Functional Skills Maths Level 2

Course Title: Functional Skills Maths Level 2

Brief course description:

This is a 7-week, Level 2 Functional Skills Maths exam course.

(This course will take place three times a week)

In this course, you will learn a range of practical skills in Maths that are essential for everyday life, work, and further education. You'll learn how to calculate with large numbers, evaluating expressions, and making substitutions in formulae. You will cover a range of mathematical skills, including reading, writing, ordering, and comparing positive and negative numbers of any size such as comparing your fridge temperature from coldest to warmest. You’ll learn the different values of fractions, decimals, and percentages, including calculating percentage changes, ordering and comparing amounts, and performing arithmetic operations with decimals.

By the end of the course, you should feel more confident and capable in handling Maths essential tasks and challenges in everyday life. You’ll use the skills you have learned on the course to help you progress further into work, college, university or life progression.

Objectives:

1. Manage Finances and Budgeting: Calculate and manage expenses involving positive and negative numbers, large amounts, and decimals, including estimating costs and applying the order of operations to create an effective household budget.
2. Evaluate Financial Decisions: Assess and compare financial options by calculating interest rates, percentage changes, and discounts on purchases. This includes working with fractions, decimals, and percentages to make informed decisions about savings, investments, and spending.
3. Organize and Analyse Data: Compare and interpret numerical data in various forms, such as fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals. Use these calculations to analyse data trends, like comparing the performance of different products or evaluating the efficiency of different items
4. Apply mathematical skills to financial calculations, such as calculating compound interest on savings, determining discounts during shopping, and managing a household budget.
5. Perform geometric and measurement calculations by determining the amount of paint needed to cover a wall (area of 2-D shapes), calculating the volume of a storage box (3-D shapes), and converting recipe measurements from metric to imperial units.
6. Scale drawings, coordinates, and 2-D/3-D representations to design a floor plan for a room renovation, map out a garden layout using coordinates, and furniture placement in a space using 3-D representations.
7. Analyse and Compare Data Using Measures of Central Tendency
8. Determine the average test score (mean) of your class, identify the most common score (mode), and compare it to another class to evaluate overall performance.
9. Calculate and Express Probabilities in Various Forms. Predict the likelihood of drawing a red card from a deck, express this probability as a fraction, decimal, and percentage, and apply this understanding to games or real-world risk assessments.
10. Interpret and Use Scatter Diagrams to Recognize Correlation. Analyse the relationship between study hours and exam scores by plotting the data on a scatter diagram, identifying whether the correlation is positive, negative, or nonexistent.

Entry requirements:

You will need to have completed a Level 1 qualification or be able to demonstrate the skills and language at the required level. You should have a basic understanding of Maths operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), familiarity with fractions, decimals, and percentages, and an interest in applying mathematical skills to real-life situations.

Equipment required:

Please bring to every lesson:

• A folder
• Pens & pencils
• Lined A4 paper
• A smartphone (if you have one)
• A reusable water bottle

We will give you the WIFI details in the first lesson.

If you do not have access to a smart phone or a computer, speak to your tutor.

You will also need a personal Gmail account to access the Google classroom, which will be used for submitting coursework and accessing course materials. If you do not have a Gmail account speak to your tutor.

What courses can I go on to:

There are other courses you can do after or at the same time as this course:

• Functional Skills Maths Level 1
• Getting Ready for Functional Skills Maths Level 1/2
• Becoming Confident in Digital Skills
• Digital Skills Entry 3/Level 1
• Digital Skills for creating: How to organise a community event
• Digital Skills in the workplace: Promoting and Selling your product or business online
• Digital Skills in the workplace: Using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Please ask your teacher for more information or contact Functional Skills email: functionalskills@towerhamlets.gov.uk

What examination is there:

You will undertake the Pearson Edexcel Functional Skills Qualification in Maths at Level 2.

There are four components that you must pass to gain the qualification.

Working with numbers - Basic arithmetic skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It also focuses on understanding and working with fractions, decimals, and percentages, and applying these skills in real-life contexts like budgeting, estimating, and rounding.

Measure, Shape and Space - Apply measurements in various contexts, such as cooking or construction, and how to calculate area, perimeter, and volume. Additionally, focus on recognising and working with shapes and spatial relationships.

Handling Data - Collect, organise, and interpret data from charts, graphs, and tables, while using averages, ranges, and other basic statistical measures. You'll learn to apply this data to solve problems, such as comparing prices or analysing local and national trends.

Problem Solving - Use mathematical reasoning to tackle everyday problems. You'll apply these skills to real-world scenarios, like planning a journey to work, school or a holidays and managing finances.

The exam is taken at The Shadwell Centre at the end of the course. You MUST attend all your classes.

How will I know I am making progress:

At the start of the course, your tutor will talk with you about which parts of your Maths you need to practise most and help you create an individual learning plan. Throughout the course, you will have a tutorial meeting to discuss your strengths, areas for improvement, and any problems you may have. You will keep a folder with your work, which will help you review your learning outside of class. Your tutor will give you regular feedback on your class work and homework to help you improve. To make progress, you need to attend all your classes and do work outside of class.

You will lose your place if your attendance is less than 80%.

Other info:

One of our aims is to help you make progress in work or future studies. We also want to help you participate in your communities and become an active citizen. In our classes, you will develop important skills that employers value and that will help you in everyday life. Here’s what you will learn:

• Communication Skills: You will learn to speak and write more clearly and confidently. This includes practising conversations for work, writing emails, and filling out forms.
• Decision-Making: You will learn how to make good choices by evaluating different options and thinking critically about situations.
• Teamwork: You will learn how to work well with others.
• Problem-Solving: You will develop the ability to identify problems and find effective solutions, useful in both work and daily life.
• Time Management: You will practice managing your time effectively, including setting goals and meeting deadlines.

By improving these skills, you will increase your chances of finding a job, advancing in your career, and becoming an active member of your community.

Extra support

We can help you if you tell us you have a learning difficulty, disability or other support needs. Please tell us when you enrol or in your first class.