Adult Numeracy, Functional Maths, and GCSE Resources

This is an adaptation of Murder at the Grange, which my students have always enjoyed.

I wanted to extend the work on calculating with time, so learners have to use and extend timetables and calculate multi-stage journey times. I also thought it would be good to have some female characters!

I have created this worksheet to assess learners studying maths at level 2 in solving practical problems which involve extracting and interpreting discrete data from a table and also calculating a percentage increase.

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With Functional Maths and Adult Numeracy curriculum mapping

Quick addition warm up exercise using one and two digit numbers.
An Excel worksheet with an explanatory introductory PPT (with answers).

Measures, shape and space activity suitable for Entry 1 learners.

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Used with a gingerbread house bought in Aldi (Christmas 2012) but similar houses are available in other stores.

A seasonal addition activity for E1-2 learners or could be used as a speedy starter for other levels.

I have created this worksheet to assess learners in operating with decimals and reading and extracting data from a table.

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With curriculum mapping and answer sheet.

I have created this to enable learners to estimate and calculate and to emphasis the (financial) costs of smoking.
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With Functional maths mapping.

This is a good starter activity to introduce measures, shape and space. It is also useful in dividing classes into small groups.

Using the templates I created I printed them on to card of different colours. I gave the shapes to the learners as they entered the room and told them to find the table with the same shape on it. When they reached the table they found the shape and some questions to answer.

After five minutes I asked for feedback from the learners.

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With Functional Maths mapping

This is a set of part-blanked times tables grids for students to complete and use as a resource. Used with Entry level students. Includes 10×10 and 12×20 grids, with full and gap versions.

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Can be printed and completed on paper, or used on-screen.

My L1 learners were really struggling to remember what to do to convert units of measurement and were getting very confused at the initial stage, so I made this resource and laminated it so that it was available for them to look at if they couldn’t remember. Could also be made into a poster.

A resource I created to support my students getting used to what they needed to divide or multiply by to convert between units. Can easily be laminated for repeated use, or increased in size and turned in to a poster.