Functional Maths SkillsOnline Activities

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Entry Level 3

Working with Measures, Shape and Space

• Activities can be done individually, in pairs, in small groups, or as a teacher led activity involving group discussion

• Activities involve functional decision making • Learners must estimate weights and lengths of everyday

objects using metric units • measures – weight• measures - length

Entry Level 3

Working with information from lists, charts, tables and graphs

• Matching activity which involves interpreting given information

• Learners need to match bar charts with scales and tables of data

• Paris or Malaga

Level 1

Working with Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

• Teacher led activity• Key aim is to help develop learners’ problem

solving skills by thinking through a logical order to perform calculations

• Water problem

Level 1

Using Simple Ratio and Proportion• Activity looks at how the dimensions of a

scaled drawing relate to the actual dimensions by means of a simple scale

• Matching activity asks learners to match a garden of given dimensions with possible scale plans

• Garden Scales

Level 1

Working with Measures, Shape and Space• Good example of an open scheduling task –

common exam type question• Learners have to work out possible holiday

times based on given criteria• Holiday rota

Level 1

Working with Measures, Shape and Space• Good example of an open scheduling task –

common exam type question• Learners have to work out possible working

hours based on given criteria• Cafe 1