Resources for Maths Functional Skills

When looking at resources for mathematics functional skills, it’s worth bearing in mind this quote from the QCA:

It is essential to think of learners becoming functional with their maths, rather than thinking that there is a vital body of knowledge known as “Functional Skills”.

To gain a pass in maths functional skills, your students have to be able to demonstrate their ability to function in maths across all the different areas - even when they are presented with questions set in contexts that are totally unfamiliar to them.

What that means in practice in the classroom is … practice!

The guroo service gives you and your students access to a wide variety of functional skills resources for mathematics at level 1 and level 2:

• Learning challenges that set functional maths in relevant, real-life contexts, with a variety of different scenarios and approaches that are specifically designed to help your students practice their functional mathematics skills
• Modern media like podcasts and vodcasts to engage even reluctant learners
• Practice questions and tests for functional maths
• Learning tasks and interactive activities

It all adds up to some 90 hours of learning activity across maths, english and ICT.

… and many maths teachers appreciate that the guroo service includes functional skills resources for maths that are not purely online.

Many materials can be downloaded and used on paper (indeed we can supply printed workbooks), and every tutor gets a printed pack containing all the materials plus things like curriculum mappings and lesson plans for maths functional skills.

The functional maths lesson plans include versions you can use in a typical maths classroom - you dont have to be in an ICT suite to use guroo! Indeed, the guroo service includes our “beyond training” Active Engagement Plan where our educational consultants put you on the fast track to integrating and embedding functional skills in your maths classes.

Want to know more? Contact us to arrange a demonstration or for a sample CD.

Can’t wait for the disc? You can download these free resources for functional mathematics today!