Functional Skills Maths

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These innovative Functional Skills Maths courses from NEC put maths into real-life contexts, helping you in your understanding of the world around you and will give you the skills you need for your personal and professional lives.

By studying Functional Skills Maths, you will be building on the level that suits your current knowledge level; reinforcing your knowledge of number, measures, shapes, and handling data; it will expand your knowledge to include fractions, decimals, three-dimensional shapes and more advanced ways of handling and interpreting data.

Course content

All students will have access to the learning materials for both Level 1 and Level 2. As
you are enrolling on Level 2 that is what we have included below.
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3

Numbers

In this section learners will cover the following topics:
  • Working with whole numbers
  • BIDMAS and formulas
  • Fractions
  • Decimals
  • Percentages and equivalences
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Working with money

Measures, shape and space

In this section learners will cover the following topics:
  • Converting units
  • Compound measures
  • Perimeter and area
  • 3D shapes
  • Nets, plans and elevations
  • Scale
  • Coordinates and angles

Handling information and data

In this section learners will cover the following topics:
  • Mean, median and mode
  • Using averages
  • Working out the probability of combined events
  • Scatter diagrams