Useful Links

Free "6 Minute Maths" Digital Learning resource! Entry Level to Level 2, no catch revise on your phone or tablet with this free very detailed 4 page PDF.

Are you an Apprentice preparing for a Functional Maths assessment? Are you working on Improving your functional Maths?

The site includes pre-made word search puzzles that you can print and share anytime. Puzzles cover a variety of topics appropriate for all ages from primary through to adult.

This blog offers plenty of valuable information such as:
A complete and up-to-date guide about the Maths GCSE exams that students can use to inform themselves and get ahead in preparing for the said exam.

This is a Padlet page with recordings and worksheets at E1 - L1. (Password:esol) It facilitates listening development both in class and at home, giving exam practice and ear training/decoding practice through a variety of different listening activities. Worksheets can be completed partly in class and partly at home or entirely as homework. Learners can access the recordings via a mobile phone, tablet or computer.

A guide to Functional Skills Maths Level 2 including past papers, equivalent qualifications, the course content, revision, awarding bodies and the benefits of achieving a Functional Skills Maths Level 2 qualification. 

Editor's note

Similar information about Level 1 Maths can be found here: https://www.thinkonlinetraining.com/maths/functional-skills/level-1/

This blog is produced by the recruitment agency Engage Education and covers a wide variety of issues relevant to teachers. It includes advice on how to be a better teacher in the classroom, advice on how teachers can best manage their career, how to look after themselves outside of the school, and so on.

Five really comprehensive, free schemes of work - one for each level of reformed Functional Mathematics.

Each document lists the reformed content and suggests the number of GLH (guided learning hours) to devote to each descriptor. The order of teaching is left to the teacher's discretion. Each topic  / content descriptor is explored in detail with handy lists of:

This website provides a large number of free, high-quality resources for games, activities, projects and conversation in the ESOL classroom. You can search these resources by the language topic which you are teaching. It also includes interactive language games and vocabulary images.

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A really useful site. Love the vocabulary image generator and the online concentration game generator - both are great for teaching vocabulary.

Pearson have a really useful page with links to all the important Reformed Functional Skills (FS) documents.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to find my favourites:  two in-house content mapping documents where the new FS maths and English content is mapped to the old content AND to the Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Maths or English Specification.

The mapping documents are colour coded so you can quickly see brand new content  and also content that has moved down from a previously higher level.

This resource is intended for pupils sitting their GCSE exams in 2019 and offers a range of useful revision tips and techniques to aid in preparation for such a key period.