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Maths Functional Skills

Various Levels

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Availability & Details

Functional Skills Maths DPY-MATHNO/P01

Venue
Other Venue

Type of study
Functional Skills

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Fees
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Overview

This course is designed to assess your current working level and then to progress you from that level forward. You can work through a range of smaller stepping stone units to help grow your confidence in areas such as number, measure, shape, space and data. This will then give you the opportunity to work up the levels from Entry 1 to Level 2. You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course.Please contact our Admissions Team on 023 9387 9999 to arrange your initial assessment before applying.

This course is for students who do not have a grade C/4 or above in GCSE Maths. If you have already achieved a Level 2 Functional Skill in Maths it is suggested that you progress to a GCSE Maths Course. You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course.

The course covers: Number – this includes place value, four rules, fractions, percentages, decimals and money Measure, shape and space – this includes metric and imperial measurements, conversions, perimeter area and volume, shapes, time, scales and scale drawings and formulae Data – this includes charts, graphs and tables, averages/range, interpreting and analysing data

The course is run on all campuses. We have daytime and evening courses, run in two semesters. The first is September-February and then February-June.We use a variety of teaching methods including: Group work Kineasthic activities 1:1 teaching Using new technologies Classroom based assessment work

In class and external based assessments.

To a higher level Functional Skill or GCSE.


There are lots of people at the college, each studying a diverse range of courses, people from all different areas come to study here, it creates a sense of community, there is a huge social aspect to college life across all courses.

Lee Backhouse, BTEC student

The teaching and support was really great, the quality was really great, all the teachers really care about your education as well as your wellbeing, they take everything into consideration and they’re great.

Katie Whittingham, A Level student

My time at the college was definitely life changing, I have learnt a lot of new skills, and obviously it’s a completely new experience. The support was great, there was always people there to help and try make it as easy as they can for you. The college is really fantastic, it has helped me on the way to get to what I want to achieve within my career goals.

Erin Morgan, BTEC student