Functional Skills Maths
Entry Level 2-3
Course Content
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- Time
- Adding, taking away & multiplying numbers
- Money
- Weight and capacity
- Identifying shapes
- Reading, understanding and using a bar chart
- Reading, understanding and using a calendar
- Round to the nearest 100
- Collate data
Assessment method
1 hour classroom based
Resources
Level 1
Course Content
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- Adding decimals
- Fractions
- Calculating area
- Calculating perimeter
- Calculating mean, range and average
- Percentages
- Adding/taking away decimals
- Length, weight & volume
- Measuring
- Budgeting
- Ratios
- Using data from table, charts and graphs
- Presenting data as a graph or chart
- Using a protractor
Assessment method
1 hour 30 mins written exam
Resources
Level 2
Course Content
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- Calculating circumference
- Calculating area of an irregular rectangle
- Understanding and drawing up timetable
- Using formulae
- Using data from a table
- Reading from a scale map (ratios)
- Converting from imperial to metric
- Calculating area
- Symmetrical number patterns
- Know main units & abbreviations of metric measurements (weight, length,volume)
- Solve practical problems in all areas
- Scale drawing
- Understanding graphs, tally and pie charts
- Calculating the mean, range and average for a data set
- Presenting data as a graph or chart
- Calculating probability
- Working out mean and modal averages
- Scan the paper
- Read in detail
- Show working out
- Answer checking
Assessment method
2 hours written exam