New Maths Frameworking Functional Skills Teacher's Pack

About this resource

Key benefits:
- Provides practice in practical applied skills needed for success in work and in life
- Ensures your students are prepared for functional skills and problem solving in the new GCSE
- Builds functional skills using varied Activities at the front of the book then provides practise applying them using the Rich Tasks at the back of the book
- Suggests opportunities for class discussion and group work giving students the freedom to think and discover maths for themselves
- Supports assessing pupil progress (APP) and Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS).
- Makes embedding Functional Skills easy as most activities and tasks are designed to be completed in one hour-long session

Key features:
- Sections of beginner, intermediate and advanced activities and tasks give an indication of complexity to help you choose what is right for your students
- Activities can be differentiated for different year groups and abilities by adjusting the amount of support and guidance you provide
- Step-by-step tripartite lesson plans help you plan and deliver engaging lessons and include ideas for extension work
- APP, PLTS and cross-curricular links are highlighted throughout
- Clear objectives for each activity show you what functional skills students are building or applying
- Open questions accessible to a wide range of learners
- Helpful tips prepare you for common problems and misconceptions and suggest how you recognise and remedy them
- Solutions and possible outcomes given at the end of each task can be used for class discussion
- Matching charts make it easy to embed Functional Skills lessons into your scheme of work for the whole of KS3 or just Year 9
- CD-ROM with editable lesson plans in Word gives you greater flexibility