This pack contains 6 tasks to help develop problem solving and also challenge misconceptions. Very little numeracy skills are needed to perfect for start of term team building. Can be used as a booklet or print A3 for a great carousel in the first few weeks of term. Suggested answers are now included! • Odd One out – there is more than one right answer which some learners find difficult to accept. • Spot the mistake – 5 problems with mistakes, includes writing money on a calculator, changing units, square M, rounding errors. • Plan the book club – again can be more than one correct answer, encourages discussion, systematic planning and importance of explaining your answer • Business cards – reading from a table and interpreting questions • Water meter – making reasonable assumptions, extracting information • Hair appointment – working with time, planning answers, drawing time lines Resources also available on fb.me/letsgetfunctionalskillsmaths

Here are 5 Sudoku puzzles. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 2 x 3 box contains one each of the six fractions (one whole, one half, one third, one fourth, one sixth, one eighth). excellent practice for equivalence, challenge or stretch activity. Includes 5 puzzle sheets, 5 answer sheets and 5 missing tiles sheets for corresponding puzzles. Use the missing pieces to complete the sudoku. Draw the answers into the appropriate places. Please see https://www.facebook.com/letsgetfunctionalskillsmaths/ for more resources at discount prices

Reformed functional skills BIDMAS Workbook. This is a whole lesson on Bidmas and Problem Solving. you have included a lesson plan. Starter. Plenary. Dominoes. Explanation and video. Designed as a 2 hour lesson. Answers included.

Two work packs for practice with problem solving with 2d shapes. Area and Perimeter knowledge is presumed as these work packs follow on from my area and perimeter ones. Available in my shop. You have lots of practice at problem solving and working out costs etc. All the answered are included and each pack is appropriately differentiated.

These are 2 workbooks one for Level 1 and one for Level 2 that cover ratio and some proportion. Includes starter and introduction to dividing into a ratio. Basic and wordy problems. Proportion with recipes and answer hunt. Multiple choice questions for homework or extra classwork at the appropriate level. Level 2 booklet also includes exam task . All answers are included

There are 2 booklets one for level 1 learners which contains just converting metric measures and is 17 pages long including 3 pages of answers. There is an explanation then progressively more difficult examples and a cross-number. A snakes and ladders game and a challenge section. Includes all answers a revision grid covering multiple topics covered already in the year. The second booklet (20 pages) is suitable for level 2 learners and covers converting between imperial and metric units. Includes the converting metric unit resources and extra for imperial to metric including an extra cross number. Second challenge page also included. Answers included at back of booklet. Finally you have a metric to metric conversion answer hunt plenary suitable for both levels, Answer sheet in the Level 1 booklet you could add to level 2 if you like. All in word for easy editing. Please see my other resources for more booklets and whole lessons for £2.99

This is a template for a colourful engaging ice-breaker ball. Simply print on card stock in colour and stick together for your own ice-breaker ball. Multitude of uses. I use for the 1st lesson with each group - throw the ball to a member of your group and ask them to choose a question then pass the ball on. Alternatively, pass the ‘ball’ around play some music and randomly stop it (like pass the parcel). I have also included a blank template so you could ask your group to make up their own questions, possibly in 2 teams then put together the dice. I have also added the marshmallow challenge hand-out. I have designed these hand-outs to be printed on A4 and laminated. Also added lesson plan and PPT for functional skills maths first lesson of the new term.

This is a booklet which covers L2 functional skills topics. My exam board is C&G but also useful for others. Each page includes a question for each topic, a hyperlink to a basic lesson which can be used by learners at home. The same content is accessible by the QR code on each page. Videos and online activities included. At the bottom of each page is an area to write notes and record real life uses and their own worked example along with space for tutor feedback. There is a contents page and a feedback sheet included at the end. Along with a tracking sheet for mock papers. Recommended to print in A5 booklet form. A huge variety of uses… learners complete a page at the end of a lesson for homework. Could be used as a revision workbook by completing the questions and allows learners to see which areas they are still getting wrong to target areas for revision. Also great to monitor progress or as a diagnostic tool at the start of the year.

9 pages of functional skills revision questions. The questions are aimed at L2. I wrote this for a workshop that was just an hour before the exam to go over key mistakes that most learners make. Includes averages, range, fractions, percentages, Reverse calculations, Volume of a cone and cylinder. Scatter graphs, area and perimeter, converting between imperial/metric. Currency conversion., scale drawing, pie charts and bar charts. Answers added.

This is an OUTSTANDING graded lesson on percentages using a calculator. I teach the method for using the percentage button but this lesson could very easily be amended for any of the other methods. Hook - Catchphrase Starter included - 60 second challenge (includes percentages and fractions. Links to real life - EU referendum and percentages in the headlines. I print the first few slides and have them laminated and then stuck them up around the room for learners to go round and gather the required information from. Differentiated Booklets L1 and L2 to accompany the lesson to include all the resources needed for the lesson and more. answers all included. Basic PPT links to workbook and includes all answers perfect for self or peer assessment. Cross-number and problem solving questions and stretch and challenge included. Tarsia puzzle in word for easy printing - needs to be enlarged to A3. Plenary - choice of 2 answer hunts percentage of amounts or percentage increase/decrease Everything you need for a whole lesson.

Really great lesson for converting between fractions decimals and percentages with a calculator. Written for Ofsted week. Lesson centres around prime ministers under the current queen. lots of great E&D and BV embedded. Promotes some very interesting discussion especially with adult learners, not had anyone name all the primes ministers yet! Includes a starter where your can print and laminate the pictures of the prime ministers (or show on board if preferred) then have the learners create a table of names, number of years served and political party includes reading for information (embedding English)- if anything like my learners they need the practice. Includes 31 page work booklet which accompanies the PPT with resources and activities included. Catchphrase and code breaker. I have also tagged probability onto this lesson as it was a 2.5 hr lesson, so there is enough to do to cover 2 shorter lessons easy enough to split up. All answers included on PPT for peer marking and or self assessment. FDP conversion dominoes included. I hope your learners enjoy this lesson as much as mine do it has been very successful this year. I recommend printing the resources in a booklet.

This is a whole outstanding lesson on substitute into formula. Includes more than you need for a single lesson could be made to cover 2 lessons. The Learning objectives are to be able to Derive formula and substitute into formula. (Note there is no re-arranging formula). Includes: Pre-Starter of a revision grid of maths questions (also good for homework). Answers included. Hook included in PPT how did maths help win the war? Picture of Bletchly park and the Enigima machine. Interesting talking point to leave on the board. Really good around armistice day. British values and E&D link. Commented on by Ofsted. Starter linked to hook: Crack the secret war time code (by substituting numbers for letters) - Intro to topic. Answers included. Simple PPT including explanation and real life examples and ABCD questions for use with mini whiteboards to check understanding. Includes video link to show how to substitute and answers to some of the other activities. Crime style activity putting into practice with problem solving Tarsia in a pdf for easy printing Dominoes again PDF for easy printing Extension Questions L2 functional skills past paper questions on substitute into formula Lastly an answer hunt plenary if you have time! ( could be used as the starter to the next lesson)

This is a lesson on rounding to include a basic PPT with a booklet to accompany the PPT with activities inclusive and answers. Learner feedback is that is is a very enjoyable lesson. The PPT can be easily adapted. Everything you nee for an excellent lesson on rounding. The following are included: A recap activity for the previous lesson on place value A lesson plan including curriculum links A PPT with explanations and embedded video Problem solving tasks to show when the rules don't apply. A Tarsia, A set of dominoes A treasure hunt style activity to find the answers to a joke A mystery activity. Homework multiple choice questions linked to every day life Answers to all activities More lessons available on my shop let's get functional. Look out for term one bundle ideal for September thoroughly planned lessons linked to each other with plans, starters, plenaries and answers.

This is a set of L2 multiple choice questions. Good for revision, all questions are problem solving style so excellent for functional skills revision. I have also used for homework and included the answers, which saves marking time for you. All answers are included . Level 1 and Level 2 bundle available in my shop.. Included the following: Averages and range X 3 Calculations with number Positive and Negative numbers Formulae Fractions Percentages Ratio Perimeter, area and volume x 2

14 sets of multiple choice booklets for revision of level 1 topics. Great for functional skills revision. Answers included with the word documents. Four operations Fractions Mean and range x3 Tables and graphs Numbers in words x 2 Percentages Ratio and proportion Scale Rounding and estimating Perimeter area and volume x2

Functional skills maths level 2 revision. Practice paper. So you want to go to Florida. Task one and Two: Plan the cost of the trip, extract information from tables and calculate average cost for flights. Work out visa costs including % discounts and convert currency £ to $ see how much you need to take. Task Three: Use the park map and work out the distance between your favourite rides using the stated scale. The work out the tie it will take you to get round the park and convert between Km and miles to figure out our speed then put all the information in a timetable and show a timeline of your day. Extension activity included working out how long you would need to work for to pay for the trip. Very engaging activity my learners really enjoy this paper. One worked solution included although there are more than one correct solutions - my students are always surprising me! As with all my resources WORD document.

This is a example paper covering many aspects of functional skills maths level 2. All in a problem solving context. Great for revision. Very good feedback from colleagues and learners. Task one: Decide if you should sell your famous picture to the local historian or maybe list it on bobble. Will you make enough money to go on your holiday? Use knowledge of fractions and percentages, metric conversions and imperial conversions, interpret information from a table including being careful of rounding. Draw a table of what was found and draw conclusions. Task two: Work with area and volume, more converting and interpret a scale drawing. Work out the volume of a cone and see if you have enough space in your garage. There are 2 different versions included the first one has an easier scale drawing and focuses on interpretation rather than drawing the second is almost the same but the section 2 requires drawing of the scale plan. Great for differentiation. Task three: Work out bonuses for a firm and decide how much each person will earn, choose between averages and say why median is the most appropriate. Make comments about the range and then draw a pie chart. Checking of calculations throughout. 12 pages long really good practice for the exam. Have now also included answers

This is a full 30 week scheme of work for functional skills maths. Written by myself for the City and Guilds criteria but still useful for other exam boards. Contains curriculum links, starters, homework suggestions , plenary ideas and ideas for lesson content . Stretch and challenge included and differentiated. There are some links to resources as well, a few lessons include links to PPT, and all resources. Please note that not all suggestions for resources that are written on the scheme include links although if you send me a message I will send you any that you can’t find. Most links are to free resources on TES. Ofsted observed me twice in November and my planning was complimented as a strength on both occasions. Perfect for someone just starting out or more experienced teachers looking for new ideas.

This is a revision activity aimed at adult learners. There are 5 suspects and 5 clues. You need to answer the clues to name the culprit. A twist on the ever popular murder mysteries. Fractions, percentages, ratio, and calculations with time. Encourages problem solving . Answers included. Word document for easy editing. Can be used as a handout or I laminate the clues and put them around the room and have clue stations. Look out for further resources in the series.....