to instigate discussion and a realisation of what the ‘mean’ really tells us.

A straightforward very useful 1 page worksheet (plus answer sheet), ideal for revision or homework. 20 questions – 5 on each topic.

A quick, memorable and very visual method of remembering how to find mean, mode, median and range.

Temperature and thermometers is a great set of ‘real life’ questions, many based on weather statistics from across the world. Covers reading scales, using two scales to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, understanding negative temperatures, finding mean average and range, extracting information from tables and bar charts, and plotting data on line or bar charts. Due to the wide variety of skills covered, this makes an ideal end of year revision exercise- as well as neatly covering the temperature elements of the L1/2 curriculum.

A useful 1 page handout, plus 4 A4 posters ideal for classroom display.

Find out which premiership team has the best (and worst!) value season ticket, look at the probabilities of different half time scores, and much more.

What’s the weather like? and Party Time! are two ‘real-life’ task sheets that involve budgeting, Excel charts and tables, rounding and checking, and finding mean and range.