Adult Numeracy, Functional Maths, and GCSE Resources

Number bonds to 10 and 20 . Two card games with full instructions and alternative games.

A step by step guide to playing the classic game. Inspired by Steph McGill’s Make your own Battleships this PPT can be used alone or to accompany Steph’s original 2003 resource (see below).

A simple idea that makes a great warm up exercise for any group. A series of smiley faces is portrayed in increasing numbers and grouped in different ways. Encourage students to say how many faces there are (ideally without counting – as the ability to make and interpret patterns helps with many aspects of maths) and discuss how they look at the patterns, chunk up into to 3s, 4s and 5s, etc.

Makes a good introduction to drawing and interpreting bar charts.

Grids for Smartie bar charts and pictograms – to accompany Smartie investigation (below). Ideal for Entry 2-3 students that are not confident with a blank sheet of graph paper.

12 useful blank analogue clock faces (with spaces underneath to write time in digital format) and 2 pages mixed problems (analogue to digital and vice verse). 1 page for E2 (nearest hour, half hour, quarter hour), one for E3 (nearest 5 minutes).

Large clear calendar for Jan 2006 with 12 accompanying questions. Plus a useful one page 2006 annual calendar which tutors can use to make up their own questions, ask students to circle important dates etc.

2 sets of cards to laminate. Set 1 (2 lots of 24 cards) covers units of time (E2-L1). Set 2 (30 cards) covers important dates (Christmas Day, etc.) and facts about months and years. To be printed on coloured paper and laminated. With teaching ideas. An ideal multi-sensory starter or revision activity for paired or individual work.

Step by step guide to interpreting and creating pie charts.

Clock face, blank digital clocks, clock hands and lots of teaching ideas. Originally designed to be printed on acetate but ideal for display on interactive whiteboard or could be laminated for re-use.