The Café Bill Maths Challenge – Functional Skills Maths Entry Level 3–Level 1

Bring Functional Skills Maths into a familiar real-life setting with this print-and-go café maths challenge. Learners work with realistic menus, prices, customer orders and special offers while developing confidence with everyday money calculations.

Activities include:

• Using a café menu to calculate totals and change
• Working out customer orders
• Comparing café special offers and calculating savings
• Completing The £20 Café Challenge
• Designing their own meal deal and calculating the customer saving

Maths skills practised: addition and subtraction with money, multiplication, calculating change, comparing prices, budgeting, problem solving and applying maths to everyday situations.

Suitable for: Functional Skills Maths Entry Level 3–Level 1, adult learners, post-16 students, intervention groups and vocational settings. Teacher answers are included for the main activities.

A useful contextualised resource for showing learners how the maths they practise in class connects directly to *real-life spending, budgeting and decision making*.

Editor’s Notes

A wonderfully clear, carefully scaffolded resource that gradually builds problem solving skills over six pages.