Functional Skills-Level 2
Functional Skills are relevant to the workplace and "provide a foundation for progression into employment or further technical education and develop skills for everyday life". Ofqual, 2019
Learning aims and outcomes
Subject Content: Level 2
Using numbers and the number system – whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percentages
Measures, shape and space
Handling information and data
Solving mathematical problems and decision making
Functional Skills are relevant to the workplace and "provide a foundation for progression into employment or further technical education and develop skills for everyday life". Ofqual, 2019
Learning aims and outcomes
- To demonstrate mathematical skills and the ability to apply these, through appropriate reasoning and decision making, to solve realistic problems of increasing complexity; and
- Introduce students to new areas of life and work so that they are exposed to concepts and problems which, while not of immediate concern, may be of value in later life; and
- Enable students to develop an appreciation of the role played by mathematics in the world of work and in life generally.
Subject Content: Level 2
Using numbers and the number system – whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percentages
- Read, write, order and compare positive and negative numbers of any size
- Carry out calculations with numbers up to one million including strategies to check answers including estimation and approximation
- Evaluate expressions and make substitutions in given formulae in words and symbols
- Identify and know the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Work out percentages of amounts and express one amount as a percentage of another
- Calculate percentage change (any size increase and decrease), and original value after percentage change
- Order, add, subtract and compare amounts or quantities using proper and improper fractions and mixed numbers
- Express one number as a fraction of another
- Order, approximate and compare decimals
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals up to three decimal places
- Understand and calculate using ratios, direct proportion and inverse proportion
- Follow the order of precedence of operators, including indices
Measures, shape and space
- Calculate amounts of money, compound interest, percentage increases, decreases and discounts including tax and simple budgeting
- Convert between metric and imperial units of length, weight and capacity using a) a conversion factor and b) a conversion graph
- Calculate using compound measures including speed, density and rates of pay
- Calculate perimeters and areas of 2-D shapes including triangles and circles and composite shapes including non-rectangular shapes (formulae given except for triangles and circles)
- Use formulae to find volumes and surface areas of 3-D shapes including cylinders (formulae to be given for 3-D shapes other than cylinders)
- Calculate actual dimensions from scale drawings and create a scale diagram given actual measurements
- Use coordinates in 2-D, positive and negative, to specify the positions of points
- Understand and use common 2-D representations of 3-D objects
- Draw 3-D shapes to include plans and elevations
- Calculate values of angles and/or coordinates with 2-D and 3-D shapes
Handling information and data
- Calculate the median and mode of a set of quantities
- Estimate the mean of a grouped frequency distribution from discrete data
- Use the mean, median, mode and range to compare two sets of data
- Work out the probability of combined events including the use of diagrams and tables, including two-way tables
- Express probabilities as fractions, decimals and percentages
- Draw and interpret scatter diagrams and recognise positive and negative correlation
Solving mathematical problems and decision making
- Read, understand, and use mathematical information and mathematical terms;
- Address individual problems as described above;
- Use knowledge and understanding to a required level of accuracy;
- Identify suitable operations and calculations to generate results;
- Analyse and interpret answers in the context of the original problem;
- Check the sense and reasonableness of answers; and
- Present and explain results clearly and accurately demonstrating reasoning to support the process and show consistency with the evidence presented.
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