I am an experienced functional skills and GCSE maths teacher. I teach mainly adults. I also teach apprentices so I have a wide variety of resources from whole class teaching to my workbooks which were originally developed for work with apprentice who come to my classes on a roll on roll off basis - lessons with apprentices are very exam focused trying to prepare them for exams as quickly as possibly. I enjoy a problem solving approach and like to develop resource suitable for adults.
I am an experienced functional skills and GCSE maths teacher. I teach mainly adults. I also teach apprentices so I have a wide variety of resources from whole class teaching to my workbooks which were originally developed for work with apprentice who come to my classes on a roll on roll off basis - lessons with apprentices are very exam focused trying to prepare them for exams as quickly as possibly. I enjoy a problem solving approach and like to develop resource suitable for adults.
Here you have a 50 slide functionals skills maths revision bingo game.
There are 45 slides which each have a question and an answer. Question is displayed then the answer will show on the next click of the mouse. There are also 4 slides which contains answer grids. These are designed as bingo boards and have 9 answers on them. Only 2 of them are winning grids. The ones with the answer HMW on them are the winning grids.
All the other slides have 1 red herring which is an answer not present on the powerpoint. The winning slide is at the end you can easily shorten the game by moving the winning slides to earlier on. It is a mixture of L1 and L2 questions.
Questions include, fractions, percentages, converting fractions to percentages, calculation with money and time, mean,median,mode and range, scale, percentage and fraction discounts, area,perimeter and volume, pie charts,probability,imperial to metric, currency conversion, substitute into formula.
Please see my shop for lots more functional skills resources including a monopoly style game.
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
Please note the PNG files are photos that have been used for the previews only. They are not the documents needed to use the resource, they only photos of what is included.
This bundle includes all the topics needed to teach functional skills. All topics for the reformed functional skills qualifications that are included have work books many differentiated to L1 & L2 . Lots of power points and the majority of answers are also included. This really is a bargain.
My exam board is city and guilds. But this would be useful for all exam boards.
Every work book Included is made for the reformed functional skills maths and include calculator and non calculator methods.
Place Value
Rounding and estimation
Multiply by 10,100,1000 and add and subtract including decimals.
Multiplication including decimals
Bidmas
Percentages of amounts, increase and decrease, reverse percentages and compound interest.
Fractions of amounts, simplify fractions mixed fractions, add and subtract fractions.
converting between fractions,decimals and percentages
Ratio and proportion
Averages
Probability
Graphs and charts
Area and perimeter including problems
Substitution into formula
Angles, symmetry and bearing,compass points and coordinates
Metric and imperial conversions
Scale plans, maps, nets ad elevations
L1 non calculator work book
L2 revision workbook with calculator and non calculator questions on every topic.
Please note if you do find typos the workbooks are in word so you can easily amend. I am going through and fixing them as I find them or they are reported to me.
Please see my resources (jonesk5) for the following available for free:
Division workbook
Course outline
Non calculator revision mock
time and timetables
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 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
This is a workbook that covers drawing single and double bar charts, Line graphs, scatter graphs and pie charts. It is covers each topic briefly and is good for a revision session or for more able learners as a refresh session. Looks at drawing each of the stated and some interpreting such as using a line of best fit to make predictions. I made this for my revision sessions for functional skills but could also be good to give as homework for GCSE foundation learners.
All on word so you can add to it if you like and an answer sheet is included. (I have used excel to make the graphs for the answer books.
Please see lots more functional skills and GCSE maths resources especially revision activities in my shop let’sgetfunctional.
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.
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.
This is a work book suitable for level 1 and level 2 functional skills maths reformed qualification.
It contains a workbook which covers all the required criteria for converting fractions, decimals and percentages. Power point to use along side the work book with explanations and answers.
Meets the learning criteria- Recognise and calculate equivalences between common fractions, percentages and decimals. With and without a calculator
GCSE maths lesson covering the following objectives:
1) Collect like terms including indices to simplify equations.
2) Simplify algebraic expressions by adding and subtracting like terms.
3)Expand and Factorise linear expressions
Includes a basic power point and workbook. Answers included on the PPT.
This is lesson 18 in my series of workbooks with power points for the reformed functional skills maths. This booklet combined several topics as you will know if you re delivering the new reformed qualifications the time to fit everything is in short. So i have combined some topics together - all of my lessons are taught in class before I upload them
This resource includes 2 workbooks level 1 and level 2 and a power point with answers.
Level 1 criteria covered:
Be able to:
Interpret plans, elevations and nets of simple 3-D shapes
Recognise and make use of simple scales on maps and drawings
Calculate actual dimensions from scale drawings
Level 2 criteria is:
Be able to:
Interpret plans, elevations and nets of simple 3-D shapes
Recognise and make use of simple scales on maps and drawings
Calculate actual dimensions from scale drawings
Create a scale diagram given actual measurements
Please search jonesk5 for all my other reformed functional skills maths resources and also free outline line SOW
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
Another workbook and power point from my collection of lessons which focus on reformed functional skills maths level 1 and level 2.
This lesson covers metric - metric conversions and imperial to metric conversions and conversion graphs. Plenty included to challenge even the most able learners with cross numbers and interesting facts.
This lesson covers the following criteria
Be able to:
Convert between metric measures
Convert metric and imperial units of length, weight, and capacity using a) conversion factor and b) a conversion graph
Please see my other resources for all coverage of the new reformed functional skills including a revision guide and every topic to ensure you have met the new standards.
Here is a bundle of my mock papers. These are original and written with the City and Guilds board in mind. However would be suited for any functional skills of general problem solving practice.
These are not just copies of old city and guilds papers
Includes three unique L2 example papers and 1 L1 paper and issue 1 of the school run chronicles all problem solving tasks great for revision.
Plan a trip to Florida - includes percentages, money, using scales maps, tables, fractions, speed distance time and averages.
Paper 2 Sell the cat painting includes percentages, fractions, extract information, imperial to metric and metric to metric conversion,drawing a scaleplan,ratio,mean,median,mode,range including interpreting results. Pie charts and tables. All in problem solving context.
Paper 3 selling old clothes. Imperial to metric conversions. Averages and bar graph practice.
This is a practice booklet for scale drawing focuses on interpreting scale plans as required for the functional skills maths exam. It is lots of different resources put together to give a handy booklet with a good variety of practice.
Please see my shop let’sgetfunctional for loads of functional skills and GCSE maths resources. I have a whole course available with all the resources needed including my revision guides.
If you leave me a review and contact me on facebook: letsgetfunctionalskillsmaths then I will send you any of my other resources (£3 or less) for free.
Thanks for looking
This is a whole lesson for the reformed 2019 functional skills maths L1/L2 could also be used for E3 and foundation GCSE
It covers rounding and estimation and is fully aligned to the functional skills curriculum to provide coverage of key objectives.
This is lesson 3 from my 2019 reformed functional skills maths course outline available for free in my shop. Also included is a powerpoint that works alongside the booklet. All answers to the activities are on the powerpoint. Rounding hunt plenary and matching card starter also included.
Objectives covered are:
Round to the nearest whole number, 10,100,100 and 2 decimal places
Approximate whole numbers by rounding
Identify and round to a given number of significant figures
Estimate answers to calculations
his resource includes 2 percentages workbooks alligned to the new reformed 2019 functional skills maths curriculum at the correct levels.
Level 1 includes
With and without a calculator be able to:
• Find percentage parts of amounts
• Find percentage increase/decrease
• Calculate percentage change
Level 2 includes
With and without a calculator be able to:
• Find percentage parts of amounts
• Find percentage increase/decrease
• Calculate percentage change
• Express one number as a percentage of another
• Calculate simple and compound interest.
• Calculate reverse percentages
Powerpoint presentation which includes most answers and works alongside the work book to complete the lesson also included
Included in this pack is a lesson plan. fact cards fro countries around the world to use in a variety of ways comparing the numbers. A booklet with accompanying questions including a crossword. An activity on house prices and a large numbers in the news handout with questions. More than enough to challenge even most able learners in functional skills maths and will take at least 2 hours to complete. A maths dictionary is also included.
Please see my other resources for lots of functional skills lessons differentiated to level 1 and level 2 including all resources for £3.
This is a suggested topic outline and summary SOW for the reformed functional skills at L1 and L2. Information has been taken from the new specifications so it covers all topics in an easy to plan way.
Please look out for each of thee topics in a workbook coming over the next few months fully aligned to the new reformed functional skills. The workbooks will never cost more than £3 and bundles will be available,
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