Adult Numeracy, Functional Maths, and GCSE Resources

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An activity that gets students to analyse information from a table on different phone contracts. Covers extracting data, basic number and money.

Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Maths
HD1/E3.2
AN MSS1/E3.1 Add & subtract money using decimal notation
HD1/E3.1
MSS1/E2.2
HD1/E2.1
Functional Maths
Context
Retail Hospitality Customer service
Electrical, Electronics & Technology

Using a video from YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6eTr4ldDYg) about the miniature earth I have created this PowerPoint on percentages. It will work well with John Thompson’s easy percentage worker-outer and Margaret Adams’ Calculating percentages as quantities (links below under “See also”).

Level
Level 1
Maths
Functional Maths - numbers and the number system
AN N2/L1.9 Find simple percentage parts of quantities and measurements
N2/L1.8
Context
News, Politics & Government items

This is great as a warm-up activity or a bit of end-of-term fun. It is suitable for a mixed ability group of numeracy learners, or indeed literacy or ESOL learners. This quiz tests learners’ knowledge of how old someone has to be in order to do certain things legally, e.g. be a blood donor. It can be used in small group or pair work (which worked well for me) as well as individually.

Level
Level 2
Level 1
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
English
General literacy / English
Maths
General numeracy / maths
ESOL
General ESOL

Place value game involving dice and calculators. Helps build confidence with place value.
Can be used with all ability levels and easy to adapt.
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Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
AN N1/L1.3
AN N1/L1.1 Place value to millions. < and > symbols
AN N1/E3.1 place value <1000, odd / even, count in 10s /100s
AN N1/E2.1 Count reliably to 100, count on in 2s and 10s
Functional Maths - numbers and the number system
AN N1/E3.2
AN N1/E2.3

The classic example of a tally is keeping track of how many cars of each colour go past in the street, but that is rather awkward to do in practice.

Use this presentation to save having to leave the comfort of the classroom! It is a PowerPoint slideshow of cars of various colours, to be projected onto the board. Tell learners to keep a tally of how many cars of each colour appear. Where a car has more than one colour, they should put it under the predominant colour.

E1 learners could focus on simply counting (for instance) all the red cars.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Maths
HD1/E3.3
HD1/E2.5
HD1/E2.4
AN N1/E1.1 Count reliably up to 10 items
HD1/E1.2
Functional Maths - handling information and data
Context
Motor vehicles & Transport

A 12-question test, designed for an Adult Numeracy class consisting largely of ESOL speakers.
Covers the terms “import” and “export”, since these often crop up in exams. Also mean, mode, median and range, and the meanings of “discount”, “under”, “approximately”, “difference” and “enlarged”. A little fraction revision, too: students have to identify 1/3 as “one-third”.

Level
Level 2
Level 1
Maths
General numeracy / maths
Functional Maths
ESOL
ESOL Reading (R)
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond

Learners round the same number to a several different degrees of precision. This reinforces that the important thing about rounding is what one is rounding to..

Level
Level 2
Level 1
Maths
AN N2/L2.5
AN N2/L1.7
Functional Maths - numbers and the number system

A set of 10 problems. Learners revise choosing the correct operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) and carrying out the calculation correctly.
Ideal for Entry 3 Functional Maths.
Answer sheet provided

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
Maths
AN N1/L1.3
N1/L1.10
N1/E3.9
N1/E3.6
N1/E3.4
Functional Maths - numbers and the number system

Covers geometric drawings, area, perimeter, money, metric measures, tallies, line graphs and much more.
Fully mapped to the Functional Maths criteria and process skills. With answer sheet.

Editor’s note
Wonderful open ended project. Ideal for E3-L2 mixed ability groups.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
MSS2/L2.2
MSS2/L2.1
MSS2/L1.2
HD1/L2.1
MSS2/L1.1
HD1/L1.1
HD1/E3.1
MSS1/L1.8
Functional Maths
Context
Gardening & Horticulture

An updated version of Gordon Noblett’s 2011 resource (see below). This version includes the correct tax allowances and information for 2012-13. It also includes an answer sheet. The original description is repeated below.

Challenging and very functional worksheets where learner must complete the missing information and calculate the take-home pay etc. for various UK tax payers. There are also some interesting open questions that are ideal for Functional Maths interpreting skills.
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Level
Level 2
Maths
N2/L2.9
MSS1/L2.1
AN N2/L2.8 Find percentage parts of quantities and measurements
Functional Maths - numbers and the number system
Functional Maths - measures, shape & space
Context
Employment skills & Public services
Business & Money management