Getting Ready for Functional Skills Maths Level 2

Course Title: Getting Ready for Functional Skills Maths Level 2

Brief course description:

Would you like to sharpen your maths skills and feel ready to tackle real-world problems with confidence?

Join our 10-week Level 2 Getting Ready for Functional Skills Maths course, held twice a week, and build the practical knowledge you need to progress onto a qualification.

This non-exam course is packed with hands-on learning: you’ll calculate with large numbers, evaluate expressions, and make substitutions in formulae like a maths pro. You’ll read, write, order, and compare positive and negative numbers yes, even fridge temperatures!

You’ll also explore fractions, decimals, and percentages, learning how to calculate changes, compare values, and perform operations with precision.

By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident, capable, and ready to take on more complex challenges in work, study, or everyday life with maths finally working for you, not against you.

Objectives:

1. Master Your Money Moves: Crunch numbers like a budgeting boss—calculate, estimate, and balance expenses using positive and negative values, big figures, and decimals to build a household budget that actually works.

2. Shop Smart & Save Big: Compare, calculate, and evaluate financial options by working out interest rates, discounts, and percentage changes—so you can make savvy decisions on savings, spending, and investments.

3. Decode the Data: Organise, interpret, and analyse numbers in all their forms fractions, mixed numbers, decimals—to spot trends, compare products, and figure out what’s really worth your time and money.

4. Flex Your Financial Brainpower: Apply maths magic to real-life money matters calculate compound interest, spot the best discounts, and manage your budget like a financial wizard.

5. Measure Up Like a Pro: Calculate area, perimeter, and volume to figure out how much paint you’ll need, how big your storage box really is, or how to convert grandma’s recipe from metric to imperial without breaking a sweat.

6. Design Your Dream Space: Use scale drawings, coordinates, and 2-D/3-D shapes to map, plan, and place everything from garden layouts to furniture arrangements your inner architect will thank you.

 

Entry requirements:

You need to be working towards Level 2 Maths for this course. This means you are already a confident speaker, reader and writer and to be able to demonstrate language at the required level. This means you will be able to develop and apply mathematical skills to solve increasingly complex real-world problems. Understand the importance of mathematics in both work and everyday life.

This course assumes you already have a good level of Maths.

You will need to do a pre-course assessment.

Equipment required:

Please bring to every lesson:

• A folder
• Pens & pencils
• Lined A4 paper
• Calculator
• Protractor
• A smartphone (if you have one)

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:

• Getting ready for Functional Skills Maths Level 1 / 2
• Functional Skills Maths Level 1/2
• Becoming confident with numbers - mental maths/ shapes and measurements
• Maths for work and life - part 1/2
• Digital Skills Entry 3/Level 1
• 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:

There is no examination for this course. You will agree individual learning goals with your tutor which you must achieve by the end of the course.

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.