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.
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.
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This is a revision session written for functional skills maths L2.
Starter is a BIDMAS recap
The lesson plan is included and it is designed to be used as a carousel. There are 5 activities.
Activity 1 is a tarsia (on PDF) to be used to revise fractions,decimals and percentages, ratio and rounding. There are 24 triangles altogether.
Activity 2 is a formula answer hunt with 12 questions on substitute into formula
Activity 3 is an averages problem solving task about football players average ages - topical for the wok cup.
Activity 4 is about graphs and charts and includes 1 question on bar charts,1 on scattergraphs, 1 on pie charts and an extension tables.
Activity 5 is lock question on measurements. It includes a mixture of questions on solving problems with 2d shape and converting between metric units.
There is also an optional practical measuring activity which can be used in place of some of the measure questions.
All these activites have a challenge extension aswell.
Answers all included along with an answer booklet.
Here is a selection of 14 maths puzzles with answers. Great to develop problem solving for functional skills maths. Can be used as a starter or plenary also really good for stretch and challenge.
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Revision quiz for functional skills maths aimed at L1 and L2 learners. No need to print.
6 rounds with all answers included.
Non-calculator round
Picture round
Multiple choice
Timed round
Going viral
true to false
All answers provided
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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.
This is a whole lesson for the reformed 2019 functional skills maths L1/L2 could also be used for E3. It covers place value language of maths and more than less than. Fully aligned to the functional skills curriculum to provide coverage of key objectives.
This is lesson 2 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.
Maths dictionary and large numbers in the news activities included.
Learning objectives are:
You will be able to:
• Read, write and recognise numbers with up to 7 digits
• Recognise large numbers with decimal format
• Recognise and use negative numbers in practical contexts
• Use the symbols for more than and less than
Work book to cover several ‘quick hits’ topics for the reformed functional skills maths qualification. Most answers are included but some will depend on the scale the paper is printed on you will need to measure yourself.
This workbook covers the following criteria:
• Demonstrate an understanding of lines of symmetry
• Use co-ordinates in 2-D, positive and negative to specify positions of points.
• Calculate the values of angles and demonstrate knowledge of the relative size of angles
• Measure angles in degrees
• Identify and use points on a compass to describe position.
This resource includes a basic power-point and a workbook to cover the following lesson objectives. There is enough material here for 2 lessons.
Be able to:
Factorize quadratic equations
Substitute into formula
Solve linear and simultaneous equations
This is a lesson that covers:
Calculate percentages of amounts
Calculate percentage increase and decrease
Calculate reverse percentages
Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages
Basic power point included with answers to the 24 page work book. Starter 60 second challenge. Main lesson with activities and tarsia. Extension task and homework included.
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
This is a lesson designed to familiarize learners with the basics of Pythagoras. Includes a basic PPT with questions and examples and a work-pack all answers are on the PPT. Challenge questions included and a pairs matching activity for further consolidation.
Learning objectives are:
Identify the hypotenuse
State Pythagoras theorem
Calculate a missing side on a right angled triangle using Pythagoras theorem
Apply the rules of Pythagoras to solve problems
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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 a GCSE maths lesson on circles. It includes a work pack and a basic power-point to explain the topics before working through the work pack. You should be able to simply print the work pack in one and off you go. Really minimal planning time needed but still a thorough lesson.
Home work and plenary included and all answers are on the power point. All documents are easily editable so you can easily adapt for your lessons.
The objectives covered are:
Be able to:
Name the parts of a circle.
Calculate the radius when given the diameter and vice versa.
Calculate the area and circumference of a circle.
Rearrange formula to calculate the circumference, diameter and radius when given the area.
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Here is lesson 9 and 10 from my curriculum aligned reformed functional skills maths outline. Full coverage her suggested to be split over 2 lessons.
Be able to:
Simplify fractions
Calculate fractions of amounts
Evaluate one number as a fraction of another
Read, write order and compare mixed Fractions
Add, subtract and compare using proper, improper and mixed fractions
Level 1 workbook is 23 pages long
Level 2 workbook is 29 pages long
both designed to work in the same lesson and with accompanying 56 slide PPT which includes answers.
I have delivered these sessions and find there is the correct amount for 4 hours of session time.
Please see my other resources for lessons mapped to the new functional skills maths criteria for L1 and L2
My non-calculator revision workbook has also proved popular amongst my learners needing to brush up on skills
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reformed-functional-skills-maths-non-calculator-revision-workbook-12184627
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
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
This resource includes everything needed for coverage of substitution into formula, area and perimeter, volume and surface area for L1 and L2 reformed functional skills curriculum for functional skills maths. Also included briefly is SDT and DMV. I have combined all these topics due to having to fit more topics into the same amount of teaching weeks. This lessons takes approx 4 hours to deliver and meets he reformed functional skills maths standards for 2019 onwards. Included is a workbook with accompanying Power point with explanations and full answers. As always tried and tested in my classes.
The learning outcomes covered are to be able to:
Accurately substitute into formula
Solve problems involving substitution in formula
Calculate the area of quadrilaterals, circles and triangles
Calculate the perimeter of quadrilaterals and circles
Calculate volume and surface area of 3 dimensional shapes including cuboids, cylinders and cones.
For many other resources including a comprehensive L2 calculator and non calculator revision guide for the reformed functional skills maths search jonesk5.
Here is the link to the revision guide
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/functional-skills-maths-l2-revision-guide-reformed-functional-skills-2019-12238849
Here is a workbook and power point which includes answers for the topic of probability. It covers the new reformed functional skills maths specification. Also includes an exam question for practice.
Coverage includes
Be able to:
Use the vocabulary of probability to discuss the likelihood of events
Express the likelihood of an event using fractions, and on a scale of 0 to 1
Identify the range of possible outcomes of combined events and record using diagrams or tables including two-way tables
Use equally likely outcomes to find the probabilities of simple events and express them as fractions
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
Reformed functional skills maths L1 & L2 averages. Here are 2 workbooks which have full coverage for the reformed qualifications. Also included is a power point which includes the answers.
The criteria covered are:
L1:
Calculate mean and range
Make statements about mean and range
State that a higher range is less consistent/more variable
L2:
The learning outcomes are to be able to:
Calculate mean, median, mode and range
Calculate estimated mean
Make statements about mean and range
State that a higher range is less consistent/more variable
Choose the most appropriate average
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